Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20150618003008/@comment-26463535-20150618103100

Fanfic Idea: ''The mountain town of Durin was in flames. Houses, trees, mine braces, everything that could be was consumed. The people were helpless,all chained,all sperated from mother, father, sister, held back by the Dragons, the worst slavers ever to prowl among the people outside the kingdoms, and all the while their leader grinned. He knew how all this would go, it had happened many times before. Any nomads who tried roosting in the outerlands faced eventual disappearence by Grimn, one more disappearence would be considered unfortunate but not amiss. Speaking of Grimn, they'd better get back to Vale. Grimn were rumored to be attracted to "negative emotions" and one of these drives always seemed plagued by the beasts. But enough guards were had to fight the hot-headed ones off and he never went more than a daylight's journey away from any of his secret pasages between the kingdom and the outerlands, nighttime brought about the possibility of dozing as well as more powerful monsters. ''

''But as always the varible factor would be how the prisoners acted. As he saw his men drive them on, he saw that most would be no problem, acting perfectly complacent and shocked. Then he looked at the troublemaker. It was amazing how that dwarf, an 17 year old with a full grown beard had been able to hold off ten of his men by himself, defeat seven of them until his ax was knocked out of his hand, purely by chance, yet was still able to hold his own until eventually overwhelmed by fifteen more men, ten nets, and a threat to the life of his mother. Yet, the dwarf even now, while dragged behind a motercycle and forced to witness the fire that was blamed on his resistence, was still plotting, waiting for a chance to escape and hoping to be he's people's saviour. The threat had never been truly meant, she and her husband were fine breeding stock as demonstrated by this fine example and their six other sons. Yes, Gimili Durin may be a fiery one, but such ones once broken were the best of servants or if not broken made for every good gladiators. He would enjoy overseeing this case personally, he always did.''

One week later

"Come on Weiss, this is going to be fun" Ruby had rushed to get here herself and she couldn't understand her partner's hesitence.

''"How is exploring the sewers, the dirtiest, fouliest, most crime-heavy sector of them all, suppose to be fun?" Weiss was definitely cross about being assigned this mission and her appearence and voice screamed it to anyone within distance.''

''"Shh, keep it down will'ya?" Ruby asked as she covered Weiss's mouth. Then she started whispering, "Do you want to reveal our plans to everyone?" Weiss rolled her eyes as she heard the next part again, whisperized as  usual. " Huntresses commonly take part in raids against undergound criminal organizartions. We can get information from Roman's group easily now since Roman is in custody and they'll probably be all disorgainized and stuff. Do you not want to take part in a grand Huntress tradition while figuring out his evil plan and who the myseterious girl is?"''

''Weiss mumbled for a while before Ruby remembered to to remove her hand, giggling a bit as an apolegy. " Well, yeah" Weiss replied, also in a whisper to keep Ruby happy. " But I still don't understand why we have to explore the sewers. You said our job was the scout the enemy ground. Why would the enemy ground be in the sewers?" ''

"Because in all the stories, the criminals hide and conduct business in the sewers. And with Blake and Sun infiltrating the White Fang again, Yang and Nora gathering information from Yang's information guy, Pyrhha and Ren inflitrating the underground fighting cicuit, and Jaune and Neptune covering for us at Beacon when we're gone, I thought it was right as your fearless leader to personally know the villians' main battleground in case we need to fight here and since we are partners, we are suppose to work together and I don't know who I would trust more on this potentially dangerous assignment."

''Weiss started to protest, but then thought better for it. If, how ever unlikely it was, the sewers would be a future battleground, then as leader Ruby should know as much about it before hand as possible. Besides, she would be a terrible liar if she had to cover. Juane was less terrible of a liar but would definitley be a poor choice for this kind of mission. Neptune was the most comfortable aside from Yang with hiding details. So really, of the possible options, the teams were as good as they were going to get. So with a sigh, she composed herself. "Alright, you win. Just... don't leave me this time, please."''

''Ruby seemed shocked for a bit then recovered. " As long as its in my power, I won't. But, Penny also needs someone by her. Your welcome to follow after if I do run off again. Penny though will probably want me to be the only one who she speaks to if I ever do see her again." Then she seemed to return to her normal. perky self and started to run into the sewer's entrance. " Come on, let's ...." ''

''Suddenly, an explosion rippled the ground under them and were lurched onto their stomachs. From the depths of the sewers rang the sounds of people running, gun shoots, and calls of "Don't let him escape" and "500 Lien for the oldest alive." Glancing at each, they then with one accord leapt and ran the sewers to see what was going on.''

''The sight shocked their eyes. Seven boys, no six boys and one bearded one that must be a man, were the ones being chased. The chasers were attack dogs and a seeming swarm of men with whips and guns. The bearded one was definately trying to push the others to go faster while dodging the potentially wounding bullets and throwing back some fire dust he somehow managed to obtain which caused more explosive rumbles. But he was fighting a losing battle and would be caught if something wasn't done. ''

''Ruby knew that too, so quick as a flash, she carried Weiss to the area between the two goups. Then Weiss prepared her glyph while Ruby stalled for time and the bearded one looked back then kept going. Ruby barely made it in time before Weiss's wall of ice was complete, a good temporary solution that wouldn't clog the drainage system. Then they heard and felt the rumblings again. They quickly realize that the last fire dust explosive was probably the last straw. So Ruby again picked up Weiss then managed to push the other seven outside the entrance before the tunnel collapsed.''

''Needless to say, Ruby was tired. Weiss was fine but the seven males were terrible. Chain and whip marks were still visible on their starved bodies. A brander's mark of a dragon resting on a mountain was on every chest. Some were barely coherent,dirifting between couciousness and uncouciousness. The one that was the most alive was paradoxically the one most scarred, the bearded one. Patches of his red-brown hair had fallen out from repeated whipings, his frame was the most shrunken from starvation, his skin and clothes had the most marks of both chains and whips. Yet his green eyes burned, the burn of a warrior. A warrior who was right now examining Ruby and Weiss with the most intense glare then  looking subduedly other his fellow escapees. ''

''Finally, he said. " Aye, lasses. Thanks for the assist. Me name's Gimili O'Durin and these be me brothers. Would you please kindly let my brothers receive medical aid before you reveal how you want us to repay you for it? Ye can't get free labor from us nomads without us liven', now, can't yea?"''

Weiss and Ruby could only look on in wonderment.