Some time passes. Ozma sits in his palace. Glynda stands next to him.
Ozma: Has the Han reported in yet?
Glynda: The Han mercenaries have reported that they have failed to killed Y/n L/n so far. They seem to be hiding details from us.
Ozma: I highly doubt it matters. As long as they are attempting to do their jobs.
Glynda: Apparently they will be sending more of their high ranking officers to assist.
Ozma: Then all is according to plan. Do you know who?
Glynda: Apparently a trio. I am assured that they are capable warriors.
Ozma: We shall see. For now though, keep a watchful eye out. Some of our former hunters have agreed to help hunt the wolf.
Glynda nods.
Ozma: Make sure they are aware of their target and his stubbornness. And to beware of his mother.
Glynda: Of course.
Meanwhile Y/n continues to train, focusing on making his transformation less of a crutch. In his eyes he should be able to handle things without it.
His training is mostly speed based, timing himself as he hits sets of static targets. Since he normally finds himself outnumbered, he wants to take groups out quickly.
As expected however, Y/n and co find themselves on another mission outside of Beacon. And in the sights of new foes. They were helping a village with some Grimm.
Three figures enter the town, walking down the road as they smirk with their weapons in hand.
Y/n turns to see them.
Y/n: I think their here for us.
The rest of the team turns to see the trio. The smaller one of the trio steps a little bit ahead of his comrades.
?: Greetings. You wouldn't happen to be Y/n L/n?
Y/n: I am.
?: Good. Wouldn't want to kill the wrong man. Where are my manners? I am Liu Bei. To my right is Guan Yu and to my left is Zhang Fei.
Y/n: This will not go as you hope.
Liu Bei: Maybe not. But we relish the challenge. Shall we take this away from the town?
Y/n looks at Cinder who nods.
Y/n: Of course.
Liu Bei leads the way out of the town. Once outside the town he turns to face his opponents. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did the same.
Liu Bei: Shall we begin?
Cinder: After you.
Guan Yu charged forward and slashed downwards at Y/n who blocked the strike with his bat. Zhang Fei charged and attempted to stab Mercury with his spear only for Mercury to dodge and for Emerald to attempt to slash him: however Zhang dodged that attempt.
Cinder shot some arrows at Liu who blocked them as he charged forward. They then began to duel as their swords clashed against each other.
Y/n finds his bat knocked out of his hand by one of Guan's slashes.
Guan: Come on now. You know better than this. You have power, why not use it? Is it pride?
Y/n: Guess you could call it that.
Guan: Tsk Tsk. Pride is a good thing until you mess it up. So come on now, transform. You will regret not using the full extent of your power.
Y/n picked up his bat.
Y/n: You should worry more about yourself.
The fighting continued on for some time. Y/n and co seemed to be out matched. Guan swung his glaive and knocked Y/n's bat up into the air. Guan went to stab Y/n only to be kicked away by Tyrian who appeared from the left side.
Tyrian looks at Guan who easily gets back up.
Guan: Intresting.
Tyrain looks at Y/n.
Tyrain: What are you doing!? Are you trying to die? Take this seriously.
Y/n growls.
Y/n: If I need to transform to win, maybe I shouldn't.
Tyrain: Kid. You are fighting people who have been fighting longer than you've been alive. It would be more surprising if you didn't have to transform. You were given strength to be a protector: if you can't get past your own pride to use it then people will die for it!
Y/n knew Tyrian was right. He looked to the rest of his team fighting. He knew that his mistakes would one day cost their lives. He sighs to himself.
Y/n: Your right. I'm an idiot.
Tyrian: We all are sometimes.
Y/n transforms into his first form. Guan smirks.
Guan: Ah there it is. The first of two forms am I wrong?
Y/n charges ahead and goes for a big swipe that Guan blocks.
As Y/n and Guan fight suddenly the ground started to shake. The fighting stopped as the two sides tried to keep their balance.
Liu: An earthquake? How inconvenient.
Suddenly the ground started to split open. Villagers started to scream as whole houses seemed to be swallowed whole.
Cinder: No!
Liu: I suggest we put this battle on hold until we rescue the civilians!
Cinder: You care?
Liu: Of course I do, I am no monster! Brothers, we must go!
Guan and Zhang nodded and took off towards the village.
Cinder: We need to help too! Y/n, we need a great wolf to help rescue those inside the ground!
Y/n nods and transforms into his great wolf. He leaps into where the ground split and claws open the tops of falling houses and gently lifts people out with his nose and mouth. Meanwhile the others help on the surface, getting people out of the way and helping any who ended up stuck.
After the quake subsided and everyone was safe. The two groups looked at one another. Without a word the trio looked at one another and nodded. Liu bowed as the trio walked away.
Mercury: What was that?
Tyrain walked next to Y/n.
Tyrain: At the end of the day, their good people. Just choose a different profession.
Y/n: Thanks Tyrian. For earlier.
Tyrain: Don't mention it. Honestly I'm surprised someone else hasn't shown up yet.
Y/n: Who?
Tyrain: A dusty old crow. But I'm going to assume that will be soon enough. Keep an eye out kid. The more annoying you become for them, the harder they try to kill you.
Y/n: Noted.
