It was midnight, cars were honking outside from the traffic of the highway, pillars stood, supporting the road bridge built for days of work. I was sitting on the rooftop of a 4 story building, playing with 3 floating balls of dark dust created from my semblance which is to create dust. Agony Adris is my name, born outside of the kingdoms, I was a bounty hunter the moment I entered one of them by the age of 13. Now I'm 16 years old and I'm still one, my black sleeveless wide open turtle neck shirt covered the wrappings of bandages beneath my clothes, wrapping even from my shoulders down to my hands, my fingers were left open for comfort and wide black sleeves ending with a row of white hid more of the bandages. Dark amber eyes stared into the streets waiting for my target and my ash black hair was left unkempt causing it to spike out of my head with a slight tint of grey at its end; so long as it didn't mess with my vision, I didn't care.
I waited for my target, a bull faunus who's been with the White Fang. Lately they've been experimenting on themselves, exploiting the animal features within themselves to give themselves extra abilities, it was basically a genetic steroid of sorts. The bull faunus has been wreaking havoc within Vale, great bounty, he was supposed to be in the building to make a report to the White Fang on his body's status. Bored of waiting I took out my scroll and began playing Snake. After a couple of minutes I heard people entering the building, I kept my scroll quickly and waited for sounds and lights at the room he goes to every night to report to.
I made a chain out of my dark dust which I called dark matter, attaching myself at the rooftop, listening to his reports and waiting for him to be over. When he finally stopped I broke into the window of their floor, smashing glass inside the building. Every White Fang soldier went up alert, pointing their guns at me.
"Nobody move! You're all out gunned!" I said at them as serious as I can. All of them laughed except for my main target. I tried my best not to laugh to because right now I was pointing at them with my fingers shaped as if their guns.
"Yeah right kid!" One of them yelled and they kept on laughing, I laughed with them sarcastically as shards of my dark matter began materializing and floating at my back, each one pointing at the numerous soldiers in front of me. The laughter slowly died out as they realize their new situation, some sweat drops and others gulp.
"Like I said, nobody move" I moved forward slightly and they all stepped back. "Now drop your weapons before someone gets hurt" I began threatening them and it worked. The guns dropped immediately to the floor, not one took of their gaze at my dark matter. "BANG!" I screamed as each shard went flying, knocking them out; the shards were dulled before hitting them, making sure no one got killed.
Suddenly the bull charged at me, I see horns protruding and charging at me. Thinking quickly I jumped over its head as he leaned forward to impale me. Landing at my feet, he suddenly spins and swings his arm at me so I ducked to dodge his attack. Only when I was standing in front of me did I realize our difference in size. He was about 4 times the size of a regular man, muscles are very visible from his upper body. I took out my weapons 'Pyro' and 'Alabaster' which are khopesh, they were like regular swords however their blade was bent in a semicircle, it had a long grip and can act as a hook if I wanted to.
I lunged at him, aiming for his head but he simply swatted me away to a wall. I hit the wall hard but the damaged was lessened thanks from the dark matter at my back. I fell to the ground and he bent and reached out to grab me but I rolled away, moving under his arm. I folded one of my weapons and it became the size of my fore arm, I put it inside the sheath in my pants. With one of my weapons in one hand, I slammed my body as hard as I can to the side of his abdomen, using my weapon to slice a non-lethal wound on his back knee.
"AAARRRGGHHH!" He cried out in pain, holding his wound as blood begins to drip from it. Unable to stand properly, I used my dark matter to make a pillar to hit him at the jaw, knocking him backwards. Dazed, I made three dark matter balls and had them float around my open palm. I opened it towards his chest and the balls start pounding at his chest quickly until finally he's had enough. I closed my palm and the three balls combine to form a big one and I uppercut him in the jaw finally knocking him unconscious.
"Alright, admittedly, I didn't think I'd get this far. Honestly I expected you to be able to get away, I just wanted to make you panic and hide way better than this so I really didn't plan this next part" I said to his unconscious body, hoping he wasn't conscious to reply at my question "How do I get you out?" I looked around for an idea.
A rough drowsy voice suddenly said "Body bag" so instinctively, I formed another dark matter ball and send it flying towards his jaw. His body rolled back a little after the impact.
"Sorry!" I said as I thought I went overboard. "Instincts kind of kicked in! You should be quiet when you're unconscious" I turned away from him, still talking to him hoping he won't reply. "Body bag huh? That's a wonderful idea!" I said as I looked for one. First I bandaged his wound first, making sure he doesn't die before I got the bounty until suddenly two girls entered the room through the door. One was wearing a red cape and her hair had red highlights and was wielding a scythe while the other had snow white hair and pale skin, wielding a rapier. On my back, two other girls entered through the window I went in. One had black hair and had a black bow on her head while the other was a blonde wearing a brown short jacket.
"Nice gauntlets" I tried complimenting her as I see her gauntlets ready to attack me.
"Thanks, you'll get to feel them tonight so consider yourself lucky" the blonde said as she sent a fireball from her fists towards me. I dodged it only to land on a glyph.
'A Schnee huh'
I instantly felt my body get heavier. The red caped girl was fast, probably her semblance. She was right in front of me now, her scythe ready to be brought down on me so I took both of my weapons and had her scythe blocked through the inward curve of my blades. The girl with a bow was now charging towards me so I spun around and made the caped girl move to the other side, simultaneously dodging the girl with a bow. The caped girl however lowered her weapon more, now it was pointing at my chest and I realized it also functioned as a sniper rifle. With a smirk the girl fired at me, sending me backwards. She kept on firing but I was able to block most but now the blonde was swung towards me by the girl with a bow via her weapon which had a rope attached to its blade. She hit me hard, if it weren't for my dark matter, it might've knocked me out clean. Hit the wall, now feeling the fatigue in my body from fighting straight battles.
"Surrender now. I wouldn't want to hit your face now would I ?" she winked at me.
"Can we please save the flirting later?" the Schnee said.
"Guys, this isn't exactly how we should be acting right now" the caped girl said to them.
"Why not? It's not like we're on a mission right now right? Oh wait, we are" the girl with a bow said sarcastically.
After hearing this, I've come to a conclusion. I know that they're huntresses in training after they said about being in a mission.
"Listen, let's just talk this out okay? How much of the bounty you girls want? Or! How about I just give him to you then you reward me!" I suggested, walking off the pain and fatigue.
"We're not after him. We're after you, so surrender" the caped girl said to me as she pointed her scythe gun at me.
Hearing this I instantly shot masses of dark matter at them, planning to trap them to the floor by binding them in it. However the caped girl and the Schnee was able to dodge it, the caped girl's semblance allowed her to avoid it and the Schnee had her glyphs.
"Free them!" the caped girl ordered the Schnee to which the Schnee complied. I charged at the Schnee to try and stop her but a shot at the front of my next step stopped me. "You won't get past me" she said as she readied her scythe and charged at me.
I blocked her first attack then we began fighting. Each time she would attack me, I'd be able to parry her attacks while she blocked mine. Finally when she swung downward, I trapped it again within my blades then made it slam to the ground, making it stuck. I spun then pushed her away from her weapon with my shoulder. I was about to swing at her, only to knock her out but a string suddenly ties to my hand and pulls me. I was pulled towards the girl with a bow and a punch awaited me, hitting me right in the face.
I was knocked out clean.
I woke up to find myself handcuffed and I was riding in a bullhead with my captors.
"Oh, he's awake" the caped girl said to her friends.
"Finally! Wouldn't want to drag him towards Professor Ozpin's office" the Schnee replied.
"Guess you didn't punch him too hard then" the girl with a bow said towards the blonde.
"Fyeuh! Told ya! Anyway, are you alright?" the blonde asked me. I looked at her because of her stupid question.
"Yeah I'm alright, I don't mind being knocked out and being captured or essentially, being kidnapped. I'm fine" I replied with as much sarcasm as I can.
"He's fine" the Schnee said.
"Nice punch" I said as I massaged the impact area.
"I told you you'll get to feel them" she said proud at herself.
"You do know that when you said that, another kind of gauntlets popped into my head" I replied to her.
"Now that's just weird considering you're our target… But… If you asked nicely…" she began only to be cut off.
"Please stop" the girl with the bow said with distress as she read a book, covering her face with it. Me and the blonde giggled at her reaction as she winked at me. I faced away and looked outside only to not see much thanks to the closed windows.
"Where are you taking me anyway?" I asked them.
"Beacon Academy, our headmaster sent us out to capture you. He wanted to talk to you about something" the caped girl said "I'm not sure if that's good or bad"
"Of course it's bad! He's a bounty hunter! Probably will interrogate him then send him to prison" the Schnee said, the thought made me shiver slightly.
"Nah, if that's true then he should've been sent to the police first" the girl with the bow said, lifting her face from her book.
"Meaning…" the blonde asked.
"Professor Ozpin probably wants something from him or has a request to him" the caped girl finished as we landed unto the school.
"Alright, now, can I have my weapons back?" I requested but they all looked at me with faces asking me 'Are you seriously asking that?'. "What? It's not like I can escape now. Specially with you four". I said as I broke my handcuffs with my semblance. Stretching my arms out towards them, I showed them my broken handcuffs.