Richard was 5 when he lost his parents to a fire in his house. He was alone and afraid until a man took him in as his own. This man was the same one that had saved him from the fire in his house. This man was Conner Kenway an Assassin in the city of Vale. At the young age of 5 Richard was taken under Conner's wing and trained to be an Assassin himself. For 10 long years Conner taught the young boy all he knew, how to fight, how to hide, and how to survive in this world. Now at 15 Conner trust this boy to be on his own, to make his own decisions, to follow his own path.
Richard was 5'3, he had black hair with two grey spots, but no ears or tail despite his Faunus heritage. He wore a black shirt and white reversible hood that turned black. He had dark blue jeans and black shoes. He wore a belt with two holsters each had a pistol with extended magazine cartridges. On the back of the belt was a cylindrical tube that had metal rods slightly sticking out, they seemed to be color coated. On his back he slung a black bow with a red optical sight. He wore brown gauntlets with hidden blades built in.
Richard was in a dust shop one night, he was trying to decide what dust rounds he wanted to use for his newly modified pistols. While he was deciding he could heard some people enter the shop, they had hostile intentions. He put on his hood and had some yellow dust in a tube. When he turned around two henchmen were pointing guns at him. There was a gang of them, they wore black suits with a red tie and black hat with red glasses. Except for one who wore a white coat and black hat and had a cane. He was talking to the owner of the shop.
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a dust shop this late?"
"Please just take my lien and leave" the old man pleaded.
"Calm down we're not here for your money, grab the dust" he ordered the henchmen.
Richard had his hands up when one henchmen snatched the tube from him. The others collected the crystals and powder dust. Richard saw as one henchmen was ordering a girl with a red hood on. She was his age and oblivious to the robbery happening.
He drew a red sword and pointed at the girl, "alright kid put your hands were I can see them"
But the girl wasn't paying attention.
"Hey I said hands in the air, you got a death wish or something," he said as he walked to the girl and jerked her shoulder so her hood fell revealing a pair of headphones on her.
"Hmm?" She questioned. The man pointed towards his ear to signify the headphones she wore.
She took then off and asked "yes?"
"I said put your hand in the air now!"
"Are you robbing me?"
"Yes!"
"ohhh"
The next thing Richard saw was the henchmen go flying to the front of the shop. Another one pointed a gun at her and ordered "freeze!" But he went flying through the window. The henchmen with guns pointed at Richard looked away and gave Richard to opportunity to shove his hidden blades in their necks. He then ran out the broken window to take a stand with the girl. She revealed a huge scythe twice her size while Richard changed his bow to a sword and one of his pistols to a tomahawk.
The one in the white coat then said "okay, get them" and motioned the other members to fight them.
They had red machetes a and charged them. One went for the girl who used her scythe, currently in the ground to dodge and spin around to kick him in the face. She took the scythe out of the ground and took a fighting stance. Two other guys came behind her, but Richard intercepted and parried their attacks causing them to stumble back. With his tomahawk he grabbed on of their machetes and threw the guy to the ground. The other tried to slice his back, but he used his sword to block and turned for the next attack. The henchman charged but Richard used his tomahawk to change to the course of his blade. Then slashed twice with his sword before kicking him to the ground and stabbing him with his sword. Another charged the girl from the side but she pulled a trigger on her scythe and began to spin, knocking him out. She then smashed the one Richard threw on the ground with her scythe and pulled a handle back reloading the gun mechanism of her scythe. She shot multiple times as the henchmen tried to shoot her, she was too fast using the recoil as a boost she moved around them. Then she stuck her scythe in the ground again causing her to spin and she kicked another henchman to the ground. Richard got behind the last henchman who was distracted and put his tomahawk to his neck fired and spun as the last henchman was down. He and the girl stood before the man in the white coat.
"You were worth every cent, truly you were" He said to the knocked out henchman by his foot. "Well red and white I think we can all say its been an eventful evening" he said as he dropped his cigar and smashed it with his cane. "And as much as I'd love to stick around" he continued as he pointed his cane at them. "I'm afraid this is where we part ways." Then the end of his cane flicked open and a shot came towards them. Richard dodged out of the way while the girl pointed her scythe down and shot causing her to spring up and land back where she was. They both looked to see the man gone. They looked around and found him climbing a ladder to the roof. The shop owner came out and the girl asked "you ok if I go after him?" But Richard already saw a path up. He jumped off a cart and hung onto a shop sigh, he lifted himself up and climbed two windows to get to the roof. The girl used he scythe to get up much faster and the two where right behind the guy. "Hey!" the girl called out. The man mumbled to himself "persistent." Then a VTOL appeared in front of the man. He climbed up on it and yelled out behind "End of the line you two" he held a red dust crystal and threw it to their feet then held up his cane once more and shot at it.
"Get out of the way!" Richard yelled as he tackled the girl out of the blast zone. Then a figure appeared from the smoke. The girl watched in awe as she fired multiple purple shots at the VTOL causing it too shake uncontrollably. It tried to move away when the woman shot something above it then clouds appeared and it hailed on the VTOL. Then another figured appeared on the side of the VTOL. She shot red at the woman who blocked it but under her began to erupted, she backflipped out of the way. She then clustered the rubble into a spear and shot it towards the ship. The figure broke it apart but it reformed and skid on the to of the ship. Then the figured did something to turn it all into ash. The young girl turned her scythe into a rifle and Richard turned his sword back into a bow and took out a rod with red color and it transformed into and arrow with a red tip. They girl shot three times and Richard shot his arrow. She blocked all the rifle shots and absorbed the arrow. She then erupted the ground where the three of them stood. Richard rolled out of the way with the woman while the girl was throw to the ground out of the way by the woman's magic. They stood and saw the VTOL take off. The girl then turned to the woman and said "your a Huntresses" the woman looked at the girl and the girl asked "can I have your autograph?" Richard was long gone when the woman asked where he went. He could still see as the woman was mad at the girl and took her away. Richard then made his way across the roof tops to a small place he could sleep for the night.
The next day Richard changed his hood to black and returned to the crime scene to find out who would do this. He saw as the police were taking notes on the crime scene. Some one came up to him and said "It's takes brave people to stop something like this." Richard didn't know the voice and simply responded "there's not enough to keep things like this from happening."
"You have experience and are now making your own decisions Richard."
"I'm guessing you have a knife to my back?"
"Not exactly, but I do come with a request."
"What is it?"
"Not here we'll take somewhere more...appropriate"
Rrichard turned to see a man with grey hair and black glasses, he had a coffee mug in one hand and a cane in the other. Richard followed him into a dark room with one light.
"Have a seat" the man said. Richard complied and took a seat in front of a table, there was a window behind him.
"Now Richard Kenway, taught by the Assassin Conner Kenway also know as Ratonhnhaké:ton."
"Professor Ozpin headmaster at Beacon academy."
"You may already know why I brought you here."
"Not exactly, but I have my theories."
"After what happened last night I want you to attend my school."
"I've got better things to do then go to school."
"Like?"
"Like find out who would rob a dust shop just for dust."
"Trust me Richard when I say this is bigger than the Assassins, something is being planned and I want to know what."
"So now that I'm an Assassin you want me to be your eyes and ears."
"Something like that, but I also want you to improve your skills at Beacon."
"I'll go on two conditions."
"And what are they."
"One, I will not wear that uniform, two, I keep my weapons with me unless I say otherwise."
"Both can be done" Ozpin put some papers on the table and moved them towards Richard. "I hope you'll enjoy you stay at Beacon, the last transport leaves in twenty minutes, but you should make it." Opzin looked up to see the passes gone along with Richard and the window was open. 'Good luck Richard.'