"Huh... the new 50mm sniper rounds have a new brand." Haru said as he stood inside of the Dust Till Dawn shop with his sister, he had gotten the name wrong but in his defense he almost never came here. She had already bought the two kinds of Dust Ammo that she needed in the 50mm size for her Crescent Rose. The long distance kind that she used for actual sniping, and the explosive kind that she used for speed increased via the method of recoil, and close range blasting. Her Black and White Rounds, and while he used the same rounds, he liked to see what different kinds of rounds could be found.
Ruby was listening to the samples of music in her own personal headphones, and she seemed to like the song This Will be the Day.
Haru looked at the dust rounds, before he felt a tap of his shoulder.
"Hey, listen to this." Ruby told him as she extended her headphones so that they could both listen to the music at the same time. Their heads were pressed together, and Haru actually found that the music was pretty good. They both blinked when they heard the hissing sound of somebody filling up dust from the store's supply tubes. Each of them having an ear without music playing in it, they were able to catch the sound that caught their attention.
They stopped listening to the music and Ruby put her headphones around her neck.
A few men in black suits with fedoras wearing sunglasses holding swords with red blades were filling up containers with dust. The sides of the container had bars like Haru's pipe had, which he had refilled up to the brim with both Ice and Fire Dust in its powdered form. Haru and Ruby were in a corner of the store that was surrounded by racks of music and ammo, so they weren't able to see what was happening up in the front of the store.
"Looks like some weird people are getting some dust." Ruby said with a raised eyebrow as one of the larger, more burly men, stopped in front of them. He pointed his sword at them, getting the twins to look at each other with raised eyebrows.
"Place your hands where I can see 'em." The man threatened, while Haru snorted for a second. He could tell by the sass in Ruby's eyes that she wanted to make a comment, more than likely about asking if they were being robbed. Obviously this person was trying to rob them, assuming by their age that they would be easy pickings for his theft skills, or whatever thieves called their abilities. Haru raised his hands up in the air, and Ruby snorted when she saw what Haru was doing.
The man grinned for a moment, before he was knocked off of his feet when Haru jumped up into the air as Ruby spun around and swung her Crescent Rose in its dormant form like a bat and smashed him in the face. He smashed through a magazine rack, before he landed across the store after rolling for a bit, his nose bleeding and a tooth knocked out. Haru landed on his feet, while taking his own weapon out of its carrier.
Because of how much space their weapons took up a fair amount of space.
Ruby ignored this as she swung her weapon around, and it activated before unfolding and changing shape into a large scythe. The weapon was much larger than Ruby herself, being 7 feet tall, with the curved blade, which was multiple blades layered on each other to create a single blade, was over 4 feet long. The back of the blade had a sort of axe part to it that was more blunted than the blade itself. At the tip was an opening for shots to come out, and the staff of the weapon had a cartridge holder for bullets and a trigger so that she could shoot ammo even in scythe form.
Standing in the front of a store was an orange haired man wearing a white jacket and a black pants wearing a black hat with a red band around it. He had thick black gloves on, and a gray scarf around his throat. In his mouth was a cigar, and his hair was pushed to the right side of his face, covering his right eye... but his left eye showed he had green eyes. He wore a high collar with a red interior, and in his hand was a white handled weaponized cane judging by the thicker red portions around the end and where the handle met with the rest of the cane. The man was tall, but he had a sassy if not criminal aura about him.
"... Get them." The orange haired man said with a twitch of his head as the remaining four goons rushed towards Haru and Ruby with their weapons in their hands. Haru ducked under a sword strike, before he returned with a double palm thrust to the center of the man's chest. With a blast of aura, the man's suit ripped up to show his bruised chest as he was sent flying before slamming into the wall. Ruby spun herself around and smashed the blunted end of her scythe into the man charging at her, sending him flying and crashing out of the store window.
Haru flipped into the air and kicked the third man in the chin, while also dodging the end of Ruby's scythe. He activated his own scythe, before he and Ruby spun in sync and smacked the fourth man in the chest with the thin ends of their weapons. He was knocked from his feet, and he would have hit the orange haired man if the guy hadn't ducked and let the goon land outside of the shop. Haru landed on his feet, while Ruby stopped spinning around, with all four goons defeated in seconds, they both seemed to stick in a pose when they stopped.
Haru's orange scythe and her red one seemed to line up just perfectly so that the stems of their scythes were crossed, and the blades lined up to make a heart shape.
"Combination: Heart Rose." Haru and Ruby said in sync with smiles on their faces. They had been trained together by the same man in the art of using High-Caliber Sniper-Scythes, and thus as they had been learning to fight with the weapons they had developed their own in-sync style where they could work together perfectly.
Ruby had so affectionately named their combined style the Twin Rose, while Haru thought the Rose Thorns sounded cooler... in the end their older sibling picked Twin Rose for them because the name also stated that it was twins using the style.
"You guys weren't worth the money... and this is where I make my exit." The man said as he rushed out of the building by jumping through the broken window. He got out just in time before a large orange hand would have grabbed him, but soon the hand retracted into Haru, who was scowling for a moment at how the person was starting to get away. He and Ruby started running towards the window to follow after the man, before Ruby waved at the old man... Mister Wok Haru was pretty sure.
"Hey, we are going after him okay!?" Ruby shouted, but they didn't get to hear his answer seeing as they both jumped out of the window without a second's thought. They looked around for a sight of bright orange or white, the man colors on the man that attracted attention to him. They looked around with silver eyes determined, before they saw a white jacket on the side of the building, climbing up a ladder.
"That ruined his escape for me." Haru said with a raised eyebrow as they started to run towards the building that he was climbing up. Ruby jumped onto Haru's shoulders as two hands came out of his back and stretched out to grip two separate buildings, digging into them, before they jerked and both of the scythe users were sent flying towards the top of the roof... and then a good bit above the roof where Ruby jumped from Haru and landed on the roof. Haru landed a few meters away from her, ready for a fight. His Spiral Rose straggled to the back of his belt as he took up a hand to hand stance.
"Stop there and bring back the Dust you stole!" Ruby called out to the man, who stopped at the end of the building. The man cursed under his breath, with Haru smirking.
For a moment.
Both he and Ruby were forced to take a step back when they were hit back by a larger amount of wind pressure as a Bullhead appeared up in front of the building. The Bullhead was a more basic one built for speed, with two wings with jets pointed at the ground, and the hatch was currently opened up with a light shining at them. It was lightly armored near the front, and on the wings, while the man stepped onto the Bullhead as it started to fly up into the air. The crook showed that he had a red crystal in his hands, and he pulled his arm back.
"End of the line red!" He shouted at them over the roar of the Bullhead, while Haru raised an eyebrow.
He wore a long red scarf, and had red rips. Ruby wore a red cloak with rip tips in her hair.
"Is he talking about me or you?" Ruby asked Haru, having wondered the same thing. Haru shrugged his shoulders, before he heard the sounds of something tinkling and saw the red dust crystal on the ground in front of them. The crook proved Haru right in his earlier guess as he pointed his cane at them, and Haru picked up the dust crystal and threw it at the shot raining down at them. The red dust crystal collided with the shot in mid-air, though the man's laughing was heard. The explosion scattered red smoke everywhere, while Haru noticed a person land on the ground in front of them.
Protecting them from the explosion itself, even though Haru had moved in front of Ruby to protect her, was a grown woman with her blond hair placed in a bun at the back of her head. She wore a white blouse with long sleeves with a ripped up purple cape over her shoulders, and a black corset with golden buttons around her stomach with a black skirt, black stockings, and black shoes on. She had bright green eyes, with glasses in front of those eyes, and she had a black riding crop in her right hand... in front of that was a purple magical circle seeming to defend them from the explosion.
She stood nearly a whole foot taller than Haru, making her about 6 foot and maybe 5 inches tall. Her figure was the perfect hourglass, and she was rather large chested, or normal chested for her height... he could never be sure. He didn't understand boobs and all that stuff, other than the fact they were sexy.
Tallest woman he had ever met.
Suddenly she seemed to take it upon herself to take the fight into her own hands, something that pissed Haru off when she waved her riding crop and her circle turned into purple balls that were fired towards the bullhead, smashing against it in multiple places and knocking it around a bit. The Bullhead stabilized quickly, while Ruby switched Crescent Rose to sniper mode as the blade was folded, and it became a compact weapon. The man went deeper into the Bullhead and vanished. The woman in front of them shot a purple orb into the sky, before dark clouds gathered above the Bullhead. She waved her riding crop down, and chunks of ice started to rain down onto the bullhead, piercing many parts of it, but not taking it down.
"Are you a dumbass!?" Haru shouted at the woman, who looked back at him with narrowed eyes.
"Haru!" Ruby gasped in shock at his disrespectful tone towards somebody helping them.
"What!? She is trying to crash a Bullhead with DUST on it in the middle of a city!" Haru exclaimed, while the woman clicked her teeth when she realized that he was right about how bad what she had done could have been. It was at this point that a woman, with her upper body covered in shadows, wearing a red dress that went down to the middle of her thighs with a slit up the right side with black feathers, and black crystal high heels stepped near the end of the Bullhead. Her long red sleeves glowed with yellow flame symbols, and fire gathered around her hands as she went through motions.
Not just flame, but it seemed to be... liquid flame. Not lava, but actual flame with liquid inside of it.
She shot her attack towards them, and the witch-like woman created a triple layered magic barrier circle in front of herself, who the shot was aimed at.
She was surprised though when an orange glowing aura hand extended in front of her and stopped the attack, before clenching the attack in the large hand. Ruby started to fire shots towards the woman as she fired more shots at them, and Haru continued to have the arm that had manifested to catch the shots. Haru's hand vanished when burns started to appear on Haru's left hand. The woman used her aura somehow to block each of Ruby's shots with her bare hands, negating the power behind them somehow. The witch-like woman fired a purple shot at the Bullhead again, instead of directly at the woman, and it rocked the Bullhead again.
Haru took out his own Spiral, before he switched it to sniper mode.
He started to fire towards the glass of the cockpit, while two orange flaming arms extended out of his back. Ruby copied him and started to fire at the glass, breaking it apart while Haru's extra limbs extended towards the Bullhead and grabbed the Bullhead. The hatch closed, and the Bullhead started to turn away, and the jets changed the direction they were pointing. It would ABOUT to get away, before Haru's aura arms grabbed the wings and started to pull back on them to prevent the criminal's escape.
"Arg!? Ruby, take out the jets now!" Haru called out as he aimed at the right jet, with Ruby aiming at the left one. The witch-like woman was about to comment to Haru about how he was going to crash the Bullhead, like he got onto her about, but she was surprised when the kets exploded yet the Bullhead didn't drop towards the ground. Instead, it started to more gently lower towards the ground as the hatch opened up. The orange haired man jumped out of the Bullhead with a case in his hands, while the woman seemed to quickly move out of the Bullhead after him. They were a good distance away already, but when they got onto a motorcycle and got on it... and when that motorcycle started to quickly move away Haru frowned and gently sat down the Bullhead.
His arms had a limit to how far they could go, and how large they could get. Ruby with her Speed might be able to catch up to them, but sadly the level of these people were too high for her to fight alone, and she knew that. Haru's extra limbs came back into his back, before vanishing, while Haru clicked his teeth in annoyance.
"They got away." Ruby said with a click of her own teeth, annoyed that the perps were already out of sight when they turned down a different street.
"Wait... that was MY Stinger!?" Haru shouted when he realized the motorcycle that was stolen happened to be HIS motorcycle.
The fuck!?
"That was our ride home!" Ruby shouted in a panic, since that actually was the way they were going to be getting home. Now it would take so many hours of running, then a boat ride, and then MORE running before they got back home on the island of Patch they lived on.
"I don't know who you were, but when I find you I will shove that cane up your butt SO far it will come out your mouth!" Haru shouted into the wind, while Ruby patted him on the back. There was a cough behind them, before they turned to see the witch-like lady standing in behind them with her arms crossed.
Oh yeah, the lady who almost blew up a Bullhead full of stolen dust. Ruby thought when her mind registered Haru's earlier comment.
"Why did you have to get in the way!? Not only did you get in the way of our business, but you nearly blew up a Bullhead that might have been filled with stolen dust! You could have blown us, and a few city blocks up to kingdom come!" Haru shouted at the woman, who was honestly taken back by the way he was yelling at her.
"See here young man, I can ask you the same thing on why you were recklessly endangering yourselves here. It was a dangerous thing to do." The woman told him, and Haru stomped his foot on the ground.
"What I do with my life is NONE of your business! I would rather risk my life to stop people from stealing dust and possibly using it to 'endanger' others than sit back and do nothing! My parents raised both me and my sisters to help people in need." Haru said with visible anger in his eyes.
He KNEW that if this woman hadn't gotten in the way, then maybe he could have stopped those people before they escaped. Instead, he and Ruby had to fight differently than they normally did because somebody was butting in and acting on their own. They hadn't wanted to hurt this woman in case she did something that unknowingly placed her in front of one of their combinations. They couldn't stop these criminals, who were now gone with who knows much much dust in that case, and were going to more than likely steal more dust and hurt more people.
Normally he was very patient with people, a happy person in general, but he and Ruby had the situation under control! They didn't need the woman to help, while Ruby placed her hand on Haru's shoulder.
"Haru, cool down, here." Ruby told him as he got out his pipe and took a deep drag of Ice Dust, that literally cooled him down a bit as he breathed out mist that froze parts of the roof in front of him that the mist touched. Ruby looked at the woman with a sorry expression, before she placed her hands together. "Sorry, but when my brother uses his Semblance his emotions he can get angry easier than he normally does." Ruby told the woman, who was surprised.
Haru frowned for a moment, but groaned when he looked at his burned left hand.
One of the two drawbacks of his Semblance. The first one was that after and while he was using it, Haru was more easily influenced by his emotions, or more exact, anger. He could normally control this by not getting angry, and it didn't mean anything if Haru didn't have anything to get angry over. His pipe and Ice Dust usually helped to quickly relieve him of this side effect as well, cooling down his boiling blood quicker than it normally would be.
The second drawback, his real arms felt any damage that his extra ones took. Sometimes though some attacks of a certain type could actually send the damage over to his real arms to a lighter degree. It was the backlash that blocked certain attacks dealt to his arms, but even then those attacks had to be powerful enough to actually hurt his extra arms. Normally this wasn't a problem, but now it was because that woman had used an attack with enough power in it to actually damage his arm.
Haru's skin only suffered from minor burns, and soon even those vanished. The wounds caused by the backlash only lasted for a short amount of time. His large and potent aura actually slightly imitated accelerated healing, so light burns like these didn't last that long.
"No, he does bring up a good point, but at the same time I had no way of knowing of any stolen dust. Anyway, I could have stopped the Bullhead from hitting the ground." The woman assured, though she seemed very interested in Haru.
"I guess I'm sorry for snapping at you." Haru said while scratching his cheek. He didn't know that she could have stopped it from hitting the ground, and he guessed that if she didn't know that dust was on the bullhead then she didn't know that destroying the craft would have blown them all up. Honest mistakes like that could be forgiven, while the woman nodded her head and looked at both Haru and Ruby with narrowed eyes.
"You... are both going to be coming with me now." The woman told Haru and Ruby, with Ruby's quickly paling, while Haru sighed and rubbed the back of his head in annoyance.
Today was not a fun day.