I admit that until this chapter I was a noob who didn't know anything about writing, and I upload this chapter as my last failure in writing FanFic.
Everything will change from the next volume
[Ice Queendom/walls]
A Shadow was standing guard on the outer wall of the castle when it felt a blur pass by. "Who's there?!" But nothing happened. "I must have imagined!"
The three blurs continuously jumped over the destroyed buildings and stopped in front of and on top of a building in the middle of the city.
The Phantom Thieves stared at the castle along with the new member temporarily codenamed Rose.
"Unfortunately, all access to the safe rooms has been lost," Joker said as he pressed the safe room buttons on his smartphone.
"What are safe rooms?" Rose asked curiously
"Safe rooms are rooms that the owner of the palace has less control over in the real world, like the headmaster's room for a student, or the parent's room for a child," Mona explained. "These rooms allow us to rest during the investigation of the palaces or even move between them at the moment, which is very useful in the final part of our operations."
"We usually use these rooms to get close to the treasure room, but it seems Nightmare has blocked the access," Joker said with his hands in his pockets.
"Well then I guess we have no choice but to do it the old school," Rose said as she armed an M2010 ESR sniper rifle with a silencer.
"Let's go," Joker said and disappeared with a leap.
Both members moved behind their leader.
After two minutes of jumping between buildings, the Phantom Thieves arrived at the castle, which was wrapped in Nightmare's tendrils.
"So what should we do now?" Rose asked
Joker took a look at the walls and windows and saw that most of them were sealed due to tendrils.
"The upper paths are closed so we better go down," Joker said.
"You don't mean sewage, right?!" Rose asked sadly.
Joker just smirked.
[castle sewers]
The Phantom Thieves continued on their way through the sewer passages. Fortunately, they did not have to pass through the sewage water, but the stench of the sewage killed even the flies.
"I'm regretting joining you!" Rose said holding her nose.
"It could be worse, like a dungeon full of deadly traps with guards with dirty thoughts," joked Joker.
"Now I understand why your name is Joker!" Rose said
After running for a few minutes, the Phantom Thieves reached a ladder leading to the upper floors. They all entered the ground floor near the moving stairs through a trap door. After climbing the stairs, the team reached the elevator that was guarded by the Shadows. The elevator was without a cover like the old elevators, so they hid on the elevator roof with Phantom Dash and went to the top floor (that is, it only had a roof and walls do not cover the elevator. Like elevators in buildings under construction). When they reached the higher floors, they had to get off before the elevator reached their destination, which meant they had to fight if there was a guard there. The Phantom Thieves jumped up and quickly reached the last floor that could be reached by the elevator. When they reached the floor they were confronted by a Shadow but Joker was ready and before Shadow could turn around he jumped on its shoulders and grabbed its mask.
"shoutai wo misero!" Joker unmasked Shadow and jumped down from its shoulders
Shadow transformed into two Beowolves and a new Grimm. The new Grimm looked more like an all-black maiden wearing a hoodie. There was no sign of the Grimm's body parts such as hands, feet, or even face, and only smoke was coming out of the sleeves, skirt, and hood.
"What is this!" Mona asked in surprise
"I have never seen anything like this before!" Rose said in surprise.
Suddenly, two glowing orbs, one white and one yellow, came out of the new Grimm, and then an alchemy circle appeared behind it. Suddenly, the two Beowolf's color changed and one of them got the power of bless and the other got the power of electricity.
"It can give Grimm creatures the power of the elements!" Mona exclaimed in shock.
Joker quickly acted and attacked Bless Beowolf with Raoul and knocked it down by attacking its weakness. Mona quickly summoned Zoro and attacked the other one with a wind attack, knocking it as well.
Suddenly two new orbs came out of the new Grimm, one black and red, the other just red. Suddenly, the two Grimm's colors changed again and one gained the power of fire and the other the power of curse.
"It's pissing me off!" Joker said angrily. "Mona, kill it,"
Joker then removed his mask and summoned Lachesis, while Mona attacked the new Grimm. Joker attacked and destroyed the Fire Grimm with Bufula skill, and at the same time, Mona destroyed the new Grimm by slashing it a few times.
With the new Grimm destroyed, the remaining Beowolf also lost its power. Rose shot the Grimm in the face in a short distance and finished it off.
"I have never seen anything like this before!" Rose said in surprise
"Shadow that has the power to change its element has existed in the history of Wild Card users, but Shadow that can change the element of others has not," Joker said as he looked at the fading remains of the new Grimm.
"We don't have time to think about what we're up against, we have to go upstairs," Mona said. "I feel a lot of negative energy from there,"
Then they all used the escalators of the floor they were on and went to the upper floor. The upper floor looked more like a forest of black tendrils, which indicated the effect of Nightmare on this floor. The tendrils were growing every moment, but this made it easy to see the source of the tendrils coming from a glass door. Phantom thieves entered the room, which turned out to be a greenhouse, but all the plants were burnt. There was a hole in the center of the room from where the tendrils came out. The Phantom Thieves stared at each other for a few moments before jumping into the hole with Joker's approval.
After passing through a dark hole, they all reached a flash of light that brought them to the ground and they all landed on their feet. When they looked around, they saw something they did not expect. The place they entered was not a normal place, but the main avenue of Beacon Academy, and the academy itself was in front of them, but it was wrapped in tendrils.
"What is this place?!" Rose asked in shock.
"I think I know! If the palace is a place made of evil desires, there must also be a palace made of humanitarian desires," Mona explained his theory. "That means Nightmare wants to kill Weiss by destroying this palace!"
"Over there!" Joker pointed at Wiess who was standing in front of the Beacon statue. Then they all approached Nega-Weiss.
"I'm surprised you found me!" Nega-Weiss, now with skin as white as snow, and eyes as black as ink, turned and looked at them. "But it's too late. Soon I'll the core and complete my realm,"
"Core! Now I get it!" Mona shouted. "Nightmare doesn't destroy thoughts, but attacks a palace that has no defenders, and by eating this palace treasure, the person will be left with only a negative palace! In the end, Nightmare claims all the negative desires and kills the victim!"
"The day of death, when the victim is not found in the dream!" Rose said. "In the last days, no one can find the victim because he goes to another part of his cognition!"
"We must defend the treasure!" Joker commanded. "Mona, I leave the responsibility to you,"
Mona nodded and then transformed into the car and headed towards the academy Nega-Weiss tried to block car with ice waves, but Joker blocked it with Lachesis. Nega-Weiss glared at Joker and changed the direction of her attack, but the ice did not even affect Joker himself.
"As long as my Persona is null to ice, so am I," Joker said, attacking and damaging Nega-Weiss with Bufula skill. "But you're not,"
It didn't matter how many times she attacked with Dust and Glyph, he had absolute defense for all of them, so the best decision was to attack physically with weapons. Nega-Weiss summoned a Glyph under her feet, aimed the Myrtenaster at the Joker, and then quickly launched herself at him.
Joker raised his cane and deflected the blow with the grip of the cane. Nega-Weiss tried to make another attack, but suddenly Joker disappeared into a black blur. Before Nega-Weiss could realize what had happened, Joker struck her from behind where the rulebook was attached.
The rulebook was damaged, and Nightmare snarled as it tried to cover the damage with Weiss's body. Joker stood next to Rose and both took out their guns and shot the book. Nightmare became more unstable with each bullet, but it took more than a bullet to kill it. Suddenly, Nightmare came out of the book like an erupting volcano and covered the entire avenue area in less than 30 seconds. In the blink of an eye, the academy turned into a forest of black tendrils. Giant white flowers grew from among the tendrils, and when their petals opened, white Alpha Grimms emerged from them.
"Prepare yourself, this is the final battle!" Joker said as he picked up his sword. "It's time for Phantoms Strike!"
Joker went between the two Grimm with Phantom Dash and then did a short jump and killed the two Grimm with a spin. Rose picked up her scythe and charged toward a Grimm and passed through the Grimm at a speed that could not be seen with the eye and in the blink of an eye cut the Grimm in half. Joker took off his mask and with Kaguya filled half of the battlefield with light arrow attacks. Rose, stronger than before, summoned Asena and fired light balls at the Grimm, destroying the remaining half of the army.
"It was good but the problem is there are always more of them," Nightmare announced using Weiss's body.
Suddenly, more flowers grew, and in the blink of an eye, the entire battlefield was filled with high-ranking Grimm such as Deathstalker, Griffon, and even the forgotten Grimm, Wendigo.
"Well this is going to be tough," Joker said, raising his sword along with his pistol.
"What should we do?" Rose asked worriedly
"For now, we'll just have to hold on until we find an opening," Joker replied
"Two against hundreds seems unfair," Rose said worriedly
"Yeah, for them," Joker said with a grin, then jumped into the air. "Izanagi Picaro" Phantom Thief version of Izanagi appeared. Izangai raised his giant sword and sparks of lightning came out of the giant sword and then quickly flew towards the ground and plunged the sword into the ground. As the sword plunged into the ground, an electric wave like Razor's Plasma Field was released and destroyed most of the Grimm.
"My turn!" Rose said excitedly with a grin and then removed her mask. "Asena," the moonlight wolf appeared in front of the new phantom and then howled. As the Moonlight Wolf howled, the gray sky turned into a moonlit night sky, and the stars began shooting toward the Grimm like a laser satellite. Soon all the Grimm creatures were gone, or at least almost all.
"RRRROOOOAAAAAAARRRRR"
The sound of a scary roar made the two thieves feel weak.
"What was that?" Joker said with a struggle
"Wendigo," Nega-Weiss said. "The Wendigo is one of the rarest and most powerful Grimm creatures. They are so dangerous that most Huntsmen and Huntresses never even think to see them from a distance,"
"So, its roar weakens its opponent!" Joker said with a struggle
"Basically all living things, except the Grimm because they aren't technically alive," Nega-Weiss corrected. "And you know what happens next when the prey is weakened?"
The Wendigo opened its chest bones, doubled the size of the bones, and then slowly approached Rose.
"If you think about eating her, I swear I'll make a deer kabab with you!" Joker challenged but neither Wendigo nor Nightmare paid attention.
The Wendigo reached within 2 meters of Rose and was ready to put Rose inside its bones and eat her bit by bit. Rose's face was white with fear as if she had seen a ghost, her body could not move even the slightest. Joker was still weak, but with all his strength, he raised his pistol and shot Wendigo, but the bullets did not hurt it.
At the moment when everything seems to be over, 2 Beowolves with black fur but red masks and red bones fall on the Wendigo and start eating it.
"Then its scream must be useless against Grimm creatures!" A young boy's voice came from above.
Rose had no familiarity with the voice, but for Joker... it was the voice of someone no one expected to see here. The new person did a superhero landing in front of the Phantom Thieves and then the red flames covered his body. "Magatsu-Izanagi" The evil version of Izanagi then appeared behind the new person, held his palms straight forward, and shot a giant bolt of lightning at the Wendigo, knocking it to its knees.
"You...!" Joker said in shock.
"You're acting like you've seen a ghost..." Then the man with a red crow mask turned and looked at the Joker. "Kurusu!"
"Do you know him?" Rose asked in surprise
"Akechi!" That was all that came out of Joker's mouth
(Read the A/N at the end of the story)
"Akechi!?" Rose thought for a moment. "Are you Crow?!" Rose exclaimed in surprise.
No one had any idea why Crow was there. Why was he wearing the black version of Prince outfit? But these were not important, the important thing was that the best possible help arrived.
The negative effect of the Wendigo's roar disappeared and the Phantom Thieves were on their feet. Joker and Crow looked at each other for a few seconds and then pointed their guns at the Wendigo.
"What's the order?" Crow asked with a smirk
"The core in its chest, its weak point must be there!" Joker said very seriously.
The Wendigo was still struggling to separate the Beowolves, holding its chest open. The two rivals shot the core, causing the Wendigo to weaken and fall back to its knees and Beowolves just disappeared.
"Go and control it!" Crow shouted.
"How can I control it?" Joker asked
"Just approach it, put your hand on its body, and focus your power on it," Crow said.
Joker decided to do exactly what Crow said, so he approached the Grimm with Phantom Dash, placed his hand on its face, and focused his flames on it. After some struggle, a ghostly Joker mask appeared in front of Wendigo's face and it calmed down.
"Your rebellious blue soul can give you control over Grimm creatures, and my rebellious red soul can create Grimm!" Crow said horrifyingly and then four Ursa appeared with red masks and red bones.
"It's unfair, I want my own pet Grimm!" Rose said jealously.
Before anyone could speak, there was an earthquake and the book of the law fell to the ground. The book started shaking and then Nightmare's titan-sized head came out of the pages of the book and started looking at the Persona users like Sauron's Eye Tower and then smashed the Wendigo and other Girmms and destroyed it.
"You didn't even get me time test that!" Joker shouted annoyed,
"Don't waste your time with new toys and tell me where is that not-cat?" Crow asked Joker.
"He's protecting the treasure," Joker replied.
[with Morgana]
Mona stood in the hallway of the dormitory against an endless line of Beowolves. Because of the small space in the hallway, the Beowolves could only attack Mona one by one.
A Beowolf slashed from the left side and Mona dodged by tilting his body to the left and at the same time cut off the Beowolf's head with a sword strike from below the neck. The Beowolf's corpse disappeared seconds later and the rest of the creatures began to approach. Mona summoned Zoro and created a small tornado that threw all the creatures back and destroyed some of them.
"Joker, Rose, please defeat Nightmare asap!" Mona said to himself and prepared for the next wave.
[with JRC]
With a howl, Asena threw several Bless daggers at Nightmare's head, damaging it but not enough. Nightmare prepared to attack, but before it could swing a tendril, Beomore attacked it and delivered a fatal claw strike to its face. Unlike daggers, the Beomore's strike did significant damage and left Colossus scars. Although the blow was impressive, it somehow drained all of Joker's Aura.
Nightmare's attention was drawn to the leader of the Phantom Thieves and it quickly created a large shaft of hundreds of tentacles and slammed it down on Joker. Nightmare thought it had Joker trapped, but noticed that a storm of rose petals came out from under its branch and soon surrounded it. Before Nightmare realized what had happened but it was already too late. Joker and Rose appeared behind it and pointed their guns at it, and when it turned, they shot it in the eye, and then Nightmare screamed in pain and became furious.
At the same time, Crow was fighting Nega-Weiss. Nega-Weiss fired a wave of icy stalactites at Crow, and Crow crossed his arms for defense. "Lilim" Crow summoned another Persona. Lilim was not null to ice, but it was resist, that's why Crow didn't suffer significant damage, maybe to the extent of a mosquito bite. "Spirit Drain!" Crow used Spirit Drain and drained Nega-Weiss' energy and she fell on her knees.
"It was an Almighty-type skill which means no defense can stop it," Crow said evilly as he prepared to change Persona. "Hell Biker!" The Hell Rider appeared and fired several fiery blasts in front of Nega-Weiss, damaging her.
"You are so confident in your power!" Nega-Weiss said angrily, charging at Crow.
Crow raised his saber and deflected the blow, but Nega-Weiss quickly maintained her position and began stabbing her rapier again, catching Crow off-guard. After several consecutive strikes, Nega-Weiss finally found an opening and was ready to strike. "Daisoujou!" Crow changed his Persona to Daisoujou to be resistant to physical attacks, so when he was hit, he didn't take dangerous damage again and his Aura was drained very little.
Before Nega-Weiss could pull her sword away from Crow's body, Crow grabbed her hand and stabbed his saber into her stomach, broke Nega-Weiss' Aura, and knocked her unconscious with a kick.
Crow looked at Weiss' unconscious body for a few seconds before turning his attention to Joker and Rose's fight against Nightmare. The battle was completely even, even though both Joker and Rose had gotten stronger. Crow decided to join the fight, but Nightmare built a solid wall in front of him.
Joker had more experience in fighting, but even this creature was new to him, however, Nightmare fought strangely like any tentacled monster found in any game.
Joker jumped around with acrobatic movements and shot Nightmare's eyes, but the bullets mostly hit the points near the eyes with millimeter distances. Rose was flying around and aiming her sniper at Nightmare's eye, but a sniper is a precision weapon that needs time to aim, and that's exactly what Rose didn't have, especially since Nightmare was targeting her more.
The conditions of the fight were not in favor of the Phantom Thieves, so Joker decided to throw everything he had on the table.
Joker took a Fire Dust and broke it in his hands and then his mask disappeared in blue flames. "Beomore!" Fiery Beomore came out of the blue flames and attacked Nightmare like a meteor, burning every tendril in its path. Nothing could stop the Grimm Persona, but suddenly several fiery Ursa fell on Beomore and pinned it to the ground. Nightmare summoned the Ursa pick along with one of the new Grimm to stop Beomore and its plan worked. Although Beomore was unable to attack Nightmare, the Ursas had no chance of harming him, but unfortunately, Beomore's final attack drained all of Joker's Aura along with a significant amount of Joker's spiritual energy.
Nightmare took the opportunity and trapped the Joker with his tendrils, and due to the damage he had suffered due to the thorns of the tendrils, Beomore disappeared and turned into a mask again.
After Beomore disappeared, the Ursa moved towards the Joker. Joker had no Aura to protect, nor enough stamina and life force to summon a new Persona, he was a predator turned prey.
Rose quickly attacked the Ursas with all her speed, but as soon as she touched one of the Ursas, she was damaged because the Ursas were fiery and Asena was weak to fire. Rose was distracted by the damage, and Ursa hit the young Huntress with all her strength, breaking her Aura, Rose fell to the ground, injured, and everything went dark for her.
[Velvet Room]
Ruby opened her eyes and saw herself in front of Igor and Susan.
"So this is the end of the silver-eyed Huntress, I'm kind of disappointed," Igor said with his usual smile, which made Ruby angry.
"What are you talking about? The fight isn't over yet! It's too early to judge!" Ruby shouted angrily and slammed her fists on the table.
"I've been waiting for that sentence," Igor said, then pointed his index and middle finger at Ruby and then bent two fingers.
Ruby felt weak and knelt on the ground. Susan moved towards the wall and then the wall turned and smithing tools appeared.
"The power that you have has an infinite potential that gets stronger by establishing a relationship, but what you don't know is that with every new relationship, you also get a new Persona." Then two lights came out of Ruby's body and hovered over a large pot that resembled an iron smelter. "And we're here to combine Personas to create a new Persona,"
Ruby looked at the smelter and saw Asena's card and a new Persona (Nue). "I will leave you tonight but know that we will meet again soon," Asena said her last words and entered the smelter with Nue.
The smelter melted the two Personas with incredible heat and then the magma produced entered a device through a pipe. The device was activated and after a few seconds, a bullet came out of a sliding door. Susan took the bullet and armed a revolver with it, then pointed the revolver at Ruby and fired at her heart.
[Battlefield]
Rose was unconscious on the ground, and Nightmare's tentacles were strangely covering her. Suddenly Rose opened her eyes and a silver light came out of her eyes and silver flames began to surround her body. The silver light and flames destroyed all the tentacles and Ursa that were near Rose and Joker, even the wall that blocked Crow disappeared.
"PERSONA!" Rose shouted with all her might and the silver flames summoned a new Persona. The flames went away and Tsukiyomi, a Persona of the MOON arcana, appeared.
Crow and Joker looked at the new member proudly and grinned. "Finally, you've discovered the true nature of your power," Joker told himself as he struggled to his feet. "Arahabaki!" It wasn't just Rose who got a new Persona, Joker also had a new Persona. Arahabaki stole some SP from the unconscious Nega-Weiss with the Spirit Drain technique, and part of Joker's fatigue was removed. Nightmare attacked Joker physically but Arahabaki reflected the blow and Nightmare was injured.
At the same time, Rose prepared the Abyssal Wings and hit it with the strongest Cursed skill but it was just OK.
"It's useless like this!" Crow said. "If we continue like this, we have to fight forever, we have to cut off its connection with this world!"
"None of my Personas have the Energy Drop or Shower skill, what about you?" Joker asked.
"Yes! These skills can cure the Brainwash. It won't be a surprise if it will cut off its connection," Crow asked in surprise.
"Do you have or not?" Joker asked as he glared at Nightmare.
Crow turned to Nega-Weiss. "Clotho!" Clotho appeared and used the Energy Shower skill to free Nega-Weiss from the brainwashing, but instead of healing, Nega-Weiss' shadow began to glow purple.
"It didn't cure her but something else happened," Crow said pointing at the Nega-Weiss shadow.
"Shoot her shadow!" Joker shouted and quickly aimed his gun at the shadow, and the others followed him and aimed at the shadow.
The three Wild Card owners started shooting, and soon, a small Nightmare stepped out of Nega-Weiss's shadow, but before a bullet could hit it, the large Nightmare used itself as a human shield for the smaller one.
As the little Nightmare stepped out of the shadows, Rose saw purple strings between Nightmare and Weiss, so she dashed toward the strings and cut them with her scythe.
[real world]
In the real world, Zaiden was ready to untie the ropes around Weiss' body, but suddenly what she thought was a miracle happened. Nightmare's tattoos began to fade, meaning that Nightmare had lost control over the host's thoughts.
Zaiden dropped her rocket, the Dream Catcher, and quickly ran towards Ozpin's office.
[cognitive reality]
The moment Rose cut the strings, she was hit by one of the tendrils, and thrown back, and a scar appeared on her face that looked like a thorny rose stem. Rose quickly recovered and stood on her two feet, and when she looked up, she saw the giant Nightmare started to fade away.
Not just the giant Nightmare, but even the Grimms were fading away.
[with Morgana]
Morgana killed another Grimm by plunging his sword into the skull while barely standing on his feet, and as he waited for the next Grimm, all of the Grimm creatures began to disappear.
"They succeeded!" Morgana shouted happily and then jumped out the window and transformed into a car in the air before moving towards his team.
[with JAC]
Joker ran to Rose and stood behind her. "Rose, are you hurt?" Joker asked worriedly.
"Artemis," the word startled the Joker. "My code name is Artemis from now on," Artemis said as she turned to the Joker and showed him her scar.
"You chose the name Goddess of chastity, hunting, and the moon!" Joker said with his hand under his chin. "It was a perfect choice!"
Artemis looked surprised at what Joker had said as if she had no idea what he was talking about. "I chose this name because I thought it was beautiful!" Artemis said with an embarrassed laugh.
"Even if it was a fluke, it's still better than the names of the other members," Crow said as he slowly approached the others. Crow drew his laser gun and destroyed the original Nightmare, who was struggling on the ground like a fish out of water. "Well, the fight was more complicated than I imagined, but I think because it was positive in the Palace, it lost its strength."
"Maybe it is, or…" Joker said seriously, glaring at Weiss. "…Maybe because Weiss was a bridge between Dream and Nightmare and When Artemis broke the connection, Nightmare connected with a realm that was like Kryptonite to it,"
The sound of a van mixed with the sound of a cat came from the academy and they all looked at the source of the sound and saw Mona driving towards them.
"Joker! Rose! We made it..." As Mona turned back into her Faunus form, she saw the face of someone she never thought she would see again. "AHHHHHHH what are you doing here? How are you still alive?!" Mona exclaimed in shock.
"Long story short, I've been given a second chance because of our last collaboration at the Maruki's Palace and the whole reality reset," Crow said quite honestly, but the rest of the members had no idea that they would have gone on such a mission with Crow.
"What are you talking about?" Mona asked in surprise. "The last time we met was at Shido Palace where you died, and who is Maruki?"
"Wait, you don't know Shujin Academy's psychologist Maruki?" Crow asked in surprise.
"No," Joker said simply but still surprised.
"You accidentally gave Maruki Yaldabaoth's power after you defeated Yaldabaoth and he changed reality and then me, you, and Sumire found his palace and after a series of events we managed to defeat him," Crow continued.
"We don't have a member named Sumire," Joker replied casually again.
"Akira, are you kidding me? She's your girlfriend!" Crow said in surprise, making everyone even more shocked.
"One, my name is Ren Amamiya, not Akira. And two, I don't have a girlfriend," Joker said seriously.
"And I'm someone who is really, really confused!" Artemis said with a question mark above her head.
"Me too," Joker said very seriously.
"We can talk about it later, we need to get out of here for now," Crow said, then summoned the exit gate with his smartphone. "And you better get back to Beacon. You're going to be in trouble if you're not there as a leader when they hear that one of your team members has been cured,"
"There's still 30 minutes left until the deadline to leave the academy, if you go as fast as you can you can make it in time," Joker said and Artemis nodded. Artemis quickly stepped through the gate and flew through the Mementos to the Beacon.
Crow, Joker, and Mona exited the gate and looked at the gate as it disappeared. Crow then looked at the others. "I know you have as many questions as I do and I have a great meeting place,"
Joker and Mona just looked at each other. "OK but first me and Morgana have to do something," and then went after Crow.
[Real world/Evening]
Ruby exited Mementos as she neared the academy and sped through the Beacon gate in Petal Burst mode before passing through the corridors to stop in front of her team's dorm room. Ruby wanted to rush into the dorm, but then she remembered that Joker had told her to never show her experiences from the Palaces. Ruby took a deep breath, kept her composure, and very slowly opened the door and entered the room with a smile. "Hello..."
Before Ruby could finish her sentence, Yang quickly jumped on her sister and they both fell to the ground.
"What happened?" Yang said worriedly as she checked on her sister.
"I don't understand what you mean!" Ruby said with a slight gasp
"Who inflicted such a terrible wound on my sister's cute face?" Yang said angrily and worriedly
At that moment, Ruby's memories of her fight today flashed through her head like a cloud of thoughts, and now she had to look for a logical excuse. "In today's training, I was not aware of my Aura capacity and when it was over, I accidentally hit my face in the bushes!" If Weiss was there, an hour-long lecture about how reckless she was.
"Please don't ever scare me like this again, and you'd better think about how to make this scar disappear, I don't want my sister's cute face to look like the survival of the apocalypse!" Yang said calmly and let go of her sister.
"But how come only your face is injured?" Blake asked curiously.
"Ren was with me during the training and he helped heal all my wounds with his Aura except this one because he himself had drained his Aura during a training fight with one of his friends." Ruby just prayed that they would believe.
"You've been putting a lot of pressure on yourself since that happened to Weiss, especially now that you're ahead of so many students," Yang said worriedly.
"Do people tell me that they hardly even move their body parts because of the fatigue of the exercise, especially the one who pretends to be relaxed by reading a book?" This sentence caused a shock in the existence of two girls
"You knew!" Blake said in surprise.
"It was obvious, especially you, Blake, since you were sitting up and sleeping in class," this confirmed that Ruby knew what they were doing.
"Rubs, I know it's hard for you, believe me, but if you two want to overdo it, it might end up being...! Just calm down, because overdoing it won't knock on our door with miraculous news." Yang tried to reassure the others, but at that moment they heard a knock on the door
Yang opened the door to find Jaune standing in front of the door and panting
"Miracle! Miracle! A miracle happened!" Jaune was so excited and surprised that he didn't even give himself a chance to breathe and was doing weird moves like he was losing his mind. Yang came close and slapped Jaune sending the blonde tumbling to the ground but he calmed down.
"Calm down Vomit Boy, take a deep breath and tell me what happened," Yang crossed her arms and told Jaune like a big boss.
"As I was walking past the academy clinic, I overheard Professor Ozpin and Goodwitch talking about Nightmare being dead and Weiss being freed, so I came here as fast as I could to give you the good news!" Jaune announced to Team RWBY excitedly.
The girls did not say anything and quickly ran to the clinic.
[clinic]
There were four people in the room. Professor Ozpin and Goodwitch, Zaiden, and Weiss who was wearing her combat skirt and sitting on the bed.
"Explain again what you're remembering, if possible," Zaiden asked, confused and curious, writing a report at the same time.
"For the second time," Weiss said. "I…" Weiss was suddenly interrupted by something like an earthquake.
Suddenly, the door of the clinic was slammed and Team RWBY, Yang, Blake, and Ruby, fell on top of each other.
"Weiss you're alive!" They all shouted at the same time while crying with joy.
"Girls!" Even Weiss cried with joy and wanted to get up from the bed but Zaiden stopped her.
"Please continue," Zaiden said very casually.
"Oh right!" Weiss said and then wiped her tears and sat down like the maidens. "As I explained the first time, I don't remember much. The only things I remember are some vague visions of four people. Three boys and a girl dressed in strange clothes, similar to those in crime comedy theaters. And they were calling each other weird names like Joker and Crow and used words like treasure and palace," Weiss said everything she could remember and only Ruby knew what she was talking about.
"You had a building that was made of a combination of a factory, a fort, and a castle, and you only remember a bunch of people who weren't even there?" Yang asked, confused and slightly annoyed.
"I'm sorry, those are the only things I remember!" Weiss angrily turned her head and looked away from Yang.
Weiss suddenly noticed a delicate red object next to her pillow. Weiss picked up what turned out to be a card and was shocked when she looked at the contents written on the card.
"This is not possible!" Weiss put her hand in front of her mouth and the card was released from her hand but Ozpin caught the card in the air and read it.
Glynda joined Ozpin and they were both shocked when they examined the card.
"I don't think it was a miracle that Ms. Schnee was saved!" Ozpin said in shock and handed the card to Ruby as the rest of Team RWBY read the contents of the card.
"Weiss Schnee, Heir of the SDC, we're glad we managed to save you, but please don't let a Nightmare take over you again. Almost one of our members was killed, and if you don't know, I must say that our group does not have insurance. And good luck to you, your teammates are lucky to have a teammate like you. Phantom Thieves of Hearts,"
"WWWWhhhhhhaaaaaaaatttttttttttt! " All three girls let out a squeal and then everyone except Ruby started reading the cards again.
Ruby knew what had happened, but even she didn't expect the Phantom Thieves to send Weiss a card after their operation. Suddenly, Ruby's eyes fell on a black figure with a white mask and she quickly recognized him. Joker took two of his fingers in front of his forehead as a sign of good luck and shook it with a beat. Ruby repeated her symptoms without anyone noticing, and then Joker disappeared with a leap.
The Phantom Thieves side mission is over and now they have to focus on finding the queen and her lover.
Remember when I said that Crow is not supposed to be in the story?
I lied and be sure it won't be the last and I will probably go to hell XD.
But I did not lie when I said that the characters of the two worlds should not enter into a relationship. Actually, I consider these early relationships and sudden kisses that happen in chapters 2 or 3 to be a ridiculous element that just wants to use the characters of the story as tools to gather followers for its story.
I hate stories that get more than 2K likes and followers just because they make a harem. These stories are no different from ridiculous stories without followers and favorites.
For example, Joker himself has great choices in his own world and there is no reason for him to get into a relationship with someone he is probably never going to see again.
But the conditions for those who are in the shared world are different, but the relationship must be formed properly, otherwise, it will become one of those silly harem stories like 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really Love Me.
I hope you understand how I show relationships.
About the Crow's Personas. I am sure he could finally create the bonds with the Phantom Thieves even after his death. And how he is here? Well… Philemon thought it would be interesting.
See you later.