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The Beast pt. 7

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We had followed the dog Ruby had brought with us too a hole in the ground, her weapon was sitting there beside it. Oobleck had told us about how part of the city had been built underground, and that must be where the white fang base is.

Y/n: "Then what are we waiting for? I'll go first." Without waiting for a response I jump down the hole, landing on my feet, I take a few steps forwards letting my eyes adjust while the others jumped down behind me. We silently sneak around, spotting a large number of white fang, a train, and Torchwick. Ruby was being held captive at the moment.

Blake: "There's too many of them for us to just charge in there, they might hurt Ruby before we can get too her."

Yang: "Then what do we do?" 

Y/n: "You girls stay here, I'll draw them away, then you all go help Ruby." I turn to head back the way we came, but someone grabs my arm. I look back and see Blake looking at me. 

Blake: "Please be careful." I nod my head and pull free of her, heading away from the group. When I feel like I'm far enough away I change into the Alpha and howl.

-Blake's pov-

A few minutes after (y/n) left we hear a howl come from further in the cave. Roman sends a dozen white fang to go check it out. Shortly after they leave we hear bursts of gunfire and someone shouting.

???: "It's the grim!" A few more white fang run towards the gunfire, leaving Torchwick practically unguarded. We use this as our chance too move. 

-Your pov-

My plan was working, as more and more white fang responded to the 'grim' attacking them. I tore through two more of them with my claws, as I took several rounds from various guns coming from several directions. I pounced on the closest white fang member, mauling them, before continuing on to the rest, as a few began to flee in terror of me.

W.F: "What the hell kind of grim is this?!" He shouted, firing a machine gun at me, several rounds striking me in the face and front legs, causing me to back away in pain. I run back into cover between two buildings, out of sight of the enemy. "It's hurt, finish it off!" Several white fang came running into the alley where I was. "Where did it go?" I had managed to scale the building, and when all three of them were in the alley I pounced down on them, ripping them all too pieces as screams and gunfire filled the air. Then everything went silent. "Hey, did you kill it or what?!" I start growling. "Shit! Everyone fall back!" I charge out of the alley, my wounds starting to heal up as I jump at one of the fleeing white fang, clamping my teeth down on them and thrashing them around violently in my mouth before tossing them aside. I then notice that train started moving, with the girls and Oobleck on it. 'Guess that's my cue to leave.' I run towards the train, just managing to jump onto the roof of the last car. 

Oobleck: "Children get back!" I look over to see the professor aiming his weapon at me. 

Blake: "Wait! That's not a grim!" 

Oobleck: "What?" I start turning back into my human form, still bleeding from a few wounds that have yet too heal back up. Oobleck was staring at me in complete disbelief. 

Weiss: "Uh, guys, come take a look at this." We go over to Weiss, and discover that the train car we are on is a giant bomb. We quickly make our way to the next one moments before the car we were on just moments ago detaches from the rest of the train and explodes. Shortly after finding out this train car is a bomb as well, and the one after that, and so on. 

Y/n: "You mean these are all bombs?!" 

Blake: "We have to stop this train from getting to Vale!" We see grim start pouring into the hole the bomb made in the tunnel. 

Y/n: "Come on, we need to reach the front of the train as fast as possible." We ran along the roof of the train, but more white fang kept getting in our way slowing us down. We run into a few Atlas mechs that the white fang had managed to steal. 

Oobleck: "You girls go on ahead. Your friend and myself will handle this." The girls nodded and continued forwards. 

Y/n: "So, you have a plan professor?" 

Oobleck: "Of course I do, win."  This made me grin. 

Y/n: "If that's all we need to do then stand back." I change back into the Alpha and take on one of the mech's while Oobleck and... Zwei, I won't even ask. While they deal with the other. I make sure to not make the same mistakes I did when I fought Torchwick, making sure to refrain from biting the suit so I don't electrocute myself again, I leap at it, tackling it to the ground, standing on one arm to pin it down, and clawing at the other one until I manage to rip it off. Then I claw at the torso of it until it's completely disabled and unable to fight, I look to my right and see the professor still fighting the other one, but seems to be more than capable of dealing with it. 

Oobleck: "Go, catch up with team RWBY." He didn't need to tell me twice, as I sprinted along the top of the train cars towards the front of the train, finding Blake with a passed out Yang, I lay down so Blake can put Yang on my back and get on herself, before continuing to the front of the train. By the time we get there Yang had come too, the three of us regrouping with Ruby and Weiss. Once the girls are off my back I change.

Y/n: "So did you find a way to stop this thing."

Ruby: "No, and we're out of time!" She points ahead of the train, and we can see the end of the tunnel rapidly approaching. 

Weiss: "Everyone hang on!" She then forms a dome of ice around us to shield us all, I grab on to Blake and hold her tight against me, wanting to keep her safe. We get thrown around violently, most likely from the train crashing into the wall at the end of the tunnel. The ice shield breaks and we are all thrown across the ground, I roll to a stop still hanging on too Blake. I look at her

Y/n: "You ok?" She nods her head.

Blake: "Yeah, what about you?" 

Y/n: "I'll live." We get up, along with the rest of her team. As they ready to continue the fight, knowing what's going to be coming out of that tunnel any minute now. I pull my weapon from my belt, changing it into it's shotgun form. I take note of all the curious civilians around, standing there like idiots. Then the grim come charging out of the tunnel, there are far too many of them for us to keep at bay for long, though it doesn't stop us from trying. As I unload everything in my shotgun into the oncoming horde of grim alongside the others. A few packs of beowolves and creeps make it past us, B lining it directly for the civilians who are just now starting to flee. "Dammit. Girls! Cover me!" 

Weiss: "What?! We're kind of busy here!" I ignore her, extending both my arms out towards the few dozen grim that had got past us, my arms glow (f/c) and using my semblance I manage to take control of all of them. Though it isn't without a price, I wasn't used to trying to control this many grim at once and it was already taking it's toll on me. I know immediately I won't be able to keep this up for too long. I direct the grim back towards the seemingly endless tide of grim flowing from the tunnel, hoping to stem the tide, even if only for a bit. Despite my request I find out I have no one covering me the hard way. As I feel teeth sink into my shoulder, and claws tear into my side

Y/n: "AAAHHH!!! KEEP THEM OFF ME DAMMIT!" The grim that was currently chewing on me promptly had it's head blown off.

Ruby: "I'm sorry! I didn't know one got past." The pain was intense, and was making it difficult to keep my focus, as my vision is starting to become blurry from all the blood I'm losing, while my aura is being rapidly drained from using my semblance to such an extent. A few ursa start tearing through the grim I'm controlling, I take the remaining ones and pile them onto the ursa's, resulting in the ursa's deaths, as well as most of the grim I was controlling. I then take control of two deathstalkers and several ursa, which was extremely hard on me seeing as I have never controlled more than a single deathstalker and a handful of creeps at a time. My breathing starts becoming heavy and sporadic as I'm quickly exhausting myself, though I can see black shadows seeping out of my wounds as they heal. I can hear the sounds of combat all around me now, as grim have flooded over the entire area, escaping from where we had tried to keep them trapped. Though it sounded like we had help finally arrive, as I hear a minigun firing away somewhere behind me, and more than just team RWBY fighting. One of the deathstalkers I'm controlling gets torn apart by several ursa and a pack of beowolves while the ursa I'm controlling are holding back several more packs and an Alpha, while the last deathstalker I'm controlling is fighting another deathstalker. Trying to keep this up any longer proves to be too much, as I collapse too my knees, my aura finally depleted, my control of the grim immediately breaking. Almost instantly all the grim I was controlling, and the ones they were fighting bear down on me. I'm too tired to fight back at this point, and I close my eyes, waiting for the end. Though instead of teeth and claws piercing my flesh, I instead feel myself yanked backwards by my waist. I fall onto the ground on my back, a good fifty feet away from where I had been before, looking behind me I see Pyrrha with her hand outstretched towards me with a black aura around it, then I see my weapon on my belt covered in the same black aura. Nora, Ren, and Pyrrha run past me to fight the grim that would have killed me, while I feel someone wrap one of my arms around them and help me up, when I look to see who it was I see Jaune. 

Jaune: "Don't worry man, I've got you." I simply nod, and he helps me back away from the fighting too somewhere safer, letting me sit down and lean against a building too rest. "You gonna be ok if I leave you here?" I wave him off nodding.

Y/n: "Go, help your team." He nods, and runs back into the fight. I wish there was more I could do too help, but at this point I would only get in the way. I reloaded my shotgun while sitting there, and every so often a lone creep, or beowolf would come my way, being ended quickly with a round of buckshot tearing through it. The fight seemed to drag on for a long time, though I'm sure it just felt that way because I could only sit there and watch while everyone else was fighting. Eventually Atlas showed up and cleared out the remaining grim while the breach was sealed. Beside me a pile of rubble started moving and an ursa climbed out of it. I aim my shotgun at it and fire, only seeming to make it mad. As it swats my weapon away from me, before it's riddled with gunfire from several different people, as I see Ren, Pyrrha, Ruby, Blake, and Yang all facing where the grim had been standing, smoke coming out of the barrels of their weapons. I give them all a small smile and a wave as a show of thanks as I lean my head back against the wall I was resting against. I here footsteps rapidly approaching me, but am too exhausted to look and see who it is. The footsteps stop when it sounds like they are right beside me. I feel a set of arms wrap around my neck and a soft voice that I had become so familiar with graced my ears. It was full of exhaustion, and worry at the same time.

Blake: "Are you alright?" I nod my head slightly.

Y/n: "I'll live." 

Blake: "That's not what I asked, are you alright?" 

Y/n: "I'm fine Blake." I wrap an arm around her and rub her back, she sits down beside me and leans against me. 

Blake: "When I looked over too where you had been fighting and didn't see you there I got worried."

Y/n: "Yeah, kind of overdid it while using my semblance. Would have been a goner if it wasn't for Pyrrha." I say, looking around at everyone there. Pyrrha was close enough to hear that and looked over, giving me a friendly wave and her signature smile.

Pyrrha: "Hello!" 

Y/n: "Hey Pyrrha" I reply, giving her a smile of my own. "Thanks for the save." 

Pyrrha: "We have too look out for each other." 

Y/n: "Yeah, we do. Are the others alright?" 

Pyrrha: "Yes, we are just cleaning up any stragglers left over from the fight." I look back over to Blake, who's resting her head on my chest with a content smile on her face. 

Y/n: "And what about the rest of your team?"

Blake: "Everyone's fine, they're all just resting right now."

Y/n: "You know, in the past I wouldn't have been afraid too die, but today, I was." She looks up at me with curiosity. 

Blake: "Why?"

Y/n: "Because now I have something to live for." She doesn't seem to understand what I mean by that.

Blake: "And what's that?" 

Y/n: "You~" I say cheerily, making her blush a bit and she looks away from me. Though I can see a smile on her face. With a bit of effort I pull her into my lap, earning a slight squeal in surprise from her. 

Blake: "What are you doing?" I answer her by wrapping both my arms around her, and resting my head on top of hers. "This fight really took a lot out of you huh?"

Y/n: "Yeah." 

Blake: "Well everyone saw just what you were capable of, and they all saw how you used your power to protect people." I knew what she was getting at.

Y/n: "You know, I realized something recently."

Blake: "And what's that?"

Y/n: "I don't care what everyone else thinks of me, only what you and my friends think of me." 

Blake: "Well, you already know what I think of you." 

Y/n: "Do I now?" I ask, giving her a playful smirk. She pushes my shoulder jokingly, rolling her eyes with a smile on her face. "We're lucky nobody was seriously hurt." 

Blake: "Yeah, we were, and that was mostly thanks too you."

Y/n: "I think you girls would have been able to take care of things just as well without me here. Though in the end all that matters is that we won, nobody got killed, we captured Torchwick, and stopped the White Fang." I say, fist pumping the air in victory. Getting Blake to giggle. "Come on, let's find the others and head back." We both get up and are about to go looking for the rest of Blake's team when I feel a sharp prick in the back of my neck. Reaching behind me I feel something stuck to my skin, I pull it off and look at what it is. It's a small dart that resembles a medical syringe, with a few drops of some red liquid inside it.

Y/n: "What the hell is-..." I stop mid sentence, suddenly feeling a strong urge to start killing. I fall to my knees, my body trembling.

Blake: "(Y/n) what's wrong?!"

-Blake's POV-

We were about to go looking for the rest of my team, and I turn around to see (Y/n) acting strange, before he falls to his knees. I run too him

Blake: "(Y/n) what's wrong?!" 

Y/n: "Blake, y-you need to get th-th-these people out of here..." I kneel in front of him and make him look up at me. One of his eyes pupil has become a slit, and some of his teeth are turning into teeth.

Blake: "(Y/n), what's going on? Are you alright?"

Y/n: "GO!" He shouts at me, making me jump back in surprise. "Please, you need to go, there's not much time." He grabs his head, his entire body shaking as he starts frothing at the mouth. "GO!" I run, and start getting people out of the area. As the last of us are leaving the area I hear (Y/n) scream "AAAAHHHHHHAAAaaaOOOOOOOOOOO" As he screamed it turned into a howl. I look back and see (Y/n) back in his Alpha form, but somethings different. He's drooling from the mouth, the drool was black. It pooled on the ground, looking like a hole into nothingness. Then the unthinkable happened. Grim started rising from those black pools. I could hear people behind me screaming as they saw this, gaining the grims attention, and (Y/n)'s, and they all charged at us. Trying to kill us, even (Y/N). We were exhausted, all of us, but we couldn't let the grim get past here. The Atlas soldiers started firing at the grim, as well as all the students and professors that were there. 

Goodwitch: "We need to kill that Alpha, it's bringing more grim!" I couldn't be mad that she said that, she doesn't know that it's (Y/n), though what surprised me was what I heard Ruby say.

Ruby: "Come on team... We need to take him down." 

Blake: "What?! Ruby no! We can't kill him!" 

Ruby: "Blake, I know you don't want to hear this, but we have no choice. If we don't people WILL die, innocent people. I don't know why he's doing this, but we can't waste time here. I understand if you can't do this, so just stay back and help with the rest of the grim." My three teammates then charge forward, all of them attacking (y/n) with everything they had. I couldn't believe this, I couldn't believe this was (y/n), and I couldn't believe that my team would try to kill him. He's there friend, they know this isn't him. Just as Ruby is about to land a blow on (y/n)'s throat while he's distracted by Yang and Weiss. I jump in front of her blocking her weapon with my own. "Blake! What are you doing?!" 

Blake: "I won't let you kill him!" She let's out a gasp before screaming.

Ruby: "Behind you Blake!" I feel teeth sink into me, and I am lifted of the ground.

-3rd person pov-
(Y/n) picked Blake up off the ground in his mouth, shaking his head back and forth violently as he thrashed her around before tossing her aside where her aura broke and she lay motionless. 

Yang: "You monster!" She screamed, her semblance activating as she launched herself at (y/n), punching him in the side and launched him through the air and sent him crashing into the wall that led into the tunnels they had just sealed. As the dust settled, (Y/n) was back in his human form, and was holding his side coughing blood. Yang had broke a few of his ribs and they had pierced one of his lungs. He looked on in horror, realizing what he had done, as he saw the body of the woman he loved, who he is certain he just killed. 

Y/n: "No... Blake..." He took a few steps forward trying to reach her, before the Atlas forces began firing at him, forcing him to retreat into the tunnels which Goodwitch then promptly re-sealed. Leaving everyone there in shock at what they just witnessed, though team RWBY was shocked for a different reason. They were shocked that someone they considered there close friend would do something like this.

First: The Beast pt. 1

Next: The Beast Final.
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Great! Cinder used a dart filled with some unknown liquid on the reader and the reader is the bad guy.