Maniac meets Bombshell

by 13672

A man with nothing but a number for a name is inducted into Team RWBY and Beacon Academy after they pull him from the hospital. How does he fit in? How does he react to his first friends and enemies? How does he react to feeling...something for a certain Blonde Brawler? NEXT CHAPTER CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS!

1. Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Ruby Rose woke up, her team were all still asleep and she was normally the first one to wake up. She yawned and cracked her back, stretching all the stiffness from her body before leaping out of bed. Her energy first thing in the morning even surprised her.

She grabbed her combat clothes, knowing that her and her team had an assignment today and it'd get them all out of daily class. She walked over to the bathroom and closed the door, locking it and began to change. The second and third members of her team heard the door being opened and closed and they stretched out as well, getting out of bed.

"So Blake-" Weiss began as she swung her legs out of bed. "Where's our assignment for today? I missed it yesterday because of our faithful leaders' shenanigans." She asked the feline of their group. Blake yawned and crawled out from her bottom bunk.

"Well, after we get changed we have to go for the Bullhead bay, to see Proffesser Oobleck. He's taking us on a history tour of an abandoned...warehouse I think it was?" She questionned herself more at the end, not fully remembering the place either. Ruby burst through the bathroom door, having gotten dressed and went through her morning routine. She eyed the sleeping blonde brawler.

Almost her full routine.

Blake slapped her arms to her ears when Ruby let out a ferocious screech at the top bunk, Yang waking up with tired eyes and a loud groan.

"Rubes...Stop wakin me up like that." She complained, getting up and hearing her back protest to it. She climbed down from her top bunk and did a full stretch, Weiss heading for the bathroom with her combat clothing after Ruby.

"We have a history assignment today, we've to go in half an hour..." She whispered, but not quiet enough as she heard Weiss bellow from the bathroom.

"WHAT?!"

"Nothing Weiss!" Ruby sang to her, probably not convincing her but it kept her quiet. Blake grabbed her clothes and sat on the foot of her bed.

"Ruby, do you know where our assignment is today?" Ruby had a thoughtful look on her face and Yang listened in.

"I think it was some old hospital? It's abandoned, I know that much but it's in the middle of no-where and has been empty for a few years." She told her, Blake nodding now as she remembered it. She nodded her thanks to Ruby when Weiss came out of the bathroom, washed and ready.

"We're going to be late!" Weiss shouted at them, Ruby laughing at Yang's groan again.

"Ice queen, shut up please. We still got plenty of time to get there." Yang said cooly, Weiss reacting to the use of her nickname.

"Don't call me that!" She exclaimed, annoyed.

"Guys! Enough, we got a test ahead of us and it isn't an easy one." She calmed the two down, Blake coming out of the bathroom now.

"She is right, we can't afford to be fighting right now, not when we have something like this ahead of us." Blake informed them, the group all nodding along with her.

"Fine, I need a shower." Yang said, completely ignoring everything else that had been said and ran to the bathroom with her clothes and towel. The three girls sat in the room, talking about their upcoming task.

"So, think the place is haunted?" Ruby asked, Weiss sighing at her leaders immaturity and Blake only smirking.

"No, Ruby. Nothing will be in there but ruined paper and medical equipment." Blake said.

"I don't know about that."Weiss interjected. Blake looked at her, she continued on.

"I mean, Oobleck said this place was renouned for some shady goings on, we could find something a lot worse than needles and paper." Blake nodded, Ruby got curious.

"What kind of shady things?"

"I don't think he mentionned, just that it was something that got the entire hospital shut down and every other hospital across the planet health checked and inspected." Ruby's eyes widened.

"Sheesh, so pretty dark things?" Weiss only nodded as she replied.

"Probably."

"I wouldn't worry about it, all of the things too shady for the public would have been taken away by the police when it closed." Ruby felt a sense of relief wash over her when she heard that, Blake was right. Yang came through the door after twenty minutes of the girls talking, her hair was brushed perfectly and she washed, dressed and pumped for a fight.

"About time." Weiss said aggravatedly as she got up, sheathing her rapier.

"Weiss." Ruby said, warning her.

"Sorry, but she shouldn't have been that long." Yang giggled as she replied, scooping Weiss in for a hug.

"Sorry Icey Weissy!"

"Enough with the names-" Blake cut the two off and stopped them from fighting, getting their attention and tapping her wrist, telling them they had little time to get to the Bullhead. The girls left their dorm and proceeded outside.

They left the dorms block, passing JNPR on the way and waving them off on their test, a village in the north was being stalked by grimm so they had to go as a defence. JNPR waved them off and wished them luck on theirs as well.

The girls got outside and saw preffesser Oobleck standing at a Bullhead with his thermos and long trech-coat on, backpack starpped on to his back as well. The girls approached him and went to get on the Bullhead when he stopped them.

"You're forty seconds late, girls! What happened!?" He shouted at them as the Bullhead's engine roared to life. Ruby gestured to her clothes and he looked to sigh, but she couldn't hear anything. He waved to the pilot that they were ready and they all piled on to the ship. It took off once they were all on-board and the door had had closed. It was much more quiet inside the Bullhead, Blake was thankful for that as her cat ears couldn't take much more of it.

"So girls, did any of you research the institute we're going to for today's expedition?" He was met with blank gazes, he sighed again.

"I worried as much, it's alright. I know what places to go and what places not to go." He said to the group, pulling his backpack from his back and setting it on his lap, patting it a few times.

"Sir, what's the history of this place?" Weiss asked, the group all looked at him.

"It's...well, bad history I'm afraid. I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you, you're young women now and will be treated as such." He steadied himself as a small bit of turbulence hit the Bullhead, it steadied after a few seconds though and he drew a breath.

"This place was known to be a common drugs den in it's early days, but it closed their den down when the authorities got suspicious." He paused to remember what else there was.

"That doesn't seem so bad, right?" Ruby asked her team, they all shrugged.

"Then there were the screams of their patients." Oobleck said solemly.

"It was for rehabilitation and was obviously being used for something more than that. But the owner, the new one after the previous one had died. The new owner began to torture his patients, at first it was for science but later it was discovered he was as sick as the patients there. He had them tied up in his office, he used various tools on them like blowtorches and small screws, anything to inflict permanent trauma, so he could keep them there for longer." He paused for a breath, seeing the girls faces looking disgusted.

"His female patients however, they were special to him. He was damaged in the head, very badly damaged and needed help but he'd refuse it-"

"We're five minutes out sir!" The pilot shouted to the proffesser, Oobleck nodded to him and continued. "And so, he would allow his male staff to rape the female patients, sexual harrassment and abuse, all part of daily life there. Whenever a patient got pregnant, he'd take them to his room and have them bound." He began to think of how to word the rest.

"He would have his way with them, beat them to death with a metal bar or a bat of somekind, and burn their bodies...there were some accounts of him even keeping the unborn children for food and/or sexual gratification, but these were never confirmed." He finished and saw the looks on the girls faces, Ruby looked the worse off.

"How do you know all of this sir?" Yang asked, regaining her senses and keeping the contents of her stomach at bay for now.

"I was sent there to monitor and look for things to confirm the conspiracies surrounding it. Ozpin had wanted to assist the Vale Police in finding evidence against the madman when it hit the news, but couldn't know for sure without having a leech. I was his leech and so I-" He was cut off by the engines in the Bullhead becoming louder as it touched down in front of the building."I went there for a short period, saw what was going on and reported back to Ozpin, having the place closed down." He said, the girls all smiled a small bit.

"Well, you're a hero! You stopped years of that from happening now." Yang pointed out, the girls all aggreeing with her and nodding along.

"Miss Xiao Long, I never got everything, there were blast doors that required clearence to get past. I could never get inside those doors, that is where their human experimentation took place...or so I've been told, I have yet to confirm or falsify these claims, I believe I could now."

"So we're here, why?" Yang asked him, he smiled as he replied.

"Five minds are greater than one, with all of us there and our combined firepower, we could get through those doors and possibly expose this, bringing all of the ex-workers to justice and having him brought down." The girls all brightened at the idea. Ruby gasped before she exclaimed.

"WE'LL BE DETECTIVES!" She screamed, easily audible over the Bullhead's engine. The pilot turned the engines off and Oobleck sent the girls outside, to scout around whilst he told the pilot the times for pick-up.

"Ruby I don't think we are going to be..." Blake trailed off as she stepped outside of the Bullhead, seeing the huge building in front of her. It was the most ominous looking thing she had seen in her life.

"This place is so creepy." Yang laughed nervously, readying her gauntlets when she saw a metal gate in their way between the hospital and them. She waited for Oobleck to get out the Bullhead, Weiss looked paler than her usual self.

"What's the matter Weiss?" Yang asked, she looked shaken to the core and staring into space.

"Did you not hear what he said? All of what we just heard, the trauma and the torture, the pain and the suffering...it all happened in the building approximately twenty feet ahead of us." She tried to take her mind off of it by looking at the tree's around her. It was all tree's but the clearing they were in, in front of the hospital.

The treeline did nothing for her as she swore she could see fingernail scrapemarks on the bark on the tree's at the front, and they looked human. She had her hand instinctively go to her rapier, ready to fight. Ruby noticed her tensing up and placed a comorting hand on her shoulder, she nodded her thanks to her leader. Oobleck stepped out of the airship, speaking to the group.

"Alright girls, are we ready to go inside?" Weiss immediately spoke up, getting his attention.

"In a second, sir?" He looked at her, a comforting look through his glasses. "Was all of that true, what you said on the flight here?" He nodded solemly, yes. She felt herself tense even harder when she nodded, yes to being ready. She never thought she'd miss proffesser Port's ramblings this much.

"Now, to get past the gate we must-" Oobleck started, but Yang cut him off.

"We blast it?" She asked gleefully. Oobleck franticly shook his head at her.

"No, absoloutely not! We'll take our time going through the gate as well as the files inside and-" He swore he saw Yang role her eyes when she reeled her arm back and sucker punched the gate's padlock, it flew off and the gates dropped to the ground with a loud clattering.

"There! One obstacle out of our way!" Yang exclaimed happily, Oobleck was about to reprimand her when Blake cut him off.

"There's someone in there!" She told the group loudly, alerting them all and they all drew their weapons and aimed at the building. Oobleck looked at the window Blake pointed to, he saw nothing.

"Ms Belladonna, are you sure it was not a crow or another bird?" He asked, slowly drawing his thermos. Her response was not what he wanted to hear.

"I'm certain." He 'hmm'd at that, having his weapon drawn as he walked towards the doors slowly, scaning the windows every second he spent walking. He gestured for the girls all to walk to him...slowly, and keep their eyes open.

"Girls, I need you all to be quiet for the remainder of our journey inside here, do you understand?" His tone sent shivers down their spines. They had never heard him this serious and it almost scared them, knowing someone as experienced and trained as their proffesser was so cautious of this place.

"Girls, there's a note here." He informed them, they all listened in for it, except Blake who kept looking at the windows.

"Dont com insid or the bad, iner man wil gt u. RUN AWAY." He read to them, curious as to who wrote this.

It wasn't the police, they'd have better grammar, the hospital staff wouldn't have bothered to warn people of this place so that only left two options. A former patient or a current patient, no-one else could have gotten past the gates or barbed wire fence. He didn't like either possibility.

"Girls, none of you noticed if this door was open or closed when we landed, did you?" He turned and asked them, quiet and hushed tone. Weiss' response was not a good one.

"When I looked, it was closed. Solidly closed, why?" She asked, her tone showing she didn't like it here.

"I was only wondering who opened this door then? It's too heavy to be the wind, only someone on the inside could have gotten this open." He said, Ruby almost dropped on the spot. Yang grabbed her and steadied her.

"I was only joking about the haunted part..." She said in a hushed tone. Yang stroked her hair and told her it'd be fine, and it was probably just a rat. Oobleck agreed with Yang, purely to comfort the youngest of the group but he knew now not to let his guard down, not even for a second.

POV SWITCH TO PATIENT 57:

He was in his room, atop his bed and playing with the stuffed bear he had as his play thing. He was trying to keep his mind off of the voice inside his head. His gas mask was outdated, the eyeholes in his mask were completely blacked out but he could see through them. It was similar to one sided glass, no-one could see in but he could see out.

His robes lay next to him on the floor, his baggy, jet black engineer trousers weighed a ton. His top half was completely exposed to the elemants, his steel-toe capped boots were tied tightly around his feet, his mask was strapped on as well as tied to his face, ensuring nothing could take it off.

He began to giggle like a child, his memories coming back to him of his old enemies last words. "NO! PLEASE DON-" Then silence as his huge woodcutters axe cleaved through his skull, killing one more inhabitant of the hospital. He still had his huge, five foot long axe.

He heard a loud clang outside and turned to face the window, he was on the second floor so he'd have a good view. He approached the window and looked outside, five girls and some older man with a huge airship behind them. The blonde one of their group had just broken his gate. To his home.

'See the girlys, taste the violence.'

'What are they doing here? This is my place...my home, not for them.'

'No matter, kill them. Wear the white-wearer.' His sadistic, inner voice began to say. Gradually getting louder inside his head. His grip tightened around his axe, he didn't even remember picking it up.

He tilted his head when the girl in black began to look over the building, she looked at his window and he saw her eyes widen. He quickly ducked away from the window and back to his bed. He began to question what he should do, the only answer was to kill them.

Kill each and every one of them for coming to his home.

He ripped his stuffed bear from the bed with a grunt and tightened his grip on the huge axe handle and walked down the crooked stairs, he was looking down on to the ground floor and dropped his bear down, it landed perfectly facing the doorway. This was his warning. They better take it.

POV SWITCH TO RWBY:

Oobleck opened the door, a small inch at a time. He scanned the short hall in front of him and took it all in, remembering each detail, where every scalpel and pencil was, where the office chair was behind the receptionist office to his right.

"Miss Xiao Long, if there were any patients left here, you have likely alerted them to our prescence." She responded immediately.

"Oh and the huge, Bullhead landing outside didn't?" He hummed, she wasn't wrong. Blake quickly pointed something out to the group.

"Proffesser, what age were the patients here?" She asked, her amber gaze fixed on the end of the hallway. He was looking over the reception desk when he responded.

"Any age, from five year olds to eighty if I were to guess. Why?" He turned and walked over to her, she was frozen in the middle of the hallway, staring at the staircase. She raised her hand and pointed to the stairs.

He followed her finger and where it was pointing, seeing the chilling sight of a teddy bear, staring at thm with it's blood stained fur and smile.

Suddenly, a loud bang sounded throughout the silent building, all of the girls immediately looking up at the ceiling, Oobleck looked down the hall to his left. He saw Ruby's arm slightly shaking and tried to comfort her.

"Is something wrong Miss Rose?"

"I don't like it here." She replied, almost instantly and a hundred words a second. He sighed as he got a plan.

"It'll be alright, the worst we would find here is clothes from the former patients, everyone evacuated after the place was closed. And that was years ago, the gates were locked so anything inside would have starved to death unless it was either a bird or a rat. We're perfectly safe." His plan was shot down when Blake countered him.

"Then why did I see a man upstairs?"

"What did he look like, Miss Belladonna?" He felt agitated a small bit, she couldn't have just gone with it and let Ruby feel better.

"I...don't know."

"Then he must not be real, my stories must have played tricks on your mind. I assure you no-one is here but us."

"Blake, the guy you saw must have had a face, or something to show it was real, you're probably just nervous. We all are." Yang said, scanning the halls now. Weiss just 'hmm'd in acceptance with Yang.

"You're right, Ruby we'll be fine." She looked to calm down a small bit, her shaking slowing down and halting entirely as she had her signature smile again.

"You're right, probably just the creepy building." The group nodded and proceeded to the end of the hall, choosing to stick as one unit as splitting up would not be a good idea for Ruby.

"Your choice girls, do we go upstairs or down the hall to our right?" Oobleck asked, the girls immediately pointing down the hallway. He nodded and took the lead, avoiding the wheelchairs and gurney's in the hallway. Yang quickly picked up the teddy and stuffed it in her pocket and joined the group, deciding to keep it after washing the blood off of it. As a token to remember this sinister place.

POV SWITCH TO PATIENT 57:

He stalked after the group, he was a floor above them but he could map out where they'd be based on what they were saying, he was right above them. His head twitched, the inner voice wanted him to jump through the floor and flatten them all, keep some play things for the remainder of his stay.

He suddenly bumped into a wheelchair, it squeaked too loudly and he was too late in grabbing it to hold it still. He heard the group downstairs prepare their weapons. He bolted back along the entire floor, his size allowing his strides to be long and powerful.

POV SWITCH TO RWBY:

"What was that?!" Weis shouted as she looked at the ceiling, the squeak echoed throughout the ground floor and she heard heavy thudding going down the hallway. Oobleck froze, considering what to do, he couldn't split up and he certainly couldn't go outside. The Bullhead was only scheduled to land in a few hours, they could hold out until then.

"Sir? Sir!?" Yang shouted at him, he came back to reality and replied calmly.

"What?"

"What the hell was that noise?!" Yang asked, still looking at the ceiling. She sounded panicked, Blake was looking down the hallway and Ruby was paled a bit.

"Well it wasn't a bird or a rat!" Ruby yelled with her scythe in the ground and aimed at the ceiling, Oobleck immediately hushing her.

"Okay, we cannot make too much noise. We are obviously not alone in here-" The girls all gulped before he continued. "And the more noise we make, the more accurate the other occupant can be with his or her movements." The group nodded, waiting for a plan.

"Well, we could wait outside and make sure we're not going to be attacked, we'll see them coming if we are out there." Weiss suggested, getting a firm backing from Ruby as she nodded franticly.

"What if this occupant has a firearm of some sort? They could take us from range and have good cover." Blake said, facing Weiss. Weiss rebuted it.

"Well we can't stay here." She said, Yang agreeing with Blake and Weiss.

"Ms Schnee is right, this other occupant knows the complex better than any of us, we cannot remain here or go outside." Oobleck said.

"Then what do we do?" Ruby asked worriedly. Blake had a lightbulb go off in her head.

"Sir, couldn't you call the Bullhead and arrange an earlier pick-up?" He was surprised he didn't think of something so obvious himself, he nodded yes and picked his scroll from his pocket.

"Bullhead request, Oobleck located at Rosey Wails Hospital. In need of an immediate pick-up." He said into his scroll, getting a response was a relief, he could not stress how great it was.

"Affirmed proffesser, we have one getting fuelled up and should be with you in twenty minutes." The voice at the other end of the scroll sounded throughout the hallway, echoing through the floor. The girls all sighed along with Oobleck at that, under half an hour and they could leave.

"HEY YOU!" Ruby screeched down the hallway, the group all turned to see what they were focused on and saw a...something.

The something they saw was an eight feet tall, anorexic person wrapped in dangling bandages and armed with what looked like a shotgun, equipped with a rusted bayonet. The figure was at the end of the hallway, standing still and just staring at them. It looked to be deranged from the twitching of it's head and constant mad shouts it kept letting out. Thankfully it was a good hundred feet away from them and they could make a choice of how to deal with it before it got within range.

"Guys, what do we do?" Ruby panickely asked, turning to them. The group remained fixed on the figure at the end of the hallway. There were no windows they could go through to get away from him and by the stains of blood on him, it looked like he knew what he was doing. He began to stalk towards them, each step being very slowly taken.

"Do you think we could make it down the hallway there?" Weiss asked them all, pointing to a small left turn about midway between them and the individual. He noticed her pointing and remained still, about forty feet from the turn.

"Ruby could with her speed, but the rest of us couldn't." Yang said, her tone telling them she was obviously ready to fight.

"She could fight him, draw him off of us and we could sweep in and take him, there are five of us." Blake suggested, Oobleck stopped her.

"We can always retreat, return to reception and hold off there, not be cooped up in a small hallway." He said, the girls all took it in. They silently agreed and began to step back, very slowly in hopes he didn't notice right away. He let out a loud howl and stood there, twitching still and ready to run at them. The group didn't panic, they could see him and monitor his movements.

They didn't panic until they heard another howl that wasn't from the man in front.

POV SWITCH TO PATIENT 57:

He heard it, he had just got down the second set of back stairs and on to the ground floor when he heard it, the howl. The howl of the only other occupant of the hospital. The only enemy he had left, the only one he had to kill in order to have the entire building to himself.

He howled back, he knew that his fight was closeby.

He ran to the hallway behind him, staring up the long hallway now in front of him and seeing the faint shadow of him being cast on to the turn-off from the dingey bulbs. He was there.

'RUN AT HIM! STRIKE HIM DOWN!' His inner voice commanded, he took a few steps up the hallway and stopped. Something told him to wait for the right moment.

POV SWITCH TO RWBY:

"Sir, there's another one somewhere." Yang said, scanning the hall behind her for any signs of another guy.

"I know that, thank you Miss Xiao Long." He replied quickly, panicking at the sight in front of him. This was a result of their experimentation, the thing Ozpin needed.

The man took a step towards them, now blocking off the turn off down the hallway, they made to turn and run back to reception when they stopped. They heard the familiar, heavy thudding echoing again.

The man with the shotgun stopped suddenly, dead in his tracks and turned ninety-degrees with his shotgun aimed at waist level. He screamed out in his broken and high pitched sounding voice.

"YOU AGAIN!" As he fired his first round, the group saw another man collide with him, a man with an axe about the size of Ruby. The second man had collided with the shotgun user after the recoil knocked him off balance, spearing him into the wall and disarming him. They took all of the second man in.

He was around seven feet tall, incredibly well muscled and scarred like a pack of Beowolves had gotten to him. He had a jet black gas mask on, lifeless jet black eye holes glassed over and black boots with trousers as well. They saw him bleeding profusely from his side, seeing that some of the buckshot had got to him. They were horrified as he just kept pummelling the first man with the blunt end of his axe, both men screaming in maniacal laughter/pain.

POV SWITCH TO PATIENT 57:

'KILL HIM! RIP HIS SCRAWNY BODY APART!' His inner demon screamed at him as he began to pummell him. He retracted his arm back and smashed his fist into the face of the rat faunus, feeling nothing but pure bloodlust. He needed to kill, he needed the red. So much red.

His opponent benath him fell lifeless after he had used the axe on him. 57 needed to make sure he was dead so he wrapped his thick hands around the throat of him. He snapped his head back after lifting him off of the ground, dropping his corpse to the ground with a broken neck.

He walked back a small bit and picked up his axe, dusting it off before turning at the girls. He could see each of them looking at him, like he had just murdered someone.

'Oh wait...'

'MAKE THEM NEXT!'

'THEY'VE DONE NOTHING WRONG!'

'THEY CAME HERE! They came to our hunting grounds. If they play with the monster then they're going to get hurt. KILL THEM ALL!' His inner voice was right, they came to his place. His corner of the world. His utopia. They've tainted his hell-halls. They will suffer.

He raised his axe to his waist height, getting ready to run at them when he stopped. He didn't...want to kill them. He wanted to let these one's go.

'DON'T SPEAK SUCH BLASPHIMAY, GET THEM!'

'NO, NO I REFUSE!'

'THEN YOU'RE WEAK. YOU'RE WHAT THE DOCTORS NEVER WANTED TO HAPPEN!'

'I'M WHAT I MAKE ME, I'M NOT WEAK! I'LL RIP THE GIRLS APART!' He screamed back at himself internally, his head twitching as he began to stalk towards them. They backed up, their weapons out and ready to fire at him. He halted, processing his situation. There was no way he could take them head on, he knew that for a fact.

"WHY ARE YOU HERE!?" His voice carried through his mask, bulleting down the halls at them. He noticed the small, red one flinch when he shouted at them.

"We're here for answers, put your weapon down!" He heard another voice, not an inside voice but a man's voice. He walked out from behind the girls, unarmed.

"We're here to know what went on, when this hospital was open. We need to know about the doors, the heavy metal doors." Oobleck spoke, as if talking to a child but keeping his tone the same.

"Bad things! Things for you not to know!"

"What kind of things?" The man asked, pressing a few steps towards him. He raised his axe and felt sudden adrenaline rush through him.

"ENOUGH QUESTIONS!" He yelled at them, laughing as he ran towards them all with his axe raised and ready to swing at the small man. He saw the girl clad in black lunge out and strike for him, he rolled to the side and stared at the group, all having their weapons aimed at him.

"You came here! To my place!? YOU'LL ALL DIE!" He shouted, his voice carrying his instability, he saw the blone girl reel her arm back and fire something at him. He yelled out, like an angry bear when it struck him in the shoulder.

"YOU! I'LL RIP THE SCALPS OF A THOUSAND SUNSHINES!" He screamed, feeling the inner him begin to take control and move towards them. He had his axe scraping along the ground, his shoulder almost entirely useless due to the shell in him.

'GET THE BLONDE ONE! TEAR HER ASUNDER!' His inner voice laughed, he laughed with it as he got within a foot of the blonde girl, he went to swing his axe at her but felt a sudden stinging on the back of his head and fell forward, unconscious.

POV SWITCH TO RWBY:

"C'mon, the Bullhead's landed. Let's get outta here." Yang said, dragging Ruby out the doors. Weiss and Blake stood with Oobleck as he staredat the currently unconscious madamen.

"Sir...What are you thinking?" Blake asked him, seeing the thoughtful look on his face. He turned to her and replied.

"I need him back at Beacon. Help me with his shoulders girls." He commanded, Blake holding back and Weiss being plain skeptical, as if Oobleck was the lunatic here.

"We can't have a...a monster like him at Beacon."

"He's the only one left that can prove what went on here, years of that torture would break anyone. I personally feel sympathy for the man." Oobleck replied, calmly as he took the huge man on one shoulder, Blake looking at him thoughtfully. Weiss asked the question Blake wanted to know.

"Why would we feel any sympathy for him?" She asked, cold tone returning. Oobleck stared at her, seemingly angered by something.

"I'm not sure you understand. Look at what his daily life consisted of, Miss Schnee-" He gestured down the hallway at the dead man against the wall, with a snapped neck.

"And think of needing to go years of that, everyday needing to fight for your own life against other people. After being tortured for months at a time before." He finished as he managed to get the big man lifted, Blake helping him after hearing what he said.

"That would break anyone and he's had a very bad experience here, the least we can do is offer temporary housing at Beacon. At least until Ozpin finds out what to do with him." He told her, walking towards the door with Blake. Weiss sighed.

"You...You're right, of course. But I do not trust this decision one bit." She said, running up and helping Blake with him. Oobleck sighed as he replied.

"Neither do I." And after a few minutes of heavy lifting, they set him out on the Bullhead's floor. His size almost the length of the ships cabin. Yang and Ruby were strapped in, happy as normal now that they were out of the hospital. Blake sat next to Weiss and strapped in as well, Oobleck going to discuss something with the pilot.

"We shouldn't have brought him here." Weiss immediately stated, the rest of the girls agreeing except Ruby, she furrowed her brows a small bit at Weiss' words.

"Well...We can help him get back to normal-" Yang cut her off.

"Ruby, you saw him back there. There is no back to normal for this guy, he's too far gone."

"But Ozpin will know how to, hes got some of the best trained proffessionals at Beacon. They can talk with him." Ruby argued, Yang pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed, Weiss taking over for her.

"Ruby, as soon as he wakes up he'll try to kill whoever is closest to him. He has no control over himself, if Ozpin can do one thing right for him it'd be to have him locked up in a secure prison." Blake even looked at her funny now, the Bullhead's engines roaring to life.

"Weiss, he may be lost but he can still be helped. Besides, look what happened the last time he was locked up-" She gestured out the Bullhead window to the hospital. "He won't want to go back into that."

"Well he should be put in, he's not safe to be around." Weiss argued, Blake nodding in agreement.

"I know that, but there has to be another way to...'fix him'." She put air quotes around the last part. Yang laughed skeptically, getting Blake's attention.

"You can't be serious, right? The guy's a psycho, a murderer. I'm with Ice Queen on this, he should be locked up." She said, Ruby thinking about it.

"Bu-" Ruby was about to argue when the Bullhead slowed down and prepared to land, they were back at Beacon already. Oobleck returned from the cockpit and spoke to the group of girls.

"Now girls, you are to go back to your dorm and wait. You have the rest of the day off of classes, so use it wisely." He said, they nodded and began to undo their straps. The bay doors opened for them and they all walked past the unconscious man, seeing him twitching a few times in his slumber.

Oobleck straigtened the man out and sat next to him. Waiting for his contact to arrive.

The girls passed Proffesser Ozpin and Velvet, a third year student. They were stopped and Ozpin took a sip of his coffee before talking to them.

"Good morning girls, I trust your trip went well?"

"Not as good as you'd think. We picked up a friend for the ride." Yang told him, saying the word friend with disgust. Ozpin 'hmm'd thoughtfully.

"Is that him there?" He pointed at the topless man in the cabin of the Bullhead, the girls all nodded without looking.

"I see, well I trust you all performed exceptionally. Even if there were complications." He said, his monotone voice remaining neutral throughout. The girls all nodded, some more than others as they waved their goodbyes and walked towards the dorms.

POV SWITCH TO 57:

He woke up with one familiar face and two unknown ones, as well as a set of bunny ears facing him. He looked all of them over, two older men and one young, schoolgirl. He let out an annoyed growl and went ot sit up, the gray haired man holding a cane up to him and stopping im.

"You need rest, try not to move. You're injured and need to be seen to, Miss Scarlatina?" He turned and asked the schoolgirl, she approached him warily and had a small bag of medical supplies. He looked them over, checking for any signs of attack.

'Why are these people helping me!?' He asked internally, furious at the situation. The timid looking girl was fully in his sight now as she kneeled next to him and unrolled her bag. He liked her ears, they looked undisturbed.

"Please, remain still for me." She asked, a quiet and hushed tone. Like someone was out to get her and she was hiding. He remained still, staring at her ears through his lifeless eye holes, the gray haired man began introductions.

"I suppose it's only right to tell you were you are, so let me introduce Beacon Academy. Here, we train the finest hunters and huntresses to combat the forces of grimm. I am the headmaster, Ozpin." He tilted his head, what was a grimm?

"What's this...grimm you mentioned?" He asked in an oddly calm tone, getting a strange look from Ozpin. The other man quickly whispered something into the other man's ear and he began to have a look of realisation. The other man intoduced himself.

"I'm Doctor Oobleck." 57 nodded, he felt oddly calm here, like he didn't want to burn these people for food.

"And that is Velvet Scarlatina, our residential student medical proffessional." Ozpin gestured towards the girl next to him, stitching his shoulder. Ozpin kneeled down, at his level and looked him dead in the eyes, as if he could see straight through the mask.

"Now tell me. What is your name?" 57 shrugged, he didn't have a name. No-one at his home did. They only had numbers.

'That counts, right!?' He nodded along with his inner self, the inner him was a slight bit saner than the other inner him.

"I was the other one, the good-bad! Were I'm from we didn't get names, we had numbers! My title is Patient 57!" He exclaimed proudly, losing all interest in wanting to stab this girl next to him with her scalpel. Ozpin nodded, pursing his lips slightly when he heard it. He turned and whispered something back to Oobleck and they both nodded, Ozpin made to depart and Oobleck remained.

"Now...57. You're to remain here with us, under supervision until a more appropriate home is found for you." He said, almost too quickly.

"MY OTHER HOME WAS FINE! THE ONE YOU STOLE ME FROM!"

"My boy, your old home isn't safe. Beacon can offer you safety and help."

"I DON'T NEED HELP, THE INNER ME SAYS SO!"

"The 'inner you'?" He asked, curious as to where he was going. 57 remained silent, not saying a word. He'd said too much.

"Well then, now that we have that cleared up, you're to follow me and I will allocate you a room for the nights stay, is that alright?" Oobleck asked, treading carefully with each word. 57 nodded, yes and stood up. Knocking Velvet to the ground and startling her.

"I haven't finished the stitches!" She panicked, trying to get to his waistline, he turned and stared at her, freezing her.

"I don't need them, It'll fix itself!" He shouted happily, walking off the ship and looking out at the city-like school ahead of him. His eyes widened behind his mask.

'BIG PLACE IS NO-NO SAFE!' He told himself, nodding along with it. He didn't like the huge open spaces here, he wanted his own place back.

"FIND THE SMELL OF BLOOD! THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SPLIT THE HEAD OF A WORLD DESTROYER!" He screamed out at the metropolis, Velvet standing beside him now. She looked to be keeping an eye on his stitching. Oobleck sped next to him and gestured out to the huge structures.

"Over there, that's where you'll be spending the night." He told 57 calmly, pointing at a huge building. Many empty windows and huge front doors. He began to walk 57 over to it, carefully.

After a few minutes of walking, screaming and odd looks later, the trio arrived at the dorm block. The huge writing on the sign above the front doors clearly labelling the building as the 'Dormitory Building'.

"Now, up the stairs. After the night's over you will be collected and taken to the hospital, having your wounds examine-"

"NO! No hospital. No more of it! No more of the WHITE COATS!" He yelled out as they walked into the stairwell, his voice carrying up the stairs. Velvet walked on ahead, making sure no-one was coming. She looked back down at him and noticed something on the top of his head, probably his bear ears.

"HELLO BUNNY!" His voice, again, echoed throughout the stairs as they began to walk up the concrete stairwell. He noticed a red arrow, pointing at a door and a huge red '100' next to it. He kept walking up the stairs with Oobleck, begininning to calm down a small bit at the silence around him, not one noise was being made aside from his heavy breathing and the footsteps against the steps.

They got to the second floor, another red arrow and a red '200' next to it, they walked up their last level of steps and arrived at the third floor, the last arrow and a red '300' confirming it. He thrust the door open, hearing the hinges groan in complaint as they slowly swung shut behind the trio.

Oobleck was looking at the room numbers, seeing the number '306' and stopping. Velvet stopped as well, looking with a concerned stare at the doctor. He knocked on the door and 57 immediately heard a male voice coming through the door.

"What?"

"Mr Winchester? Open up, we have a new addition to your team for the night!" Oobleck shouted through, knowing that Team CRDL had the day off due to an injured member who needed looking after. The door swung open and 57 stared ahead of him, seeing chestnut hair looking back at him. The pair began to examine each other.

Similarly built, powerhouse-like fighting style. One was more twitchy than the other and also less sound-of-mind. Almost the same height, 57 a bit taller by an inch or so.

"You gotta be kiddin me? This guy?" He asked laughing, 57 feeling offense.

"THIS GUY HAS A NAME!" 57 shouted, Oobleck pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Cardin, this is...*Sigh* 57, he will be spending the night with your team until we find another placement." Oobleck explained to him, Cardin smirked as he replied.

"Uhh...yeah, sure. C'mon in big guy."

"OOOOOOH THANK THE WALNUT HAIR!" Cardin's smirk disappeared when he heard a feminine giggle coming from behind 57, he looked around to see a set of rabbit ears, she was laughing at him. 57 barged past Cardin and walked into the room, seeing another three boys looking at him, one had a bandage around his head.

"I'M THE ONE TIME FORGOT! NOW LOVE ME PASTY CAKES!" He shouted as he snatched up the boy with the mohawk, Cardin closed the door on the proffesser and looked at 57 bearhugging his teammate.

"Hey, put him down." Cardin said calmly, pulling 57's arms back from the boy. He fell to the floor and gasped for air, the other two laughed at him.

"So, where you from?" Cardin asked, laying down on his bed. 57 looked at him, head twitching.

"I'm from the hospital! The-" Cardin cut him off.

"Stop shouting, speak normally." He said annoyedly.

"NO!" 57 shouted, Cardin getting up from his bed and squaring up to him.

"I run this dorm, you'll do what I say, when I say. Get it?"

"NO WINCHESTER! YOU'LL STAY AWAY FROM ME OR THE INNER MAN WI-" Again, Cardin cut him off.

"Enough with the shouting, or are you too retarded to understand speaking normal words?" Cardin asked with a cocky smirk, getting sniggers from the rest of the room. 57's head twitched a small bit.

"THAT'S NOT NICE!"

"I'm not nice, now shut up and go to sleep or something."

"I don't like people that aren't nice." 57 said, entire demeanor changing. Cardin clapped sarcasticly.

"Well done, you can speak normally. Now fuck off and-" Cardin was interrupted by 57 sucker punching him, Cardin staggered back from the impact, looking at 57 with hateful eyes.

"You wanna go, tough guy?" Cardin asked, readying himself for a fight.

"YOU WERE THE NASTY ONE! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" 57 shouted as he jumped for Cardin, colliding with the boy and taking them both to the ground. He rose his fist up and went to punch him, but his arm was grabbed by the mohawked boy. 57 rose up and brought his other hand to his throat, choking him out.

Another boy jumped on him, wrapping his arms around 57's neck and trying to choke him. 57 ran himself back first against the wall and crushed him between the wall and his back. The door swung open at the boys conflict and everyone stared at who it was.

"I see you can't be trusted with these people. Come with me my boy, we'll find you a...quieter room." Oobleck had announced to the giant of the dorm, he released the mohawked boy and followed Oobleck out the door, curious to see where he'd be going next.

POV SWITCH TO RWBY:

"Hey, did you guys hear that?" Yang asked her team, recieving only one 'yes' response, from Blake.

"It sounded like someone started fighting, like it was a dorm or two away." She told them, half-heartedly as she had her nose in on her book. Yang leaped down from her top bunk and opened the door, peering down the hallway and immediately slamming it with an angry look on her face. Weiss heard the slam and asked her.

"Yang, was that neces-" Yang cut her off.

"Shh! It's the big dude, the one from the trip out to the hospital? He's here!" She whisper shouted to her team, Ruby was in the bathroom so she didn't hear it. Blake sat her book down and Weiss put her hair brush away.

"He's here? Security should have do-"

"No! Oobleck's walking him around for some reason." Yang told her, Weiss' eyes widened and Blake looked to be listening for something. Yang was about to ask her what it was she was listening for when a knock came at the door.

"Who is it?" Ruby sang from the bathroom, Yang heard a voice she didn't want to hear.

"Proffesser Oobleck. Open the door please." Yang sighed as she opened the door slightly, seeing the towering man from earlier with Velvet.

"Hey Velv, why's he here?" She asked after saying her hello to Velvet, the proffesser fully opened the door and led him inside.

"Sir!? Get him out!" Weiss shrieked when she saw him, reaching for the weapon at the foot of her bed. Oobleck stopped her.

"Now, now girls. This is...57. He has to be staying here for a night before we can figure out what to do with him, seeing as he couldn't...ermmm." He tried to find words for it."Co-operate with Team CRDL, he's to be staying here with you." He informed them, all the grls having a look of shock and the giant even tilting his head, looking at them all strangely.

"He will not act up again, or he knows what will happen." Oobleck said, staring at the bigger man. He nodded calmly, twice and examined their room, Yang didn't like him being here.

"Well, do we take him a walk? Feed him?"

"Miss Xiao Long, he isn't a dog. He only needs to be hidden from the other students whilst Ozpin makes a few calls, he'll be leaving tomorrow." When Oobleck finished, the girls sighed with relief.

"I trust there are no more questions?" Oobleck asked them, the girls had more but recognised the tone he was using when he didn't want anymore questions so they remained silent. Oobleck continued.

"Good, we'll leave you all to get acquantied, come on Miss Scarlatina." Oobleck hurried her out of the room and closed the door behind him. Blake couldn't hear him going down the hall, he was waiting for something to happen.

"So...we're uhhh..."

"You're the good girls! You put the bad me down and saved the good me!" His volume made them all wince.

"Okay, can you please try and talk more in a more...civil manner?" Weiss asked, politely. He threw his head looking towards her and she tensed up, seeing the lifeless black orbs of eyes he had.

"You asked me po-POLITELY!? THE...Then yes." He struggled to calm himself down, they could see he was trying hard with it. It was at this point Ruby came out of the bathroom with her headphones on, singing along with the song she was listening to.

"Surprised when they find out that a warrior will soon run wild!" She stopped her music when she saw them all looking at the door, she cast her gaze along and her eyes went wide for a second when she saw him, but she calmed herself down.

"What's he doing here?" She asked calmly, seeing him staring at the ceiling.

"Oobleck dropped him in on us, we've to watch him until tomorrow." Yang said, her happy tone coming back as she got an idea.

"Okay 57?" She asked, his neck cracked as he snapped down to looking at her.

"We're gunna be spending most of the day in here, so you might as well get comfortable. And if you need to go, ask one of us to go with you. Not to the bathroom or anything, but if you feel cooped up." She said, making for her top bunk.

"I'm happy here!-" He quickly stopped himself as he got a death glare from Weiss, remembering his volume rule.

"It's bigger than my old room, and people are here." He said, the girls all grateful for his lack of insane screaming.

"I'm glad you like it, I guess if we're gunna be here all day we might as well introduce ourselves. I'm Yang!" She pointed to herself, stopping in her tracks for the bunk beds.

"I'm Ruby!" Ruby exclaimed in a similar fashion. "Ruby Rose!"

"I'm Weiss Schnee." Weiss introduced calmly, climbing into her own bed with her scroll.

"Blake. Blake Belladonna." Blake nodded towards him, he looked around the room.

"Ahh! The small red, the sunshine, the coldy cone and the black cat!" Yang and Ruby laughed at Weiss' nickname, Weiss shot him a death glare again and Blake stared at him in horror. The other girls didn't notice what he said about Blake, too focused on teasing Weiss which Blake was grateful for.

"Awww, she's the snow cone of the team!" Yang shouted, giggling like a schoolgirl.

"Enough you dunce, I am no-"

"You took it." 57 said, shocked tone and sounding ready to snap. As the girls were talking, Yang had began to climb up to her bed when the small teddy bear dropped from her pocket and on to the floor.

"It-it-it was YOU!" He shouted and stuttered with hate, getting louder. He took a few threatening steps towards the group of girls and Yang looked at him, following his gaze to the small bear on the ground.

"What was me? The bear thing?" She asked, remaining calm and not raising her voice.

"Yes, it's mine! The bear-bear is mine!"

"Look, I didn't know it was yours, alright? I'm sorry." He was about to lash out at them when a thought crossed his mind. 'THE BEAR WOULD STILL BE AT THE HOME IF SHE HADN'T BROUGHT IT HERE!'

"It's good! The calm-bear wouldn't be here if you hadn't have brought it here!" He shouted again, considerably less volume than he had before. Yang looked at him and smiled.

"See, I knew it was a good thing." She said triumphantly, the girls all looked at her.

"Why were you going to steal a bear from the hospital?" Ruby asked, all the girls were in their respective bunks now and he was left in the middle of the floor, holding his teddy by it's ear and staring out the window.

"That's not important." She quickly waved off and they all shrugged it off. 57 walked over to the corner with a small bookshelf and laid down, back against it and sat the bear in his lap, playing with it like a child would. Ruby gave him a strange look, Weiss was shocked that he could care for something and Blake and Yang both smirked a small bit.

"Why do you have a teddy bear?" Yang asked, fighting her smirk down. Blake looked at him, smirking at an entirely different thing than Yang was, she thought he looked cute. In a child-like way that is.

"It's mine. The only mine, not the yours of mine." He spoke, half-mindedly as he pranced it around in his lap, looking at it with a tilted head. Ruby smiled, she didn't smirk. She remembered what it was like having a small teddy bear, although she was a child then but she didn't judge.

"Okayyy...So, what you guys wanna do?" Yang asked, looking away from the child-like murderer in the corner and to the group.

"We could go and train, we have nothing else to do anyway so the bots could be useful for something." Weiss said, sitting up.

"I was thinking more, lunch?" Yang said with a laugh as she heard Ruby's stomach growl at the thought of it.

"Lunch sounds good." Blake said, climbing out of her bed and making for the door, Yang hopped down and followed her, gesturing for Ruby to come with her.

"Wait, what about the...other one?" Weiss asked the group, they all stopped as they reached the door and looked at him, he seemed relatively calm when he had his bear but they didn't want to risk it. Weiss was ready to get up from her bed when Yang stopped her.

"Weiss...remember when I took the blame for you last week, when we were late and I got held back?" Yang said, smirking darkly. Weiss nodded, not sure where she was going with this.

"Well then you'll remember the day after, when you said you owe me one, right?" Yang asked sweetly, Weiss' face dropped.

"I'm not keeping him here while you all go and get lunch." She said, deadpanning. Yang laughed, looking at the man in the corner.

"Look, he's harmless when he has his toy, just don't make any sudden movements and you'll be ace!" Yang said loudly, Ruby and Blake beside her laughing to themselves. Weiss was about to grab her rapier when Yang opened the door.

"Oh and, we'll bring you back something nice." Yang winked as she closed the door behind her and the other two, leaving a rage-filled Weiss with the tormented lunatic.

"I should never have said that..." Weiss muttered to herself, under her breath so he couldn't hear her. She leaned back on her bed with her scroll, hoping to get the shares on her fathers company when she heard him get up.

"I don't know, many floors of floors. The lots of height makes the softer landing." He was whispering to himself as he walked over to the window. Weiss slowly got off the bed and calmed herself down from her rage, hoping to speak nicely with him.

"What're you doing?" She asked him, keeping her distance.

"See the tree's, the garden's of ground. Dirt makes it all wash away."

"I'm sorry?" She asked.

"You haven't done anything wrong." He said, she sighed out frustrated and tried again.

"I mean what are you talking about?"

"The natureness, the air of freedom. Instead we're here, in a small room, with nothing but a view of what could be had." He said, he sounded annoyed. Weiss clicked, she knew what he was meaning, he wanted some frsh air.

"Oh, I get it. Here." She offered, getting off her bed and walking next to him, enhancing her aura protection incase he tried anything. She opened the window a small bit, feeling the cool breeze come in. She even felt herself begin to loosen up a little and relax.

Weiss returned to her bed and let her aura wither back to it's normal levels, he got even closer to the window and looked out, she heard him inhale the fresh air through his mask. She glanced over and scanned his mask, it was an important thing to him evidently.

It was solid black, that much was obvious, no other colours. His glassy eye slots were black as well, only the light could be seen reflecting from it and even in broad daylight it was haunting. The gas filter wasn't on a muzzle-like end, it was attached to the masks mouth, as if that was his mouth, it wasn't like the others and had it protruding from the mask. It was flat, the straps going over his shaven head and his...other ears. She shook the faunus thing from her head and kept scanning it. It was held there with his leather straps, much like belts and cable-tie like things going around it, there were only three that she could see.

How he managed to eat, or even survive in that place for years was beyond her. She let it wash from her mind however when another breeze washed over her, it was surprisingly calm in the dorm.

He stood there, staring out at the faint sight of the woodland. He missed his home, the good home. His territory. He wanted it back, but he knew he couldn't sneak out of here and trying to fight would most likely be a death sentence. He considered actually...accepting what the proffesser had to offer, if he didn't like it he'd fight back.

"Snow girl?!" He asked loudly, she looked at him, but cut him off before he could continue.

"Okay, watch the volume. And my name is Weiss, please use my name when you wish to speak with me. And finally, what is it?" She asked him, warning him about the last two parts.

"I need food, the stomach hurts fo-" Weiss cut him off again.

"Okay, the others will pick us some food up and bring it back, they shouldn't be too long." She said, he nodded franticly and scanned her...seeing as she had scanned him.

Her white dress was adequately presented, not a single crease in it whatsoever. Her hair looked about similar levels of maintenance. The ice stare of her was what caught his attention, how she looked at everything like she was disgusted by it, him included. He looked down her body from her face, instantly noticing how her chest wasn't as...developed as Yang's was, even Ruby, who he assumed was the youngest was better off in that regard. He looked down her again, flat stomach showing she was fit and able to keep up with combat scenarios, then he came to her legs. They were exposed so he could see that much like her hands and her face, they were as pale as the snow. He was infatuated with them, they looked so smooth, he wanted to feel how they were against his hands but she'd likely stab him if he tried. He then noticed her boots, like the rest of her attire they were pristine and not a speck of dirt was on them.

'SHE'S A LOVELY ONE, ISN'T SHE?!'

'AHHH, THE LEGS HAVE THE POWER OF A HORSE, BUT THAT STRENGTH IS WELL HIDDEN!'

'HER MEAT AGAINST US WOULD BE SPECIAL, WE HAVEN'T TASTED A WOMANS SKIN FOR OVER A YEAR!'

'SHE ISN'T ON THE MINE-MENU, LEAVE HER ALONE!'

'THEN THE REST OF THEM, THE BLACK HAIRED ONE?!'

'NONE OF THEM, LEAVE THE INNOCENCE!'

He wasn't happy with the internal struggles of being a schizophrenic, his inner voices kept arguing inside of him and he couldn't get a minutes peace. He noticed her looking over at him, he could tell that she had no trust in him whatsoever, and he didn't need it. He'd be gone soon anyway.

He went to look back out of the window when he was stopped by the rest of her team coming back from the dinner hall, Yang was holding a chicken leg and Ruby had a bag of cookies, Blake finishing a sandwich with something in it, he wasn't sure what it was though.

"Hey guys! We're back!" Yang announced, 57 kept his gaze on them all, Ruby walked over to Weiss and held out the bag of cookies.

"Here you go, Weiss! We got you some cookies!" She sang happily, Weiss sighed and snatched the bag from her, not looking happy about getting her proper lunch missed because of him.

"And this is for you!" Yang shouted again, she had what looked like a sugar rush and darted in front of the giant, holding out the leg of meat. He grabbed it and brought a hand to his gas filter, where his mouth was and pulled it. It swung open, as if attached to a hinge and the girls all looked, some more than others. They all managed to see some faint scars on his chin though, as if made surgically.

He scoffed the chicken leg into his mouth and closed the small filter again, turning away from them and looking out of the window, it was around mid-day for them. His hand began to twitch, the teddy bear moving along with it.

"So...what've you been up to Weiss?" Blake asked her, taking her eyes off of the hulking man at the window. Weiss stared at her, finishing the small bag of cookies and setting the wrapper down, licking her fingers.

"Well, nothing besides the window being opened, he needed some air so-"

"Awww, he's feeling cooped up. We should take him outside." Yang suggested, almost regretting it when the protests came at her like a tidal wave.

"NO."

"Bad idea."

"Nope."

Yang rubbed the back of her neck softly and put an innocent tone on. "Why not?"

Blake was the first to respond.

"He's a danger to society and certain people...like Cardin." Blake said, noticing the ears atop his head were twitching, listening to them all talking and also remembered how Cardin viewed the faunus. The girls all looked at him when they saw the intense gaze Blake was giving him, they all noticed the ears as well.

"Well, we avoid him. He's in his room today, most other first years have classes. We can walk around the campus uninterrupted." Yang argued, Blake had a thoughtful look on her face.

"What if he has an episode? We can't deal with him like that, not without our weapons." Weiss said, Yang hitting back.

"Well then we take them with us." She said, Ruby was the last to speak up.

"I don't see any harm in it, the worst case that could happen is that we need to handle him and call proffesser Oobleck." She said, the girls now nodded along with her. She was right, Yang smirked as she saw both Weiss and Blake sigh.

"Alright, but if we get in trouble for this I'm blaming you." Weiss said, glaring at Yang. Yang put a hand over her chest with a playful pout.

"Like I've gotten us in trouble before, you can trust me." She was met with skeptical glances, but she waved them off as she approached 57.

"Hey big guy?" He looked at her, turning to face them all again.

"Wanna go outside? Get some fresh air, we can show you the campus some more." Yang said calmly, he tilted his head and nodded, yes.

"Great-" She turned to the group again. "See, he's on board for it."

"Fine, fine. Alright." Weiss said, grabbing her rapier and sheathing it at her side. Blake did the same with Gambol Shroud and Ruby grabbed Crescent Rose. The girls all walked to the door and gestured for him to follow, he walked after them like a lost child, bear in hand.

As soon as they got out the door, they were met with professer Ozpin, Goodwitch and Oobleck. Oobleck and Goodwitch looked to be quietly arguing with Ozpin when they noticed the girls. Ozpin called out to them.

"Girls, I see you've all got acquainted with our guest?" He asked them all, they all nodded and had him at the back of their group, Ruby closed their dorm door.

"It is for the better, where are you going now may I ask?" He asked them again, Blake answered for them.

"We were just going to show him the campus, before he is moved tomorrow." Ozpin smiled.

"It's good you're volunteering to show him around, he'll need to get used to the school grounds." The girls shot him a questionning look.

"What do you mean sir?" Weiss asked him. He took a sip of his coffee before responding.

"Well, I contacted the mental institute in Atlas, they gave me an idea." He trailed off, the girls all nodding with him, 57 tilted his head to the side.

"They said that because his condition isn't as sever as needed to be admitted into their hospital, he is to remain here as a student and our staff would pay close attention. It's to be a form of rehabilitation for him without being locked up again." When he finished, the girls faces had all paled. The giants shoulders relaxed and he spoke up.

"What does this mean?" He asked, intensity still audible but no-where near as loud as before. Ozpin looked at him and smiled again.

"That means you'll be attending my school as a pupil, learning on how to combat the grimm and protect people."

"But sir I-" Weiss went to speak but Ozpin cut her off.

"Now Ms Schnee, we know what we are doing and what we are dealing with. I can guaruntee you he will be perfectly fine here." Weiss didn't want to argue with him, she knew he was right about almost everything.

"So that means he'll get...a...weapon?" Ruby squeaked a small bit, Ozpin furrowing his brows at her question.

"Of course, you're going to help him build it." Ruby brightened up a small bit, almost all of her concern washing away as she went into deep thought.

"His uniform will arrive tomorrow morning and he will be attending classes with you, at least one of you will be in each of his classes so do not worry about him lashing out." Ozpin examined each of the girls' faces. Ruby looked happy a small bit at the prospect of a new weapon. Yang looked questionnable of his decision, as did Blake and Weiss looked almost horrified.

"Sir, I urge you to reconsider." Goodwitch said to him, he chuckled softly.

"Glynda, you have trusted me for over seven years at this school, are you going to stop now?" She pursed her lips at his words and shook her head, no.

"Excellent, well I shouldn't hold you from the tour." Ozpin turned and went to head back the way he came when he stopped.

"Oh and girls?" He looked at them, tone never faltering as he continued. "He is to stay with you for the next four years, seeing as he seems to have grown fond of you all. Have fun now." He turned back and proceeded to walk away ith the other two teachers, the two teachers were still arguing even when they turned the corner and left. The girls all looked at each other and then back to the man behind them.

"FRIENDSHIP!" He screamed as he wrapped them all in a huge group hug, bundling them all into one.

"Let go of us. Right. Now." Weiss said in a warning tone. He let them go and heard Blake gasp for air, he caught her neck when he snatched them all up.

"Come on, this can't be th...okay it is pretty bad, but we can make this work, right?" Yang asked the group, Ruby speaking up from her trance like state to reply.

"Yeah, we're Team RWBY!" Ruby announced to them all, the group all smirked at her perkiness but were all still on edge due to the maniac behind them.

"So...you're with us then." Yang told him, sighing exasperated at the bombshell dropped on them a few minutes ago. He nodded with her, still clutching his bear tightly. Ruby was the first one to break the silence engulfing the group.

"Let's go?" She asked them all, questionning herself more than them really. They all nodded and moved down the hallway, letting Ruby do the introductions and details.

"So this is where you'll be staying, you'll be here when you're not on an assignment or in class." She told him, he nodded, understanding her. The girls led him to the stairwell, leading him down them and outside. They heard him inhale deeply and calm down a small bit, they walked towards a huge building to their left, the spire in the middle of the school.

"This is where Ozpin's office is, well at the top-" She pointed upwards and he leaned back and stared with her finger.

"You go to him if you have any issues with other people or classes." She said, happily. The group quickly moved on to the next building, a spherical shaped roof and regular concrete walls. Ruby gestured to it and began to explain.

"This is our auditorium, where we gather if we're told to. This for our assemblies or our evacuation place to meet up, we also come here for our assignments to be spoken to." She told him, he nodded along with her again in understanding.

The group all moved along to a smaller, yet still rather big building with huge windows, showing a good view inside. 57 looked in, seeing a huge gathering of students with their lunches, a small kitchen up the back of the room. A mirage of long tables and slightly smaller ones were spread across the hall.

"And that's the cafeteria, we go there for our...well, lunch." Ruby said, rubbing her neck awkwardly. The group then moved to the main building.

Within an hour, he was shown Ooblecks history class, Goodwitchs combat class and Proffesser Ports room, he taught them all about the types of grimm and how to deal with them efficeintly. The team all returned to their room, the bell going for the end of lunch and huge crowds beginning to form in the hallways.

57 focused on the small red cape in front of him, trying his hardest not to lose focus on it. He kept hearing so many people as they walked past him, he heard faint taunts like 'Retard' or 'Filthy beast' being flung at him, he just remained focused on the small cape in front of him and kept a hold of his bear, occasionally hearing people snigger at him for having the bear but he only tightened his grip on it.

He felt a light grip on his wrist, he looked down to see Ruby had stopped walking along with the rest of the team.

"It's alright, the guys are all jealous." She told him, he twitched his head before replying.

"Jealous of what!?" He shouted at her, Yang smirked and butted in for Ruby.

"The fact that you're built like a machine and have a group of girls around you." He felt a small rush of heat to his cheeks when she laughed with Blake and Ruby, he brought his free hand to his mask and tried feeling it.

"THE HEAT'S NOT THERE! WHY?!" He screamed at himself, demanding an answer. Yang and Blake laughed, Weiss made sure no-one else made any snide remarks and Ruby began to lead the group back on track. They got back to the dorm block, after a good few taunts and laughs at their newest members and Weiss almost breaking into a fight with someone.

"Well then next time she shouldn't say anything!" Weiss screamed at them all, they had walked into the dorm and Ruby closed the door calmly, unlike Weiss who had her rapier out and was being held back by Blake.

"She was only getting under your skin." Blake tried to calm her down, 57 just watched her with his bear in hand, like a child watching his angry mother.

"She meant that, I swear if she says anything like it again I'l-" Yang cut the ranting off.

"We'll make sure she doesn't, it's cool. Besides, they're not that small." Yang said, hopefully trying to cheer her up. Weiss began to sputter with a red face, either with rage or embarrassment or both.

"What is the they?" 57 asked them, Yang turned to him and replied before Weiss could stop her.

"It's the...chest area." She said delicately, 57 tilted his head as if asking 'Why?'

"What's wrong about the small ones?" He asked, Weiss continued to stutter in her rage and Yang began to educate him.

"Look, because 'bigger is better' apparently, she's mad because that girls was...really disproportional." She said, having the full effect of their size hit her now. The girl in question was a fourth year, someone named Marcy Kerrigan.

"THE SIZE DOEN'T MATTER! AGH, SHE'LL PAY FOR THE MIND GAMES!" 57 shouted at the group, heading for the door with his bear. Ruby sped in his way and stopped him, although struggling as he seemed intent on getting through the door.

"Look, we should just let it go-" Yang started, looking at Weiss. "All of us, just forget about it." She finished, 57 stopped shoving his way at Ruby and Weiss shoved Blake off of her and made for the bathroom, slamming the door behind her. Blake sighed.

"We need to avoid that girl." She said, eyeing 57 as well, knowing he'd had something to say or do. "For her sake." She finished, Ruby and Yang agreed.

"So...rest of the day in here then?" Yang asked them all, heading for her top bunk. The group all nodded and the girls headed for their respective bunks. 57 stood at the door, staring at the door to make sure no-one got in.

"Whatcha wanna talk about?" Yang asked them all, Weiss came out of the bathroom now, looking considerably calmer and her rapier being tossed at the food of her bed as she climbed into her bed.

"Well, tomorrow we have classes, what's first?" Blake asked.

"Oh, we're all in that one, it's combat class with Goodwitch." Ruby told her, the girls all smirked at the idea of being in a class with each other, even Weiss.

"Am I there?!" He shouted at them, getting a glare from Weiss and he remembered his volume rule.

"Uhh, yeah. Actually I think the only classes we got with each other as a team are Ports, Ooblecks and Goodwitchs. The rest we're split up." Yang told them, they all remembered now.

"Cool, so we got Goodwitch first?" Ruby asked her, she nodded yes and the room went silent.

"The day is still a young one." 57 stated to the room, they all looked at him and then out the window, they saw the sun wasn't close to setting yet and knew what he was meaning.

"Well, after our tour and lunch, we don't need to go out anymore. We can stay here and talk." Weiss said, not wanting to go out and meet the Marcy girl again. The rest caught on rather quickly and exhaled, trying to come up with something to talk about.

"So..." Ruby began awkwardly, coming up blank on what to talk about.

"I know! We coul-" Ruby immediately cut Yang off as she shouted over her.

"57 what kinda weapon do you want!?" 57 twitched.

"WHY HAVE I TO WATCH MY VOLUME BUT SHE DOESN'T WATCH HERS?!" He bellowed at the girls, Weiss shutting them both up.

"Enough, the both of you!" They both quieted down a small bit.

"Alright, Ruby don't scream." Ruby nodded slowly, like a puppy who had just been kicked.

"And 57? What kind of weapon do you want?"

'A NEW MALLET FOR THE POUNDING OF MANY SOULS!?'

'UNLEASH HELL UPON THESE GIRLS WHEN WE GET IT! RIP THEM ALL LIMB FROM BLOODY LIMB!'

'NO-NO! BAD ME!'

57 began to consider his options, he wants something that can rip through people and grimm alike, although not horribly heavy so momentum needs to be used for every fight. Lightweight, likely one handed, able to rip through things easily, like a sharp or heated blade, perhaps a chainsaw? It'd need to be storage effective, not taking up too much room but can easily be used and pulled out quickly.

"Recommendations from the red-hood?" He asked Ruby, she looked thoughtful for a second.

"Well, how do you like to fight?"

"I love the feeling of them breaking beneath the salty-saw. Their eyes run out and time forgets them."

"You like feeling them when you're fighting?" She asked, skeptical now as when they first saw him he had a five foot long axe. He nodded yes nonetheless.

"So probably something for your hands, like a small hammer or blade?" She suggested, he shook his head, no. He held his hands up and showed her them, his small bear still being locked in a death grip by him.

"Oh, I get it. You're a punchy kinda fighter?"

"YES!" He shouted at her, ignoring the glare from Weiss. Ruby clapped her hands and turned to Yang.

"Sis, you're gunna need to put him to the test." Yang smirked, she could take him unarmed and she knew she could.

"Sure, no problem." She shrugged, Blake was just examining the team chattering away and Weiss was looking out of the window.

"Okay...57?" Yang asked his name, she didn't like calling someone a number but she had to put up with it for now. He looked at her.

"Show me how you'd throw a really good right hook." She told him, he clenched his right hand into a fist and put some anger into it, it moved faster than his size would let on, Yang almost being caught by it but avoiding it.

"Not bad, now an uppercut. Nothing fancy." She told him again, he brought his right arm in and curled it up, throwing it up in a swift curl motion at her lower jaw, she sidestepped it effortlessly, that wasn't his strong one.

"He...has some hope, especially if I teach him." She prodded herself in the chest and readied herself, grabbing a small gym bag at the bottom of the bed.

"Ruby, you should probably go and work on his...whatever he wants, and I'll show him the ropes, come on big guy, we're going to the gym." She commanded him, he stood behind her as she went for the door, Ruby grabbing a small ruler and pen to draw up plans for him.

Yang swung the door open after waving her farewells, Ruby even shouted her goodbye to 57 and he waved back with his bear hand, Yang made sure he was following her and headed towards the gym with him lumbering after her.

"Hey guys, do you think it's a good idea...y'know, giving him a weapon and letting him near schoolkids?" Weiss asked, Blake being the only one listening as Ruby had her headphones on and humming with her song, drawing some blueprints on her notepad at her desk.

"Well, he has been rather calm here, ever since he got his stuffed toy he seems to have calmed down. I don't see too much harm in it." Blake said from her bed, trying to read. Weiss argued back.

"Well, yeah but for how long? I mean, how long before he goes back to his old self? It just takes one idiot to hide that bear and he'll snap...you saw how he was when Yang had it." Weiss said quietly as if they were still in the room with them. Blake sighed and set her book down, knowing she wouldn't get a good read until this was out of the way.

"Weiss, the headmaster seems to know what he's doing with him. If he acts up, he'll be removed from Beacon but until then, he'll be normal...well as normal as he can be anyway."

"I do not trust him, not one bit. Especially a faunus of all people." Blake's trigger finger twitched a small bit and she took a deep breath, releasing her anger at Weiss' statement.

"Look, I don't think him being a faunus has anything to do with this."

"I think it does, he wouldn't be as dangerous if he didn't have...whatever faunus things he has, he'd be normal and easier to deal with." Weiss said, Blake was getting frustrated with the heiress now.

"Weiss, just because he is the way he is, that doesn't mean that his heritage has anything to do with it. He has a little extra on the side is all."

"He's an animal, we even watched him murder someone for Oum's sake!" Blake couldn't let the animal jab go unhindered.

"Watch it Weiss, he isn't an animal. He's...different, because of what he's been subjected to by those horrible hospital staff." Blake finished, trying to divert the topic away from the faunus.

"Maybe...but I still don't trust him." Weiss finished their conversation and fell back on her bed. Blake did the same, pulling her book back up. 'Of course you don't, you ignorant girl.' Blake was thinking to herself as she got engrossed into her book again.

AT THE GYM:

"So these are your dumbbells, those are the barbells and that's the treadmill." Yang said, gesturing to the respective pieces of equipment as she went along. 57 was beside her, there were a few of the regular people in the gym, the one's who either skipped class or special outside buyers for the facilities.

"And that one?" He asked, still as loud as ever, he pointed towards a strange looking machine, a guy was already using it and pushing weights up with his legs, his back against the seat on it at an angle. Yang turned to him.

"You don't need to know that one, you're not going to be using it." She said, she had gotten changed into her gym outfit, consisting of short, black fighting shorts and a yellow vest, similar to her sleeping outfit.

"Alright!" He shouted, he walked across the quiet gymnasium, over to the dumbbell area and looked for the bigger ones. Yang walked over with him, he needed to warm up before they trained and she was slightly curious as to how much he could lift.

He picked up one of the heavier ones, a sixty but he looked to have some small difficulty holding it up to his head height. Yang walked up to him, wrapped both of her arms around it and placed it back on it's shelf.

"Quite the gym freak aren't ya?" She asked, surprised at how strong he actually was to be able to hold that up with one hand. But she had seen stronger and even beaten down bigger, badder guys.

"No! The people made me this, not the gym." He said, quieting at the last part, she couldn't quite pick it up but couldn't ask when another one of the gym members approached them, sweating and built about as muscular as 57.

"Hey, is he your friend?" He held his arm out in front of Yang, tensing his arm in an attempt to show off, she smirked to herself.

"Yeah, he's with me." He didn't like the sound of it when she said that, expression changing. 'Oh, he's one of those guys?' Yang thought, she knew how to deal with the douchebag kinds of guys here.

"Hey buddy? You wanna keep it down? We'-" 57 cut him off when he spoke to him.

"We're not buddies!" 57 shouted at him, the guys brows furrowed and he took a step towards him, in an atempt to intimidate him. 57 stood his ground, not like he'd move for anything.

"Okay, hey roid freak-" Yang felt a ping of anger at the gym member for that remark. "Keep the noise down, alright?" He asked, turning back to Yang with his signature, cocky grin and wiped his face with his towel. Yang quickly took him in.

He had similar bone structure to Cardin, but he had longer blonde hair, not like Yangs but shoulder length. It was all matted from his sweat. He had no kind of scars or bruising on his face, it was pristine and untouched.

"So...where were we?" Yang flicked her hair back, getting ready to go through the normal routine. She always had guys coming up and hitting on her at the gym, this guy was no different.

"Your name, big boy?" She asked suggestively, he immediately fell for it.

"Chad, Chad Michaels." He held his sweaty hand out, Yang ignored it and brushed her hair back. 57 watched them, staring as his teammate was being looked over like a piece of meat. His grip around the bear intensified.

'HE WATCHES OUR INNOCENT ONE?! HE LOOKS AT HER LIKE SHE IS ONE OF THE NASTY WOMEN! DEAL WITH HIM!' His inner self commanded, he went with it and placed his hand on Chad's shoulder, spinning him around when he asked for Yang's number.

"Hey! Get your hands off me!" He shouted at 57, shoving him back and seeing the small bear flail in his hands. Yang saw it and tried to get his attention but it was too late.

"Oh my god! What the hell is this?!" He laughed hysterically, staring at the small bear. 57 tilted his head to the side, quickly forgetting Yang was there. He wanted this Chad to bleed for his laughter.

"What's the funny thing? Tell me!" Chad just kept laughing and doubled over a small bit. 57 took the opportunity and raised his arm up, slamming his elbow down on Chad's head and dropping him to the ground instantly, he sprawled out on the floor, clutching his head. He looked a small bit dazed when 57 rose his foot up, ready to crush the guys face when Yang stopped him.

"Hey, hey, hey! It's alright, come on. We'll go and get started." She said franticly, trying to drag him away from the shaken Chad. She dragged 57 over to the fighting ring and quickly stepp under the ropes, 57 coming through the second line of them after her.

"Okay, one." She started, staring him down, he held the bear up to his mask to protect himself. "Don't start fights in here! Not outside this ring, alright?" She shouted, Yang looked angry and 57 nodded with her.

"Two, do not EVER just attack strangers, even if they're jack-offs like him." She pointed towards the man that had just gotten to his feet and made for the door.

"And three...not bad technique." She told him, smiling again and her entire demeanor changed, her eyes looked joyful again.

"Agh I'm sorry sunshine! But the muscle wouldn't leave your body alone with the eyes!" 57 screamed, still angry at the Chad guy, Yang smirked when she replied.

"I know, and I also know how to handle guys like him." She said, he relaxed a small bit when she said that.

"Okay, now that's out of the way..." She trailed off and looked at him with a predatory gaze and crouched down, lowering herself closer to the mat. 57 stood tall and still, confused as to what she was doing but he was ready for a fight.

"Show me what you got." She gestured to herself, egging him on to rush her. He looked at her as he replied.

"What?" When he finished, he barely had time to react when Yang rushed him and tried to throw a punch at his chest, 57 sidestepped and moved away from her.

"No sunshine! Don't do it!" He shouted at her, he refused to hit one of the few people who had given him a chance in life. He shook his head and got rid of those thoughst as she came barrelling across the ring again, trying to land a high kick on him. He grabbed her leg and pulled it, making her hit the mat.

'NOW GET HER! KILL HER! MAKE HER REGRET EVERYTHING!'

57 dropped to his knee's when his inner self shouted that, he clutched his neck and tried to throttle himself, make it all end for the girls, incase he got out. Yang ran up at him after she pushed herself up, she kicked him in the chest and pried his arms away from him, he dropped the small bear.

"NO GIRL! RUN! IT'S YELLING AGAIN! DON'T STAY!" He screamed, his voice sounded like he was crying, he seemed upset by something. Yang picked up the small bear and held it in front of him, she had no idea if he had seen it or not. When his breathing slowed and he took it in his hands, she knew something went right. He was laying against the corner of the ring, holding the small bear in his arms, Yang tapped him on the shoulder and gestured for them both to leave after they had began to get funny looks from other occupants.

57 got up, towered next to her and tilted his head when he looked at her. She looked up at him and smiled, he noticed how inviting it was. It wasn't playful, or joking it was...something he hadn't seen before. He tapped his hand on her shoulder awkwardly.

"Thank you, sun child." He said, she was beginning to understand his ramblings a small bit.

"No worries, now let's go. I'll get changed and we'll head back." She said in her usual tone, he liked that sound. It was such a contrast against the other voices he heard all the time.

"I'll wait over there." He brushed past her and left the ring, heading for the door and Yang headed for the changing rooms to get dressed in her fighting gear.

POV SWITCH TO TEAM RWBY:

Ruby took her headphones off, setting her hand on her lap and wiped the sweat of it off. Her hand had cramped up a small bit from the drawing but she had 57's weapon design finished. She looked at it in awe, she wanted it so much and wished it was hers...but Crescent Rose was her one and only.

Weiss was on her bed, playing around with her scroll on the internet, doing whatever she does on it and Blake was still on her book, a good few chapters on from her last argument with Weiss. Weiss broke the small silence in the group, now that Ruby had her headphones off.

"So..." She began, sitting up and waiting for the other two girls to pay attention, they both looked at her and she continued. "What do you think his story is?" She asked the group, Ruby looked questionning and Blake sighed.

"That's none of our business, Weiss." She told her.

"Yeah, but aren't you just a little curious?" Weiss asked, Blake hated to admit that she was curious about it, hated even more that she was agreeing with Weiss on it.

"Yes, but he'll open up to us when he wants to. We don't have the right to wonder things about him." She said, Ruby getting involved and backing Weiss.

"We have the right. We're allowed free-thinking, besides, It can't hurt to be curious, right?" She asked, Blake could only 'hmm' in agreement.

"So..." Weiss began, egging the other two to come up with idea's as well. "Blake?" Blake looked at her.

"What do you think?" She asked her, Blake only sighed as she sat her book down again. She went into thought for a few seconds before she began.

"I think that he's had exposure to certain horrible environments." She said, going to pick her book up and hopefully finish chapter 13. Ruby stopped her.

"Yeah, that's kinda obvious. But what specifically? For how long? By who? How many times?" Ruby was about to continue when Blake cut her off, holding her hand up.

"Ruby, this is none of our business. If he wants to open up about it, then we can know for sure and not fill our heads with assumptious nonsense." She said, trying to end it quickly before the man in question walked through the door and caught them.

"Well yeah, but I-" Ruby began, being cut off again by the door opening and Yang bursting through with her bag, looking out of breath. She looked to have just ran a marathon.

"Yang, what happened?" Weiss asked, getting up from her bed and walking over to her.

"I *pant* tried to *pant* race the guy here." She managed inbetween breaths, dropping her bag to the floor and heading for her bunk, Weiss was about to ask when 57 came through the door.

"About fucking time! I thought I w!-" He stopped when he saw another glare from Weiss, he quieted down to finish. "I was going to be lost." He finished, closing the door behind him with a slam. Ruby sped over to him and held the paper with her schematics on it out to him.

"Here!" She announced happily, ignoring the stare from Weiss about her volume. 57 picked it from her hand, holding it up to his mask and examining it.

"I like it, the hole-punchers will please the me." He rambled, half mindedly as he was engrossed in Ruby's drawings. The weapon that was on the paper looked devastating, solid metal gauntlets that went up the forearm and stopped at the shoulders, joint room at the elbow and wrist for obvious reasons. At the wrist however, there was the begininning of three, sharp looking and damaging blades. One came out, circled around and stopped circling when it came to his middle knuckle from the left side, the right side was the same and down the middle was a small blade that rose a small bit, before meeting the other ones in front of his knuckles. They had an inch or two gap space inbetween them, judging from her measurements.

"I love the look of this, the soul stabber." He nicknamed it, knowing it wouldn't stick but he liked it until a better one was found for it. Ruby smiled as she spoke up.

"Glad I could help." She beamed and flew off to the bathroom. He handed it to Yang next to him, as she was wanting to look it over. She liked it, knowing how creative her little sister was with weapons and especially talented at forging them and making them work, she handed the paper back to him after remembering it.

"Look's pretty badass, but you'll need more training from moi-" She placed a hand on her chest. "If you're gunna be any good with them." 57 nodded, knowing he'd likely need a good few sessions before getting even the basics done. Yang smiled and went over to her bed, not needing a shower seeing as they weren't in the gym long.

"So 57?" Weiss asked, finally getting used to saying his name as a number. "Where are you from?" She asked, Blake shook her head, knowing what the heiress was trying but she kept silent.

57 only grunted a small 'huh?' out as he went over to his corner next to the bookshelf again, resting against it and sitting the bear next to him.

"You know, what kingdom?" She asked him, he tilted his head at her.

'What's the Schnee girl talking about?' He asked himself mentally. She looked to furrow her brows at him.

"Alright, if you don't wanna say then fine." She had a little huff at the end, going back on to her bed and on her scroll, 57 was baffled at what she was asking.

"What are you talking about W-W-Weiss?" He struggled with the name, thankfully he had began to calm down from before and he could speak relatively normal.

"Nothing, nevermind." She said to him, an annoyed tone on her. He just shrugged and went back to looking around the room. She huffed again, he was getting a small bit aggravated now. Was he supposed to have said something?

"What is it?" He asked, beginning to show the frustration in his tone.

"Nothing." She responded quickly.

"It wasn't nothing, tell me."

"Nevermind."

"I swear to-" 57 began, but Yang stopped him from her bed.

"Guys! Enough. Just forget it, kay?" She asked him, he looked up and nodded at her. Weiss nodded with her words and Yang let out a sigh,, collapsing on to her bed and getting ready to settle in for the rest of the evening.

"57, what kinda faunus are you?" Weiss asked from her bed, obviously curious and trying to switch the subject on. 57 looked over to her.

"I'm the bear, not the normal bear but the bigger bear." He rambled, obviously not interested in talking with her.

"So you're a bear faunus?" She asked him, he nodded along with her and she went into some thought. Yang looked down and across the room at her, she knew how Weiss was with the faunus seeing as she's a Schnee.

"Weiss, how long before we turn in?" Yang asked, faking a yawn and trying to move the awkward conversation onwards. Ruby came through from the bathroom, dressed in her sleeping attire, Blake quickly hopped from her bed and dashed into the bathroom to change and get ready.

"We still have an hour or two, but we're not heading out anytime soon-" She threw a glance at the guy in the corner. "So we'd be better off settling in for an early night." Yang nodded.

"Cool." She finished and the room dropped into silence, Ruby looking around for anyone to talk with but everyone was doing what they did at this time. Blake was getting ready for bed, Weiss playing around on her scroll and Yang listening to her music, earphones in so she couldn't hear anyone else.

"Hey, 57?" Ruby asked, he looked over at her. With the sun beginning to set and the rest of the school heading to their respective dorms, the faint red glow of the sun against his eye lenses made her feel...uncomfortable when she made eye contact with him.

"Hmm?" He sounded out after a few seconds, she snapped back and continued.

"How old are you?" She asked, still happy sounding.

"I've seen eighteen summers."

"So you're eighteen?"

"Nineteen at some point this year." He said, nodding with it as if trying to convince himself. Ruby pondered in thought and then her eyes were drawn to the small bear, Blake had come out the shower and Yang had her music off now, heading for the door.

"So why do you like having a small toy with you?" She asked, pure curiousity. Weiss hissed over at her, but she didn't do anything wrong. Blake's eyes widened when she heard her ask him that and Yang stopped. The full room was still, not one person moved.

"Not like I'm making fun of you or anything-" She said quickly, he visibly relaxed a small bit. "I was just curious." He tilted his head, as if thinking of how to word his response.

"It's what I was told to keep at all times, so I didn't go bad." He told her, she looked questionning of his answer a small bit, Weiss nodded in understanding and the other two girls remained still.

"Oh, so it's like a therapeutic thing?" Weiss asked from her bed, cutting into the conversation. Ruby looked at him and he shrugged.

"Must be." He said, it was obvious he wasn't too intent on trying to talk about it, so Yang helped him out a small bit.

"Hey, you need any sleeping stuff? I don't think it's too comfortable sleeping in that mask now." She said, trying to get it off of him but he ignored the attempt.

"It suffices."

"Meh." Yang shrugged and headed into the bathroom, Blake went to her bed and Ruby went on to hers as well, he remained in the small corner with the toy. Weiss and Ruby both looked over at him, they could see he was feeling tired after today's events. Ruby couldn't focus knowing that the newest member of their team was being forced to sleep on the floor.

57 got up from the corner, heading for the door when Blake called out after him, he stopped when he heard his name being called.

"57, we sleep in here. Where are you going?" She asked, maintaining her polite and well mannered composure, despite having a yawn at the end. He turned fully to them and looked at them all, aside from Yang as she was stsill in the bathroom.

"Boys and Girls aren't allowed to share." He told them, making for the door again but this time being stopped by Ruby.

"That's dumb, stay in here and sleep." She said confidently, he clenched his hand into a fist as he turned again to them all.

"The men said no boys should be with the girls."

"What men?" Ruby asked.

"The white coat men." He told them, almost sounding hesitant to say it at all.

"Well they're not here." Ruby said, keeping her confident tone on.

"It's the rules!" 57 shouted at them, turning again and pulling the door open, Yang had came out the bathroom however and grabbed him by the wrist and ushered him back in when she saw Goodwitch down the hallway.

"Get in here." Yang hissed at him when he was spun back in by the brawler, the door closed quietly and Yang turned to face him. He stared her down when he looked back but she didn't falter.

"You're sleeping in here with us, got it?" She said, threatening tone on. The rest of the girls looked worried at the use of the threatening tone, Weiss darting into the bathroom to change into her nightgown. Ruby looked ready to speak up when 57 began.

"Ahh, the saferoom? I'll remain." He told Yang, she nodded to his question and headed for her bed. 57 remained standing there, he hadn't spent a night in the same room with one girl, let alone four. He stood frozen, not knowing if it was alright to move anywhere.

"You're allowed to pick somewhere to sleep y'know." Ruby told him happily from her bunk, he looked up at her but stayed still.

"Rules? What do I do and not do?" He asked, or more demanded from his voice. Ruby went into thought but Blake almost instantly responded for her.

"No touching, no screaming. Just go to sleep and stay asleep. Use the bathroom if you need to, but do it quietly." She said, annoyed that she wasn't getting any sleep. 57 nodded and made for the corner.

"You want a blanket or something? It can't be comfortable there." Yang asked from her bunk, 57 shook his head, no in response.

"It's fine, thanking anyway." He said, he was suddenly made aware of all of his movements and he began to worry about them, for once in his life he was worried about something. He stepped over into the corner cautiously, right into the corner at the wall so the girls had their room to move around. He felt them watching him, he didn't need to turn around to know it.

He curled back into his ball again, keeping the small bear in his arms like a child would. All of the girls, now including Weiss that she had come out of the bathroom were stunned. He was so silent and so still now, like he was a statue.

It wasn't long before all of the girls and their newest member had all began to fall asleep, surprisingly it was just after half-past seven when they all fell into unconsciousness. The sun had set and the night had just began to creep in when Team RWBY's dorm was silent.

AN: I hope I have made a good choice in the change, let me know in the reviews, it helps A LOT.