Fandom RWBY: After the Fall (Main Thread)

[Duke of Doge]

"well in that case." she fixed her gaze on Pon. "I am in your debt, if there is anything I could do to repay you all you need to do is ask." she attempted to sit up, only to wince and lay back once more. "Okay yeah not this soon." she sighed "My name's Violet Cestria. Pleasure to meet you both. Mind if I ask where you've brought me?" she looked around at the room they were in. "I hope it's not some weird sex dungeon...."
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[Zamasu]

"Anything? *AAAHN~*" Pon can be a really dirty girl, just because she sees a pair of 'assets'. On the other hand, she WISHED that this was a sex dungeon. Setting these thoughts aside, Pon answers Violet by saying "This is an hospital. We're in the city that is nearby Beacon, or at least it was."

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[Taco]

"Why would we bring you to a sex dungeon? Why would there even be a sex dungeon somewhere in Vale?" Alex asked, crossing his arms and looking at Violet, "And why would your first thought be 'I wonder if they brought me to a sex dungeon'? It's just...so weird."
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Nilla Eris

Nilla was surprised to say the least that he was talking to her mentally which his comment made her chuckle slightly, [I suppose they all were quite weird to be honest]. She thought.. wow that was an odd thing to do, but this was not her concern at the moment, a giant snake was slithering towards her angrily so she ran at in to show no weakness towards the creature. She made note of what the other had said and quickly fired a flurry of pulses in the direction of the serpent, this would connect on three fourths of the attacks but the rest would fail and hit the ground causing dirt to fire into the air behind the King.

The fact the other man had been hitting his shots was enough for her to get an opening, one of the serpents struck it's mouth down towards her and in one fluid move she broke through both of the white-head's fangs and knocked it into the earth rooting it by the stumps of it's fangs. The head wriggled viciously against the ground which just dug it deeper into it's own imprisonment, she seemed to have quite a bit more strength now that the aura connection had been established she was much more active than she had even been during the fight with the beowulf. Which was justifiable since her team was one of the strongest in the academy. Key word being was. Now she was left being one of the strongest so she decided she needed to carry that legacy. [Feel free to pepper the white one down to a pulp now Duke.]

Her mind seemed to be pretty clear and stream-lined when she was in combat. Though there was definitely a hint of darkness to her mind in the long run, no one now a days was safe from that.. if they could still be happy as could be after their whole team was slaughtered they weren't human. They were on the same level as these things they fought. The black head of the snake seemed to have learned from it's teammates mistake and struck at her with it's mouth shut, to which she used her ability to control pulse and shot the beast square in the center of the eyes, a deep incision was made and it released a loud hissing noise as it swung it's head side to side while moving backwards. [Take the kill shot and put the beast down] she thought like some form of a war tactician in all of this, even when a creature that had a head larger than her entire body went to attack her.

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[Duke of Doge]

"My mind tends to wander." she said with a small laugh. "I can't control where it goes. Makes me seem a little crazy." She smiled at them on the word crazy. A wide, creepy, Cheshire smile that her fox ears perked up with. Which she held only for a brief moment before laughing once more "Sorry, I just like messing with people. I assure I'm a completely sane." her fox ears lowered once more; a sign she was being genuine.
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[Taco]

"I'm glad." Alex chuckled and looked down at his feet. He laid down on the end of Violet's bed and closed his eyes, "Violet..." He started before opening his eyes and turning to look at her, "You owe me a new shirt."
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[Elekta Kount]

Duke Blu
[I'll do you one better!]
Duke grinned madly as he was now skriting towards the fight, halting when he heard Nilla's voice. Pointing his weapon into the air, he flipped open somthing on the weapon's side, which looked like a grenade launcher sight.
A moment later somthing poped out of the grenade launcher, leaving a trail of smoke, before land stright into the snake's head, promptly causing it to explode into grimm pieces.
Turning around just in time to see Nilla cut throw the black taijiu's eye ball, he took aim.
[Roger that, ma'am]
Duke thought, his grinn now bigger, before taking off forward and did a baseball slide towards the right. As he slide, he aimed his weapon sideways and pulling the trigger and letting the gun crackle three times.
All two out of three shots manage to hit it's mark, instantly ending the last king taiji, causing it to slide forward inches from Nilla, dead.
[And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do it!]
Duke thought triumphanly as he slid to a halt, before pushing himself off, brushing off some dirt in the process.
He then looked over at Nilla, a smile still on his face, before putting his rifle on his shoulder and hung both his arms off of it. Duke would then slowly walk over, smile still present as he lifted his head slightly.
"*Whistle* We make a hella of a team, don't we? Or maybe it was just luck."
As Duke near, the purple aura slowly started to fade away, as it seemed Duke had broke the link.
Duke slowly came to a stop, taking one hand off his rifle and placing it on his hip as he looked at Nilla sideways.
"Either way, nice job...and, uh, thanks....you were pretty badass out there...might of of been snake food if you hadn't come along."
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Nilla Eris

Nilla gave a small smile when she could hear the beast's final breath of pain as the two heads were toppled and fell slightly from her body's location, she was kind of happy that this creature didn't get the best of them or it would suffer entirely. "Well making a team is easier to do if you have two people who are working towards the same goal. But we do work well together" she nodded in agreeance before looking to her arm and seeing the purple fade away just to be replaced by the regular pink, but her energy was staying now at least.. which she wasn't going to lie, that in itself was really nice.

She smiled at his statement on being snake food and shook her head at the same time, "You didn't do too bad yourself.... why did the others just abandon you though? I dragged a pack of beowulf away so that's my excuse. But wasn't their companion bleeding?" she sighed and shook her head once more. She was honestly a bit upset not only at the fact that they had left Duke behind but also in the fact that they had brought an injured member away so roughly. "I mean at the rate she was bleeding due to what I saw on the ground. Something had to cut pretty deep into her, if that object was just torn out then and there it's highly-likely to get infected or improperly heal." She said raking her fingers through her hair and removing a few small pebbles and twigs. She prayed that whoever those three were that they had gotten proper medical care... she knew that she could assist to help the injury better than most people could but that wasn't possible if she didn't have proper equipment. Besides that she wouldn't be able to fully treat it and the need for an actual doctor would be best, "Regardless we can be glad that they got out alive and the same for us.." She stated before her stomach growled lightly and a soft sigh came from her lips. "I'm going to head to see if I can find a nearby area to get some food.. care to join?" She asked and gave a moment before beginning to walk off.

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[Zamasu]

Pon chuckled, albeit not as loud and lively. She hadn't been payig attention to what Violet had said. "So...now what?" She asked "There is nothing much else to do other than watch over Violet and wait for her to fully recover. Maybe...well..." A thought came into her mind, though she is hesitant to say it. She is thinking of bringing Alex and Violet to her home Menagerie, but would they be able to accept them? Also, Pon needs to ask her 'parents' who she truly is and why people are calling her a human and not a Faunus. She'll just have to say it after Alex or Violet has said something.

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[Duke of Doge]

"I need to find my team" she answered, clear determination in her voice. She gripped her bed sheets. "I need answers... once I'm healed I think I'm going to go back to Vale."
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[Elekta Kount]

Duke Blu
Duke smirked, before reaching into his vest pocket...
"Here, catch."
...Duke threw the object at Nilla with great speed, expecting her to catch. He had thrown at her a gronolia bar, sort of the varity version.
"When your going on long treks such as this, you gotta be prepared, ya know. It's like one of the practical skills that they teach hunters."
Duke chuckled as he made his way to Nilla's side, both hands back to hanging off his rifle.
"Was plannin' to use my semblence to to try to stop the bleedin' at least, but they took off so fast that I didn't even have a chance to holler."
Duke walked with Nilla for a bit in silence, looking up ahead as she presumably was eating the granola.
There was somthing that bothered him about Nilla...nothing on the outset, but when he was connected to her, side affect of linking with people with his semblence, Duke felt a...not dark presence per say, but certainly a negative one, and boy was it strong.
That same feeling felt almost like when...he lost his dad.
Duke snuck a glance at the girl. She was cute...ahem, but she didn't seem that bothered...not at the moment. But when Duke thought back, he remebered seeing how she would swing between emotions, most of the faces she had shown seemed rather... cold, even angry.
Maybe that's what attracted the grimm, not to mention the grimm right now weren't all that intreasted in them...
"Soooo..." Duke said, looking away up to the skies. "...you come here just to kick ass? You know, practise or somthing? Or maybe your here to give these things a thumpin' for what they did to our school."
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Nilla Eris

Nilla had indeed caught the bar and was eating it thankfully, the hunger she had felt was something of the kind you'd get for not eating a day so this granola bar was more than welcome to her. After finishing the bar she nodded, "Being prepared is a good thing for a hunter to do... but sometimes you can't prepare for what is to come" she spoke with the same cold tone she'd held from before now. To most people she was capable of sending shivers down their spines just from speaking in such a cold tone but as of recent people seemed less effected by it.

She heard his second question and remained silent for a moment as she continued to walk alongside him, her blade being sheathed now. "Why I came here... let's just say I didn't feel like having more avoidable deaths." She said with a matter-of-fact tone. Her emotion had seemingly just drained entirely and she stayed at a completely neutral space now, she didn't want to feel things right now with those memories since she knew it would just attract Grimm if she did. "How about you? Why did you decide to come back here?" She asked as they continued to walk, the woods moving around them now as they continued on their journey.

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[Elekta Kount]

Duke Blu
“Well...” Duke said, taking a minute to think about what he was going to say. “...let’s just say I’m out here looking for someone... can’t say I’ve found this particular someone quite yet...”
He was looking for his team lead
The boss
The captain
The teammate
His partner
His friend
...
Least....he was looking for her body.
“City is a big this place, after all.”
Duke grunted.
“Still lots of places left to check...gotta be optimistic about things...less the grimm come about.”
Duke remianed silent on the subject for a bit, before suddenly turning his head and said, with great concern one might add.
“Hey, um, when I was...when we were linked, I...I didn’t mean to, but it’s kinda Affect of my semblance...unfortunately...”
He paused for a moment, carefully considering what he wasn’t about to say.
“...guess what I a man trying to say is...you doing alright? Cause back there you, were...you know...grim...”
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Nilla Eris

Nilla nodded to his statement of optimist, "It's good to keep hopes up... especially when there's the possibility" She stated simply before the silence overwhelmed them again. She could sense what was to come just before the voice was to follow up, she could tell far too well what he was going to say and how just from how the silence seemed to warp about the matter as a whole. She looked to her side and saw him there knowing somewhat about what he had meant with the thing not being intentional.

"I get that you didn't plan to invade my mind on that... but in this world the one thing strong enough to take those I care for is the Grimm.." She spoke with that same cold tone and one of her hands balled into a fist. Her eyes shut and she heaved a heavy sigh now to allow herself to try and catch up with her brain, that way she didn't say anything too extreme or go far enough to attract Grimm, her knuckles had still managed to go pale white as she did this since it helped calm her. "Just... I'm fine, I just realized that in order to be the most deadly thing out here I had to get more dangerous than the Grimm were. If you can be more grim than a Grimm then you are the most dangerous" She said simply as a short flash of the roof caving in played in her mind and she shook her head.

"Anyways... back to the topic at hand. Your teammate is still out there.. or at least they could be." She said moving a hand to her face and wiping her eyes for a moment. She had chilled her own mind down so it allowed for her to have a much easier time with the idea of this in a general situation, "Any ideas that could be a lead?" She asked turning to face him and holding a slightly happier facial expression, it was obvious she was forcing up this cheerful front and the girl had been refusing to grief, well unless you counted hunting down a ton of Grimm to blow off steam.

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[Elekta Kount]

Duke Blu
Duke paused, at first he just looked at Nillia, but soon he turned to face her when she looked at him.
Hearing what she had to say made him close his eyes, but it was the tone she used at the end that made him sigh.
Lifting his free arm up, he placed it on her shoulder and bent a bit to look her stright into the eyes.
"Your not fooling anyone with that act, pink hair...can't bring 'em back from the dead...no many how many you've killed...already tried that...."
He knew all too well, not just his partner, but...the loss of someone close isn't a new thing for him.
"See...the person I'm looking for...she's...'
But...no matter how many times Duke went down this road, no matter how prepared he was...it never got easier.
"...she's dead...Nillia..."
Duke couldn't cry, he was all out of tears at this point in his life ...perhaps it was why he was the only one in his team that was out here, between one of them being crippled and the other having a mental breakdown.
"...she's..."
Duke's legs felt weak, causing him to lean forward, almost head butting into Nillia, but the hand Duke had on her shoulder came up to cushion and separate the two forheads. For whatever reason, Duke's aura began to appear, surrounding the young man. Duke had his eyes down for a moment, before he closed his eyes to remember...remember the last moments he was with her...he'd onlly turn his head for a secound before she was...
"dead"
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[Zamasu]

Hearing what Violet have said, Pon replies "Well, I hope my teammates are also okay. I plan to look for them, even if it means flying around the world. I think I like you, Violet, even Godspeed is." She then ends with a bright smile on her face.

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Nilla Eris

Nilla looked at the man with a somber expression, he seemed to had suffered losses as well. Thus being why he told her this, but was she fighting to bring them back? No that wasn't it, she was fighting to avenge them, but were the two things one and the same. That question struck through her head like a dart through the outer ring of a dartboard. "I.... I'm sorry for your loss Duke." She spoke and she held a tinge of pity to her voice, she didn't just pity him.. she pitied herself as well. They were both in the same sad boat that was sailing into stormy seas.

She opened her mouth to object to the prior statement but she couldn't so instead she thought of another thing, "Don't let her passing bring you weakness though.. no matter how much it hurts. They wouldn't want us to die so we have to fight our hardest" She said with a choking ton. She was holding back her voice with the strain she was having in speaking so she could keep herself from breaking down for the moment being, "So let's not let that happen... I say we regroup with others and try to surive... they... she would want that for you" She said and patted him on the back gently.

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[Taco]

Alex closed his eyes once again, "I guess I can help you guys if you want. It's not like I have anything better to do." He yawned, "I already know my team kicked the bucket and they're really the only people I know so I don't need to look for anybody myself."
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[Duke of Doge]

Violet smiled softly at Pon's words. But it vanished when Alex spoke. Violet looked away from the both of them. Closing her eyes. "they have to be alive..." she said softly, almost a prayer.
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[Zamasu]

Pon sighs before she asked the two "So...who are your teammates anyways? What is the name of your team? Got anything interesting about them that you like or dislike? I think they must be some really interesting teammates to be with."

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[Elekta Kount]

Duke Blu
"Yeah...she would."
Duke said quietly to himself, removing his hand and his head from Nilla's, and took a step back, looking at Nilla.
"You know, your strong in more ways then one...hehe...though, there ain't nothin' you should be sorry 'bout...after all, wasn't you that did it...but..."
Bringing his rifle down, in it's ready position.
"...just a bit worried is all...I've seen people deal with stuff like this in worse ways and...guess I could snap too, at some point...after all, us humans can become far worse monsters then the grimm can even fathom."
Duke looked away, down the road ahead that lead into the forest., but chuckled a sad chuckled.
"Well.. guess we oughta get goin'...no point stickin' around here for the grimm to catch us off guard, eh?"
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Nilla Eris

Nilla let off a slight sigh before smiling a bit and shaking her head at the idea that the man had mentioned, "Well all I really have is strength... since it's hard for me to handle some other stuff." She said with a reassuring tone on the matter at hand. She felt herself trusting this man a bit more, he had helped her with surviving and kept her alive when it came to the fight with the giant serpent.

She began moving again as she walked at a decent pace and hoped that he would follow in pace with her. "Well yeah.. if we head off now i'm sure we can at least hit the city by nightfall.. unless we run across any strong grimm" She said and continued to walk along with her companion nearby. She felt the sword shake in the sheathe as she continued to walk along her way, they were at a denser part of the woods and she knew that the border of the city would come up shortly after they made their way through the forest.

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[Duke of Doge]

"Iris, Rose, and Dalia... Together we formed team Viridian. Iris is our quiet one, a small girl never spoke out of turn and always tactical in everything she did. She is like a full blown ninja on the battlefield." Violet is making a conscious effort to avoid using the word was. "Rose is sweet, caring and kind in every sense. A very simple girl who was always willing to put others before herself. She is our sniper, girl could hit a bulls eye from 1200 yards if she had good wind. Dalia is our heavy gun, she always faces her problems head on. She is very direct and will ask straight up if anything is wrong. Real friendly girl. She had this big ass axe that functioned as an LMG. She is ripped, like- mm" Violet bit her lip "Those abs could break steel" she let out a chuckle "we actually had her bench press two of us at one point." she smiled "good times... I was the only Faunus on the team too. Rose was perfectly accepting on day one. Dalia warmed up to me fast. But Iris..." she sighed "Worst argument I've had in in my life..." Violet shook her head, brushing a few strands of hair out of he face "sorry, started rambling"
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Duke Blu
(Timeskip!)
It was around Dawn when Duke and Nilla had reached the outskirts of the city, arriving at the emergency camp that was established by the Vale concil after the fall of Beacon.
The camp had been much more crowded the day before, as it had to house students and travelers from all over rmnet, but it appeared many had left Beacon in order to return home.
Yet those who remained remained for many reasons, some were citizens of the city, displaced after much of it was destroyed. Others were gravelly injured from the fighting, too weak to move and thus recovering here until they have recovered enough to move. And yet there was still others who remained, desperately trying to find out what happened to their loved ones.
People were here and there, some city around camp fires, others were just gathered at their tents, some people were just talking with each other, trying to make sense of it all.
"Things hasen't gotten any better....suprise the grimm ain't on us yet..."
Duke said, glancing about as the two moved through the camps.
Suddenly, Duke stopped, as he spotted somthing, beforing giving a heavy sigh.
"Hang on, Pink Hair, gotta take care of somthing first..."
Duke waved in a certain direction, a bit half heartedly.
"If you want, think they are handing out emergency rations over there, should find somthing that should fix ya hunger.'
Duke headed off towards a tent with a giant, armored man sitting in front of it, hugging his legs and staring into the fire that was in front of him.
Duke turned around and back peddle, waving his free arm at Nilla, indicating her to go on.
"Don't worry 'bout me, I'll catch up to you."
Duke promptly turned around and headed for the tent.
...
It took him about a minute to make his way to the tent.
Standing over to the giant man, Duke said somthing to him, but didn't get a response. Duke looked like he had sighed, then slung his rifle and kneeled down, putting one hand on his the giant man's shoulder and shook him a bit, saying somthing.
Still, no response.
Duke finally gave up, as he stood up, placing his hands in his pockets as he looked at the big man, before moving over to the tent entrance, opening it up and disappearing inside.
Duke was in there for a few minutes, but after so long a muffled female voice was heard coming loudly out of the tent.
"YOU...HOW...BAST...HOW....E....DE....GET...GE...."
Moments later Duke exited the tent calmly, but was soon hit in the head by a metal cup, though he barely reacted to it.
Looking back at the big man, Duke placed his hand on the big man's shoulder, and patted the shoudler. Duke's faced looked at the big man with concern, not the worried kind, but the serious kind.
Duke seemed to mutter somthing, before placing a hand in his pocket and putting the other into his vest pocket, now moving away from the tent. Removing the hand from the vest pocket, he took out his scroll and started looking through. Duke expression changed from concern to annoyance, as he his thumb was sliding back and forth on his scroll.
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Nilla Eris

Nilla had wandered around the camp for a bit after going to the rations station and getting a sandwich of some form and a bottle of water, honestly she was quite appreciative despite the sandwich being gone in a moments notice. She sipped on the bottle of water and continued to look around the area that was littered in tends that ranged in different sizes from small to quite large ones. They reminded her of the pillow forts she would make as a child, hanging a sheet above her as a drape to protect her from the 'rain' and he 'wind' which was just a spray bottle and her fan.

A small smile came to her face, this was one of the few innocent thoughts she had allowed herself to think of in the past little bit which was surprising in itself. She noticed some injured men and women as others people were caring for them, "Seems that this place is in rough shape... guess we weren't the only ones that the fall effected." she said with a slightly saddened sigh. She definitely needed to try and think of what the other people were feeling rather than just feeling pity for herself the entire time. That was a necessary thing for her to do, so she walked to the edge of the camps and stared out to the woods as she continued to sip on her water once more.. "I hope Duke's alright. I know things were tearing him up earlier as well" she said before looking to her feet and kicking at the ground.

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