Snake
Chapter 1: The New Moon Killer
The cloaked figure stood high on the highest point of Beacon's towers, the wind blowing the black fabric as it was hidden by the darkness of the new moon.
"Time to get to work", the figure says to itself before dropping towards the ground.
The next day, the woman on the news began describing the monthly occurrence that began near the end of the school year.
"Once again, the killer who has been targeting criminals during new moons, has struck again." The newscaster relayed the story, "This time though, involved the death of Aeron Deror, a man who had recently been acquitted of his wife's murder due to a technicality. Discovered at the scene of the crime was Deror's hanging body, a noose around his neck and multiple large bruises across the body. Once again, the police have no leads as to who the mysterious new moon killer is."
Yang turned off her scroll. The New Moon Killer as he was known had been in the news since the beginning of the school year. Several people had conflicting feelings. Blake's view on it was very statistical, dealing very little with feelings. She thought that despite killing being wrong, that with almost all the victims being large scale thieves, murderers, or worse that the world was better without them. Yang's thoughts contradicted these ideas. She thought that no one should kill another human being, unless there were extenuating circumstances. Jaune agreed with Yang, as did Ruby, Weiss, and Pyrrha. Ren and Nora however agreed with Blake. This created no major conflicts between the two teams or their members however, and life continued on as normal.
Yang was surprised to see the job on the town bounty board. She often went there after she finished with the day's classwork to see if there were any easy jobs to earn a little extra lien. She never expected to see a job up for 5,000 lien for the capture of the New Moon Killer. "The police must really be desperate", Yang thought as she looked through the rest of the jobs, and took pictures of the ones she was considering with her scroll. Putting her scroll in her pocket as she was about to leave, Yang suddenly stopped, and pulled out her scroll again.
"No harm in having the information on hand", she said as the camera on her scroll flashed, taking a picture of the poster for the New Moon Killer.
"Any good jobs?" she heard from behind. Surprised, Yang quickly turned around to see that it was Jaune that had spooked her. It was odd though that she didn't hear his footsteps or anything, with the street being clear of any other pedestrians, which when thought about was actually very eerie considering it was nighttime.
"A few, but what really sticks out is that they have a poster up for the New Moon Killer", Yang told him as she pointed to the picture less poster.
"I guess they're really desperate to catch him", Jaune said absentmindedly as he looked over the board, leaning forward a little, "Wanna grab a bite to eat? It's right about dinner time", Jaune said standing up straight again, "I'll buy". Yang was surprised by this sudden invitation. Now that Jaune had mentioned it, Yang was beginning to get hungry.
"Sure. Where we going?" Yang answered, figuring they were just going to eat, "It's not like we're going on a date or anything, right?" she thought to herself, "We're we going?" she asked.
"Your choice, I don't really know any good places to eat around here", he said leaning against the back of the board, his arms behind his head.
"I know just the place", Yang said grinning as she walked off towards their destination, Jaune right behind her.
About ten minutes later, they stood in front of a bar and grill.
"This is the place", Yang said walking in, Jaune reluctantly following, "They have the best burgers here".
"They gotta be good then", Jaune said as they sat at the bar, looking around nervously. Even if it was a grill as well, it was still the first time he'd been in a bar.
"Two burgers and a strawberry sunrise", Yang said to the bartender, who sighed.
"Every time you come in here, I risk losing my license Miss Long", the bartender said before writing down the order on a piece of paper and handing to the chief in the kitchen through a small window, "Two burgers, well done", he said before he began mixing together two liquids, neither of which Jaune knew, and orange juice, "Anything for your boyfriend?"
"You know I don't bring guys I date here Hennessy, I'm afraid they'd make you jealous", Yang joked.
"Very funny Miss Long", Hennessy said unamused as handed Yang her drink, an orange colored liquid who's red hue became more distinct the closer it got to the bottom of the glass, before promptly filling a class with water and putting it in front of Jaune. A few minutes later, they had their burgers, and Yang was already on her fourth drink. She was definitely tipsy, but not anywhere near drunk. Jaune guessed it could only be because the drink wasn't really strong that she wasn't completely smashed.
"Thanks Hennessy", Yang laughed lightly before she began digging into her burger, moaning lightly at the taste. Jaune followed suit, and he wasn't disappointed.
"Wow, this is really good!" Jaune exclaimed before taking another bite, savoring the taste. After they finished their burgers Jaune paid Hennessy for Yang's five sunrises, which alone had cost him fifty lien, and they left into the night, but not before a borderline drunk Yang could say goodbye to Hennesy and thank him for the drinks, to which he promptly told her to quiet down in a somewhat harsh tone. If they didn't get distracted by anything else and waste time, they could catch a dust plane and get back to Beacon in time for curfew.
"Man, I think I've had too much to drink", Yang breathed out as she walked next to Jaune, both a bit dizzy and lightheaded, not to mention a little unsteady, but not really discomforted.
"Probably", Jaune said as he caught her arm as she leaned forward, attempting to keep her from falling flat on her face, "Maybe you should stop at two or three next time, instead of five", Jaune chuckled, before Yang ended up bumping into someone and knocking them down. Jaune stretched his hand out to the man, only for him to get up without acknowledging it.
"Watch where you're going. You'll end up wandering to frickin traffic if you aren't careful", the man said rudely before walking off, but not before Jaune had gotten a look at the man. He recognized his face from somewhere, but didn't know where. He figured he must've been one of the people at the bar they'd been at or something similar to that. Yang simply muttered something about being rude before continuing on with Jaune to the dust plane. Besides the man, they had encountered no issues on the trip home, and had made it in time to keep from getting in trouble for missing curfew.
"Thanks for the night Jaune, sorry about running up the bill with my drinks", Yang chuckled as they walked down the hall that lead to their dorms.
"No problem Yang. I don't really spend my lien much, so it was somewhat nice to have an excuse to get rid of some of it", Jaune told her, chuckling.
"Maybe we'll do this some other time then", she said before yawning, "Night", she said in front of their dorms' doors.
"Night", Jaune said as he headed into his dorm, wanting to get to bed himself.
Later that night, the cloaked figure stood in front of the wanted board, grinning to himself as he looked at his poster.
"I'd like to see them catch me", he said before forming a slight frown once again, taking a few posters from the bounty board and leaving, his victims for his next outing picked. "I will change this world, one death at a time, no matter what anyone says or thinks about me", he mumbled to himself before walking away and swinging part of his cloak in front of him, disappearing like a magic trick, but this was no meager trick, and he wasn't simply bluffing. He planned to change the world, one death at a time.