I'm actually quite proud of myself about last chapter, 2,352 words. That's the most I've ever done. I'm also grateful to the following:

Piemaster981

Guest

mastermin

Xavier 17

Now, reviews!

Piemaster981: Should be fixed.

Guest: I suppose I forgot to add detail to that, my bad. Weiss was to caught up in her rant to recognize Crimson. If you've seen my other RWBY story, which is unlikely, you'll know that I prefer to add humor to my stories. Anyway, your issue of Weiss not recognizing Crimson should be flattened out, I have posted the edited version of the chapter.

Mastermin: Well, it's pretty hard to explain Evolved, they're basically a sentient Infected. Put bluntly.

Anyways! On with the show!

The Blacklight Hunter

Chapter II: The Friend And The Training

Crimson and Ruby walked for hours until they found some blonde guy laying on the floor. "What's he doing?" Ruby asked, tilting her head in curiosity. "What does it look like?" Crimson asked her incredulously. "Like he's laying on the fl-oh." Crimson facepalmed. 'Only took her a minute.' He thought to himself. "Hey, are you okay?" Ruby asked Blondie. "Yeah, someone left a banana peel on the floor and I slipped." He responded. 'Where do these banana peels keep coming from!?' Crimson had slipped on eight coming here. Ruby had burst into a fit of giggles each time.

"I'm Ruby." She introduced as she and Crimson grabbed the boy's arms and pulled him up. "Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it." The now identified Jaune introduced as he dusted hims Jaune himself off. "Do they?" Ruby asked him curiously. "They don't...but they will! At least, my mom -" "Woah, look at the time we need to go now or we're gonna be more late than we were anyway let's go!" Crimson zoomed, trying to save the young Arc's dignity. "Anyway, my mom say's they will." Jaune finished, not bothered by the interruption as Crimson facepalmed. They walked at a fast speed, taking what Crimson said literally. They did not once consider he was trying to save Jaune's dignity.

"Soooooo, I got this." Ruby started, pulling something from her waist and transforming it into a scythe. "Woah! Is that a scythe!?" Jaune asked bewildered. "No shit, Sherlock." Crimson muttered sarcastically. "What do you two have?" Ruby asked, tilting her head. 'She does that too much...' Crimson thought to himself. He then pulled the broadsword from it's sheath on his back and switched it into it's shotgun form. "Woah, your's turns into a gun too!?" Ruby asked excitedly. "I thought it was compulsory?" Crimson asked. "Not really, but students tend to favor a weapon design with both ammunition with high calibre bull-" Ruby was cut off by Crimson. "Please don't talk about weapons like that, you're scaring me." Ruby pouted adorably at him, making him blush. "They are not just weapons! They are extensions of ourselves!" "Sure they are, and Jaune has a frickin handcannon shoved up his rear end."

"Does he?" Ruby asked. Causing both Crimson and Jaune to facepalm and look at her in disbelief. 'Seriously?' "So, what do you have Jaune?" Ruby asked the blonde knight. "Well, um...you see, I've only got these." Jaune hung his head in shame as he pulled out a rectangle and a sword. The rectangle then turned into a shield. "Wooooow!" Ruby stood in awe of the shield. "So what does it do? Get lighter?" Crimson asked. Jaune then sunk into a deeper depression. "No, it just gets smaller..." He stated in shame. "Hey, that's good. Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days.

They came to a huge door. "I don't know about you, but I think this is the place..." Crimson stated. "You don't say..." Jaune added. "Well, let's go in!" Ruby told them, pushing the door open eagerly. They were met with a crowd of loud, overly eager teenagers bustling around, either talking to friends, trying to get a better view of the stage or trying to escape the clustered area. "Yang!" Ruby called out to the blonde girl from earlier, now known as Yang. "Hey Ruby!" Yang turned to Ruby, then she got an eyeful of Crimson. "And who's this?" She asked in a sultry tone, taking a step towards the black haired boy. "I'm Crimson." He told her, taking a cautious step backwards.

"Yang todays been horrible but great at the same time the bad thing is that we nearly got blown off a cliff but I met two new friends and ones really cool no offense Jaune but Crimson is totally awesome!" Everyone was deadly silent after Ruby's outburst. "Umm..." Yang started. "I'm sure you didn't get blown off a cliff." She added in disbelief.

"YOU!" A voice yelled. "Oh no it's happening again!" Ruby yelled, jumping into Yang's arms. Crimson flung his hood up, not wishing to show his face to this person. "Do you know how dangerous that was!? You could have blown us off of the side of a cliff!" The now-present Weiss yelled at Crimson. "And why is your hood up!?" "Huh, you really were nearly blown off of a cliff." Yang said calmly to Ruby.

Weiss then flipped over Crimson's hood, and gained a shocked face. "C-Crim-" She was cut off when Crimson grabbed her arm and in a thunderclap the two were making their way to the roof. Once they got there Crimson sat Weiss down and sat across from her. "Yo." He stated bluntly. "Yo? You've been presumed dead for a year and all you have to say is yo!?" She yelled at him. 'This went better in my head...' He thought.

"What would you want me to say?" He asked calmly. "Oh, I don't know! Maybe an explanation to where you've been the past year!? Or maybe why you haven't returned to your family!?" She fell to her knee's, eyes brimming with tears and a cracked and sad tone to her voice. "Or Leone and I." Crimson felt a wave of sadness overcome him. He felt he was doing the right thing, but in fact he was only doing more damage than he was helping to fix. "Weiss..." He started, trying to wrap his arms around her. "Don't touch me!" She yelled, and ran through the door and back downstairs.

Crimson turned to the railing and leaned on it. Sadness washing over his face. 'Weiss...' He really couldn't think of anything else. He had always had a little bit of a crush on Weiss when they were younger, Winter and Leone knew this and never missed a chance to tease him relentlessly. Seeing her in a state like that left him heartbroken.

"You did the right thing, kid."

He turned to see the hooded Alex Mercer.

"Professor Mercer." Crimson greeted stoically. "Alex is fine when we're alone kid, but let's not get off of the current topic. You did the right thing not telling her, no one should be dragged into our world. Not your family, not your friends. You chose to not tell Weiss Schnee of your fate a year ago, do you regret it?" Mercer asked him. "Yes." Crimson replied. "Why? Would it not be selfish, to drag an innocent bystander into a dark dog-eat-dog world?" "Yes...but, I just want someone to be there." Crimson croaked, tears began forming around his eyes.

He then felt a warm hand on his shoulder. "Keep that feeling, Crimson, it will remind who you are. Don't lose yourself to the Blacklight, her, and everyone else's lives rest on your shoulders from this point on." Mercer told him reassuringly. Crimson felt an all new wave of determination speed through him.

"Yes, sir."

"Good kid, now meet me at eight pm to start your training." Mercer told him, with a glint in his eye and an enthusiastic smile. "Why now, of all times?" "Hey, it's your initiation tomorrow. You need to learn to control your powers to an extent." "I guess..." "GOOD! Now get moving!"

Ballroom

Everyone was laying in sleeping mats, but there was a commotion over at a corner Crimson wasn't going to ignore. He needed these people asleep so he could slip out unnoticed. He strode over to the corner and shot round it, glaring at the offenders. "Will you guys shut up!" He whispered aggressively. "Oh, hey Crimson, why are you whispering?" Ruby whispered back, he took a look and saw Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang staring at him, well, glaring in Weiss's case. "Because some people are trying to get some sleep!" Crimson responded, a little too loudly. After getting told to shut up by someone, he turned and glared at the soon-to-be team. "Just go to sleep." He groaned. They obliged, allowing Crimson to sneak out.

Cliffs outside of Beacon

"Hey Spiky Fuzzball!" Mercer greeted him. "Spiky Fuzzball?" "Would you rather I called you hedgehog?" "Not really."

Mercer then threw a punch, hitting Crimson square in the jaw. "What was that for!?" "Your reflex's are shit." Mercer told him bluntly, he then threw another punch, which caused Crimson to flip over him. "Woah." Crimson was stunned at what he just did. Mercer smirked, then threw a series of attacks that were either flipped over, ducked, or blocked. "Seems like the virus is taking effect." Mercer mused. "Crimson, punch me." "What!?" "I said punch me, hit me with everything you've got." So Crimson did, and launched Mercer into the rocks. "Good." Mercer said as he peeled from the rocks. "Now, we should teach you to use some of your powers."

"Like bone claws?" Crimson asked excitedly. "No, I can't teach you how to generate them like I do. But I can tell you what you need to do stuff like that. Well first off, you need bio-mass, which creates the main transformation, but you need certain genetic construction to have the relevant blueprints to create the transformation. Now..." Mercer then pulled out a cage containing a Beowulf in it. "Consume it." "What!? How!?" "Just break the skin with a part of your body, the virus will do the rest." Crimson grabbed the Grimm and rammed his hand through it's chest, tendrils coming from his arm and absorbing the Grimm. "Now, strip." Mercer told him.

"What?" Crimson deadpanned. "You heard me, strip. You do not need normal clothes now that you have bio-mass." Crimson obliged reluctantly. "Now, focus your bio-mass around your body, and imagine you have your normal clothes on. In seconds, Crimson was in his regular attire. "Good kid, now go get some rest, you're gonna need it."

As Crimson walked off, Mercer held a sympathetic look towards him. "Especially with what Ozpins got planned for you."

At the cliffs, the next morning

As Crimson walked to the cliffs, he saw an excited Ruby, Yang almost drooling in anticipation, a glaring Weiss, a stoic Blake and Jaune practically wetting himself in fear. "Now that we are all here, I wish you good luck." Said a gray haired man who Crimson assumed was Ozpin. "Um, sir?" Jaune kept trying to get his question answered. But Crimson was launched off of the cliff before he could hear an answer.

Well, I've decided this was a good cut off point. Next chapter we will have fights, Crimson's new power, and what will become of his connection to Weiss? Will they become friends again? Or will they be rivals? Even I don't know, I haven't planned that far ahead yet. Anyhow, please leave a review telling me what you think. They help me sort out the chapter.

Later :)