A.N.: Hello and welcome to The Black Sun of Mistral. This is going to be a fanfic that has many OC's, so be warned about that. Also, not all of the OC's are going to be good guys in fact two of them are going to be "considered" evil.
Chapter 1: Arrival at Vale
Valeisian Marina 12 midnight:
"So let me get this straight," asked Harold, "you are asking me for a lease on a warehouse." Normally under most circumstances this isn't even a question most dock workers would ask, but when the person asking is dressed in a very ragged brown dress suit it seems to be a very good question. An even better one when the one in the suit is a faunus.
"Yes my business partner asked for one of these warehouses specifically," answered the assumed bum, "he said to show you this." He then proceeded to pull out a badge with a black star mark with a gray raven's skull in the foreground. Harold shot into motion after seeing the symbol.
"I'm sorry sir," stated the Dock worker. "I had no idea you were apart of… that group." Now Harold was scared, he never dreamed that the ragged faunus was a member of the Black Sun. He was very afraid of upsetting one who referred to a "business partner". There was only one person who made the choices considering mone in the group, their leader. Also he had heard that the group's leader only trusted a very select few.
"It's all good," the man said "certainly nothing to get too worked up about." The man's calm demeanor did very little to comfort Harold, something about him just seemed a bit off. If he was a higher up member in the Black Sun he would surely be dressed in slightly better clothing.
"So who should I have the boss put as the name for the lease," He asked, "we need something for the boss to submit the proper forms, you know?" Harold was starting to relax a small bit at this point, this was just like any other business transaction that went on at the dock, however after hearing the name of the man in front of him he almost passed out.
"I am know to many people as 'Sly' but for this transaction you may just put down Mr. Carver," came the reply to Harold's question, "I am the right hand of the leader of the Black Sun."
Harold felt his stomach bottom out and do a flip. The Second-in-command of the Black Sun, he was one of the more infamous parts of the organization. He was known for his ruthless combat style and even more predatory attitude. Sly flew into combat wielding his spear/rail cannon trick weapon tearing his enemies apart. Laughter and chaos filled the battlefield when he stepped in, friend and foe alike grew to fear the sound of his weapons gun charging. Even worse were the rumors of what he did to the bodies after a battle, some say he would rip off arms and other parts of the body for a quick snack, but that's all that ever came up. No one ever found any evidence that he actually did these things.
"Oh… ok I'll just go run this up to the main office and notify you when it goes through," Harold said suddenly interested in getting away fast, " is there anything else I can help you with sir?" Harold really hoped that he would say no, a lot.
"Yes actually now that you mention it," Sly drawled out, "could you put in an order for a large shipment of black paint we need to mark out our turf if it doesn't bother you too much. Here is a number to notify me when these orders go through"
"Yes sir one large order of paint coming up." Harold spewed out in a few seconds rushing to go and put the order in after grabbing the note.
Sly's P.O.V.
Sly watched Harold rush away amusedly. Suddenly he felt his phone vibrating in his pocked. Pulling it out and glancing at it his face lit up. He wasted no more time answering the call. "Hey boss," he exclaimed "I just finished up the deal with the dock."
"Please tell me you didn't do anything stupid like you usually do," came the sardonic reply on the other end of the phone, "Every other deal I send you on ends with either a failure or success after you killed everyone."
"You wound me," Sly answered with his best fake offense voice, "I'll have you know that it went rather well." Sly really enjoyed doing this to his boss. He was altogether too serious for most things.
"Well I wouldn't need to worry if it was so consistent." His boss answered, "It is good to hear that it went so well, I imagine the port authority is having difficulty arranging anything with the Vytal festival and all the robberies going on." Sly had to agree with his boss on this one, everything certainly was a bit hectic around here.
"I will be arriving sometime in the next week or so to oversee the delivery of goods." his boss said, "Also we have word that they are here in the city." Sly's heart skipped a beat at this revelation. He knew perfectly well who the they referred to, his little sisters he wasn't surprised given that there was a summer house his family used to own before everything went south. Still he had one question.
"Say boss," Sly asked haltingly, "do you think they even want to see us given everything that has happened, I mean we have gone down a pretty dark road?" His words spoke nothing but truth, they had done some pretty deplorable things in the name of keeping the family business in the black so to speak.
"I am fairly certain Sona will receive us well if not indifferently," came his soft reply, "I know Tina will be very upset at first, all we can do is hope that they will be willing to move past everything."
Sly hesitated to ask the next question, "Hey… brother do you think we are doing right by them." He wasn't even so sure what his brother's response was going to be, he hated when Sly broke the air of professionalism that was in their talks.
A deep sigh was his only reply for a few seconds. "I don't know anymore Copper," said his brother, "even if we aren't they are in more danger than ever if they followed through with their plans of becoming huntresses, all we can do is hope they get the money and gifts we send them and pray that they don't hate us." His brother's response tore at his heart, he and his brother will always love the two little pinpricks of light in their dark and disturbed lives. However what shocked him more was his brother's use of his first name, He must be very sad indeed if he used an actual name and not a call sign.
"Yeah," was the only reply to this that Copper could think of, "I have to go brother, I always look forward to these little conversations that we have Schwerzer." Copper knew he was pressing the line with using an actual name but they both needed this.
"Copper… Be careful, see if you can reach a place where you can speak with them without causing too much trouble, and… and tell them I love them." Came Schwerzer's soft request. Copper promised himself that he would find them and deliver Schwerzer's message.
"Goodbye brother," Copper had shoved his emotions aside to focus on his new task, "I promise that I will." Copper then proceeded to end the call and look to Beacon Academy, 'I wonder if Ozpin and Goodwitch are willing to see me.' Copper briefly entertained the idea of going and speaking with them and thought that it would be better to see them when all other business was attended to, after all he needed to establish the warehouse and trade networks.
He pulled out a locket that he kept around his neck and grabbed at the heart of gold charm with a 'S' and a 'T' carved into it. "Soon all this will end and we can be a family again" came his whisper into the black of the night.
A/N: Thank you for reading, I promise that the next chapter will include the detailed description of Sly. Also Schwerzer will be revealed when the best opportunity arises for him to show. Also I'm sorry this chapter is short but they will get longer.