Neoumbreon

GVN

Out of all the fights that Teams RFGH and PANE had observed and taken part of...this had to be one of the most...unusual ones...A chivalrous coywolf faunus who refused to even attempt to fight any girl...and a kind coyote faunus with a crush on said coywolf who seemed to be more interested in training and convincing her opponent to fight than she did securing a win...The fight...if you wanted to call a dog boy wildly dodging and flailing to avoid half hearted thrusts from a serious but reluctant dog girl a fight...Had been anything but consistent...dodging, banter, failed attempts to restrain each other, eventually culminating in Hade managing to use Eon’s own frost dust net against her, wrapping up the girl’s legs and bringing her to the ground. Something that could have culminated in a decisive victory! If...only the boy hadn’t gotten his hand’s tangled up in and frozen to the net, effectively binding himself to his opponent’s legs. Toss in the fact that Miss Mentha’s arms remained free, and that she still had her trident...and things were more or less decided. All she had to do was take aim and stab...multiple times if necessary, but the battle was over, Hade would be unable to flee, and unwilling to cause the damage necessary to stop Eon from attacking him. So, game over then? Team PANE wins, bringing the standings up to 2 and O, and resigning Team RFGH to a loss, or a tie if their next two combatants came out on top. Well...that probably SHOULD have been the case...but oftentimes what should be isn’t what actually is.

Standing in stunned silence, the two men and four women making up the peanut gallery watched the...event...playing out before them...none seeming to know what to say or think. Eventually though, the cat-eared faunus cleared his throat. “Soooooo….do we win?”

“I...think we’re going to have to call that a tie.” Ginger muttered from her place at his side, scratching her head in uncertainty before flinching as the diminutive vampire bat on the opposite side of her leader voiced her thoughts.

“BOO! C’mon Eon! All you had to do was shank him! How’d you mess that up!

“I...tried…!” The strained voice of Nyx’s teammate called back in response.

“His hands are literally frozen to your legs! How did you miss?!”

“Don’t blame me!”

“You’re literally the only one to blame!”

“I-HADE! Stop that! Drop it! Bad Hade!”

With a heavy sigh, Rolland turned towards his side, looking past the seething vampire bat and her vaguely amused megabat cousin, setting his eyes on the ever calm leader of Team PANE. Even Percy seemed enraptured by the show, having given up cleaning her weapon to shift her attention towards her partner and boyfriend...the slightest curve of a smirk forming on her lips. “So Percy...you want to call this?”

“Oh? But look at them, they’re having so much fun.”

“That looks fun to you?”

“Ew! Hade, you’re getting drool all ov-HADE!”

“You have some very strange tastes…”

“You’re one to talk Brawn.” Sighing in annoyance, the calm leader rose from her seat, hanging her torch at her side. “But fine...we can call this sham of a battle.”

“Tie?”

“Tie.” The pair ignored the loud ‘BOO’ that came from the resident bloodsucker. “I take it I’m the one that needs to break them up this time?”

“Sorry Percy, this seems more up your alley. Your partner, your boyfriend, ergo, your job.”

“Lovely…”

“Besides, a little fire from you ought to split those two apart pretty easily.”

“Or we could just rip the netting off. Hade didn’t seem all that bothered before.”

“Pretty sure Eon would disagree...now can you hurry it up? We still got two fights to get through.”

“Oh, my apologies dear Rolland, I forgot that you had a prior arrangement.” Rolling her eyes, the torch bearer wandered onto the training room floor, staring down at the still oh so amusing sight of the two canine faunus stuck to the floor. Hade’s hands frozen to Eon’s legs, Eon’s legs quite possibly frozen to the ground...her arms free...well...mostly free, both hands were fighting desperately to retch her spear out of her opponent’s grasp…how did he grasp her weapon if he had no hands? Why the answer is quite simple, the boy caught the shaft in his mouth! Bit down and refused to let it go, much like a stubborn dog refusing to give up his stick. “You two are just so adorable….”

That certainly seemed to get the pair’s attention, both canine faunus looking up just as Percy rested her hand atop Hade’s head, any fight or thoughts of resistance starting to drift away as he felt himself grow heavy...weak...tired...a looooooong yawn coming from the boy as he finally released his toothy grip on his opponent’s weapon. “Eugh...Thanks Percy…”

“Think nothing of it.” Idly stroking the pooped pup’s head, the team leader gave a simple nod. “The fight’s been declared a tie, things weren’t going anywhere...Either Hade was going to get your spear from you, or you’d get it free and fail to stab him again…”

“Sounds about right...I’m fine with a tie….you good with that Hade?”

“Hade...good…”

“Then it’s decided.” Motioning towards the tangle of frost netting, Percy cleared her throat. “Are you able to untangle yourself? Or do you require some assistance?”

“Well...I’m good...but Hade could probably use some help getting his hands free…WITH FIRE!” The coyote immediately followed up when she saw her partner lift her torch from her hip, raising it high and seemingly preparing to smash away the ice...and possibly the hybrid’s hands in the process.

With a roll of her eyes, the Haven huntress ignited her weapon, holding the flames over her boyfriend’s frost encrusted hands. “I won’t lie to you two, that battle was pathetic...but I must say Hade, your ingenuity impressed me.”

“Thanks…Percy....love you…”

“And Eon, I admire you trying to help Hade get over his...crippling chivalry...However I trust you won’t show such restraint in true battle.”

“Of course Percy.”

“Very good.” With a long sigh, Team PANE’s leader glanced over towards the next set of combatants.

Nyx busied herself by popping open one of her blood ‘potions’ before eagerly chugging the vial of red liquid, likely to both quench her thirst and in a futile attempt to try and get into the blonde brainiac’s head. When the blonde didn’t show much response, the little bat let out an annoyed huff before sliding her gloves on, taking the briefest of moments to inspect the needle tipped claws before nodding.

Ginger meanwhile had busied herself with collecting Hade’s discarded weapon, grabbing the dog boy’s sawed-off from its place on the floor. After a quick ejection of the two spent shells and a brief once over, she slid it away into her backpack. With her teammate’s weapon stored away, the blonde huntress started rooting around within her bag again, humming softly before finally producing her own rifle...a weapon that shouldn’t have been able to fit inside the girl’s bag in any way shape or form. With her weapon in hand, the human huntress took a moment to look over and inspect her weapon, only to jump and squeak in surprise as a small body suddenly collided with her back.

“And so the vicious vampire bat catches her prey unprepared and off guard! Sounds like I’ve already won!” Snickering, the short faunus girl grinned as she wrapped her arms and legs around Ginger’s body, her claws clinging to the young woman’s padded shirt and threatening to tear or puncture the fabric as she flashed her fangs, even going so far as to run her tongue over them. “Maybe I’ll have a quick sip while I’m here~ Just to celebrate my win~”

“Nyx.” Looking up, the tiny bat blinked as she saw the massive mountain of flesh and muscle that called itself Rolland Brawn standing before her and her wobbly legged snack. “Don’t be a poor sport. Let the fight actually start before you attack your opponent.”

“Aw c’mon!” Huffing in annoyance, the little haven huntress tightened her grip on Ginger while shooting a fierce look to the big male. “There’s no rules in a real fight! Bandits and Grimm don’t fight fair...I should be able to do anything I want…”

“Anything?”

“Mostly anything...save for like unpleasant things...like murder obviously.”

“Obviously.”

“But other than that anything’s fair! I got the drop on Gingin here, so I say I should reap the rewards!”

“But you’re not always going to be the one getting the drop on your opponent either.” Crossing those tree trunks that he called arms, the rough wrecker simply shrugged. “Sometimes you’ll be the one getting jumped…” Ignoring the girl’s indignant snort of disbelief, Rolland rolled his eyes. “And sometimes a friendly scenario will break down...and you’ll have to fight without time to set up your ambush...so...consider this training for that.”

“Lame!”

“Fair.” As Rolland reached for her, the little bat growled, gripping her ride tighter while flashing her teeth more...either threatening to bite the boy who dared deny her an immediate win and snack...or to make good on her promise to drain Ginger….though she paused as the too large leader smirked down to her. “Besides…” With a shift of his eyes, Rolland gave a brief nod of his head towards his team’s pissy puma. “Only Feli gets to give Ginger hickeys.”

That certainly earned a response...though not from the bat, Ginger, Nyx’s opponent, ride, and possible snack letting out a very soft high pitched squeak, her cold blue eyes going wide as saucers as her pale face suddenly turned a bright red. “R-Rolland!” She squeaked, starting to sputter some nonsensical words, only to trail off as Nyx broke into a bout of almost maniacal laughter, finally dislodging herself from her opponent’s back before dropping to the floor.

“Good one Rolly Polly...You luck out this time Gingy, but only cause I don’t wanna get cat cooties!”

“What was that?!” Team RFGH’s puma called from the sidelines, any amusement at the thought of his leader losing a finger to the little bloodsucker disappearing as he heard that bit about cat cooties. “What’d you just say about me squirt?!”

“Nothing ya sore loser!”

“The fuck you didn’t! Ginger! What’d she just say?!” Receiving nothing but sputtered stuttered nonsense from his red faced teammate, the puma growled. “Rolland! What’d she say? What’d you say to make her talk shit about me?”

“Just told the truth Feli.”

“That was not even remotely true Rolland!” Ginger practically screeched, the red faced blondie having finally found her voice, only to lose it again as her feline teammate spoke up again.

“What’d he say?!” Earning nothing but more squeaks and stutters, the mountain lion growled, turning his attention towards Team PANE’s intelligence officer. “Anti, what did-”

“I’d really rather not repeat it.”

The short, simple response from the blushing megabat earned her a look of confusion, only for the Atlesian alleycat to narrow his eyes as Team PANE’s Leader chimed in. “A good choice...don’t want to hurt poor Felinus’s precious male pride.”

“Y'all are a bunch of assholes…”

“Awwwww, kitty cat go meow?”

“Kitty cat’s gonna pump your bitch ass full of lead!”

“Dear Felinus, we’ve already been over this. Eon hasn’t said or done a thing to you...and she’s currently indisposed.”

Huffing in annoyance at the brief bashful wave from the tangled up coyote, the puma simply rolled his eyes before slumping down against the wall of the training room, flicking his wrist momentarily as a sort of response to the wave. “Fucking...whatever! Just hurry up! I’m dying of old age over here.”

“Patience is a virtue Felinus.”

“How long does it take to get a guy’s hands free?!”

“Depends if you want Hade to still have all his fingers when this is said and done.”

“New...hand...cool...The Claaaaaaaw…” Hade’s delirious ramblings earned him a chuckle and a soft head pat from his beloved, along with a louder giggle from Eon.

“And on that note I’m stepping in…” Seeing her fellow leader approach, Percy huffed, extinguishing her torch and moving back a bit to give the not so gentle giant some space while she kept her hand on her barely conscious boyfriend’s skull. “I’d rather not have The Claw make a dramatic return.”

“Oh, but The Claw was such a fun charming young man.”

“Yeah, well you won’t be the one living with him...yet anyway…” Snorting in amusement, Rolland grabbed hold of his teammate’s thawing hands, only to give them a rough squeeze, shattering the remaining ice, both girls flinching while the resident dog boy simply blinked his eyes dimly. “And there ya go.” Tugging Hade’s hands free of the netting, he passed the cold coywolf off to his girlfriend who walked him to the outskirts of the room before offering a large hand towards Eon. “You good to get untangled now Eon?”

“Yeah...I should be good.” Using the offered hand to pull herself up, the coyote eared cutie flared up her aura whilst wiggling her hips, her netting slowly coming loose and dropping down around her ankles before she stepped free of it. “And voila.”

“Lovely trick...I’d offer to help you pick up your things but…y’know.” Holding up his large hands, the boy gave a slight shrug, nodding as the Haven huntress simply smiled and shrugged in return, wrapping her net around her waist like a skirt before she hurried to grab her bracers and both her dagger and lost spearhead. “Alright, Ginger, Nyx, the floor’s yours...you ladies ready to fight?”

“Born ready!” In an instant Nyx appeared on the boy’s broad shoulders, Nyx placing her right foot atop the RFGH wrecker’s head as she pointed one clawed hand dramatically towards her opponent. ”You’re going down Gingy! I’m gonna chew you up and spit you out! Like I do to those lame cookies you’re named after on Nondescript Winter Holiday!”

Finally recovering from her flustered state, Ginger simply blinked her eyes owlishly, staring up towards Nyx and the fierce glare she’d directed towards the calm creator. “Erm...thank you for...sharing that Nyx?”

“Don’t thank her Gingy! She’s talking smack! Give her a taste of her own medicine!”

“But I’m not a doctor Felinus…”

“It’s just a saying Gingy!”

“And she’s already had some of her blood...”

“Damn straight I did! And just to make sure I got SUPER pumped for this fight, I made sure it was one of YOUR samples Gingy!” Letting out a deep, heartfelt laugh, Nyx jumped from her perch atop Mt Rolland, tossing in a front flip for style before landing with both clawed gloves upon her hips and a wide toothy grin aimed right at the visibly confused huntress. “Now I’ve got the taste...and I want more! So better watch out!”

“This...we’re…but...I thought we were fighting until someone was pinned, disarmed, or their aura dropped into the red...wh..what’s this about blood?”

“She’s just trying to psych you out! Don’t let her get in your head!”

“Oh…” Leveling her rifle, the blondie gave a silent nod. “Understood. Sorry to say Nyx, I’m not very...good at pre battle banter...apologies.”

Deflating visibly in disappointment, Nyx let out a huff before righting herself and shrugging. “Whatevs! I get it, you’re smart and quiet, like Anti. Kinda like how Rolland and Percy are the calm leaders, me and Feli are the loud mouths...and Hade and Eon are the good doggies...wow...our teams are weirdly similar…” Humming to herself, Nyx gave a quick shrug and grinned. “Only we’re WAY better! Team PANE, number one!”

“WE ARE NOTHING ALIKE! And you got nothing on Gingy squirt!”

“Know what, you’re right Feli, I’m crazy for ever comparing myself to someone as lame and boring as you...and on that note! I’ve just had a wooooooooonderful idea~” Doing her best impression of an evil mastermind, little Nyx made a pyramid out of her clawed fingers. “Seeing as Eon and Hade’s fight was a flop, and the boss and your boyfriend’s fight was lame...What say you we make our fight a little more interesting?”

“Er F...Feli and I aren’t together Nyx…” Coughing and trying her best to hide her blush, the blonde cocked her head. “How exactly did you intend to...make our fight more interesting?”

“Simple! We raise the stakes!”

“Steaks...yum...hungry….”

“I thought vampires hated stakes!”

Nyx’s response was simple...calm...collected...a soft snort and roll of her eyes followed a quick flick of her wrist, a pair of needles suddenly finding themselves flying towards the pesky pissy puma. The brief yelp brought a grin to the toothy little faunus, that’d show crappy cougar! Steaks were awesome! Fresh, rare, bloody....great...now she was getting hungry again...but Nyx pushed those thoughts aside as she grinned to the brainy blondie. “So! Here’s what I’m thinking, the winner gets something, anything they want, from the loser!”

“I...take it you’ll want to partake of some of my blood…?” Shifting a tad uncomfortably, the young huntress shrugged. “I’m not against offering you more samples you know, you don’t need to-”

“Nah nah nah nah nah! I don’t want your blood Gingy! I mean, I do, seriously your blood is like...I dunno, it makes you feel...smart? Wise? I dunno, but it’s good stuff! Definitely my go too when studying or getting ready for a test...But I don’t want that if I win...nah nah nah…” Stepping forward, the little vamp flashed an even wider toothy grin, raising a clawed finger before tapping her skull. “If I win, I wanna see what’s under that ol beanie of yours!”

“M...My hat?” That certainly got the girl’s attention, her left hand instinctively reaching up to grasp at the dark cap that covered her fiery blonde locks.

“Yup! Oh! And none of the ‘under this hat is another hat’ bullshit! If I win, you gotta take it all off...your hat! And show me what you look like without it!”

“I...I...I…” The woman stuttered, visibly uncomfortable as she tightened her grip on both her hat and weapon.

“You don’t gotta agree to that Ginger.” The blonde’s giant of a teammate and leader stated with a surprising amount of force.

“Yeah! Tell her to fuck off!” Felinus agreeing with Rolland? That’s a rare one.

“No...deal…” Even Hade? Percy practically had the guy in a coma! And he STILL wanted to chime in? Now she really wanted to know!

With a deep breath, the lone woman of RFGH released her hat before simply staring towards her opponent. “Fine.”

“WHAT?!” The synchronized sound of all three RFGH boys caused all four members of team PANE to flinch, though most eyes went towards the previously comatose coywolf who seemed to have immediately become perfectly awake and aware. Percy especially seemed particularly stunned by that fact, staring up at her now risen boyfriend, standing at full height with a surprisingly serious look on that normally oh so dopey face of his.

“Ginger, are you sure?”

The blonde woman smiled softly at her leader’s question, before replacing it with a simple neutral look. “I agree to the terms of the deal Nyx. If you win I will remove my hat for you.”

“Wow...uh…well...alright then.” Coughing into her claw, the little bat smirked. “Gotta say, didn’t expect things to get so intense...but whatevs, if you’re good for it I’m good too...What do you want if you win?”

“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”

“When? Not if? Ooooo...looks like you’re getting serious.” Snickering, the girl retracted her right glove’s claw, placing a hand on her hip pouch. “Now then...you ready Gingin?”

“Ready as I’ll ever be I suppose.” Leveling her rifle, the Atlesian huntress smiled before sliding her goggles down over her eyes. “Please be gentle Nyx.”

“No promises!” Flipping her hood up, the little bat flashed a white toothy grin as she crouched low. “Tell ya what though, I’ll try to make it quick and painless!” And in a flash...or more accurately, a dark puff of smoke, the little bat was gone.

This was going to be too easy...Ginger was almost a hundred percent brain power with...like...probably negative strength...don’t bother asking how that was possible! The girl was stupid smart and stupid weak. Don’t really need muscles when you’ve got guys like Rolland and Hade to do the heavy lifting and a shithead like Feli to draw attention and ire off you...the RFGH boys had speed, strength, endurance, aura and drive in spades, all they needed was the blue eyed beanie wearing blondie to provide them with weapons and game plans and they could be a massive pain to deal with...but on her own? Ha! Ginger was beyond pathetic...how she’d even managed to pass initiation was a mystery in and of itself...maybe she’d paired up with Rolland immediately and left all the physical work to him...No matter, all Nyx would have to do was get in close...latch onto her back and put her claws to her throat, classic assassination move...Ginger would surrender, quick, easy, painless...no need to be a jerk like Feli and Percy, and she wouldn’t fool around like Eon...no all she needed to do was get the drop and she’d-

A sudden shot rang through the room, passing straight through the shadowy cloud of smoke that had only started forming atop one of the room’s elevated platforms. Ginger’s goggled vision locked on the smoke as she lowered her rifle, pointing the weapon towards the floor as she raised a hand up to rub her shoulder, alleviating some of the ache from the firearm’s recoil.

“Nice shot Gingy!” Felinus whooped from his place on the floor, twirling the metal needles that had been tossed at him earlier between his fingers.

“Did she hit her?” Eon asked softly, rubbing a rag over her spear, trying to wipe away the leftover saliva from her opponent’s...defensive tactic.

“No.” Anti answered simply, her ears twitching slightly atop her head as she watched the Mantle maiden.

“If she had, I’m sure she wouldn’t have been able to keep that big mouth of hers shut.” Percy muttered with a soft chuckle that was echoed by her boyfriend. Hade, having returned to his previous position with his head in her lap, watching with surprisingly focused eyes even as she ran a hand through his messy dark locks.

“Mean boss!” The little bat’s words were brief, cut off immediately by another of her opponent’s shots ringing through the air and passing through another one of her smoky afterimages.

“But true. Stealth isn’t working for you Nyx. Especially not when you blow your cover complaining.”

The words were simple, calm, direct, but ultimately true, just like she’d said…Percy was a jerk like that...making sense...it wasn’t fair really. She had half a mind to toss a needle at her...though she managed to resist the urge, knowing that throwing the item would reveal her newest hiding spot...and there was the highly likely chance that Percy would both block the needle...and punish her with some stupid menial task...like...like...going down to Mantle for to buy dust! Screw Mantle! In fact, just screw Atlas and Solitas as a whole...stupid ice box of a continet could go to hell...it’d be a whole heck easier to enjoy! She’d take heat over cold any day! Bottling up her anger and frustration, the little vampire focused back on her task at hand...the incredibly quick, easy, painless task...taking out Ginger. Simple enough...just gotta… “OW!” Hissing in pain as she pulled her body back into cover, the little vamp hissed, rubbing the slight scorch that her opponent’s sudden shot had left on her forearm.

“Apologies Nyx!”

“Don’t apologize! Kick her ass!”

“Note to…” Trailing off as she realized she’d never actually remember a note to herself, Nyx did the most logical thing possible. “Anti!”

“Yes Nyx?”

“Remind me to suck that dumb cat dry later!”

After a beat of silence, and the sound of subdued snorting and giggling, the faunus’ megabat cousin responded. “...I take it you’re talking about blood...right?”

“Wh...of course! What else w- BLOOD! I meant blood you degenerates! Get your minds out of the gutter!”

“Noted Nyx.”

“Stay the hell away from our room you stupid shortstack psycho!”

“Rude!” Changing positions again, the bat lunged out of her hiding spot, barely avoiding yet another shot whilst tossing one of her throwing needles forward, only for her surprisingly stubborn opponent to sidestep the attack like it was nothing! Not cool! Well...okay, it was cool, but Ginger was a total nerd! She shouldn’t be some crackshot sniper! Specially not with one of those shitty standard issue Atlas soldier rifles! Those things barely took out basic Grimm in close quarters! And it didn’t stop! Every time she’d change spots, every time she’d poke out a shot would come flying...it was only ever a single shot too, she was clean, precise...no blindfire crap...and every time she tried tossing a needle or moving in she’d just sidestep it like it was the easiest thing ever! The chick wasn’t even really moving! She’d settled into a spot in the center of the room and just adjusted her aim. The hell was going on?! After yet another failed attack following yet another repositioning, the bat finally cracked. “How are you tracking me?!”

“No offense Nyx, but your movements are fairly predictable.”

“Predictable?!” Fading out before another shot could make contact with her little body, the vampire bat hissed, putting her semblance into overdrive as she bounced from cube to cube to cube to cube, completing a loop and a half...before actually doubling back just to throw off the not at all smug woman. Cresting the top of her cover cube she raised her needles...only for the thing to be shot clean out of her glove...leaving her stunned with an empty hand...though that pain was forgotten moments later when a second shot made contact with her center of mass, a loud yelp filling the air as she fell back into cover and hit the ground hard. “The...fucking...fuck…”

“Ha! Take that you little bloodsucker!”

“Screw...you….Feli…” Groaning as she sat up and checked her aura, the bat let out a long growl. Dammit...this was SUPPOSED to be easy! What was happening?! Ginger was making her look like an amature! HER! She was a master of stealth! Sure, they both knew they were in a fight, but Ginger shouldn’t have like...super matrix dodging abilities and impossible tracking! If she was fighting Hade she may have understood it...but Ginger didn’t have a tracking semblance! It just didn’t make sense!

Moving to her next spot, she risked a peek, Nyx half expecting a shot to meet her only to instead see the calm blondie staring calmly back at her through those goggles of hers. Rolling her aching shoulder for a moment, the woman slid a hand into her clearly empty pants pocket before pulling out a new ammo clip. “Humans and faunus are creatures of habit...you fight as an assassin, and your medical training gives you a good idea on what points to aim for...You want to catch me off guard, so you keep changing positions…hoping to get me confused...get behind me or in a blindspot before closing the distance to end the fight with a single strike...unfortunately I’ve been able to track you so you’ve started falling back on your throwing needles, aiming for my joints, veins, and other vital locations to slow me down and make things easier.” Never removing those lensed eyes from Nyx’s location, Ginger ejected her current spent clip and locked in her new one...Though the ever conscious cleanfreak ended up pocketing the empty clip...can’t go littering on school grounds! Specially not in a training room! Nope! That ain’t okay! Someone might slip on it or something! “Going off of your current location and the speed at which your needles can travel it’s not all that difficult to avoid them...”

“Damn…” Snorting in amusement, Felinus couldn’t help but grin at the dumbfounded Haven huntress. “Told you you had nothing on Gingy! That’s what you get, you smug sucker!”

Alright...so...sneaking didn’t work, distance didn’t work, dodging didn’t work...fine...guess it was time to go loud...Growling to herself, Nyx extended her clawed gloves. “Hate to say this! But you’re going down Gingy!” Jumping out of cover, the girl flinched as a shot immediately made contact with her shoulder, only this time instead of running or poofing away into cover, she charged straight ahead, straight towards the no longer so calm blondie. Another shot hit the little huntress, but she kept moving, jumping forward before swiping those needle tipped claws, raking them along her target’s side, using her speed and momentum to spin her body and poof out of existence and back into cover. “Got an answer to that Miss brainy beanie?!”

“Due to your inability to attack from range you’ve-”

“IT WAS RHETORICAL!” Lunging out, Nyx was immediately met with another two consecutive shots to the same leg, hissing in pain and anger as she swiped at her opponent again, her claws hitting harder, digging more into Ginger’s side as she did her best to latch on. This wasn’t going the way she wanted, but if she could just get her claws in and get on top of her, then this fight should be as good as over...only once again, the calm quiet Ginger surprised her, twisting and twirling her body and causing the clingy chiroptera to come free.

“Jeez…” Eon muttered, flinching as she saw her smaller teammate hit the floor and take a quick shot before fading away to cover. “This is just painful…”

“Ginger is certainly proving surprisingly effective in today’s bout.” Percy muttered in silent agreement, Hade nodding his head as he leaned into her caressing hands.

“Gingy’s real scary when she wants to…” Yawning loudly and sleepily, the coywolf snuggled into his girlfriend’s embrace. “She good though...” Despite his slow, nearly slurred speech, the boy still seemed fully aware of what was going on, his eyes focused solely on his female teammate.

“Hey I like it. So long as she doesn’t pull out the big gun she can pump Nyx full of as many shots as she wants!”

Shooting the coywolf and cougar a look of confusion, Eon turned her attention back towards the girl’s partner, Rolland watching as the bat would try time and time again, rushing in, taking shots and trying to bury her claws into the stationary target, usually succeeding in a passing swipe or brief grasp before she’d be forced into hiding again. “What are they talking about Rolland?”

“Ginger has another weapon...though we don’t like her using it all that much.”

“Why?”

“Let’s just say it brings out a...dark side of her...it’s better for pretty much everyone that she stays calm…” Sparing a glance towards the confused coyote, the wrestling wrecker let out a sigh. “It’s like...How do I put this? Ginger tends to go...a bit over the top when her heart rate gets too high...like when she gets too invested in a fight...”

“Or has too much sugar…” Hade muttered sleepily.

“Or too much caffeine…” The normally cranky cat grumbled with a roll of the eyes. “Or say...when she busts out the big bad...that’s pretty much a one way ticket to trouble…”

“Funny how you’re the only pathetic person on your team Feli...Ginger’s a genius adrenaline junky, Rolland’s a walking disaster...Hade…” Chuckling, the girl ruffled her boyfriend’s hair. “Well it goes without saying...then there’s you...just the weak pathetic fool hiding behind illusions and lies…”

“Dun be...mean Percy....”

“Truth hurts Hade. And Feli was oh so mean to me earlier...I’d say I’ve earned the right to be mean back...it’s all in good fun after all, right Felinus? Just some smacktalk between friends.”

“Whatever slut…”

“Oh? For once you’re not directing your anger towards Eon? I’m very proud of you Felinus.”

Growling in annoyance, the cat turned his attention back towards the fight at hand, smirking as his teammate sent her opponent running for cover. “C’mon Gingy! Kick her ass! Show that little squirt what happens when people underestimate you!” And while she didn’t spare him a glance, the cat was certain he saw the ghost of a smile form on the girl’s lips, even as she lowered her firearm to massage her aching shoulder again...only for that smile to vanish as the girl flinched from something unseen.

“Sorry to burst your bubble kitty!” Nyx’s sudden voice had the cat’s puma’s eyes widening, Nyx bursting out...through...around? The stupid little bat basically fazed through the fucking cube! Going from smoke haze whatever the hell she could become to solid before launching like a bullet at unprepared huntress. Ginger did her best to raise her weapon in time, though the speed at which her opponent was traveling and that apparent ache she’d been suffering had her failing, a stray shot hitting the girl’s cloak while missing her body completely...unfortunately the same could not be said for the five foot (FIVE FOOT ONE!) cloaked faunus bullet that made contact with the normally calm beanie wearing girl. The sudden contact forcing a loud gasp from the girl as her smaller opponent tackled her straight into the ground, earning a second louder gasp as the Atlesian huntress. “But I’m the one who’s gonna be kicking ass!”

Panting softly, Nyx shifted herself atop her target, grinning down at Ginger as she seemed to struggle to regain her breath, her mouth opening, likely planning on pointing out the obvious in that her tackle had not involved any foot to ass contact...only to instead croak out a soft ‘Ouch’ to which the bat snorted in amusement.

“You had me going there Gingin...Jeez…” Extending the claws on her right glove, she leaned forward, smiling toothily down to her pinned prey. “Gonna be feeling all those shots later...but...I gotcha...I finally gotcha~”

Coughing softly, the woman forced on a slight smile. “Apologies for any discomfort Nyx…I can offer you some cream to help with that…”

“Nah...it’s cool...Heck, if I had to deal with your pot shots, or getting smashed by Rolland...I’d...” The sudden blush from the downed huntress and the choked sounds from the peanut gallery had the little bloodsucker sit up, glancing away before her eyes widened at the varying expressions from their audience. “FIGHTING! I meant FIGHTING! Get your minds out of the gutter you perverts!”

“Hey you’re the one talking about sucking me dry and our loser leader smashing you!”

“I was talking about sucking your blood! BLOOD! From your neck! You stupid perverted cat! And fighting! I’d rather get shot than have to deal with those giant ham fists….fisting-PUNCHING me!”

“Fisting you, squeezing you, pinning you, forcing you to submit to him…”

It took every bit of self control to keep from throwing herself at the pesky puma...instead, Nyx opted for something far more subtle. “Rolland! Smack him for me!” The sudden sound of pain and cursing from the Atlesian alleycat managed to alleviate Nyx’s bottled up anger, turning her frown upside down as she looked to her pinned opponent. “No offense Gingy...but I really….REALLY hate your boyfriend…”

“We really aren’t-”

“Yeah and I’m a fruit bat.” Scoffing, the girl took a moment to shift herself, her smile growing as she heard another sound of pain from Felinus, probably Rolland silencing him before he made another stupid comment or innuendo...jerk...Feli obviously, Rolland was pretty cool...like a big shaved bear...or a hairless gorilla...or like...like...what was that dumb thing? Man bear pig? Whatever, point was, the dude was a riot. Fun to look at, fun to tease and poke and prod and piss off, but a fucking monster if you ever earned his ire...or were within a five foot radius of...cause seriously, that dude broke basically everything he touched. “Anyways...Feli’s a shit....But...I owe the guy...His little distraction gave me the in I needed...and I fiiiiiinally got ya…”

“I’ll be sure to thank him on your behalf…”

“Don’t even think about it! That punk puma may’ve helped...but after all the crap he’s said...I ain’t thanking him for nothing!”

“Not that I’d ever want your th-OW! The hell was that for?!”

Snorting, the little blood sucker grinned down once more to her pinned prey. “Anywho...fun fight Gingin...you got me good for a bit...but...sorry to say…” Extending her claws, she shot Ginger a wink. “Looks like I win.”

“Perhaps…” The soft calm response from behind those wide lensed specs caused the bat to narrow her eyes, opening her mouth...before gasping as everything went black.

So anyways, I've had that depressing previous journal on my page for WAY too long...I've just been both too lazy to remove it and lacking inspiration so I never got around to it.

In any case, I'm bored, I've got the urge to write, the urge to post stuff, but I know pretty much no one watches me and or reads any of my stuff...or at least very few bother to comment. Though that's pretty much besides the point.

So anywho, I've got the urge to write, got plenty of ideas for the Zootopia series' I was doing, and I've got a bit of an urge to do some RWBY World of Remnant based stories...not anything with canon characters because with every other medium I don't feel like I could do any of the characters justice, but with my own characters in various parts of the world, from Vale to Atlas, Vacuo to Mistral and possibly/probably even Menagerie. Huntsman, Huntresses, Mercenaries, Cops, "Heroes" on the run, all manner of other random shmucks along with a cutie in a wheelchair...ideas a plenty but fairly little drive...so I figured I'd go out on a limb here and toss this out to anyone who bothers to read, skim, lurk, or just stumbles passed my page or stories....anyone have any preferences? Continue Zootopia? Go for the world of RWBY? Rewind waaaaaay back to my briefly considered Fusion Fall story? Anyone got any preference? Or shall my profile continue to lay dormant and dead as usual? My money's on death, but hey, doesn't hurt to ask opinions!

So...tonight...this morning...whatever you want to call it. June 7th 2017. Just a little after midnight...my mother passed away.

She'd fallen sometime Monday, and had been complaining about feeling weak...But she refused to go to the hospital no matter how much my father and I attempted to get her to go....she even went as far as to yell and scream at me that if the paramedics arrived she'd yell and scream at them too...She'd promised she'd go to the hospital sometime today, but I'm pretty sure my father and I knew she was lying and would try talking her way out of it again...She went just after midnight, watching TV with my dad in the living room, in her recliner, when she complained about not being able to breathe. I'd already gone to sleep, only to be awoken by my dad yelling for me that she'd stopped breathing. The paramedics came...tried everything they could from our home to the hospital...and did every they could to revive her...but...nothing worked...

She was just over 60 years old...her birthday was just last month...and now she's gone...little to no warning...no real clue what happened...she was a wonderful woman...did everything in her power to help people...help kids...volunteered, organized, cooked, bought prizes and toys...everything in her power...and now she's gone...


I love you mom...I'm sorry for all the crap I put you through over the years....I promise...I'll try to be better....I will be better...

Just posting a new journal to finally get rid of that old one...kinda funny having a journal that's nearly two years old...

So anyways, how's everyone doing? :3

So it's 2013....anyone know when the world's supposed to end next?




Oh! And happy New years peoples