A/N: Hey people, sorry about this update. Decided to change what happened to Artorias, he was too OP. Anyway hope you people like this chapter and check out Twisted Fate MK 2 fanfictions also. He does more fanfics, makes more updates than I do, and overall is a better writer than I am. Sooooo yeah make sure to check out his fanfics. Anyway, ON TO THE STORY! (Traverses the White Light)
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Chapter 4: Wrath of the Legend
Beacon Hallway, Outside of room 225, Morning
"Ugh." Artorias groaned as he started to sit up, only to see the brown eyes of Velvet Scarlatina and the rest of Team CFVY. Artorias, now fully awake, quickly rolled away to a standing position with Dirus and Lupus in his hands in his battle stance.
"Whoa! Artorias, it's just us!" Velvet said, surprised, and backing away with her hands stretched out. Artorias lowered his guard and looked at Velvet and the rest of the team and had one question.
"Why are you wearing uniforms?" Artorias questioned. 'Thank the lords I practiced this language when I was dead.' He thought.
"Well, this is a place for learning, so we need to wear our uniforms. And how did you talk our style all of a sudden?" Velvet said to the knight. Artorias blushed lightly, scratching his cheek even though they can't see his face because of the helmet shadow except for Velvet.
"I have tried to practice this world's language when I died. Though I have trouble with the pronunciation." Velvet and the rest smiled at the knight.
"Well, care to escort us to the cafeteria, oh brave knight?" Coco asked the knight.
"Very well. Let us go." Artorias deadpanned while walking away with Velvet and the rest in tow. While they were walking, Fox suddenly asked.
"How was Lordran at the age of fire?" Artorias looked at Fox.
"Lordran was the light in a darkened world. There were 3 lords living in Lordran. Nito god of death and disease, The Witch of Izalith the goddess of life and fire, and Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight and our lord. Everything was going well since the first flame made everything possible. Until the abyss came, started to devour all living things within its grasp. We were losing the war, until Lord Gwyn had an idea. He told me to take Sif and stop the abyss by killing the father, Manus. I obeyed the order and soon I was sent out. We fought many enemies on the way." They stopped at the cafeteria.
"Wow, I didn't know about this much. My mother only read about the adventure of you and Sif defeating the father of the Abyss." Velvet said.
"No, the story is wrong." Artorias responded, looking down with sadness.
"Alright, let's get something to eat then we can finish the story." Coco interrupted the sad atmosphere. Everyone nodded and headed to the serving tables. Once they got their food, which is pancakes, and sat on the table. Once they looked at Artorias, they saw The Legendary Knight eating 20 trays of food.
When he looked at the team, they were all staring at him surprised.
"Is something wrong?" Artorias asked them, confused. None of the said anything until Velvet spoke.
"Why do you have that much food?" Artorias looked at his pile of food.
"Well, Im hungry." Artorias said. "Anyway, the story your mother told was wrong. We weren't able to defeat the monster. Instead, I protected Sif with my shield while I was tainted by its unholy essence." Artorias continued, taking a bite out of his food.
"So, then how did you stop Manus?" Fox asked.
"I didn't. An undead and my allies killed him." Everyone then ate in silence. After finishing their breakfast and their goodbyes, Artorias tried to search around Beacon for forge. Surprisingly, they do have a forge, only problem was that there were no Titanite shards, only different colored crystals. Artorias went to the crystals and placed his sword onto the wall next to him. The Knight grabbed a crystal carefully and inspected it. The crystal had a white glow to it, almost making it look holy. But as he looked closer he saw a warming faint orange glow of what it looks like a shard. Artorias can't recall, but it looks really familiar.
"What in Lordran's name is this?" Artorias asked himself.
"That is a dust crystal." Artorias turned around, surprised, to see Ozpin behind him. "That specific dust crystal you are holding is a light crystal; it's good against Grimm and able to upgrade a person's weapon. It also activates with a person's aura."
Artorias stared at Ozpin, then looked at the crystal again. "How do I gain aura?" he asked the Headmaster.
"You must unlock it; however I cannot unlock it for you." The headmaster of Beacon stated. Artorias looked at Ozpin in confusion.
"Why not?" The Knight asked. Ozpin looked at Artorias also.
"You are from the old age, we need to find a way to unlock your Aura since our original chant will not work. However, I need to ask you a question., follow me." Ozpin spoke as he started to walk towards his office. Artorias put the dust crystal back in the container it was from and followed the Headmaster.
Couple of minutes later, Ozpin and Artorias stood in the elevator, now Artorias's height, heading up the clocktower.
"Headmaster Ozpin, how dost thou make this elevator bigger in one day?" Artorias asked the headmaster, who looked at him.
"We had Professor Goodwitch to do it. We bribed her with a week off. But enough about that I want to know something." By the tone of Ozpins voice, Artorias knew something was up. "Do you trust me and are you willing to do anything to keep this world safe?" Artorias looked at Ozpin in shock.
"Yes, of course! This world is in peace and I am willing to keep it that way." Artorias spoke in a determined voice. Ozpin smiled a bit and sighed as he heard the Elevator dinged.
"Thank you. The reason why is that I'm afraid that one day, a powerful Grimm will be unleashed." Ozpin spoke as he walked up to his table and pressed a button. Artorias's eyes widened as he looked at a dragon like Grimm stood on a mountain and around it is a city on fire. It had red bat like wings replacing its arms and had white bone armor covering some parts of it and the head. Its red eyes stared at the sky with cinders and smoke around it.
"What is that, I have not seen a Grimm like that!" Artorias exclaimed in shock. Ozpin sighed as he stared at the picture.
"This is known as the Wyrm or Nidhogg. The Grimm was known to lead the destruction of Mount Glenn and a kingdom called Agartha, which use to supply dust to all of Remnent. Nothing is known to kill it except thirteen people. The four maidens, the four Hunters of the lost city, and the four Knights of the forgotten era along with the Lord of an abandoned fire. All of them will fight this Grimm and will succeed. However, only five will remain. We only have the four maidens, but part of a maidens power has been stolen and we do not know of the rest. You are the fifth person and the first Knight we have found. We need to know if you are capable to help us." Ozpin exclaimed. Artorias was surprised. Thirteen people will fight this monstrosity, but only five will remain. He knows of the tale of the maidens and he knows of his friends, and his lord will come to Remnent, but he does not know of the four Hunters of a lost city.
"I will help you, headmaster, just tell me what to do." Artorias spoke in determination.
"Well-" Ozpin started until a loud explosion was heard followed by smoke coming from Vale. "You can start by going to the city and finding out what that is." Ozpin said with a swirl of his coffee mug. Artorias decided to ask questions later and went off to go towards the direction of the smoke. Once Artorias got there with his weapons, he found Grimm all around the city. And in front of him is a pack of Beowolves. Artorias took out his weapons and got into his battle stance. The first Beowolf launched itself towards the Knight and slashing its paw down. But with quick thinking, Artorias blocked the strike and hit the beowolf in the stomach and followed by a quick strike downward, ending the Beowolf's life. Artorias just got his weapon up, only to get knocked back by another Beowolf. Artorias charged at the Beowolf and rolled under a strike and slashing at its legs, blocked another strike, but was hit in the back by a claw. Artorias kicked off the Grimm he blocked the strike from and turned to see an Ursa tackle him to the ground. Artorias held his shield up infront of the Ursa, who desperately wanted to bite his neck,and pierced his sword through the Ursa's chest. He kicked off the body, and stood up to see an Alpha Beowolf standing infront of him. Artorias just raised his shield up in time for the strike to meet him and knocked him back. The knight stood up and ducked under the Grimm's strike and cut the Alpha Beowolf in a diagonal strike with his sword. Artorias looked at two other Ursa's and charged towards them, one of the Ursa's swung it's paw at him but Artorias dodged its attack and cut its arm off and its head. The other Ursa swung it's claw towards the Knight but was blocked with his shield. Artorias flinched and kneeled down because of his injuries of the last battle. Until he heard a gunshot and saw the Grimm falling down at his feet and dissolved into black smoke. He looked up to see a certain red cloaked girl staring at him with silver eyes. Artorias stood up and saw Ruby along with her team, CFVY, and another team.
"Are you okay?" The innocent silver eyed girl asked the Knight. Artorias looked at the girl and smiled.
"Tis' nothing." Arotias spoke in a calm manner but was panting from the fight. Ruby tilted her head in a cute manner.
"But your bleeding everywhere." She exclaimed and was only met with a response of "I had Worse." From the Legendary Knight. Ruby sighed and turned to her team.
"Well, I'm tired, anyone want to go back to the Bullhead?" Yang asked between pants. Everyone nodded and started to walk back to the Bullhead just as Yang, as always, says something that made everyone groan. "You can say that this fight in the city is a bit GRIMM."
Destination change, Beacon Academy, Ozpin's Office
Ozpin stared at a bunch of holographic screens with Glynda and Ironwood. The screen shows a title saying 'New Species of Grimm! Locals call this FENRIR!'
"What do you make of this Ozpin?" Ironwood asked to the Headmaster. Ozpin looked at the screen with a frown on his face, thinking of the picture of the new 'Grimm' on screen.
"We should possibly wait, see if the suspicions are true or not." Glynda stated. Ironwood looked at the Dust user with narrow eyes.
"I think we should capture it immediately to make sure no one else is hurt. You heard the news, fifty people were found clawed apart by this Monster and we are having it roam around freely." Ironwood said as they looked at Ozpin. "What do you think we should do, Ozpin?" Ironwood asked.
Ozpin kept his eyes on the screen, before speaking "Leave it for now, Artorias is our main priority. We must get the abyss out of him. Who knows what will happen if the abyssal power goes out of control. Now leave me, I need to think of this." Glynda nodded as she headed towards the elevator.
Ironwood started to enter the elevator, until he turned towards the Headmaster and said "You know that the council will be upset by this, right?" As the elevator doors closed he could hear Ozpins voice says to him.
"The council must be patient in order to win this war. They must be patient unless the abyss will take us over." Ozpin heard the doors close as he looked at the picture of the new Grimm. It's grey fur now almost coated in black and giving a sickly purple affect around its great body. Its glowing red eyes stared through the darkened forest covered in the night shadow. But what is really noticeable is a bluish glow by the moon, illuminating the dark. Ozpin stares at a once great grey wolf, now corrupted by the Abyss, holding a great sword by its mouth.
A/N: Sorry that my fighting scene and description is horrible. Tried at least. Im deciding if I should make it a Bloodborne crossover also, connecting it to Ivory Knight. You all decide and tell me if i should in the Reviews. Anyway, see you all at the next chapter and again, read Twisted Fate MK 2 fanfics.