Now that first two chapters are uploaded, gonna settle into a rhythm of a story every 2-4 days. So...enjoy I guess.

A week later…

Ruby sat in the bullhead, listening to the monthly argument between Weiss and Blake about the White Fang. Professor Port had sent them to the Emerald Forest again, to "test your abilities in the field," as he put it. Their goal was to make it from one end of the forest to the other. She tried to stay focused on the mission but inevitably, her thoughts drifted to Daedalus. After her encounter on the night he was rushed into Beacon, he disappeared from his bed in the medical wing. Nothing had been heard from him since.

Yang stood up. "I know you two are having fun bickering, but it's time to drop," she pointed to team JNPR throwing themselves out of the airship.

As they landed, they immediately made their way toward the northern side of the forest, and had little trouble disposing of the small Grimm dotting the forest. That is until they came to the clearing. The last time they were here, Ruby almost died a la Death Stalker. As soon as they stepped into the clearing, they heard the Nevermore.

"Oh boy," Yang muttered as the massive Grimm came into view over the trees. Team RWBY leapt into action, Yang sprinting forward, Weiss creating an Air Step glyph below her. Yang timed her jump perfectly, the glyph propelling her high into the air, and landing on the Grimm's back. She proceeded to voraciously attack the beast, pummeling it from every angle.

Ruby watched her older sister lay a beating on the Grimm from the ground with interest. Yang had always been a skilled fighter, but she had improved exponentially since they first started attending Beacon. Everything was going better than expected, until the King Taijitu appeared. Now the beast itself wasn't an issue, the team disposed of it with relative ease. What was an issue, however, was that while they were killing the Taijitu, a second Nevermore appeared. It swooped in behind Yang, and impaled her right leg with a talon, before clutching her between its talons and flying east. As Ruby delivered the killing blow to the Taijitu, she heard Yang's cry of pain pierce the quiet clearing. She wheeled around to see her sister being carried off by a Nevermore.

"Weiss!" she yelled, activating her semblance and moving forward at breathtaking speed.

"On it," Weiss replied, creating an Air Jump glyph for her. Ruby jumped, but in her panic and haste, she had jumped too early, and missed the creature. It was all she could do to land safely, and at this point, she knew the Grimm was too far away to attempt that stunt again. She watched helplessly as the creature flew off with her sister.

Suddenly a green flash glinted at the side of her vision. She turned and saw the mysterious figure reach out their hand. A ramp of white glyphs appeared in front of them, identical to the ones Weiss used. Ruby looked over, but saw Weiss wasn't even paying attention to the person, which meant, They made the glyphs? Ruby wondered inside her head, as the person jumped off the last glyph and landed on the back of the Nevermore.

The new presence did not go unnoticed by the large Grimm. It tucked its wings in and spun in the air, attempting to dislodge the new threat. A broadsword whistled as it was buried in the beast's skin, and its wielder held on through the barrel roll with no trouble. As the Grimm righted itself, the person rushed forward, the weapon glowing red with Dust. In one swift motion, the figure brought the sword down and cut clean through the Nevermore's left wing. Before the Grimm could even react, the person rinsed and repeated on the other side. The Grimm cried out and dropped the unconscious Yang. The rest of team RWBY watched in awe as the figure flipped off the dying Grimm, grabbed Yang, and summoned a white glyph to slow their descent and land safely on the other side of the clearing. Suddenly the boy(as they could now make out) was standing in front of them, sprinting at unbelievable speed. The team could now get a good look at the mystery man.

His face was obscured by a mask that Blake thought looked uncannily like her former mentor's, Adam Taurus. The mask was painted green with gold highlights. He wore a green tunic that ended at his wrists and knees, with intricate yellow patterns up the sleeves. He wore a long green cloak that strapped loosely around his neck and fell down to the ground, with a gold Taijitu decal in the center of the back. This very cloak he was detaching, tying it around Yang's leg to stop the bleeding, which had made a small pool around her lower body. He stood up and darted into the forest.

"Hey wait!" Ruby yelled after him. She turned to her two teammates. "Can you handle this?"

"Yeah. Go." Blake replied. Ruby took off after the boy, using her semblance to keep pace. He was extremely agile, weaving through the terrain, and it took all of Ruby's skill to keep up. But while attempting to jump through a narrow gap between branches, his tunic snagged and he tumbled to the ground, his mask coming off and revealing

"Daedalus?" Ruby exclaimed, coming to a halt next to him. "What are you doing here?" Daedalus sat up, and sighed.

"Trying to figure out why there were two Nevermore in such close proximity to each other. I accidentally upset it, and it flew off, and ran into you guys," he shrugged, "I felt responsible."

"Where did you go? A person doesn't heal from that kind of injury overnight, but you were gone in the morning." Ruby asked. Daedalus stared off into space for a few seconds, then he gave a defeated sigh.

"Ruby, can you keep a secret?" Daedalus asked, dodging Ruby's previous question.

"Yeah. But why trust me?"

He looked up at her. "Because if I don't, you will relentlessly pursue me until I tell you. I can tell you're the kind of person who would. Figure I'd save myself the trouble," he stated, standing up and brushing himself off. "From that fight, could you deduce what my semblance was?"

Ruby thought back to the fight, and remembered his blinding speed and glyphs. "Speed and glyphs?"

Daedalus laughed. "You didn't find it strange that my semblance seemed identical to yours and Miss Schnee?"

Ruby was about to reply but paused. "Wait, how do you know Weiss?"

"When you do what I do, her surname slinks around," he said. Not technically a lie, as it was true that the Schnee name was very common in his line of work. The misleading part was that wasn't how he knew Weiss Schnee. "Back to the question Ruby. Did you find it strange?" he reiterated.

"And what exactly do you do?" Ruby asked, still interesting in Daedalus' previous comment.

"I hunt Grimm and collect data on them. For a party that wishes to remain nameless," he lied again. "You still haven't answered my question Ruby."

Ruby began thinking. Why would he have an identical semblance to that of mine and Weiss? Ruby thought. Unless…

Her eyes widened as her mind came to a theory so impossible that it couldn't possibly be right. But hey, worth a shot right? she thought.

"You…..have a Mimic semblance?" she questioned, scolding herself internally as it came out for how silly it was. Daedalus smiled.

"Bingo." Ruby's jaw hung open in disbelief.

A Mimic semblance was the stuff of legends in Remnant. It was said that a person with a Mimic semblance could wield the same semblance as people around him, and they would also gain knowledge of the semblance instantaneously, sometimes even having more knowledge than the person who actually had the semblance, depending on how advanced they were in controlling their semblance.

Daedalus turned toward the depths of the forest. He looked ready to leave, but paused.

"Ruby, you are...interesting."

"Thanks, I guess?"

"That's not what I mean. You have kindness, true kindness. That's something I don't see too often." Indecision danced through his expression, before he reached into his tunic and produced a thin slip of plain white paper.

"Call me if you run into any trouble," he said handing her the slip.

"Where are you going?" Ruby asked.

"To talk to your headmaster, as he has been observing this whole conversation," he said, staring directly at a seemingly empty area underneath a tree branch. A small camera drone materialized.

"Very good perceptual skills Daedalus," Ozpin's voice came through the speaker. "I'm at the western edge of the forest."

Daedalus took off in a green blur.

"See you soon," Ozpin said with a sigh. Ruby was about to leave, when Ozpin said to her, "Miss Rose, would you please not tell your team members about this particular experience. A few of them might have had...experiences with him in the past. Until he's ready to reveal himself personally, it wouldn't be a good idea to tell them about him." Ozpin said sternly.

"Yes sir," Ruby replied, and sped off back toward the clearing, still reeling from what she had heard. What am I going to tell my team? she wondered as she zipped through the trees.

END CHAPTER 2

Next time, Ozpin tries to convince Daedalus to join Beacon, and we learn of Daedalus' affiliation with a certain member of team RWBY