(Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY)
Chapter one: the rose
Onyx Blanch entered the store From Dust Till Dawn, looking for some more Dust rounds, the elderly shopkeeper looked up.
"Can I help you, young man?"
Onyx smiled, it was his lucky night, not only had he found Dust shop open at ten thirty at night, the owner seemed like a nice man. "Yes, sir, I'd like one hundred nine millimeter Dust rounds, in two fifty round belts for loading into a machine gun, just white Dust please."
"Certainly, if you'd wait over by the magazine section, I'll gather your order, that will be fifty Lien." Onyx handed over the money, then he walked over to the magazine section, a girl wearing a red hooded cloak stood with her back to him, she didn't react when he walked up behind her to check out the magazines, Onyx was a tall boy, six five, well muscled, with wavy black hair down to his jawline, and sky blue eyes, he wore a black t-shirt with no ornamentation, under a dark grey jacket with his symbol on the back, a clenched fist made of black stone, around his wrists were two thick bracelets that extended into his weapons, a pair of gauntlets, one white, the other black, named Rise and Fall respectively. Onyx was reading a back issue of Hunter Tales, when the shop's bell sounded. A seemingly bored voice spoke.
"Do you know how hard it is to find a dust shop open this late?" Onyx heard the unmistakable whine of a Dust pistol priming. Onyx tensed, he looked over at the girl, who was reading an issue of weapons weekly, and had what was clearly some kind of collapsed weapon clipped to her back, perfect, Onyx thought, she's probably a combat student, like me. Onyx nudged the girl, who looked up at him with big silver eyes, putting his finger to his lips he indicated silence, then motioned for her to take off her headphones, when she did, Onyx began filling her in quietly.
"This shop is being robbed, can you use that weapon you've got strapped to your back?" The girl nodded.
"Good, my Semblance is Spatial Awareness, I can tell there are seven robbers, three with swords, three with guns, and one carrying what I think is a cane, the guy with the cane seems to be in charge, and there's a thug headed our way right now, in three, two..."
"Alright, kids, put your hands where I can see them."
It was a thug with a sword, Onyx smiled. "Gladly." He took a step to the side, then he turned and stepped toward the thug in the same motion, punching the black clad thief in the face hard enough to send him smashing into the front wall, next to the window. Onyx extended Rise and Fall into their active forms, the girl took the compacted weapon off her back as a gun toting thug pointed his pistol at the two teens.
"Freeze!" Neither teen froze, on the contrary both of them leapt forward and kicked the man, their momentum took all three through the big shop window, and the compact weapon the girl was holding unfolded into a six foot long scythe, Onyx was impressed as she spun the deadly instrument around and planted the blade in the ground like it weighed nothing. The thieves looked out the door, as the cane wielding leader, whose orange hair was swept down over one of his jade green eyes, spoke to his henchmen like they were stupid.
"Well? Get them!"
The four remaining henchmen ran forward, Onyx flicked the selector on Rise to wind Dust, the gold trimmed white gauntlet glowed green as he struck the first thug with a right jab, a blast of wind exploded from the gauntlet and sent the henchman flying, the scythe wielding girl lifted herself off the ground, spun herself on the shaft of her scythe, and slammed a double booted kick into the second thug's face, Onyx jump kicked the third thug before taking him down with a left cross from the silver trimmed black gauntlet, Fall, to add force to the blow Onyx set Fall to electric Dust and triggered the machine gun he'd built into Fall, a four round burst fired at point bank range sent the thug flying, sparks running up and down his body, his limbs twitching uncontrollably.
"Well, you were worth every cent... Truly you were." The leader said, sarcastically to his fallen hirelings. "Well, kiddos, I think we can all say this was an eventful evening." He dropped his cigar, and crushed it beneath the tip of his cane before pointing it at the girl, a crosshairs popped up from the cane's tip, revealing a gun barrel at the end of the cane. "But I'm afraid this is where we part ways." The white clad thief pulled the trigger, and with a whistling noise a projectile that looked remarkably like a flare flew towards the scythe girl, Onyx tackled her out of the way and the flare exploded several feet behind where she had been standing, Onyx stood and offered the girl his hand, she accepted his help getting up.
"He's going up the ladder of that building over there." Onyx pointed out the retreating thief to his companion.
The girl turned to the shopkeeper. "Are you okay if we go after him?"
The old man nodded, then he threw a bundle to Onyx, the bullets he'd ordered, he tucked them into his belt pouch. "Thank you, sir." Both young warriors ran to the bottom of the building, Onyx set both his gauntlets to wind Dust then punched straight down with Rise, and the blast of wind sent him flying upward, firing Fall on full auto kept him moving upward until he reached the roof, the girl had pointed the top of her scythe at the ground, and fired a gun built into the scythe, the recoil from the shot was enough to launch her up to the roof beside Onyx, who ejected the spent ammo belt from Fall, and replaced it with one of the new ones.
"Hey!" The girl yelled at the thief.
"Persistent." The criminal grumbled.
A Bullhead transport plane rose up from behind the building and the cane wielder jumped inside, turning, the orange haired man held up a red Dust crystal, which he threw at the teens' feet "End of the line, kids!" Then he fired at the crystal. Onyx threw himself between the girl and the impending explosion, but it never came, a ring of violet Glyphs blocked the flare before it hit the crystal. A blonde woman wearing glasses, a white blouse, black skirt, and a tattered black and purple cape, carrying a riding crop, stood in front of the teens, a wave of the crop later and a dozen streaks of purple light impacted the Bullhead, causing it to jolt, and making the thief stagger over to the cockpit, apparently he took the controls, because a woman walked calmly into the back of the transport, the blond woman glowed purple for a moment, before firing a bolt of energy into the sky, dark clouds formed, and with another wave of the riding crop ice shards began to fall onto the Bullhead, the woman in the Bullhead shot a fireball at the three on the roof, but the blond woman blocked the blast, which splattered onto the roof, the chunks of roof that were hit began to glow brighter, the blond woman, who was clearly a Huntress, backflipped out of the way just in time, the spot where she'd stood exploded, the Huntress waved her riding crop in a circle debris from the explosion began to glow purple and gather into a floating spear of rubble, which the Huntress sent flying towards her opponent, the enemy fired several blasts that shattered the rubble spear, the Huntress quickly reformed it but the pilot turned the Bullhead enough to deflect the rubble spear off the top of the machine, the Huntress changed the rubble into three smaller spears, the woman in the Bullhead crossed her arms, the sigils on her dress glowed bright gold, and three rings of Glyphs appeared around the Bullhead, the three rubble spears were turned to ash in a burst of gold light, the scythe wielding girl collapsed her weapon into a rifle, and fired several shots, Onyx aimed Fall at the woman and opened fire as well, a gold circle of glyphs appeared to block all the incoming shots, then the woman waved her hand and several Glyphs appeared on the roof, the Huntress swept her riding crop behind her, both teens were telekinetically pushed away, as the Huntress herself rolled forward, out of the way of half a dozen explosions. When she looked up, the Bullhead was flying away. The silver eyed scythe wielder turned to the Huntress.
"You're a Huntress? Can I have your autograph?" Onyx facepalmed.
Fifteen minutes later, the police station's interview room.
"I hope you know your actions tonight will not be taken lightly you two. You put yourselves, and others in grave danger." The blond Huntress was pacing back and forth in front of the two teens, the girl, who had short red-tinted black hair, and wore a red trimmed black combat dress under her red hooded cape, black tights, and black and red boots, a silver rose was clipped to her belt, along with a clip pouch, and several loose rounds of ammo, shouted.
"They started it!"
Onyx cut in. "It's true."
"If it were up to me you both would be sent home with a pat on the back, and a slap on the wrist!" the riding crop smacked down between the two young warriors, the girl flinched with a cute yelp, Onyx just blinked in surprise. The Huntress resumed talking.
"But... There's someone who would like to talk to the two of you."
A man with silver hair, in a black suit and green vest limped in on a cane, he held a steaming mug in the hand with the cane, and a plate of cookies in the other, he seemed to be focused mostly of the girl.
"Ruby Rose, and Onyx Blanch." To Ruby he said, almost offhandedly. "You... Have silver eyes." Ruby looked confused, Onyx had no idea where the man, who seemed familiar somehow, was going with this. "Tell me, you two, where did you learn to do this?" The man held up a tablet computer, with a recording of the fight with the thugs playing on it. Where did he get that? Onyx thought.
Ruby answered the question first. "S-signal Academy."
"And I'm a Sanctum student, I came to Vale to try to track down a relative." That was true, he was hunting his uncle, who'd killed both of his parents two years ago.
"Signal taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed, Miss Rose? And Sanctum gave you, Mr. Blanch, this kind of skill?"
Onyx decided to just nod, Ruby however spoke up.
"I learned from one teacher in particular." Then she began inhaling the cookies. Onyx watched her in a kind of fascinated awe.
The silver haired man wasn't finished speaking. "It's just that I've only ever seen one scythe wielder of this caliber before... A dusty old crow."
Ruby tried to speak through a mouthful of cookie, before swallowing, and responding again. "That's my uncle, Qrow, I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing, but now I'm all like Hooowaaaa, Witchaaa!" She made karate-like motions, which caused Onyx to suppress a snort of laughter.
"So I've noticed,and what is an adorable girl, such as yourself, doing at a school designed to train warriors?"
"Well, I want to become a Huntress."
"You want to slay monsters?"
"Yeah! I only have two more years left at Signal, then I'm going to apply to Beacon." This would make her fifteen, a year younger than Onyx.
"You see, my sister's starting there this year, and she's trying to become a Huntress, and I'm trying to become a Huntress 'cause I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, Hey, I might as well make a career out of it! I mean the police are alright, but Huntsmen and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and cool and really, gosh, you know!" Ruby's voice got steadily higher and more excited until she was basically squealing out the last words.
"Do you know who I am?" The silver haired man asked.
"You're Professor Ozpin, the headmaster at Beacon." That was how Onyx had seen him before, the man was nearly a celebrity among those studying to become Huntsmen and Huntresses.
"You want to come to my school?" Ozpin asked Ruby.
"More than anything!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Well, okay. And don't think I've forgotten you Mr. Blanch, I'm aware that you have one year left at Sanctum, and you most likely planned to apply to Haven, but what if I were to give you the same offer I just gave Miss Rose, I would be happy to have someone of your skill as a student in this year's class, do you accept?"
"Yes."
(Author's note: for those of you who read it, I'll still be working on Strengthening ReLaTioNs, I'm just running low on ideas, so I decided to shift my focus for a bit, then come back when I get something good. Also, I've tentatively designed my OC team to be similar to Team RWBY, with Onyx being comparable to Blake and Ruby, with a dark past that drives him, not being entirely comfortable around others, and a strong drive to help others with his combat skills, though he does have a fascination with weapons, not as much as Ruby, but still pretty strong. Yes Rise and Fall are based off of Ember Celica, though Yang's and Onyx's fighting styles are on opposite sides of the same martial art, Yang, with her frightening strength and power increasing Semblance, is more likely to be aggressive, while Onyx's Spatial Awareness Semblance, makes him almost impossible to sneak up on, and when he uses it with his eyes closed he can actually perceive his surroundings more effectively than he could with his eyes open, though he's limited to thirty feet, making it easier for him to dodge incoming attacks, so his style is more defensive.)
Character Profile: Onyx Blanch
Species: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Eye: sky blue
Hair: Black
Height: 6'5''
Weight: 200lbs
Aura: Grey
Semblance: Spatial Awareness (While active Onyx gets every detail of the surrounding thirty feet as pure information, not through any sensory medium, such as sight, in fact the Semblance becomes more effective when Onyx closes his eyes, as his sight actually interferes with his Semblance.)
Weapons: Rise and Fall, a pair of mechanical gauntlets structurally similar to Ember Celica, with several differences, the first being color, while Ember Celica is gold, Rise is white with gold trimming, and Fall is black with silver trimming, second is functions, Ember Celica has a pair of red Dust shotguns built into the gauntlets, but Rise contains several Dust crystals on a rotating selector, that charges the gauntlet with elemental energy depending on the crystal selected a bit like Myrtenaster, while Fall has a miniature machine gun built into it, the gauntlet holds a maximum of fifty Dust rounds, as well a rotating selector of Dust crystals identical to Rise's, that charges the ammunition with elemental energy, there is a trigger in the form of a button on Onyx's palm that is used to fire the machine gun.