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Bold: Kamui speaking
Hi: Kamui thinking
Hi: used for normal speech
'hi : used to convey thought
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"Whats with all the faces here girls, looks like you've all seen the devil ... or in the faunas case, like you've seen a ghost" commented Cinder, her amber eyes staring at the four girls.
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*CLICK*
Blake's body was enveloped in life fibers, Ren shifting into his combat form. As the transformation ended she charged straight towards Cinder, eyes blazing with anger ... and fear.
Gambol Shroud clashed against glass, sparks coming from their clash.
"Oh, feisty one we have here" said Cinder.
"You, YOU" spat Blake "I'm going to kill you."
"So your still angry over the death of Adam Taurus I see, I'm bit surprised that you actually care for such an ... extremist" said Cinder.
Instead of replying the cat faunas pushed more strength into her arms, pushing the glass blade closer to Cinder.
"Out of the talking phase are we and into the fighting than?" rhetorically asked Cinder. Lunging her leg she strikes against the kneecap, causing a yelp of pain to come out of the Faunus. Cinder quickly jabbed Blake in the throat before quickly making distance.
While Blake was down she materialized a glass bow as well as a few arrows to go with it. Pulling the knot back she let lose a few arrows. Blake rolled out of the way as the sharpened glass tips embedded themselves deep into the ground with terrifying ease.
Shifting gambol shroud into its SMG form she fired a volley of bullets against Cinder, while Cinder had dodged out of the way more than a few either brushed or striked against her aura as it cackled to life in response.
Her weapon quickly dried up as the last bullet left the barrel, so she shifted it back into its blade mode and charged at Cinder. Gambol relentlessly clashed at Cinder's glass blades. As the two of their blades locked each other she activated gambol's hidden feature, a black ribbon fell from weapon. Forcing Cinder to break the lock she wrapped one of Cinder's arm with he ribbon, gaining some surprise from the women, and forced her arm to ground allowing Blake to knee kick the women's lower jaw.
While dazed Blake elbowed her in the throat before throwing a hay maker right into the face, forcing her onto the ground. Stabbing gambol into the ground Cinder thew herself to side, avoiding the blade from puncturing her throat. Scrambling up Cinder threw a glare at the Faunus, spiting out a glob of blood.
"Had enough yet" growled Blake.
"Yet? I've just got excited child" replied Cinder.
"W-" began Blake as Cinder disappeared from her view and a harsh feeling was felt in the lower part of her back. Pulling the young faunas by the back by the back of her hair Cinder threw another kick into the back of midsection, resulting in another cry of pain.
Unfortunately, Cinder was forced to drop the young girl to avoid the incoming human missiles otherwise known as Yang Xiao-long. Blazing red eyes glared at Cinder as she brought Nora into her combat form, ready to kick this ladies ass all the way back whatever pit she came from.
"About time you came in" commented Blake as she stood back up.
"To be fair, I thought you will be able to take care of her by yourself. So how about we make it up by taking care this flame bitch" replied Yang.
"That could work"
Yang gave smirk as she cocked Ember Cecilia and fired two dust rounds at Cinder's location. To the blonde's disappointment Cinder easily evaded the round as they exploded the area around them into a fiery ball of fire.
From the plumes of smoke came out two arrows flying straight towards the girls. Nora wrapped Yang with her wings, the arrow bouncing off the hardened life fibers. For Blake, the young faunas barely pushed herself to the side, the arrow just grazing her check.
From the smoke Cinder dashed out, towards the the two girls, blades in both hands. Yang responded with charging straight at raven haired attacker.
Raising her gantlet she deflected the first blow and just barely blocked the second blow, which left her open for an unexpected headbutt. A sharp to the gut, courtesy of Cinder, blew the wind out of her and forcing her slouch a bit.
Grabbing her by the throat amber eyes gave the blonde brawler a malicious look as Cinder threw Yang, with a surprising show of strength, into the incoming Blake, turning both girls into a pile of mess.
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"I think its safe to say that our current strategy isn't going to work her" groaned Ren as Blake & Yang untangled themselves from each other.
"Going to have to agree with Ren on that one" agreed Nora.
"Well do have an idea than? Because if you don't than I don't see any other way to beat her" said Yang.
"I think I got one, Yang, how many more rounds do you sill have on you?" asked Blake.
"Two more, after that I'm out"
"Alright, Yang, you take Nora and give me & Ren some air support. I'll keep her busy on the ground. No way she can avoid being attack from two different angles" laid out Blake.
"No prablemo"
Blake gave Yang a nod as turned her attention back to Cinder who was still standing there, giving the two a playful smirk. Pushing aura into her legs dust raised up as charged straight at Cinder at blinding speeds. Once again Cinder blocked her attack, sparks coming out.
"Ren!" bellowed Blake.
The green blades that were lined across the edge glowed as they rapidly expanded, forcing Cinder away from Blake and right into the Yang's sight. A volley of aura enhanced dust round flew from the sky, straight towards Cinder.
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Cinder threw herself towards the side to avoid the incoming dust rounds, unfortunately a certain cat faunas began to fire in her direction, forcing her to be on the constant move. A growl escaped her throat, now the two girls we just grating on her nerve.
"So the two plan to beat by making me make a mistake, honestly could the two of them be evermore blunt with their actions. Mm, I certainly can't keep this going on forever but what to do what to do ... Hmm,
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that ... that could work."
As her feet once again touched the ground she reached into one of her hidden pockets, pulling out a brown colored dust crystal, the size of her own palm. The crystal began to glow as the primal power inside became active as she transferred a small portion of her aura. She threw the dust crystal. Seconds after it left her hand the crystal shattered into various pieces and hitting the ground around Blake.
*CRACK*
Large slabs of rock burst from the beneath Blake, preventing her from escaping, surprising her in the process. The slabs were too high up for her to continue firing Gambol Shroud.
"One down, one more to go" thought Cinder as her attention was turned upwards to Yang.
For the blond brawler, to see her partner currently incapacitated left worry in her mind. There was no way she could beat Cinder on her own, hell she and Blake together couldn't put her down. Still, were they to lose to this women who could control grimm ... she shuddered at the mere thoughts.
"I still have the air, if I can get Blake out than maybe we co-" raced Yang's mind before they were stopped by what she saw next.
Cinder Fall, staring her directly into the sky.
While in the sky, with fire coming out of hands.
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"You've got to be shitting me" whispered Yang.
All she got was cruel simile before Cinder did a midair back flip and swung her leg right onto Yang's head,
*SMASH*
forcing her back onto the ground.
With a knee to the back soon coming afterward, pushing out any remaining wind out of her and causing her to cry out in agony.
Not done yet, Cinder grabbed Nora's wings by the pack. Rising Yang's body till the raven haired assassin could see the pained look on the blonde's face, she than threw the body straight at Blake's direction, who both saw and heard what happened to Yang.
The stone slabs shattered through both Blake's aura infused fist and Yang being smashed into he stone.
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"Yang!/Nora!" spoke Blake and Ren, scoping her downed partner into her arms.
"Dammit Dammit, Come on Yang stay alive" begged Blake, looking over the blonde's body. So far with what Blake could see nothing major seemed to be broken, including her spine which was a relief to cat Faunus. However, there were major bruises starting to swell across her body, that's also not taking in the possibility of internal bleeding as well.
For Ren, while still worried over Yang's health felt greater concern for Nora. While the pink kamui was the most durable out of all of them the damage she took from Cinder brought worry to the green kamui, fearing the worst could've happened.
"Nora, are you alright, speak to me" said Ren.
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"Mmm ... is it pancake time already?" groggily asked Nora, a single eye turned to his direction. A mental sigh of relief went through the green kamui, his closest friend still fine.
"Thank God your still alive ... Nora,is Yang ... is she still alive?"
"She's still breathing, but, after that last attack I don't think we can keep going. That lady is crazily strong Ren, like so much strength in such a small arm crazy and did you see that fire power of hers, she flew straight into the sky, I thought her semblance was making glass stuff not control over fire" exclaimed Nora.
Nora wasn't wrong on that, did the lady in red have more dust on her or was it really another semblance. So many questions were going through his mind but the green kamui was forced to push them aside and focus on the bigger incoming problem.
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"Whats wrong, cat got your tongue?" asked Cinder.
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"~sigh~ At least you could give me some last words or something. I'm a bit disappointed honestly, while you did put up a valiant fight in the beginning in the end you just showed how far you were from evening coming close to ending my life. So, any last words?" commented Cinder, her two blades reforming into her hands.
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"She does, and its die" spoke a frosty voice.
A large glyph formed underneath Cinder, her eyes widening in shock as the glyph flashed a white light, blinding both her and Blake.
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Amber eyes began to readjust as Blake began to see the rough outlines of her surroundings. The first thing her eyes could see was a very very frozen Cinder. The next thing was Weiss rapidly shaking her shoulder, trying to get her attention.
"Blake, Blake, Blake are you there, snap out of it" demanded Weiss.
"Hu-W-Weiss, d-did you do that?"
"And who else could manipulate ice dust to that degree?" rhetorically asked the heiress."Now come on, I don't know how long my ice prison will last and I don't to be near when it breaks."
Pulling Blake up the two of them pulled the downed brawler away from the now frozen assassin. Once the three of them were far enough to where Ruby laid still, placing the sisters close to each other.
As the two of them gently laid the brawler down Weiss turned her attention back to Cinder.
"Pyrrha, I need your help with what I'm about to do next" requested Weiss, raising myrtenaster.
"Understood"
A brief light covered the heiress as the life fibers surrounded her and Pyrrha shifted into her combat form. A rush of raw energy filled her body, her aches and pains from her body temporarily disappearing.
Weiss took a deep breath, bringing the blade of myrtenaster close to her temple she activated her semblance. A large glyph formed behind her with a smaller one on top of it. Less than a half a minutes passed before a large armored hand burst out of the glyph, than another, than foot, till eventually a massive knight came out. The air around the construct chilled till it could been seen with the naked eye.
And Weiss gave one order.
"Kill her"
The construct obeyed, and lumbered over to the frozen women. Bringing its great sword high as it could raise the summon swung down to Cinder.
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Until it stopped dead center on the women's temple.
"What th-" began Weiss before her eyes widen in horror. The icy prison began to crack, dozens of them of various lengths scattered across the ice block. A amber colored energy seeping out was the last thing either she and Blake saw as the prison shattered and everything went white for the two.
BEACON CLINIC
"Mmmm, five more minutes Yang" muttered Ruby.
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"I said five minutes Yang, leave me alone" slapping the hand shaking her shoulder.
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"Miss Rose, I would appreciate it if you would please awake now" spoke Goodwitch.
In the far corners of her mind the sound of glass shattering could be heard.
*CRACK*
Eyes shooting open as her upper body stood up, almost bumping into Goodwitch herself.
"P-Professor Goodwitch, what are you doing here!? Um ugh not that I don't mind or all I-I mean your always welcomed to team RWBY dorm-" said Ruby before Glynda motioned the short reaper to stop.
"Deep breathes Miss Rose, clam yourself" advised Goodwitch.
Taking the professors advise the young reaper took some deep breathes and calmed herself down.
"So why are here you here Professor?"
"Miss Rose, do you know where you are now?"
"Umm why we're in my dooorrrrmmm ..." drawled out Ruby, looking around the area, only to see sterile white walls and tiles.
"Your in Beacon's clinics Miss Rose, we found you and your teammates on various conditions, passed out across the wreckage of nearby kingdom outpost-" explained Goodwitch.
"Passed out! Are they ok, is Yang-" began Ruby
"They are ok Miss Rose, all your teammates, including your sister, are all fine. In fact they been released just a few hours ago. However, you on the other hand Miss Rose are a very lucky girl, had the bullhead that picked your team up not carry death-stalker anti-venom on hand another day and there could have been permanent damage done to you."
Ruby gulped at the last tidbit, her hand going to where the death stalker stabbed her.
"You are are to remain here until tomorrow morning where the doctors will decide whether you are fit to leave. Afterwards you are to write a report on what happened during your time at the forest by order from the headmaster."
"Do I have to"
"Miss Rose," began Goodwitch, her voice becoming deadly serious, "This is a very serious situation, you and your team were lost in forever falls for almost three days. No supplies, no communication, and stuck in Grimm infested territory. You were very lucky that we found on the third day, there was a very good chance you may have meet your end back in that forest."
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"~sigh~ I believe that will be all for now, I'll give you an email if I need anything else from you. Also, you are excused from my class for the remaining week that also includes personal physical training. You need your body time to repair the damage done by the poison" finished Goodwitch, getting up and leaving the girl to her thoughts.
"Hold on professor, um, do you ... do you where my clothes are" asked Ruby, a small blush forming from such a embarrassing question.
"There in your dorm Miss Rose" answered Goodwitch, leaving the girl.
Ruby would wait till she finally hears the door click shut, a tired sigh escaped her mouth as she slouched back onto the bed.
"Oh, god ... we actually made it" thought Ruby. Never before had the smell of sanitized equipment felt so relieving to the her. Still though, putting her hand underneath her shirt she touched where the stinger had pierced her body.
Her fingers brushed against the rough tissue where the scar was, from what she get from feeling with her hand the scar was roughly the size of a baseball, or maybe a bit bigger.
"That was too close, if Jaune didn't stop the rest of the poison or didn't patch me up when Yang pulled the stinger out ..." she banished those thoughts for now, the last thing she needed to think was all the possible if's.
For now, she pulled her hand out of her shirt. Placing her head back on her pillow and did the only thing she could, think ... think of what to do next. Well rest is the immediate one, but after that? Her memories were useless as she couldn't remember much after Yang pulled the stinger out. But from what she could hear it something about a women and that was really it. She could always talk to her teammates about it later.
But after that?
They needed to train ... or at least be more prepared if they ever have to face a similar situation like that.
But what exactly would they need to do to be prepared? The first thing that came to mind was more training, but that would not be enough. What good would all that strength do if your cold, starving, and have no means of communication?
No, what they needed was not improving their skills but instead learning new ones, more importantly about survival in the wilderness, first aid, etc... . Not only that but supplies, not like bringing camping equipment everywhere you go level, more like ... having a few rations on hand or maybe a small first aid-kit level.
Slowly the gears in her mind began chugging as new ideas were forming in her head, as she fell deep into her own thoughts she didn't noticed the door opening.
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"So what do we tell to Ruby?" asked Blake, with Yang & Weiss standing to her sides. The three of them walking towards their leaders room.
"Like we agreed, we went to headmaster Ozpin to inform him what we could without telling him about the raven haired women or about the kamui" informed Weiss.
"Still, you think it wouldn't be better if we told the headmaster about the women at least" whispered Pyrrha.
"We can't take that risk Pyrrha, that women knew about you and the rest Pyrrha. Not only that but it's most likely that what happened back there was engineered by that same lady" replied Blake.
"Blake makes good points Pyrrha ..." agreed Weiss "... besides, we don't have any evidence that there was somebody else besides us back there at the ruins. At best they may dismiss it as a result a stress while at worst they could write us off as crazy."
"I understand that you two, honestly I do. But we can't just face her alone, you saw how she easily beat all three of us. At our current strength we're not strong enough to face her, we need help" explained Pyrrha.
"Or we can train harder and then proceed to kick her ass back to whatever pit she crawled out of" offered Yang, cracking her knuckles to make her point.
"You pulled the words right out of my mouth, besides Pyr, that Ozpin guy gives me the creeps, something about him seems ... off" supported Nora.
"Yeah I've been wanting to ask about that? Why are guys so tense around Ozpin, your always so stiff whenever we pass by the headmaster" questioned Yang.
"Mm I don't know, just something about him wants to sock him in the face."
"Nora!"
"Can't control it snow angel, I just really want to do it one day"
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The three huntresses continue to chat with their respective kamui till finally reached the clinic, a quick check with the receptionist and they soon reached there leaders room.
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"Hey sis, you having a yanging time" greeted Yang.
The young reapers mind cringed as she turned her head to see her team entering her room.
"Why did I have to have you as a sister" grumbled Ruby.
"Ouch, my little sister, showing her thorns to her own flesh and blood. Oh what could've caused this" bemoaned Yang, clutching her heart in mock horror.
"Yang, I don't want to spend my entire weekend trying to explain that one" replied Ruby.
"Ouch, she got you there Yang." said Nora.
"Tch, please Nora, I was just being kind to her"
"Mmhm, suurreee you did."
"Nora, Yang no fighting here, I am not going to allow you two kick us all out" ordered Weiss. "~sigh~ Ignoring those two, how are you Ruby?"
"Great Weiss, Miss Goodwitch just came by and she said I should be out of here by tomorrow ... or something like that" answered Ruby.
"That's a relief"
"Soooo, what happened when I was ... you know, out" asked Ruby.
"Well, after we reached the outpost we were saved by a nearby rescue team looking for us, then after a day of recuperating we informed the headmaster on what happened back there before finally coming to meet with you" explained Weiss.
"And is that all what happened?"
"... We can go more into it when you get well Ruby"
"Ok? ... so um, is Jaune with you guys now?"
"Back in our dorm, we'll tell him that you said hi" answered Blake.
"Oh good ... yeah ... you tell him that"
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"So um, about what happened back there-" began Ruby "-Well, I've been thinking and ... and I think we need to do something about it."
"About what sis" asked Yang.
"About how we acted backed there, not the emotion stuff, but like the whole survival thing. I don't want to say that we should've come more prepared, but ..."
"... But we should have been more skilled" filled in Blake.
"Yeah that, I just feel like we should've been more skilled or something close to that" finished Ruby.
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"Ruby, what happened back there ... what happened back there was a horrific incident, but it was one that nobody could have predicted" said Blake.
"I know that, but ... if we do ever get ourselves into a situation like that again I want us to be more prepared. Now I'm not saying we should bring camping equipment wherever we go, but like ... I don't know, a few energy bars or maybe a basic first aid-kit" explained Ruby. "And maybe even taking some time to take some of those surivial courses I've seen around school."
"That's a pretty tall order there sis" warned Yang.
"I know it's a lot I'm asking of you all but ... But I just don't want that to happen again" said Ruby.
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"We'll think on later Ruby-" said Weiss "- right now just focus on getting better, we can discuss more on it when you get released." Motion Blake & Yang the three of them departed from Ruby's room, leaving the girl to her own thoughts.
RWBY DORM, MIDNIGHT
"It's cold" thought Jaune.
Fall was nearing, as already some trees had begun to change color, from emerald green to a vivid array of red, yellows, and oranges.
And it began to get cold as well.
But even though the heater was on it didn't help the slightest in stopping the cold feeling in the his chest. Unfortunately, he knew why he was having this feeling.
Ruby
She was still in the clinic, healing from her wounds, wounds he could've stop if he wasn't so slow. A feeling of frustration and anger welled up inside of him, all directed at himself. But in the end the anger faded away, unable to release itself, instead going back inside of him.
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"~sigh~ Maybe I should get some rest, its already passed twelve. I don't want the others to see me like this" thought Jaune, closing his eyes to try to get some sleep.
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"Dammit all" hissed Jaune, eyes cracking open. It seemed that sleep was beyond his grasp for now. "~sigh~ come on me, you've got to get some sleep. You need to get some sleep me."
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"Pssht, hey Jaune, are you awake" whispered Nora.
"Hm? What is it Nora" asked Jaune, turning his eyes towards the orange kamui near him.
"Well you were talking to yourself a bit and I wondering if you were still up" explained Nora.
"Oh, sorry about that Nora, I didn't know you were sleeping" he apologized, mentally berating himself for his volume.
"You don't need to apologized Jaune, to be honest I wasn't really sleeping either, just kinda of ... laying about." she explained
"Oh ... I'm still sorry though Nora. I've just been thinking a lot with what happened back there and how I should've -"
"Jaune, what happened back there was ... it was scary, and I understand that. All of our partners were out and seeing that women walk over them, having the literal power to end their lives then and there ... it was scary. She could've have taken us off our partners and I doubt there was much we could do, I mean we can barely fight as it now."
"Honestly, its not hard to understand why even Pyrrha would want to work with that weirdo Ozpin."
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"It's not just that Nora" whispered Jaune. "Don't get me wrong, the feeling of helplessness was scary but-"
"But what Jaune?"
"What she said Nora. What that women said to us ... why did she say those words."
The orange kamui couldn't give a response back, for she understood what Jaune was saying. And even she did not know why that women said those words.
Tou-san
There, this chapter is finally done and I proudly say that.
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Collapses
Ughhhh, I'm so sorry this took so long but the only answer I can give is college. And fretting over math test scores is never fun ... never.
But beyond that whining the next thing is latest chapter of Venomous Rose and a important announcement.
So when I was writing this chapter I came a conclusion, the sheer speed I going was simply to slow and with three different stories there was no way I could continue, that not even adding college into the mix. So in that regard I'm announcing that I'm putting this story on hiatus for while.
Now this does not mean this story is cancelled, because it is not, that I assure you. I'm just talking a break and focusing on my other two stories that are more popular. Now how long this break will last is something that I don't know, but when I get more creative juices for this story i'll come back to it.
I'm terribly sorry to anyone who is saddened by this but right now I'm just burned out and burden with other stories to continue at the moment.
Until then
-robotgod456