RWBY: Faith Restored (Book 1)

The Dead Don't Die

Vale Underground

Death was always seen as the harsh truth of reality. While life was seen as a beautiful and blissful lie. Many religions seek to ease the pain of death by speaking of a place to go after death. For many Faunus, they said that when a Faunus died, they are reincarnated as their full animal. It sounded peaceful for many people. To be given second life in a different way. But in Earth, Vampires were seen as a mockery of both life and death. Eternal life could be seen as a blessing to the ignorant. To escape the inevitable truth of life. To indulge in life's pleasures with no consequence. Only to be at a price. Feast upon the blood of the living to maintain eternal life.

Blood was often depicted as a piece of the soul. Currency that could affect a vampire's life depending on the victim. Blood offered is often more powerful as compared to taking blood. Many vampires never knew for it was simply in their nature to take the lives of their victims. Having blood offered could accomplish miracles. It was speculated that offering blood could possibly return life to the dead and turn them into vampires.

Darkness was all that was seen throughout the train tunnel as the ground was disturbed by footsteps. The darkness was broken by a light from a scroll as the person approached the corpse of Roman Torchwick. The smell oozed from the body as flies buzzed around. The gaping hole in his chest started to fill with maggots when the person knelt down. It was Neo. She looked at her mentor and father-figure slowly rotting away. All because of the cursed Vampire King that Cinder pointed Neo to being the perpetrator. Neo couldn't accept his death and so she learned of the Blood King who drank the blood of his enemies. It was said that it gave him power so she searched for Roman to bring him back and exact revenge on the Bloody King.

Neo pulled out the blade from her umbrella and lifted her sleeve up and pressed the blade into her wrist. Blood oozed out of her skin and hovered her arm over Roman's mouth. She watched as the blood dripped into his lips and on his tongue. She silently pleaded for it to work. To have her father figure back. A minute has passed with no signs of movement and tears dripped down Neo's cheeks as she silently cried. It was merely a fool's hope for those gullible to bring back their loved ones. She crawled to her feet as she started slowly walking away before the flies stopped buzzing. She stopped then looked back to see the body missing. She started looking around for any hope of seeing Roman. Her breathing grew heavy as her fear started spiking up.

"Neo?" That voice froze her on the spot. She slowly turned around with her body shanking in fear only to be met with a pair of fangs lunging towards her and a roar echo throughout the tunnel.

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Dracula watched as Team JNPR fought against Team BRNZ. Dracula watched as the sniper pinned them down behind the rock. He grew slightly worried but then Jaune ordered for Nora to get to the mountain and keep them distracted. When Nora reached the top, lightning struck down on her which charged her up before firing a whole heart of grenades at the sniper. "Argos, go!" Then nobody moved to the confusion of RWBY and Dracula. He asked "Are they seriously doing this right now? In front of everybody?" Jaune started arguing about their team moves before Brawnz shouted that they were in the middle of a fight.

Dracula facepalmed "I'm starting to think I got off lucky with you girls." Weiss patted his arm and spoke "And we are grateful but those four could use some work." Summer had a hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing. Raven rolled her eyes at her leader's immaturity. Jaune sighed as he was just done with it so he ordered Nora to hit them with her hammer. She gave an evil smirk and pounced on them and hit all four with their hammer, throwing them against the shield at the edge of the arena. Dracula winced and Professor Port announced "And with that, Team JNPR move on to the doubles round! ...Could someone go check to see if they're alright?" "Well that was... Fun. I think?" Dracula questioned after seeing that mess of a fight.