Tales of the Molten Fox

It’s been a few days since the events on the island where the now burned down Atlas laboratory is at and Ambers birth of five new… flame puppies? Kinda hard to describe them as they look like Grimm Beowolves that are on fire. It was much easier than I thought so nevermind.

Everyone, when they found out about the pups, simply gush over the fact of them which soon led to me finding out that Team RWBY also had a dog as well, a dog named Zwei, a small black-headed Corgi who’s very friendly with everyone he meets.

Anyway, everyone gushed over the puppies and dogs, even Indigo who I never thought I would see him gush over something. It was pretty funny to see though Blake wasn’t around to see the puppies. Don’t know why though.

For now, I was busy with Ruby looking at the Greatsword I got from the Atlas lab, though I didn’t tell her where I got it though I don’t think she cares right after getting a good look at the weapon. We have been at it for hours and already took it apart.

“The insides of it are pretty old but it’s still in great condition,” Ruby said as she held up one of the pieces and took a look at it. “And from how it’s built… I believe it can be used as a Rail gun.” Ruby added.

“Neat,” I said as I was cleaning some of the insides from dust and other things, making them… well clean. “I wonder if it can be changed so you could insert some dust charges?” I wondered out loud which made Ruby laugh a bit.

“That would be cool,” Ruby said with a smile. As the two of us working we were talking about anything in our minds, which we laughed or smiled at each other’s times. It was fun. Through our fun weapon tinkering time was interrupted when we heard Ozpin call for Mavis through the PA system, which was odd, of course, but I figured I'd ask after she gets back.

This also got Ruby to look at her clock and made her gasp. “Oh no! Yang’s match is about to start!” Ruby said before she stood up. “Sorry but I have to run.”

“It’s fine, go cheer on for Yang for me,” I told her with a smile as Ruby ran out of the door. I chuckled at this as I finished up my cleaning with the Rail gun-sword. After finishing the cleaning and putting it back together, I went into the bathroom to clean my hands a bit before deciding to give Tak a call, see what he’s up to so I went to my scroll to give him a call and waited for him to pick up.

"Hey Viri." Answered Tak, a video of him popping up in my scroll. With what I could see, he was wearing a rather revealing little dress, though not revealing in Mavis' standards but enough for Tak to catch some glances.

“Hey Tak, how goes it?” I asked him as put the remade greatsword into a case that Mavis made for me to carry it. Looking back at Tak I saw him smiling at the scroll.

"I just got back from my date with Weiss, she got me these." Tak said before moving his hair back to reveal a beautiful looking diamond earring hanging from his ear.

“Oh wow… they look amazing!” I said with a smile on my face. “And Weiss picked them out?” I asked Tak who had a big smile on his face.

"Yeah, she told me their beauty couldn't rival mine." He added with a swoon, to which I chuckled at.

“Yeah, I bet she would say that,” I said to Tak. “Are you with her now? I believe she is going to watch the match with Yang is in.” I asked Tak.

“Actually, I’m with Tak.” I overheard Weiss in the background which made Tak turn the Scroll over so I could see Weiss was also there. Both of them sitting in a rather large couch together.

“Oh sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt anything,” I said, embarrassed of interrupting whatever they were doing.

“It’s fine Viri, we were going to watch the match here anyway.” Weiss said as she snuggled up to Tak happily. The latter looked happy to be there with Weiss and I was happy for them.

"The match is about to start, I'll call you later. Bye!" Tak said with a smile and a wave before hanging up on his end. I smiled at this before looking over at the case for a moment.

"Hmm… I haven't visited Mama or Grandpa since last week…" I said to myself before standing up and grabbing the case with the greatsword in it, wanting to show mama and Grandpa it. I walked to the door and pulled out a key which made the door open to back home. I walked in and smiled as I was home again.

As I was taking in the nostalgia sight I heard footsteps coming towards me.

"Hello?" The voice of my mama spoke out and I saw her walk into the room. She wore a bandanna and an apron before stopping in her tracks when she saw me. "Oh, honey!"

"Hi, mama." I greeted her with a smile before mama came over to hug me. I hugged her back before the two of us pulled away.

"What are you doing here? Did something happen?" Mama asked me worriedly.

"No nothing happened mama," I answered her which made mama let out a sigh.

"Good to hear. What's that?" Mama asked when she saw the case I was holding.

"It something I found on a mission. Me and Ruby were tinkering with it but I wanted to show it to you and grandpa." I explained to mama. When I looked back at her I saw her arching a brow and smiling. "What?" I asked her.

"Oh, nothing. You've been hanging out with Ruby quite a bit huh." Mama said with a chuckle.

"Yeah… why?" I asked her as Mama simply smiled.

"Oh, nothing. Anyway, your Grandpa is in his shop. I was on my way back there." Mama told me before leading me towards there. On the way, we chatted a bit about anything and everything as we passed the ruins and testing areas for grandpa's new creations and passing through a small cluster of trees before we got to the forge. "Dad, guess who decided to come to visit," Mama called out. Just as she called out, an explosion was heard with some laughter.

"Haha! It works!" The voice of my grandfather called out just before he walked out, covered with soot and dusting his hands off. "So who do I have the pleasure of having in my forge?" He asked us before rubbing his eyes from the soot and soon opening them and seeing me, his smile widening. "Haha! There's my little wild fox!" He said with a laugh before he walked over to me.

"Hi, Grandpa!" I greeted him with a big smile before the two of us hugged each other, not caring that he was covered in soot and dust.

"So what brings you here, little fox?" He asked me with a smile.

"Oh just came to visit and show you two something that I found during a mission," I answered him with a smile before looking towards the doorway he came from. "What were you doing in there grandpa?" I asked.

"Nothing, just making something for myself." He said to me with a proud smirk and stance. I giggled at this as well as Mama before remembering the case.

"Oh yeah, check this out," I said as I moved over to an open table and set the case down. As the other two came over I opened the case up and showed mama and grandpa the rail gun greatsword.

"Ooo~," Mama said as she got a look at the sword.

"One of those techy swords eh?" He asked me to which I nodded at before he looked and saw. "I can see that it's Atlas made, I can do better." He said to me before soon offering. "I can whip you up a much stronger and reliable blade." He said to me. I smiled at him before saying.

"I know you could, but I found this cool," I said before adding. "I mean, a greatsword that can be used as a rail gun! That sounds cool." After my little happy childish moment, I looked over to Grandpa and saw him looking at me with an arched brow and a smile. "Yes, I would like a better blade grandpa," I said to him. He smiled and took my sword before I followed him back into the main forge, feeling the heat of the ever-burning furnace.

"I'll just need this flimsy thing gone," Grandpa said as he popped off the blade of the greatsword rather easily. "Atlas is known for their guns, not their swords. You hit one of their mechs with this and it'll shatter." He said to me.

"Huh… so what are you going to do with these?" I asked as I looked at the blades of the great sword.

"Most likely melt them down, make a cup out of them probably. That's all its good for." Grandpa said to me with a little laugh as ma entered the forge.

"Is Atlas steel that bad?" I asked which Mama answered.

"Depends on what it's used for," Mama answered before walking over to us. "I convinced Ray to switch from Atlas' metals. Papa helped me prove a point by bending your father's axe blade quite effortlessly." She said.

"Oh wow," I said as Grandpa chuckled at this. I looked over as he was looking over at some metal he had around. "Grandpa, you think I could help?" I asked him with a smile.

"I don't see why not, just don't burn yourself on the forge again." He said to me with a chuckle. My ears flattened on top of my head, remembering the one time I burned myself.

"I thought I wouldn't burn myself," I muttered to myself. Mama laughed as she heard this before she brought out the necessary tools while Grandpa cracked his knuckles.

"Time to work the ol' charm." He said with a smirk before walking over to the forge before setting up the forge and I soon found myself being seated at the drawing table. "Well? That blade of yours isn't going to design itself you know." He said to me. I blinked at him before realizing what he meant. I turned myself around and pulled a paper over to me and started to think of some kind of blade.

Looking over at the greatsword itself I saw that it was really… bulky. I drew the look of the greatsword at first then start drawing a sleeker version of the greatsword. At the end of it, I saw that I drew a simpler looking blade that had two blades instead of one. Maybe they could simply split apart and act like a railgun? While thinking this I drew a third drawing of what it would look like as a railgun, so far it looks the same but with lasers coming out of it and some smoke coming off of it. I kept adding to it and at the end, I had to get a new piece of paper with the two designs, one was one solid blade with a long handle for someone to hold with two hands, the blade was long and straight, with some fox-like designs on the blade. The second was the same but the blade was split down the middle and the handle had ‘glowing’ parts to it, showing that it had energy before firing. The question was how to fire it?

"Times up!" Exclaimed Grandpa as he yanked the drawings from me suddenly, to which I reacted in a childlike manner… honestly, I feel like a little kid when I'm around my grandparents.

“Hey! I wasn’t done yet!” I whined as I tried to reach for them, Grandpa keeping them out of reach as Mama was chuckling at this.

"Going to have to try harder next time, little fox," Grandpa said to me before seeing my drawings, humming at them as he went to the railgun and grabbed it before, with the help of his tools, took out some bits and pieces of old Atlas Tech. "While you were drawing, I took the liberty of giving this a test fire and while I must say your improvements to it certainly help it but without them, this would be a piece of junk," Grandpa said before soon adding. "Nearly all of the key components were rusted out or running on fumes." He said to me before taking a couple of things from a nearby storage room, one of many here and soon came back with some replacement parts… And a prism? As quick as he took the other pieces the new ones went in as well as the prism. After he was done with that he looked at me and said. "Go ahead and give it a go while I make your blade." He said to me, handing me the heavy railgun. Grunting a bit, I took the Railgun part of the sword outside.

"Okay...how do I exactly… fire you?" I asked out loud, having just realized that me nor Ruby have figured that part out just yet. I hummed and looked at it before spotting the trigger, along with several other coloured ones. I decided to go with the plain one for now and when I did… nothing happened. "W-what? Come on, don't do this to me." I said to it as if it were a person. I panicked, thinking this was all a dud before spotting. "Safety?" I read the little label before flicking the small switch, getting the gun to hum to life with a bright red hue.

"Yes!" I exclaimed happily before pointing it towards one of the many targets laid out for me before pulling the trigger and with a futuristic hum and bright light, a very deadly looking laser shot out from the gun and quickly missed the intended target, or all for that matter and struck the top of the forge, destroying a rather large chunk of it and making a big mess. "Oh… uh oh…"

I reached over to turn the safety back on before looking at the building, hoping it wouldn't fall over. I sighed eventually before looking down at the gun. "I think it's best I wait for the blade before using you again," I said to it. Looking at the base of the rail gun I saw the other buttons on it. So… many other buttons.

After a few minutes of debating of pushing the buttons, I picked the rail gun base up and carried it inside, wanting to see how grandpa is doing. Upon entering the forge again, I saw him and Mama working the forge itself.

"Easy now, pumpkin. Slowly pour it onto the mould." Grandpa said to Mama, who looked super focused with this, being super careful.

"Yes, dad…" Mama said as she did just that. I would've expected something else than that but she was again super focused. It wasn't long before she finished pouring the molten metal into the mould. As she pulled away she waited nervously for the metal to cool. After thirty seconds of waiting, the metal cooled off there and then, the moltenness of it left behind a stainless metal blade which looked sharper than anything I've ever seen before.

"Haha! A natural you are!" Grandpa said with joyous laughter as he patted Mama's shoulder. Mama smiled at this happily before she noticed me standing here.

"Oh Hey Viri, when did you get back?" Mama asked me as she set the tool she was holding down.

"Just now," I answered her as I put the rail gun part down. Grandpa looked at me and arched a brow.

"Oh, I know that look… your mother had that look when she was more or less your age." He said to me with an arched brow, which got me to laugh nervously.

"Wha?! Umm, I don't know what you're talking about…" I said, thinking back at the large hole on top of the forge.

"That is the look of a Blacksmith!" He exclaimed loudly with a hearty laugh. I blinked at him, did he not know?

"Huh?" Was all I could say and mama laughed at this.

"I had the same look." She said to me with a smile. I blinked at this as I was still trying to get over the fact that didn't hear what happened outside.

"If you ever wanted to try your hand at smithing, I'll be happy to show you." Grandpa soon told me before then adding. "And do hand that over before you blow another chunk off my workshop." He said to me with a smile. Busted...

"Sorry, grandpa…" I said to him as I hung my head a bit.

"Don't look so glum, mistakes are a part of progress." He said to me before gesturing me over to him. I handed him the gun before he spoke. "Is this something you had in mind?" He asked me, showing me the new blade. I looked up in shock as the blade was exactly how I drew it.

"Whoa…" I said in awe as I looked at it. "But… how did it cool so quickly?" I asked.

"Ha! A master craftsman never reveals their secret to just anyone." He said to me, getting Mama to let out a giggle at this. "Anyway, this blade here will get you through practically any situation." He said to me before taking it, moving it and the gun closer before my eyes widened as I saw the blade's bottom move like liquid, attaching itself properly as if it belonged there in the first place. Once it was fully on, he gave me a full-on look before turning it into gun mode and that's when I saw the magic happen, the blade itself splitting into two and parting just wide enough for the gun barrel to pop out.

"Whoa!!!" I said in excitement as I watched this happened. "That's so cool!" Grandpa chuckled at this and soon turned it back into sword mode and said.

"Now for the finishing touches." He said before putting his hand on the blade. His hand began to shine and so did the blade. I watched as the designs of Foxes form on the blade.

"How did you do that!?" I asked grandpa as he finished up and chuckled.

"Well, being with your grandmother has given me some things, I guess in layman's terms I could be called the God of Smithing." He said with a chuckle before handing the sword back to me. "I already have a name perfect for your new weapon. Mental Fury." He said to me as I grabbed the sword, surprised at its lightweight.

"That's so cool! I love it!" I said happily as I turned the blade around. Mama smiled at me as I was holding the blade as if it was a birthday present.

"Happy to hear that and remember what I said about those lessons," Grandpa said to me with a chuckle and with a smile he said. "And do visit more, it doesn't feel the same without my little curious fox around." He said to me.

"I will grandpa," I said to him as I put the greatsword down and gave both mama and grandpa a hug.

"Do come back to visit Viri," Mama said softly which I nodded at her. She kissed me on the cheek before I said my final goodbyes, heading back out of the forge and through the door that was still there. I shut it behind me and looked at my sword, seeing it got me all giddy. I put it down by my bed before pulling out my scroll to see that it's been several hours. Whoops. Also, I have a large number of texts from Ruby. Double whoops.

I felt bad that I ignored her texts so I pulled it up to see that the first one was her and her team watching Yang fight against someone named Mercury. As I read the texts I saw that Ruby was detailing the match… though I had to get through a lot of her saying that Yang is so cool.

All that changes when I got to the last one which read 'Yang won… but she attacked Mercury!!' Wait what?!

I reread the last texted to make sure I read that right. Why would Yang do this?! I left my room and headed down the hallway to find everyone else. Eventually, I found Yang, seated within Theodore's classroom, the professor himself nowhere to be seen but Mavis was beside Yang, hugging the blonde.

"I… I didn't do it… there was no way that I could have done it." I heard Yang said to Mavis sadly. The latter kissed the blonde on the cheek, hugging her blonde lover.

"And I believe you." I heard Mavis say to Yang, who sniffled at this as if she couldn't believe that Mavis was here with her. It was a few moments that Mavis realized that they weren’t alone anymore and turned to see me at the door.

“What happened?” I asked her as Yang sobbed into Mavis's shoulder. She shushed me but I soon heard her voice.

"It's rather complicated to explain." I heard her voice say… oh right, she can do that. "Take out your scroll and take mine, I want you to see the video of the match. Trust me." She said through the mental link as I did just that. I pulled out my scroll and saw there was a news feed of the match. I watched the part where Yang did it but as I did something in my head… twitched. It was annoying but as I watched Yang walk passed her opponent and then fired at him, that twitch never left. I rubbed my head at this before going over to Mavis’ scroll to watch her video. It was the same only that Yang’s opponent was much farther away. As Yang turned away he ran up to get one last hit in only for Yang to punch him. He started screaming in pain and the same thing happened in mine. There was no odd twitch in Mavis’ video than the one I saw on my scroll. I looked up at Mavis with a confused look as I rubbed my head a bit.

"What you saw on your scroll was an illusion, created to make it look as if Yang attacked that man out of nowhere." She said through the mental link and as far fetched as that sounded… I believed her. I mean, what reason do I have not to trust Mavis?

“Right…” I said mentally to myself, hoping that Mavis can hear that, as I looked at the video on her scroll and saw that the Team Mercury is on left the tournament and headed off back home and Team RWBY was disqualified. “How’s everyone else?” I asked Mavis.

"It's a little divided but I'm not the only one that believes her words." Mavis answered me as she gave Yang some loving kisses. I nodded sadly at her before I decided to give the two some space and headed out of the room. When I did, I made my way back to my dorm room.

It was a long silent walk back but upon reaching my room, I heard the voices of my two teammates and began to hope that they were on our side in this whole thing. I looked up just as they entered the room.

“Oh, hello Viri. Didn’t think you be back so soon.” Amaran said to me.

“I was gone for a few hours Amaran,” I said to her. “I also heard what happened at the match today.” This caused Umbra to frown.

“You mean the match that Yang decided to be an ass in front of thousands of people and attack her opponent when it was obvious that she won,” Umbra said angrily. Okay, I guess Umbra wasn’t on the same side as me.

“You can’t simply believe that? Can you?” I asked her as Umbra looked at me as if I was crazy.

“Viri, I saw it. Everyone did!” Umbra yelled at me as Amaran tried to calm her down. “And Yang has the gaul to lie that she didn’t do it while it was a total lie in front of us.”

I frowned at Umbra as I looked at Amaran. “You can’t believe this is true?” I asked her.

“I wish I could Viri but… I was with Umbra and I had a pretty good view of what happened. At least she didn’t get kicked out of the academy.” Amaran said as Umbra flopped down onto her bed with a frown on her face. I frowned as well as I saw both my teammates believed that Yang did what the fake video showed. I could only hope that Mavis can convince them and show them the truth. For now… I'll just sit here and wait, arguing over the fact that Yang hasn't done anything wrong.