Chapter 77 - 73 - Machinations (1)

Shallot looked at the mask that he smashed that was on Neo while shaking his head.

Shallot: 'Now that was some half-life shit I don't want existing.'

Shallot turned and looked at Neo who was on the ground and turned to see that Raven was still ready to fight while the others around also had their weapons out ready for fighting. Shallot looked at them before feeling that if he was still a kid he may have seen this as a challenge still but now it was just laughable.

Raven can't outrun his speed anymore and he also knew that Raven knew more information about Salem thanks to Summer telling him that Raven always worked under Ozpin along with Qrow.

Shallot: "You can put your weapons down since it wouldn't make a difference, to begin with. If I wanted you all dead you would have been dead already."

The tribe members weren't backing down so Shallot turned to look at Raven.

Shallot: "They either put down their weapons or you won't have a tribe to look after Raven."

Raven shuddered thinking about what he is capable of knowing that there are only two people she didn't want to come across. One being Salem and the other being Shallot since she was sure that the only reason he was coming after her was to make her his for some reason.

Raven raised her hand towards the others in the camp.

Raven: "Lower your weapons. We wouldn't be able to take him even if we all attacked together."

From the distance, some bushes were rustled and a female came walking over. She had tan-colored skin, short brown hair, and icy blue eyes. She had a tattoo of a bird rising from flowers on her left arm.

She wore a light brown vest with dark brown panels on the top and a dark brown buckled strap on the back, over a torn white shirt that was partially unbuttoned revealing what appeared to be a black bra, alongside a collar that appears to be slightly turned up behind her neck.

She wore maroon-colored jeans with the right side rolled up to her thɨġh revealing the dark pink lining alongside a brown belt with a pouch attached to the right side. She also wore dark brown calf guards with one having a garter styled strap that went under her rolled-up pant leg. She wore a pair of beige and dark brown lace-up boots folded over the sides, showing over the white lining accompanied by a pair of maroon socks that partially covered her calf guards.

She wore dark brown gloves of different sizes, with the right being fingerless and wrist length with large cuff whilst the other was elbow length and covered with a dark brown vambrace. Lastly, she wore a narrow dark brown chocker strap around her neck.

Shallot: 'She might be an extra or someone that came after season two.'

Shallot turned back to Raven.

Shallot: "So what were you doing at that underground base Raven?"

Raven took off her mask while exhaling knowing that he wouldn't leave her alone until got his answers. While she was getting ready to talk Shallot was remembering her life signature so that he could track her down no matter where she goes. As long as he is close by he'll know where she is until he becomes stronger and can track her down by sensing.

While he was doing that Raven started talking.

Raven: "I was looking out for my daughter since she was going someplace dangerous."

Shallot: "If you were concerned about her safety why leave her when she was a baby."

Raven: "You wouldn't understand."

Shallot: "Salem."

Raven got really quiet and her heart started beating faster while looking like she was ready to run."

Shallot: "If you need protection all you have to do is become my woman and no one will be able to harm you."

Shallot reached out his hand towards Raven.

Raven was thinking about what would be the best decision for herself and knew that Shallot wouldn't give up for some reason.

Raven: "Why are you so persistent?"

Shallot: 'Can't a man just like having an Oyakadon.'

Shallot: "Because I have had my eye on you for some time and I may appear young but I am older than I look... mentally at least. Besides that."

Shallot looked Raven up and down looking at her body and watching her curves.

Vernal on the side was gritting her teeth and was about to attack from the disrespect that he was showing to all of them.

Raven: 'I can't be sure that I'll be safe even when with him but it would be more insurance than just having Vernal.'

Raven: "Fine. I'll become your woman. I won't be some toy. The moment when you can't provide protection I'm leaving."

Shallot just smiled at that.

Shallot: 'Yes. Milf get. Now to get Winter. How can I get into the good graces of the Schnee? I haven't interacted with her yet so I'll need to implement different tactics for this. Maybe she will come for the tournament since her sister is here?'

Raven still had her guard up even when she agreed to Shallot but decided that it was best to try to make countermeasures for the future so she couldn't be followed through her gate so easily. Raven was looking down at the mask that was destroyed by Shallot and noticed that it had twitched slightly when Shallot turned and shot it again with a ki blast vaporizing it.

Shallot: 'Those seem similar to those headcrabs from half-life but it seems that this is was created by someone. I'll just heal Neo and let her do the explaining on how she got into this situation.'

Shallot leaned down placing his hand over Neo and started using his spirit orb technique to heal her injuries and then focused on her head so that she could recover her state of mind quicker. After another 10 minutes, Neo's eyes twitched then she started opening them while getting ready to move to get away. She was grabbed by Shallot and had her head turned towards him making her calm down.

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