Rwby does not belong to me but to Monty Oum and this is my second fanfiction story so bear with me on it
It was late afternoon, the skies is a shade of black with a dark figure standing in complete darkness with emerald eyes. When people saw this figure they instantly ran sensing darkness around him.
'This world, why they have only seen the dark when I am searching for the light' the figure thought as someone walked up behind him waiting for him to turn. "What do you want Cinder I am busy at the moment."
"Now, now Cross there's no need for that, the only reason I am here is to give your pay." Cinder said as she threw an envelope next to Cross as he placed it in his pocket. "So what are you looking for now Cross?"
"A target that is named Kent blank and right now I see him in sight." Cross said as he pulled out a knife and aimed it at the target ready to throw it at his head as he heard a loud gun fire in a distance. "I think you henchmen need help."
"I will make him pay for causing a distortion for the others well we will keep in touch cross and remember you are still contracted with us." Cinder said as she got into a bullhead and made her way to the explosion.
'Now let see, he is still looking at the smoke from the explosion all I have to do is get the information and I am off to the hospital.' Cross thought as he threw the knife at the man's chest as Cross jumped down the building to a nearby ally where the injured man ran off to after being pinned to the ground. "Okay listen here you tell me the info and you die fast and painless or I can torture you until you crack and spill everything how's that?"
"I would rather die than tell anything to you anything." Spat the man as he spit out blood landing next to Cross.
"Okay then looks like I would actually have fun on this one." Cross said as he took the knife from the man's chest and sliced hid throat open. After all the life left the man cross placed his hands on the man's chest and placed the knife back into the man's previous wound, when the knife was back in placed he poured his aura into his hands releasing a crimson/purple light as the victim was brought back to life gasping for air.
"How, how in the fucking world am I still alive!?"
"I am the reason you still alive now start talking so I won't get bored." Cross said as he brought out another knife from his side and brought it near the man's crotch.
"You wouldn't dare."
"You think I wouldn't think twice about it." Cross said as he stabbed the man's crotch and twisted the blade to increase the pain. "Think again, now talk!" Cross said as he lunged the blade deeper into Kent.
"Okay, okay there is a secret meeting near the port in a couple of days there is to be a big dust shipment there that is to leave 3 days after the meeting now have mercy on me!" Kent said as both of them heard sirens coming their way.
"Since you told me everything I need there is no need for you now." Cross said as he took out both blades and sliced Kent throat open for the second time then ran off into the shadow abyss to claim his reward.
2 hours later after Cross fled the scene and delivered the information to his client he went to the hospital to meet someone in particular. 'Hope she's happy to see me again?' Cross thought as he opened a door to a girl's room with the name "Sapphire Sophia Cross" written on the door. When he stepped in he saw a teenage girl in a standard blinding white shirt and pants, with blonde hair, light skin complexion and the most noticeable of all sapphire colored eyes. She was beautiful with the light coming on her as the world was centered around her signifying that she was there and not an imagination. As she looked over at the door she smiled, her smile was like seeing a life out of nothing being made as she only waved at him noticing her hands are still in bandages. She signaled Cross to take a seat next to her as he applied without delay closed the door.
"Hello there Cross, how has it been?" Sapphire asked as Cross gave her a kiss on her forehead then took a seat.
"It's been doing good sis the only thing is that I can't get out of work even when I told them, I don't want to work anymore and they still drag me back." Cross said as the door opened to reveal a female faunus with brown hair, light complexion and hazel colored eyes and the most noticeable brown rabbit ears.
"Hello there Ms. Scarlatina, what's on today's planner?" Sapphire asked as the nurse only smiled when she heard her call her as a superior.
"There's no need to be formal you can just call me Velvet and today is to check your blood pressure and who might you be?" Velvet asked Cross as she saw that he has emerald eyes, a light but darker complexion then sapphire, black hair with green tips, beige cargo pants, an open black jacket with a swamp-green shirt with a red V-neck undershirt, and a necklace of a heart around his him.
"The name's Cross, I am Sapphire's twin brother." Cross said as Velvet smiled then nodded at his relation with Sapphire.
"So you two are the last two remaining family of the Cross?" Someone said as they turned there heads to see a man in his mid-30-40's but still looks like he is in his 20's giving his a sense of being older through his grey hairs.
"Oh professor Ozpin what are you doing here?" Velvet asked as she looked at Ozpin with a concern look.
"I am here because I want to see if the legend is true and it looks like they are." Ozpin said as he looked at Cross and Sapphire with a smirk and then went forward to take a seat. "Do you two know who I am?"
"Nope." Cross said as Sapphire just smiled at the man.
"Yes." Sapphire said as she extended one of her hands to shake professor Ozpin hand. "I am a big believer that you can train people to defeat the creatures grim."
"Yes indeed and I was wondering if you two would like to attend my school?" Ozpin said as he saw Velvet strap one of Sapphires arm to a machine to see her blood pressure.
"I would love-" Sapphire was interrupted when Cross spoke up louder then his sister
"The answer is no." Cross said as he cleared his throat to speak again. "I am going to need to deny the opening for me and my sister."
"And why would that be?" Ozpin asked as he raised a brow at the boy.
"The reason is because I don't want anything to do with fighting the creatures of grim and that my sister can't even walk." Cross said as his scroll rang as he picked it up. "Hello…yes this is him…wait a minute, how much….yeah, yeah just tell me who it is that is meeting me...okay then looks like I'm am now in service until the contract is terminated until me meet again." Cross said as he hung up the scroll and looked at Ozpin with a stern look. "You are an ass, you know that right." Cross said as he sighed in frustration. "Well looks like I have to work with you until the contract is done but remember this, I won't ever work with you if the contract is broken."
"Understood now then Mr. Cross follow me to the ship that will take you to your living quarters that we promised you until me don't need you anymore." Ozpin said as he went out the door to see a female with blond hair, glasses, high heels, a cape, a white blouse, and a little bit above the knee length skirt with leggings.
"Hey Sofia remember that I will always come here at this time no matter what I will still be here for you." Cross said as he hugged his sister with a smile.
"Okay, but remember you have work to do so don't worry about me, I got the nurses and doctors to look after me." Sapphire said as she waved at Cross before he went out the door.
-Air docks-
"So you see that is why we hired you for the extra enforcement with the first year students' missions." Glynda said as she gave cross documents with the information of all the possible first years he will probably work with.
"So that's all, I am hired to help these first year students until the contract is over, well this is going to be the easiest job I ever gotten." Cross said as he pulled out two jagged edge ninjato swords and proceed to reshaped them.
"Those are interesting choice of weapons you got the."
"Yeah well these two had gotten me out of multiple situations involving death." Cross said as he saw the dust ship land as the three piled in to head to the destination point Beacon.
-Beacon-
"So you see all of these are the students that you will help along with the information on their strength and weaknesses so remember do not think of this to give to others or you will be hunted." Glynda said through a hologram projection on Cross scroll. "Right now I am having a team deliver your dinner seeing that you are mostly antisocial with people that are not your sister, good day Mr. Cross." Glynda said as Cross closed his scroll as one of his knives fell to the ground.
"I should really stop hanging upside down whenever I am in a new home." Cross said as he heard the door open to his new room and came in a group of four girls with there weapons in hand except for one which is carrying the food.
"Hello, anyone in here?" Said one of the girls that has almost all her clothing colored a bright yellow along with her hair.
"A course he would be here you dunce, he only got here and besides Ozpin placed a look out somewhere so someone can make sure nothing bad will happen to him." Said the girl in white as Cross can see that she is holding a rapier that holds dust in its guard.
"Weiss, Yang stop arguing we are guess to someone we have never met yet so be nice until we get out of here and into our own dorm, okay?" Said the girl in red as both Yang and Weiss kept there weapons up to prepare to fight in case of something will happen.
"Hey Ruby I think we should leave the food here and go I have a bad feeling about this." Said the girl in black as the one in red placed the food on the floor and looked at her.
"What's wrong Blake you can't see him?" Asked the girl in red as they heard something fall, as the sound echoed in the room they all readied their weapons and pointed toward the sound only to see nothing.
"Ruby I think Blake is right we need to get out of here." Yang said as she inched toward the door only to hear a scroll playing music. "I love this song." Yang said as she started to dance lightly to the song.
"Yang focus we might be in danger right now." Ruby said as she looked in front to see a teenage boy in front of her sitting on the ground as all the girls shriek in surprised that he wasn't there before. "Guys I think we have met the schools supporter." Ruby said as everyone saw that he is wearing bandages on his eyes.
"Before all of you ask I am not blind." Cross said as he leaned toward the food and then retreated from it. "And I also don't eat meat."
"Oh well what do you eat?" Yang asked as the rest of her team looked at her.
"Fruit, I basically only eat fruit." Cross said as Yang opened a bag she brought that held sorts of food.
"Hey I got a mango and an apple will that do?"
"Yes it would." Cross said as Yang handed him the mango and apple. "Thank you for the food." Cross said as he started eating the apple first as he felt Ruby staring at him. "You know it is rude to stare at someone eating."
"Oh well sorry about that I am just interested on knowing what your name is." Ruby said as Cross stopped eating when he heard her having interest in what his name is.
"Ruby don't be rude let him eat besides we have to get back to the dorm." Weiss said as she moved toward the door.
"Oh right well sorry, we wi-"
"The names Cross" Cross said as he started eating again while looking at the girls direction.
"Oh well nice to meet you Cross, my name is Ruby, Ruby Rose." Ruby said as she extended her hand to shakes Cross's as he complied with the idea of trusting her. "And these are my teammates Weiss Schnee, Blake belladonna, and my sister Yang Xiao Long." Ruby said as the rest of her team waved at him as he imaginarily eyed.
"Well its nice meeting y'all from reading your files only half of what it says are false." Cross said as ruby's eyes widened at his words.
"Wait, what do you mean by, "our files"?" Yang asked as she stepped closer to Cross as he started to get up.
"Look I have gotten files of all the students and teams in the school and that I have already read all of them including a specific faunus." Cross said as he walked toward the wall as he continued talking in an emotionless tone. "It also said something about five liquor stores burning to the ground at the same time." Cross said as he started walking up the wall. "Also a bounty on a dangerous little scythe wielder and a certain ice princess."
"Wait a minute, how are you able to walk on walls?" Ruby asked as the others starred at Ruby then Cross to see him standing on the wall.
"As I was saying let's say you are all wanted by criminals and is paying a big-" Cross was cut off when his scroll started to ring. "Okay never mind looks like you're all off the hook."
"Wait what just happened?" Yang asked as Cross stepped off the wall and landed in a crouching position.
"What just happened is that I cleared out your names." Cross said as the others blankly looked at him. "I cleared out the information of the bounty and other things so I don't have any of your dead before I get to work with you guys."
"Cool, so we got nothing to worry about?" Weiss asked as cross started to eat the apple core.
"Nope not until I get hired to kill you guys." Cross said as he saw the girls with shocked faces. "its my life I get paid to do thing I would hate but I got used to it."
"So what are you really?" Blake asked as the others looked at her.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Are you a bounty hunter or a mercenary?" Blake said as her voice grew dark with the term mercenary hanging in the air.
"The group I work with are mercenaries but for me, I find myself as a bounty hunter." Cross said as he started to pick up the knives that had fallen a while ago.
"Okay and what about heritage?" Weiss asked as the others looked at Weiss then at Cross.
"I'm a faunus just like the cat over there." Cross said as he pointed at Blake.
"So you're a cat faunus?" Ruby asked as Cross just chuckled at her response.
"No I am not a cat even though I respond gratefully to them." Cross said as he looked at the time. "Well it looks like it's time to turn in I will talk with you four tomorrow during the choice." Cross said as the others understood this and turn to leave the room before ruby turn around to face him. "What's up?"
"Well we never got your age." Ruby said as the others turned around to only look at the boy with a surprised face.
"I'm sixteen, just a year older then you Ms. Rose." Cross said as she looked at him in the face.
"There's no need to be formal with my name just call me Ruby." She said as a smile appeared on both of their faces.
"Then looks like that goes for all of you as well as me just normal Cross." Cross said as he was stopped by another question.
"Wait so you don't have a last name?" Yang asked as the others Weiss looked at her with a stern look.
"I lost my name in my memories when I was little so the only name I remember is being called Cross." Cross said as he felt sad eyes staring at him. "There no need for sympathy on a lost name, besides you all need to get to bed you got something to look forward for." Cross said as team rwby started walking to their dorm.
"Good night Cross." Yang and Ruby said in unison.
"Good night team rwby." Cross said before he she the door behind him.
Team rwby dorm
"Well he does seem nice but I don't trust him." Blake said as she sat down on her bed.
"I have to agree with Blake he seems mysterious to me." Weiss said as she pulled Myrtenaster and started cleaning the blade.
"Come on he seems nice and he does seem kind of cute what do you say Ruby." Yang asked as she noticed Ruby hard in thought as yang just grinned knowing what she is thinking about. "Looks like our leader got her heart stolen by the new guy." Yang said as she started laughing.
"Ruby you okay?" Blake asked only to see Ruby shake her head wildly.
"Huh, oh, uh yeah I was just thinking on what the choice will be tomorrow." Ruby said as the others started to agree with her. "Well it's time to sleep night guys."
"Night Ruby." Yang said as all of them got ready for bed as they started to drift to slumber as the moon rose high leaving light shadows on everything it touch. As in a distance a faint melody is sung as white rose petals fell from the sky disappearing when they touched the ground releasing a light brighter than any darkness as Cross stood outside his door smiling at the light when everything is in darkness.
'Why can't my mind think of anything like this?' Cross said as he when to bed.