A/N: There will be two chapters today. This chapter had too good of an end point for me not to take advantage of it, and I couldn't think of any filler to make it longer. I'm ok with the double upload because you all deserve it with the support you have been showing. Thank you all! With that, I hope you all have a great rest of your day and enjoy the chapter. Rhino out.
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Three days have come and gone since Topaz encountered Sally and Mike. After spending the entire day catching up with them, he then decided to spend a day on a date with Ariel and then the final day on a date with Neo. He now finds himself sitting on a bench in the Mistral train station waiting for the girls to get everything ready for their departure. Watching as the girls run around making sure they have everything, Topaz can't help but chuckle. He was a little caught off guard when he sees two gentlemen begin talking to the girls, and based on the girls' reactions, they said something flirty, stupid or both.
Station Intercom: "The train bound for Argus station will be boarding in five minutes. Please begin preparing to board if you are bound for that station. Thank you and have a nice day."
Getting off the bench, Topaz makes his way over to where he sees Ariel and Neo chatting to Yang.
Topaz: "What's up girls?"
Yang: "Not much, just Yanging around waiting to board the train."
Topaz: "…"
Ariel: "I'm sorry Yang, but I'm with Topaz on this one."
Yang: "I bet Neo thought it was funny."
Neo: "Sorry Yang."
Yang: "You guys don't understand comedy."
Topaz: "No Yang, it is you who don't understand comedy."
Yang: "Bully."
Topaz: "Hey Yang, what did those two guys want?"
Yang: "Ugh, those two were the worst. They introduced themselves as Dee and Dudley and said they were the 'guardians of the train' and acted like we should be impressed. And to make things so much worse they tried flirting with everyone and said for a little extra Lien they would promise we were extra safe."
Topaz: "They didn't try anything otherwise though right?"
Yang: "No, aside from getting on our nerves they didn't do anything."
Topaz: "That's all that matters."
Topaz is suddenly knocked to the ground by a speeding bullet or rose petals. Standing back up and giving Ruby a cold stare Topaz gets back up and dusts himself off.
Topaz: "Ruby… how many times do I have to tell you not to tackle me?"
Ruby: "I'm sorry, these two guys were trying to make me pay them to be safe on the train and I kind of panicked. I'm sorry."
Topaz: *sigh* "You can stay calm under pressure when fighting a group of grimm, but the moment two men, as strange as they are, start talking to you, you panic. Gods Ruby."
Ruby: "People are scarier than grimm are."
Topaz: "Well, you aren't wrong there."
After listening to Ruby's encounter with the two huntsmen to say he was displeased would be an understatement. Not only did the two try taking her money by assuming she was a scared little girl, they then threatened to let the grimm get her if she didn't pay them.
Qrow: "Let's go, the train is leaving soon."
Topaz makes his way to the train and enters his train car. Sitting in his seat he looks out the window and sees the train begin to move. A short while into the trip, Topaz feels someone lean on his shoulder, so he turns and sees Ariel asleep on his shoulder with Neo asleep on her lap. Smiling at the adorable scene, he carefully takes out his scroll and takes a picture. Suddenly the train car rocks and a small alarm begins to go off, signaling a grimm attack on the train. Neo and Ariel are startled awake and rub the sleep from their eyes. Running to a connecting train car, Topaz climbs onto the roof of the train and sees a large group of Manticores attacking the train. A lone manticore sees Topaz and turns to attack him, Topaz rolls under its attack and stabs his spear upwards, piercing the grimms heart and killing it instantly. Dancing around a few more incoming attacks, Topaz stabs and slashes the incoming Manticores, while also making sure no one else is being overrun. Seeing that everyone is doing well and dealing with the grimm with no issue he turns to see about the two huntsmen that were hired to protect the train. Toward the front of the train Topaz sees the two huntsmen. Topaz did not hear anything good about the two from the girls. Seeing one of them struggling to shoot the manticores out of the sky, and the other pulling out a remote, Topaz rushes over to stop them from doing anything stupid.
Topaz: "What are you doing?"
Dudley: "I'm activating the turrets obviously, what are you doing?"
Topaz: "Stopping you from doing anything stupid, such as drawing the grimm toward the passengers with the turrets."
Dee: "Back off buddy, it's our responsibility to protect the train. And that means it's up to us whether or not we want to use the turrets or not."
Topaz: "Do the two of you have one braincell between the two of you? Activating those turrets won't help kill the manticores. The only thing it will do is piss them off and draw them to the turrets, thus putting the passengers you are supposed to protect in danger."
Dudley: "Back off kid, we are the professional huntsmen here. I think we know a little more than you do."
Topaz thrusts his spear to his right, killing a manticore flying by, without breaking eye contact with Dudley. To not be shown up, Dudley tries the same thing with his rifle, taking a shot randomly next to him. Topaz chokes back a laugh when he sees that there weren't any grimm relatively close to him.
Dudley: "Shup up kid, you just got lucky."
Topaz: "Totally, and you meant to miss."
Dudley: "Kid."
Topaz spins his spear once and stabs it backwards, once again killing an incoming manticore. This time Topaz can't hold back the laughter at Dudley's surprised and angry face. Topaz stretches out his hand and looks at Dudley once more.
Topaz: "Hand over the remote. We don't need it."
Dudley: "Not gonna happen kid. I'm pressing this button and the turrets are going to do work."
Topaz: "Very well then, you leave me no choice."
Dee: "That's what I thought kid, go back to mommy."
Topaz takes a step away before turning and rushing the two idiots. Grabbing the remote before they realize anything is amiss Topaz turns and jumps away, giving the two a smirk.
Dudley: "You little shit, you're dead!"
Dee and Dudley rush at Topaz, but before they get too far everyone can hear Oscar in the distance.
Oscar: "TUNNEL!"
Every single person turns and sees the incoming tunnel. The girls rush between train cars to drop into a safe position. Topaz takes a step closer to Dee and Dudley fully expecting them to turn and run as soon as the tunnel was called, but to his surprise, he is caught off guard as Dudley shoves Topaz, before turning and barely making it into the gap. Topaz can see all this as he falls off the train, quickly falling towards the growing ground below.