Setting Your Sights

Chapter 1: The Boy

"Ow! You hit hard." Rikov picked himself up off the ground. "I thought Faunus women were supposed to be passive."

"Don't be such a baby." Velvet picked her teammate's weapon off the ground and handed it to him. It was a large, heavy crossbow with no crossbar. It was just the hilt on a long and thin body with three arrows on the top, left, and right sides of the shaft. "Wow, I've never held this thing before, it's a lot heavier than I imagined. How to you hold that and your pickaxe?"

"I guess I'm just that strong." Rikov flexed his arm muscles, trying to show off to his team leader.

"Or just so indecisive that you couldn't pick one." Velvet said laughing as she game Rikov a playful push. Just then they heard the class bell ring.

"I guess training is over."

"Maybe for now, but be back in the gym tomorrow so I can kick your butt again."

"Dream on bunny ears." Velvet turned away and looked down at the floor. "I- I'm sorry, it didn't meant it like that..."

"No, it's ok. I've heard worse."

"Hey, it isn't ok. Let me make it up to you."

"Is now really a good time to hit on me?"

"I'm serious. I want to take you dinner. My treat."

"Like a date?"

"What? No, no, I mean, not unless you want it to be."

"Oh alright, but we had better be going somewhere expensive."

Later that day, Ruby and Yang were standing in the halls of Beacon Academy, waiting for Blake and Weiss to finish arguing over room boundaries. "Can you two just shut it for a few seconds, honestly, you sound like..." Ruby's voice trailed off. Walking in their direction was a tall Faunus boy with bright orange hair, a black coat, work boots, and two sharp weapons slung across his back. The other girls noticed him too. Yang looked at her friends and knew what they were thinking, "Sorry girls, but I saw him first."

"My butt you did! He's mine." Ruby stepped in front of her sister.

"Back off before I freeze you all my sword." Weiss was very sure of herself when she said that she had eyes on the boy first.

"Well since I'm a Faunus too, it only makes since that I be one to talk to him first." Blake pointed to herself. The four girls got into quite the screaming match, before Ruby slipped away and struck up a conversation with the boy.

"Hi, I'm Ruby Rose, first year student, leader of Team RWBY."

"Uhh, hi."

"What's your name?"

"Rikov. Look I really have to get to be somewhere, can we talk later?"

"Wait."

"Sorry."

The boy started to run off. After he was out of sight, Yang walked up to her little sister. "Looks like some one struck out."

"Yeah." Ruby's head hung low.

"Oh, don't be too down about it. He probably isn't your type anyway."

"And what type do you suppose he is."

"Mine, obviously. He's tall, handsome, dangerous."

"But that's my type."

"Girls, girls," Weiss interrupted. "if anyone, that hottie is into me. I'm beautiful, sophisticated, kind."

"Not so fast Snow White, he dresses in black, carries a Tribolt Straight Bow and a pickaxe, and he's a Faunus. So naturally he should be mine."

All four girls got into another heated argument over the boy. "Ruby did you at least get his name?"

"Rikov."

"Rikov? That doesn't sound like any name from Vale, human or faunus."

"Maybe he's from another kingdom. That'd be awesome, I've never met anyone from outside of Vale."

Weiss spoke up, "Ruby, where's he going."

"I don't know, he just said he had to go somewhere, and then ran off." The three older girls all had the same wild smirk on their faces that Yang got whenever she thought of something devious. "Oh no. We are not following him."

"C'mon sis, don't be such a wuss about it, we're just gona see where he's going."

"Oh fine but if we get caught, I'm not a part of this." The others though this was pretty weird, Ruby was usually the reckless one in the group, but they decided not to worry about it. After a few minutes, they tailed him out the front door of Beacon to the cliff overlooking Vale, he looked like he was about to jump.

"No, wait!" They tried to stop the boy but they were too late, Rikov jumped off the cliff, plummeting to what would seem like his death.