Re: Housepets! X Kingdomhearts~ Hearts of The Selfless
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:51 am
This chapter was inspired by the song Red Like Roses by Jeff Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuxPokAeIA
Chapter 17
Remnant
When I took my first steps through the door I was instantly awestruck at the sight. Fox, Grape, Fido and I were standing on a bridge of light that extended to a nearby star but what stole our words and our breaths was the sight from the bridge. The door that came out of the star book led to what I could only describe as outer space. I knew this because everywhere I looked I saw stars of varying colors blue, red yellow, green you name it I saw it.
I could almost spend hours looking at the sight but I knew that there was something more important at stake here. After all I was the one responsible, there was no time to waste sight seeing, not after what happened.
“I'm fine.” Fido said to no one in particular as he continued his pace ahead of the three of us “I just wish Sabrina was here with to see this with me. How about you, I know this isn't your first encounter with the supernatural but how are you holding up?” who was Fido talking to, he was ahead of us and not looking back so it couldn't be either Fox, Grape or me.
“I know, I know, we share a room remember?” he laughed even though no one said anything to him “Man Slagron the enforcer was not happy that day.”
Okay now I was concerned, and picked up my pace to keep up with the brown dog “So do you talk to yourself often or should we go back and drop you off at a mental hospital?” I started off causally to make sure I didn't offend him “Cause I'm beginning to worry that all this just broke your sanity.”
“No, I can assure you I'm perfectly sane.” He tilted his head down to reveal a mouse using his ear as some sort of cushion “Fenrir this is Spo; he's not typically heard by others unless he wants to be so I can understand why you didn't notice him before.”
“Sup' wolfie,” he greeted nonchalantly
Did he just call me wolfie? This is new, of all the greetings I've experienced this is the most unexpected as well as the most casual “Well I'm Fenrir but I usually shorten it to Fen, but Fido can I ask you a question?”
“Shoot,” he replied as his eyes were still locked on the door ahead of us
I took a moment to find right words to say “How are you doing?” His attention then sifted from the door to me with a puzzled look “I mean, if this was happening to me I'd think I'd gone crazy and lie down till all of this got better but how are all of you just coping? Does this not bring up any questions like at all?”
“All I need to know is that Sabrina's in danger and I can help her.” he said touching the wayfinder on his collar “Everything can be explained later but Sabrina takes priority.”
“Trust me wolfie,” Spo crawled down to Fido's shoulder “a lot of weird things happens to the pet population of Babylon. The humans don't notice it cause they're too thick headed but us animals we just roll with whatever comes our way. If I were you I'd try not to put too much thought into it, doing that would only wear down whatever brain cells you've got left.”
I held in a growl, was this mouse actively trying not to be friendly or is he really this much of a jerk “One more thing,” I said as we came to a halt in front of the end of the light bridge and in front of the exit door “I'm sorry about what happened.” I felt my ears lower a little as I spoke “I brought that hooded figure to Babylon, and he says that I brought his attention to your friends' hearts. I just wanted to say I'm sorry.”
I could tell I was on a touchy subject since Fido scratched his head as if to think of an appropriate response “Look you're a good dog.” my ears sunk more at what he said “I know you didn't mean any harm and you couldn't help it. You being here is enough to prove that you're a good dog, and nothing can convince me otherwise.”
I pushed myself to at least crack a smile at him. From the moment we met he's always believed in me. Even if I was the one who lead his girlfriend to be captured he still believed in me. Seeing him display that trust towards me only strengthened my resolve. I will bring all these pets home.
When Fox along with Grape finally came into view and met up with us by the door I noticed Fox and Fido's academy training instantly kicking in causing them to inspect the door. I tried to do it myself but no scent came from it, not even a draft, no sound could be heard from where we were so it was hard to tell what exactly was on the other side.
Fido shared the same look of unease as Fox before calling my attention “We we're going in blind. Normally on raids going in blind was one of the things you didn't want to do especially if the perpetrator you were chasing had even a hunch you were after him. For all we know this could be a trap.”
I took his words into consideration and beckoned my blade to answer my call “Alright guys I'll lead the way since I have the only weapon that can do actual harm to heartless.”
All of them nodded except for Spo who climbed down to Fido's shoulders to tuck himself inside the dog's collar “Heartless?”
“It's a long story.” I sighed as I mentally counted to three before pulling open the door
As the doorway was fully opened a blinding light robbed us of the use of our eyes as a sense of weightlessness overtook all of us. Before I could realize what was happening to all of us we found ourselves in the middle of free fall above a dense forest near a cliff side.
Without wasting another moment I switched my grip on my blade to a backhanded one and planted it directly into the cliff. As I did so I grabbed the nearest thing to me which happened to be one of my companion's feet though something felt off.
“Are you guys okay?” I called down to see if they were all accounted for
“Terrified but fine.” Fido called from below me
“Same here.” Grape said from the same direction only sightly father away
“I've been better.” Fox said from the furthest distance away
“I'm great! Just hanging on for my dear life over a thousand foot drop! You know NORMAL THINGS!” Spo's voice came from the same distance as Fido's
I looked up to see if there was anything I could grab onto but instead I saw the cracks forming on my keyblade “Guys someone better think of something fast, my keyblade's beginning to break.”
“Fen, is that you?” Fido blurted out, no doubt the panic and sheer absurdity of the moment getting to him
I looked down to see a human wearing a green shirt under an orange vest “Fido? What happened?” I replied in the same confused tone
“We really don't have time for this!” Grape yelled causing me to look down and see two more humans one wearing Grape's scarf and the other wearing Fox's bomber jacket
We weren't given another second as the sound of metal snapping signaled the start of our death plummet. As the winds slapped my face into a more aware state I felt the energy rise within me and the black book appear just within my line of sight. While I was in a panic I almost didn't notice the page the flipped past as we fell. Instantly I grabbed the book and scanned through the pages till I found the one that caught my attention, the page with the title gravity.
“GRAB THE OTHERS!” I screamed at Fido as I tried to reach for who I could guess was Fox
As soon as my hand rested on Fox's bomber jacket I turned to see holding on to two figures. One I could make out was grape, the other was a small boy who looked to be around ten years old. I dismissed any questions I had at the moment and returned my attention to the book. The energy surge I felt was still fresh so without hesitation I closed my eyes, gathered my focus and cast gravity on our entire group.
On cue the wind was silenced and my survival instincts relaxed. I opened my eyes and we greeted by the sight of the forest canopy just a few feet away from the ground. A second later on my cast time and we would have been goners. As I let a sigh of relief escape me I instantly felt the energy rush end, and with it the spell causing us to ungraciously crash on the forest floor. Casting the spell on such a wide range on a group of pets must have instantly eaten up the energy I was given.
“FIDO!” Spo's voice came instantly with excitement “LOOK AT ME I'M HUGE! Well by mouse standards I'm huge!”
As my sight cleared I began to notice the details. Gray shirt and hair, brown shorts, and mouse ears? I shook my head maybe I was dreaming the whole thing up.
“THIS IS AMAZING!” cheered the little boy I now recognized as Spo “I'm not small anymore take that mom! Who's the little runt now!? And I'm no longer afraid of you cat, there's no way you can eat me whole!”
Spo's mocking tone was aimed at a girl looking to be around seventeen sporting a short sleeved purple shirt underneath her purple scarf accompanied by black jeans and a jacket tied around her waist. The only reason why I was able to pinpoint the girl as Grape was because over her purple pixie cut hair was a pair of cat ears.
“Seriously!?” the girl screamed when she gave herself a quick look over “What is it with universes and humans?”
Upon realizing that if Grape and Spo were turned into humans I wondered if I was now one too. I looked down on myself to find that I had changed too. My usual gray fur was replaced with a shirt of the same color, and instead of a collar I had a necklace with my tag on it. Over time I got used to wearing coat, which I was thankful was still in one piece, but I was even wearing pants and shoes and the experience was unsettling at best. I felt around my body to reacquaint myself with it and found my tail where it should be.
“Looks like everyone's fine.” Came the voice of Fox from a similarly aged boy as Grape while he helped Fido stand who also took on human form “King once asked me if I wanted to be human, but I never thought I'd actually become one someday.”
Fox still had his bomber jacket on only now underneath that was a gray shirt and ripped jeans. Gone was his collar and only his dog tags remained. However instead of keeping his ears, Fox's tail was still present on the back of his jeans like mine was.
Fido on the other hand wore a green shirt under an orange vest, his canine ears peeking over his hair. Like my collar his was gone and replaced with a necklace with his tag on it. One thing I did notice was that his right eye took on a darker shade of orange no doubt to show where his spot used to be.
“Check me out!” Spo said from atop a tree “If I was small this would've taken hours to climb instead of minutes.” He dropped down and looked me square in the eyes “No more threatening to send me off to some cat to get eaten, and no more getting accidentally stepped on.”
It was as if the universe had heard Spo's cries cause at that moment a giant talon landed next to him, almost crushing the mouse turned human. A quick look upward and I was instantly acquainted with the sight of a giant black bird that was covered in white plates of armor on its beak and some places of its wings.
“AW COME ON!” Spo yelled as Fido grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him to safety
Once again my blade found its way back into my hands completely repaired of any damage it had been dealt. With my blade in tow I leaped between Fido, Grape, Spo and Fox and the bird to begin deflecting the arrow like feathers that somehow shot from the bird's wings. Eventually the blade broke once more and a white book appeared next to my hand. Without missing a beat I raised my right hand and immediately a dome of hexagons appeared to shield us from the barrage.
“RUN!” I yelled once the onslaught of feathers came to an end
None of them took a moment to argue as we all burst into a sprint from the giant bird, with me lagging slightly behind to cast repeated spells of Fira at it. As I ran I noticed that the bird already had multiple cuts and burns running along its body, both on its bone like armor and its bare body. I was almost certain that the bird didn't just happen upon us and decide to attack. Something drove it towards us, the only question was what?
I was given my answer in the form of the shadow wolf that took Sabrina, King, and Peanut's hearts, except something was different about it. At a glance I could already tell that it looked like it shrunk down a few sizes. Before its body used to be bulky and well built now it was slender and lithe. The most notable difference though had to be the witch's hat that obscured its sinister yellow eyes.
When we were directly in front of it I noticed Fido's wayfinder glow brighter. It must be reacting to Sabrina's heart inside the beast. The knowledge seemed to have sent Fido in a rage since he threw all caution to the side and immediately made a charge directly at the wolf.
The wolf seemed to notice Fido's anger and in response it sucked in a generous helping of air and unleashed it all at once creating a wall of fire. Only making matters worse was that the wolf distracted me long enough for me to forget about the giant bird behind us. With my guard down the bird easily swatted me to the side, my back hitting the bark of a nearby tree clouding my vision and sending me into a daze and leaving my friends without protection.
The bird readied its wings for a second strike while the shadow wolf aimed its breath at them once more. There was no other option left for them except to take the attacks, but as they braced themselves for impact a flurry of red rose petals obscured my vision. When I was able to swat the petals away I had found the bird completely frozen in ice, the wolf on its tail end while a feminine figure obscured in a red billowing cloak stood between the group and the wolf a large red scythe at her command.
“Stay here.” she spun the scythe with ease and established her stance as the wolf stood up and made its charge “Think you can knock it off balance?” She called out to me giving me the motivation I needed to break the stun
“I'll see what I can do.” Once again I brought my blade forth and met the wolf's fangs with it
As the blade met the fangs, cracks formed along the blade once more as both me and the wolf held our ground. With my right hand free, I was able to deliver a blow to the wolf's muzzle disorienting it enough to break the stalemate and land a second blow with my blade strong enough to shatter it for a third time.
The cloaked girl saw her opening and was able to rush in faster than my eyes were able to register. Before I knew it the girl landed two slashes across its chest with her scythe and kicked off of the wolf only to land next to me.
In one seamless motion the girl spun her weapon and was able to transform it into a gun and pulled the trigger as I supplemented her shots with a barrage of multiple spells all at once. Our combined fire power meant nothing as the wolf was still agile enough to dodge all the shots with ease and counter with a blast of fire straight from its maw. As soon as the fire hit the ground a smoke screen was drawn up obscuring our vision and restricting our air supply.
Once the smoke died down the wolf was nowhere in sight, that at least meant that we were safe. With the threat gone I felt my knees go weak as I was caught by the girl whose hood managed to fall down revealing her hair that almost touched her shoulders with red highlights at the tips. Breaking my blade three times must've really taken a lot out of me as instead of standing on my own I had to rely on the girl's help.
“Who are you?” I managed to ask through ragged breaths
She looked like she was about to answer but was cut off by a male's voice coming through the forest “RUBY!” he burst through the bushes revealing his yellow hair as well as a sword and shield strapped to his back “There you are you shouldn't go ru... uh Ruby what are you doing with a group of faunus?”
The girl took a moment to stow her gun on her back before resolving to a sigh “Its a long story.”
End of Chapter 17
Chapter 17
Remnant
When I took my first steps through the door I was instantly awestruck at the sight. Fox, Grape, Fido and I were standing on a bridge of light that extended to a nearby star but what stole our words and our breaths was the sight from the bridge. The door that came out of the star book led to what I could only describe as outer space. I knew this because everywhere I looked I saw stars of varying colors blue, red yellow, green you name it I saw it.
I could almost spend hours looking at the sight but I knew that there was something more important at stake here. After all I was the one responsible, there was no time to waste sight seeing, not after what happened.
“I'm fine.” Fido said to no one in particular as he continued his pace ahead of the three of us “I just wish Sabrina was here with to see this with me. How about you, I know this isn't your first encounter with the supernatural but how are you holding up?” who was Fido talking to, he was ahead of us and not looking back so it couldn't be either Fox, Grape or me.
“I know, I know, we share a room remember?” he laughed even though no one said anything to him “Man Slagron the enforcer was not happy that day.”
Okay now I was concerned, and picked up my pace to keep up with the brown dog “So do you talk to yourself often or should we go back and drop you off at a mental hospital?” I started off causally to make sure I didn't offend him “Cause I'm beginning to worry that all this just broke your sanity.”
“No, I can assure you I'm perfectly sane.” He tilted his head down to reveal a mouse using his ear as some sort of cushion “Fenrir this is Spo; he's not typically heard by others unless he wants to be so I can understand why you didn't notice him before.”
“Sup' wolfie,” he greeted nonchalantly
Did he just call me wolfie? This is new, of all the greetings I've experienced this is the most unexpected as well as the most casual “Well I'm Fenrir but I usually shorten it to Fen, but Fido can I ask you a question?”
“Shoot,” he replied as his eyes were still locked on the door ahead of us
I took a moment to find right words to say “How are you doing?” His attention then sifted from the door to me with a puzzled look “I mean, if this was happening to me I'd think I'd gone crazy and lie down till all of this got better but how are all of you just coping? Does this not bring up any questions like at all?”
“All I need to know is that Sabrina's in danger and I can help her.” he said touching the wayfinder on his collar “Everything can be explained later but Sabrina takes priority.”
“Trust me wolfie,” Spo crawled down to Fido's shoulder “a lot of weird things happens to the pet population of Babylon. The humans don't notice it cause they're too thick headed but us animals we just roll with whatever comes our way. If I were you I'd try not to put too much thought into it, doing that would only wear down whatever brain cells you've got left.”
I held in a growl, was this mouse actively trying not to be friendly or is he really this much of a jerk “One more thing,” I said as we came to a halt in front of the end of the light bridge and in front of the exit door “I'm sorry about what happened.” I felt my ears lower a little as I spoke “I brought that hooded figure to Babylon, and he says that I brought his attention to your friends' hearts. I just wanted to say I'm sorry.”
I could tell I was on a touchy subject since Fido scratched his head as if to think of an appropriate response “Look you're a good dog.” my ears sunk more at what he said “I know you didn't mean any harm and you couldn't help it. You being here is enough to prove that you're a good dog, and nothing can convince me otherwise.”
I pushed myself to at least crack a smile at him. From the moment we met he's always believed in me. Even if I was the one who lead his girlfriend to be captured he still believed in me. Seeing him display that trust towards me only strengthened my resolve. I will bring all these pets home.
When Fox along with Grape finally came into view and met up with us by the door I noticed Fox and Fido's academy training instantly kicking in causing them to inspect the door. I tried to do it myself but no scent came from it, not even a draft, no sound could be heard from where we were so it was hard to tell what exactly was on the other side.
Fido shared the same look of unease as Fox before calling my attention “We we're going in blind. Normally on raids going in blind was one of the things you didn't want to do especially if the perpetrator you were chasing had even a hunch you were after him. For all we know this could be a trap.”
I took his words into consideration and beckoned my blade to answer my call “Alright guys I'll lead the way since I have the only weapon that can do actual harm to heartless.”
All of them nodded except for Spo who climbed down to Fido's shoulders to tuck himself inside the dog's collar “Heartless?”
“It's a long story.” I sighed as I mentally counted to three before pulling open the door
As the doorway was fully opened a blinding light robbed us of the use of our eyes as a sense of weightlessness overtook all of us. Before I could realize what was happening to all of us we found ourselves in the middle of free fall above a dense forest near a cliff side.
Without wasting another moment I switched my grip on my blade to a backhanded one and planted it directly into the cliff. As I did so I grabbed the nearest thing to me which happened to be one of my companion's feet though something felt off.
“Are you guys okay?” I called down to see if they were all accounted for
“Terrified but fine.” Fido called from below me
“Same here.” Grape said from the same direction only sightly father away
“I've been better.” Fox said from the furthest distance away
“I'm great! Just hanging on for my dear life over a thousand foot drop! You know NORMAL THINGS!” Spo's voice came from the same distance as Fido's
I looked up to see if there was anything I could grab onto but instead I saw the cracks forming on my keyblade “Guys someone better think of something fast, my keyblade's beginning to break.”
“Fen, is that you?” Fido blurted out, no doubt the panic and sheer absurdity of the moment getting to him
I looked down to see a human wearing a green shirt under an orange vest “Fido? What happened?” I replied in the same confused tone
“We really don't have time for this!” Grape yelled causing me to look down and see two more humans one wearing Grape's scarf and the other wearing Fox's bomber jacket
We weren't given another second as the sound of metal snapping signaled the start of our death plummet. As the winds slapped my face into a more aware state I felt the energy rise within me and the black book appear just within my line of sight. While I was in a panic I almost didn't notice the page the flipped past as we fell. Instantly I grabbed the book and scanned through the pages till I found the one that caught my attention, the page with the title gravity.
“GRAB THE OTHERS!” I screamed at Fido as I tried to reach for who I could guess was Fox
As soon as my hand rested on Fox's bomber jacket I turned to see holding on to two figures. One I could make out was grape, the other was a small boy who looked to be around ten years old. I dismissed any questions I had at the moment and returned my attention to the book. The energy surge I felt was still fresh so without hesitation I closed my eyes, gathered my focus and cast gravity on our entire group.
On cue the wind was silenced and my survival instincts relaxed. I opened my eyes and we greeted by the sight of the forest canopy just a few feet away from the ground. A second later on my cast time and we would have been goners. As I let a sigh of relief escape me I instantly felt the energy rush end, and with it the spell causing us to ungraciously crash on the forest floor. Casting the spell on such a wide range on a group of pets must have instantly eaten up the energy I was given.
“FIDO!” Spo's voice came instantly with excitement “LOOK AT ME I'M HUGE! Well by mouse standards I'm huge!”
As my sight cleared I began to notice the details. Gray shirt and hair, brown shorts, and mouse ears? I shook my head maybe I was dreaming the whole thing up.
“THIS IS AMAZING!” cheered the little boy I now recognized as Spo “I'm not small anymore take that mom! Who's the little runt now!? And I'm no longer afraid of you cat, there's no way you can eat me whole!”
Spo's mocking tone was aimed at a girl looking to be around seventeen sporting a short sleeved purple shirt underneath her purple scarf accompanied by black jeans and a jacket tied around her waist. The only reason why I was able to pinpoint the girl as Grape was because over her purple pixie cut hair was a pair of cat ears.
“Seriously!?” the girl screamed when she gave herself a quick look over “What is it with universes and humans?”
Upon realizing that if Grape and Spo were turned into humans I wondered if I was now one too. I looked down on myself to find that I had changed too. My usual gray fur was replaced with a shirt of the same color, and instead of a collar I had a necklace with my tag on it. Over time I got used to wearing coat, which I was thankful was still in one piece, but I was even wearing pants and shoes and the experience was unsettling at best. I felt around my body to reacquaint myself with it and found my tail where it should be.
“Looks like everyone's fine.” Came the voice of Fox from a similarly aged boy as Grape while he helped Fido stand who also took on human form “King once asked me if I wanted to be human, but I never thought I'd actually become one someday.”
Fox still had his bomber jacket on only now underneath that was a gray shirt and ripped jeans. Gone was his collar and only his dog tags remained. However instead of keeping his ears, Fox's tail was still present on the back of his jeans like mine was.
Fido on the other hand wore a green shirt under an orange vest, his canine ears peeking over his hair. Like my collar his was gone and replaced with a necklace with his tag on it. One thing I did notice was that his right eye took on a darker shade of orange no doubt to show where his spot used to be.
“Check me out!” Spo said from atop a tree “If I was small this would've taken hours to climb instead of minutes.” He dropped down and looked me square in the eyes “No more threatening to send me off to some cat to get eaten, and no more getting accidentally stepped on.”
It was as if the universe had heard Spo's cries cause at that moment a giant talon landed next to him, almost crushing the mouse turned human. A quick look upward and I was instantly acquainted with the sight of a giant black bird that was covered in white plates of armor on its beak and some places of its wings.
“AW COME ON!” Spo yelled as Fido grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him to safety
Once again my blade found its way back into my hands completely repaired of any damage it had been dealt. With my blade in tow I leaped between Fido, Grape, Spo and Fox and the bird to begin deflecting the arrow like feathers that somehow shot from the bird's wings. Eventually the blade broke once more and a white book appeared next to my hand. Without missing a beat I raised my right hand and immediately a dome of hexagons appeared to shield us from the barrage.
“RUN!” I yelled once the onslaught of feathers came to an end
None of them took a moment to argue as we all burst into a sprint from the giant bird, with me lagging slightly behind to cast repeated spells of Fira at it. As I ran I noticed that the bird already had multiple cuts and burns running along its body, both on its bone like armor and its bare body. I was almost certain that the bird didn't just happen upon us and decide to attack. Something drove it towards us, the only question was what?
I was given my answer in the form of the shadow wolf that took Sabrina, King, and Peanut's hearts, except something was different about it. At a glance I could already tell that it looked like it shrunk down a few sizes. Before its body used to be bulky and well built now it was slender and lithe. The most notable difference though had to be the witch's hat that obscured its sinister yellow eyes.
When we were directly in front of it I noticed Fido's wayfinder glow brighter. It must be reacting to Sabrina's heart inside the beast. The knowledge seemed to have sent Fido in a rage since he threw all caution to the side and immediately made a charge directly at the wolf.
The wolf seemed to notice Fido's anger and in response it sucked in a generous helping of air and unleashed it all at once creating a wall of fire. Only making matters worse was that the wolf distracted me long enough for me to forget about the giant bird behind us. With my guard down the bird easily swatted me to the side, my back hitting the bark of a nearby tree clouding my vision and sending me into a daze and leaving my friends without protection.
The bird readied its wings for a second strike while the shadow wolf aimed its breath at them once more. There was no other option left for them except to take the attacks, but as they braced themselves for impact a flurry of red rose petals obscured my vision. When I was able to swat the petals away I had found the bird completely frozen in ice, the wolf on its tail end while a feminine figure obscured in a red billowing cloak stood between the group and the wolf a large red scythe at her command.
“Stay here.” she spun the scythe with ease and established her stance as the wolf stood up and made its charge “Think you can knock it off balance?” She called out to me giving me the motivation I needed to break the stun
“I'll see what I can do.” Once again I brought my blade forth and met the wolf's fangs with it
As the blade met the fangs, cracks formed along the blade once more as both me and the wolf held our ground. With my right hand free, I was able to deliver a blow to the wolf's muzzle disorienting it enough to break the stalemate and land a second blow with my blade strong enough to shatter it for a third time.
The cloaked girl saw her opening and was able to rush in faster than my eyes were able to register. Before I knew it the girl landed two slashes across its chest with her scythe and kicked off of the wolf only to land next to me.
In one seamless motion the girl spun her weapon and was able to transform it into a gun and pulled the trigger as I supplemented her shots with a barrage of multiple spells all at once. Our combined fire power meant nothing as the wolf was still agile enough to dodge all the shots with ease and counter with a blast of fire straight from its maw. As soon as the fire hit the ground a smoke screen was drawn up obscuring our vision and restricting our air supply.
Once the smoke died down the wolf was nowhere in sight, that at least meant that we were safe. With the threat gone I felt my knees go weak as I was caught by the girl whose hood managed to fall down revealing her hair that almost touched her shoulders with red highlights at the tips. Breaking my blade three times must've really taken a lot out of me as instead of standing on my own I had to rely on the girl's help.
“Who are you?” I managed to ask through ragged breaths
She looked like she was about to answer but was cut off by a male's voice coming through the forest “RUBY!” he burst through the bushes revealing his yellow hair as well as a sword and shield strapped to his back “There you are you shouldn't go ru... uh Ruby what are you doing with a group of faunus?”
The girl took a moment to stow her gun on her back before resolving to a sigh “Its a long story.”
End of Chapter 17