Chapter 13

After Desmond's discovery that he now had to share his head with two entities instead of just Arzel he was rather unhappy, after shaking the fact that his skull was quickly becoming a hotel he speed up to catch up to the rest of his team, and once he did he saw that they were talking with team RWBY and professor Goodwitch.

"There's professor Ozpin has requested to see you all in his office." says quickly leaving after. On the walk to the headmaster's office Desmond and Ruby fell to the back of the group to talk.

"So how have you been doing?" Ruby asked in a hushed tone.

"I'm fine, why do you ask?" Desmond replied

"I'm just curious, we haven't been able to talk since I gave you the file." She said looking at Desmond out of the corner of her eye.

"I'm fine don't worry," Desmond snapped unintentionally. "Sorry about that, having to share my head with two other voices is getting a little strenuous." he apologized

"Wait two?" Ruby asked worriedly

"Yes two, Carnage who says he made the cursed, and Arzel who is my grimm half." he answered.

"You have a grim half, that's strange a cursed should be one entity." Ruby replied

"What about the Carnage?" he asked.

"He likes to talk to his children, he talks to me as well." she answered

"Oh goodie, so I'm not even a normal cursed, at least you hear one of them too." he said with a tired sigh. After walking for a few more minutes they arrived at Ozpin's office and he quickly ushered them in.

"Good you're all here, I have a mission that requires your teams specialties." he says slightly drawing out the word specialties slightly.

'Ozpin you are a piece of shit' Desmond thought to himself as he was sitting in a bullhead with the rest of his team, team RWBY, and a hunter by the name of Maiik Orzhov also known as "Maiik the Liar." Ozpin had wanted the to go out and investigate a village outside of the Kingdom's walls that had gone dark, what he had not explained was which kingdom they were heading to, so here they were eight teens stuffed into a bullhead and heading to Vacuo.

"Vacuo, it had to be Vacuo, the legitimate hottest fucking kingdom on remnant." Desmond exclaimed as he looked back to the rest of his team who were staring at him wide eyed.

"What's your problem with Vacuo?" Nina asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh nothing I just love the heat of the burning desert and the compleat and utter lack of any form of water." he replied his voice dripping with sarcasm which got him the reward of getting smacked in the back of the head by Nina.

"Quiet smart ass, Vacuo isn't even that hot." she responded only to watch Desmond reach into his pocket to pull out his scroll. After a few minutes of typing he turned it back to Nina to show a news report.

"And here's Ginny Hopea with the weather. Thanks John, today Vacuo is estimated to have a temperature of one hundred and twelve degrees, possibly the coolest temperature this year." and once his point was proven Desmond turned the scroll off and put it back in his pocket.

"Okay okay, we get it you don't like the heat." Nina replies rolling her eyes. Before they could continue their bickering Emmie walked in from the cockpit and banged on the wall to get their attention.

"Pilot says we touch down in forty minutes." she says before walking to over a seat to check her gear.

'Annoying little shit, why does he have to be such a smartass.' Nian asks herself as Desmond goes back to playing with his scroll, trying to take her mind off of the annoying teen she starts to look around the bullhead. FIrst up was the bear faunus Matt Wenkin, form what she could see on the outside he was the average brute, he had a large build, his weapon and armor were based off strength a battle axe and plate armor, but if you got to know him you would find he was a brilliant tactician and had a rather adept control of dust. Next to Matt sat Emmie, ever since they were abandoned on the streets, Nina had done everything to make sure that Emmie was safe, even if some of them were rather degrading for her to do. Then there was Desmond, who was one of the biggest smart ass she had ever meet. As she roamed between the members of her family she couldn't help but remember her past

'No those days are over, no one will let us go through that again.' Nina shook her head to try and run away from those thoughts, to hide and to do anything to make the memories just go away, until she came upon a memory from a few weeks ago when the fact that they were about as close as a family was solidified.

It was a cool autumn night and the only light shining came for the calm green light of Ozpin's emerald tower and the soft white of the moon and stars. To most it would be calming, but to Nina it meant that she couldn't see more than a few feet in front of her. In a room with three others that wouldn't be bad, not at all, but again Nina was different. For the past few nights Nina had been avoiding sleep all together because of nightmares, but she couldn't escape the cold, clammy grasp of the hands of sleep.

In her dream Nina was floating above two girls sat in a small alley with a flaming trashcan next to them, and she could instantly tell that it was her and Emmie. From one side of the alley three shadows appeared in the opening and began to stalk slowly towards the sisters. As the shadows grew closer a noise started as well, first it was just barely audible but with each step the shadows took the noise grew louder and louder til' the noise was deafening in volume and the shadows were standing around them. No longer was this a dream for Nina no now it was a memory and a nightmare, the shadows began to kick and hit the sisters and with each blow dealt in the dream would bring pain to Nina, after what seemed like hours worth of pain and noise the beating stopped and Nina knew what would happen next, so trying to desperately to not have to watch the scene that would unfold before her. First, she tried to turn her body away from the alley full of shadowy men but it was to no avail. Next she tried to simply close her eyes and again her body failed to follow any command she gave, so she was stuck looking down upon her and her sister as their clothes were torn from their bodies, but before any further movements could be made a voice sounded from the alley way mouth opening.

"Hey what are you heathens doing to these girls?" came an old sounding voice, when the shadows turned to the origin of the voice they saw a woman dressed in patched and heavy clothing. Nina instantly recognized the woman as the one person who bothered to take care of two orphans when they were just babies. Instead of getting a response the leader of of three shadows brought up its arme to show a mat black pistol. Once the gun was level with the old woman three cracks shattered the sky and the woman fell lifelessly to the ground.

Once the nuisance was gone the shadows returned their attention to the half naked girls, stepping closer to them for the first time during the dream the shadows stepped into the light revealing their faces. The man that stood to left was of average height, had red hair, green eyes, and a handlebar mustache. The man that stood to the right was rather like the first man except that he had blue hair and teal eyes. The man in the middle however was the most memorable, he was tall and well built, he was completely bald and had a green coloured goatee. As they stepped closer the fear in Nina grew to the point of almost killing her. Finally when the dream was about to reach the most unbearable part the middle man spoke.

"Well boys, let's have us some fun." as he said this he undid his pants belt and let them drop to his ankles. Before the dream could further itself however Nina felt a shaking feeling which released her from the grasp of the hell that she was about relive. When she opened her eyes to deep sea blue eyes behind blond hair, the blue however wasn't the noticeable thing about the eyes no it was the fact that they were bloodshot from crying. Quickly switching into big sister mode Nina brought Emmie into a large hug and brought her down to the bed hoping to coax her back to sleep while trying to get some comfort for herself.

Some time later during the night the dream repeated for Nina causing her to wake again, while she laid there awake she could hear Emmie going through what had to be the same dream. Thinking quickly she shook Emmie awake trying to keep her from waking the rest of their team, but when she shook her younger sister awake it had the adverse effect of causing her to scream in terror, Nina tried to keep Emmie from screaming too long or too loud. Once she had gotten Emmie quiet the sisters could just look at each other as tears started to well up in there eyes. Before the dam could burst however Nina noticed a presence standing next to them. When he turned to look at the presence she saw that it was Matt and he was standing with his arms held wide open. Emmie quickly accepted the embrace while Nina was a little hesitant.

"It'll be okay, I protect my team." he spoke in a calm soothing voice. Once those word were said all her hesitance broke and she buried herself in the hug releasing her own unshed tears.

Quietly in the background, while Matt soothed the two sisters into a more relaxed state than before, laid Desmond who stayed quiet the whole time. While he watched the embrace from afar he felt a twinge of jealousy for not being able to help the sisters like Matt could. While the three teammates were wrapped up in their embrace Desmond quietly snuck out into the dorms kitchen and made tea to help calm all of their nerves and hopefully stop the nightmares if only for just the night. When he was done making the tea he quickly wrote a note saying

'Drink this it will help you sleep.' and as quietly as he could deposited it next to Matt and the sisters he went back to his bed and watched as they happily drank it and soon all fell into a dreamless sleep, to which he soon followed.

However, before any more dark thought could resurface, Nina felt something lightly grip her shoulder and turn her around. Once she was facing the source of what had brought her out of her dark memories she found that Matt was standing there with a concerned look on his face.

"Hey are you okay?" Matt asked with his voice full of concern.

"I'm fine, I was just thinking about a few weeks ago." she replied looking down at her shoes to avoid Matt's eyes. Before she could chance a look up however, she felt the grip on her shoulder tighten slightly.

"Like I said that night, I will protect my team." he said putting extra emphasis on each word he spoke. Nina looked up to the bear faunus and was about to reply before Matt cut her off.

"And I know Despond would fight tooth, feather, and nail to protect all three of us. Especially for you and Emmie." Once Matt said this Nina was thrown it to a state of shock.

"Why would he do that?" she asked before she could stop herself.

"From what I can figure out he sees us as his pack and alphas are very protective of there pack." He replied before leaving to double check his gear. Now that she was left to her own thought she began to think about what Matt had said. As she went through recent memories she began to notice that Desmond was infact a lot like the leader of a pack of wolves.

'Why is he the alpha?' was the first question that came to her mind, then it was quickly dismissed by the memory of Desmond breaking Cardin's legs popped into her head.

'Okay so if he is the alpha, then how do the rest of us fit in?' she asked herself trying to of who the second in command was, before she could get too far in thought however the interior light changed from red to green and Maiik stood up signaling for the students to listen.

"We've reached the village let's go." he said as the doors to the bullhead opened to show the outside world, peering over the edge Nina saw the burned remnants of a village.

Hello everybody, so this is the latest chapter of Demn. Anyway here is some filler before the next chapter and before anyone complains the dark part of this chapter was caused by a writer named Archer1eye so if you don't like it go yell at him via PMs and as always please review thank you and Ta-ra

-Dantai