Returning to the room in which roman slept...
He was still sleeping.
But his daughter on the other hand, had just woken up. The mute girl let out a silent yawn before looking around.
Where was hans? She remembered waking up in the night while hans was asleep and snuggling up to him.
But he's gone now, without waking her up...
How rude! Neo was pouting with her arms folded under her chest.
Neopolitan got up and threw her jacket on. As she was about to head out in order to find her boyfriend, a certain object caught her eye.
Namely the sword that once hung at her boyfriend's side. Neo walked over to the small table on which the blade lay.
The blade looked strange on the table as it was longer than the table itself.
Neo grabbed the futuristic blade and looked at it strangely.
Where did he get a sword like this?
'oh he found me.' Neo dropped the murasama in shock.
Needless to say, the ice cream girl didn't expect to hear the voice of a strange man from a sword. Especially one in Hans's possession.
Neo carefully picked up the sword.
'please don't drop me again. I can explain my situation further if you'd like.' Neo was... 'speechless? Most would be at the sight of a talking sword... okay, that joke was in poor taste.' Neo just deadpanned.
'how... hans must not get along with him. He's very serious and a pun-cracking sword is the exact opposite.'
'I would say he's amiable. He doesn't respond much but it just gives me a challenge to find a joke that'll break him.' Neo stared at the sword with dead eyes.
'so... childish.' The reliable sword could only scoff at the notion.
I know it's childish. But the mans been through a lot. He deserves a bit of happiness. I won't tell you what he's been through because I think it would be better if he tells you himself. But he's a very closed-off person. I don't know when he'll tell you but I think he will eventually. But that's up to him.'
Neo had been left with her thoughts to stir.
What could she do? She didn't know how to comfort hans. She didn't know what he likes.
Neo didn't know anything about him.
The girl only knew one thing about his struggles.
His hallucinations.
But even then, she didn't know what the hallucinations were about. Neo just knew he had them.
'I really am clueless.' Sam only chuckled.
'you're not at fault for being clueless. He's scared. He closed himself off. Try's to show as little emotion as possible. He worries. He bleeds. He dies just like the rest of us. He isn't some killing machine or extraordinary individual. Hans günsche is just Hans günsche. No more, no less.' Neo began to think.
'I believe I've said enough. Adios, for now.'
'killing machine... huh. I really don't know anything. Will he ever even be happy with just me?'
And with that thought, neo was left to ponder.
Just, what had hans günsche gone through?
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Back to the man himself, hans had received a call from the wizard.
"hello hans. I take it you know the deal by now. I'm sorry for giving you a task like this at such a late hour, but there have been reported disappearances in an abandoned building near your location. I am unable to confirm whether it is a humanoid Grimm or not, but it needs to be resolved nonetheless."
"alright..." hans glanced up to the moon.
A key part of a werewolf's abilities is moonlight. A werewolf's strength within the night can fluctuate depending on the volume of moonlight.
But every night, hans has felt no difference. There can be no full moon if the moon is shattered after all. It likely would still boost a normal werewolves abilities, but not a natural one.
A click came from his scroll and hans began to walk. Unaware as to where he was going, but he could smell blood.
It was faint, but it led to a broken-down building ahead of him. The scent of blood only got stronger the closer he got until eventually, the scent became nauseating to the male werewolf's enhanced senses.
Hans stopped in front of the run-down building's door. It was surprisingly intact, after a few jiggles of the handle, hans couldn't open the door.
'locked. I'll have to break in.' The century-old man took a few steps back before kicking the door open with a loud bang. Immediately Hans's nose was bombarded with the scent of rotting corpses.
His gaze darted across the room where he could see various rotting corpses of all kinds. Women, men... even a few children. Now, hans was no stranger to corpses, but there were injuries on the bodies that pointed to one thing.
Torture. A lot of it.
The room was utterly covered in blood. Few spots weren't. But from all this, hans could deduce one thing.
Whatever did all this... it clearly enjoyed the pain it inflicted.
The captain pushed further into the building and towards the stairs, each step rang through the building, echoing.
A figure loomed at the top of the stairs.
Hans couldn't identify any noticeable features to discern the person's identity. All he could tell was that they were of average height.
Hans kept his pace as he ascended the stairs, not faltering despite the figures killing intent directed straight towards him.
A knife could be seen in his hand. The man began to giggle like a giddy child.
The murderous individual allowed the captain to tower above him.
Now, the two men had a clear view of each other. Hans stared down at the man, a wooden mask with a grin and cartoony eyes drawn on it. A grey and blood-splattered hoodie. Brown pants.
"HEHE..." before hans could even be confused, his body was already covered in cuts from the madman's hunting knife.
"another corpse for the pile! HAHAHA!" Hans was once again, shocked.
Another opponent whose moments he couldn't see.
"oh? You didn't die from my cuts. HEHEHE! Then... I'm Frank! Nice to meet you tall dude!" Frank once again rushed forward and slashed repeatedly at Hans's form.
The werewolf briefly debated transforming until an idea came to mind. If he can't see Frank's movements, then what if he was to reinforce his eyes with aura?
Quickly funnelling his unique aura to his eyes, hans could feel his eyes straining and his eyes became bloodshot.
But he could see Frank's movements.
Frank's slashes were visible to hans.
He threw a punch and it hit Frank directly in the cheek.
Frank was launched backwards from the force of his punch and his mask flew off before he landed flat on his back.
Frank's jaw was broken. That much, he was sure of.
This was confirmed when the insane teen sat back up with his jaw hanging low and the skin at the side of his mouth torn.
Black liquid seeped into the wound and reattached his jaw.
'I see. It seems like he is the humanoid Grimm. Either that or it has a parasitic relationship with him.' Frank stood back up, arms limp and head tilted.
The unsettling grin on his face only grew wider.
"so little cuts won't work? HAHAHAHA! Then what would happen if I stabbed you in the heart? HEHEHE!" Frank ran straight towards hans, the man jumped...
And immediately found his throat in hans' grip.
"know this... I take no... joy in murder..." His grip tightened and Frank began to swing in a panic, he could clearly feel his neck cracking from his grip.
Snap!
And the building fell silent. No speech. No movement.
All that could be heard, was the captain's laboured breathing.
A blade found itself within the patriarch's throat.
'what?! There's no way he should be alive.' The blade was twisted before being torn out.
Frank kicked off of hans chest and landed back on the ground.
"HAHAHAHA! Oh, the crick in my neck is gone! Thanks tall dude! I'll return the favour by killing you slightly quicker than the others!" Hans acted quickly and froze the hole in his throat before Frank attacked again.
'I can't keep funnelling aura or my eyes will burst.' The günsche male stopped his technique and froze the floor of the corpse-ridden room.
Frank tried to run but could no longer get a good grasp on his footing.
'if breaking his neck doesn't work, destroying the heart or brain should.' Hans took advantage of his superior physical strength and stomped through the carpet of ice to advance on Frank.
The ice easily shattered under Hans's boots and hans grabbed the off-balance teen.
He had a firm grip on either side of the hoodie teen's head.
"I'm sorry..." with one swift aura-enhanced motion, Frank's head was crushed, splattering the captain in blood.
The victor was not unused to this. Hans had killed many... being covered in blood was a normality... sadly.
'it even got into my hair...' The body of a murderer who moved faster than hans could see.
"entstehen." Frank's body was swallowed by the apostle's shadow and slowly sank into the darkness.
He took his right glove off by biting the middle finger of his glove and then took the left glove off. The pair of gloves was then jammed into his left coat pocket.
With a heavy sigh, beacons security guard took out his still bloodied scroll.
After pushing a few buttons, it began to ring... and ring... and ring.
Until he finally picked up.
"hello hans. What have you found?" The line was silent for a few moments before he spoke.
Hans:"a madman... over 20 bodies... men, women... children..." a sharp intake of breath was heard from ozpin.
"I'm... I'm sending the police. The usual response time is twenty minutes. I suggest you get out before they get there. It'll be a hassle for me to-" the line cut off.
"Well well well. What do we have here?" A calm male voice could be heard from the stairs.
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A tense silence within the dormitory of team RWBY.
Three people sat in silence glancing at each other.
Ruby, weiss and neo.
"neo? Did... did you need something?" Ruby was honestly concerned, she had only met neo once and the ice cream girl seemed nice.
But there was a blank expression on her face this time.
"I would also like to know why you dragged us in here and then kicked yang and Blake out." Neo kept staring for a few moments.
"what do you think of hans?" Weiss did a double take. But Ruby, well... Ruby went bright red.
"w-w-why do you bring hans up!" Weiss could only facepalm.
"I'll make this as quick and simple as possible. Do the two of you, hold romantic attraction to the man known as hans günsche?" Weiss was quite clearly, shocked.
Never did she think that this is why neo confronted them. Weiss was blushing and averting her gaze.
Ruby just stopped functioning.
"I'll take that as a yes from the both of you. In that case, I'm happy. I confessed my feelings to hans and he accepted them. But the issue is... he's a broken man. A... friend... of his told me that he's scared and has closed himself off. All three of us know that he has hallucinations. Personally, I don't believe that I would be enough to make him happy. And that is why I came up with a plan. One that'll make both him and all three of us happy." Ruby's mental functions had returned and weiss looked at her in shock.
"are you serious?! You can't possibly mean what I think you do!"
"weiss. I'm serious. Dead. Serious."
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