Chap 2.

"NO!" Dan tried to get up only to add his own silent scream to the medley of agony. He had probably broken a rib or two when he landed.

"Dan, honey you have to get up." The feminine voice was a mix between his mother's and… Lucia?

"DAN!" He shot up, confused and scared. "Dan, it's okay you're here, at Beacon. It was just a nightmare" Lucia was looking at him, concerned. Damn another nightmare.

"Sorry Lucia," he shook his head, clearing his mind in the process.

"It's fine, breakfast is going to start in half an hour, you should get up and get dressed" breakfast? OH PLAN B!

He shot up and ran to the bathroom. His clothes flew on, shirt, underwear, pants, socks, jacket, shoes…. Amulet. This amulet was his mother's, she gave it to him when,

"DAN!" Goliath was in front of him, snapping his fingers.

"Huh? Oh sorry just lost in thought." He took another look at his necklace before putting it on.

"It's fine man, Breakfast is like ten minutes away." He sighed, "I'm Starvin'"

Dan laughed, "Yeah, me too."

They walked down to the cafeteria. Lucia had saved them a spot.

"So, you guy's ready for today?" She asked as Dan sat down.

"Yeah for the most part-" Dan began,

"Hey there, Cutie" only to be interrupted by Yang, whispering in his ear.

He sighed, " Hey Hot stuff," She chuckled as she sat down, Ruby awkwardly following her lead.

"Uh…..." Owen cocked an eyebrow.

"Huh? OH RIGHT." They didn't meet Yang yesterday. "Guy's this is Yang and Ruby, I met them yesterday. Yang and Ruby, this is Lucia."

"What about me?"

"And that's the friendly Blue Giant." Dan finished with a chuckle.

Said giant gave Dan a death stare, "Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Now stop. Sorry about him, My name's Owen."

"Psshh you're no fun." Dan looked away, only to notice little ice queen trying to get past five guard's. Huh, they look familiar. He mused to himself kinda like… Atwood guards.

"Oh my god." he thought aloud.

"What?" Yang asked concerned.

He pointed over to the group, "Those are Royal Atwood Guards"

"Like King Atwood?" Lucia asked.

"No, Like Prince Atwood, looks like we have a celebrity in our class."

"I heard he is training to become a Paladin." Lucia added.

"Why is he here then?" Ruby seemed the most excited about this all. Yang was surprisingly quiet on the subject, Dan could feel her stare on his face. He was still staring at the guards.

"Extra training, also probably to improve relations with Vale. He's the prince of Lordaeron. It got hit pretty hard eight years ago, grim attack. Paladin's are a sub branch of hunters so it makes sense that he has to go to an academy to finish his training. The Knights of the Silver Hand don't accept you until you've proven yourself." He sighed before turning back to the group. They were all staring at him, dumbfounded. "What?"

"You're smarter than you look." Mountain said simply.

"Yeah fuck you too Goliath." Dan said.

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Everyone turned. Standing there, covered in pink and purple paint, was a dickhead known as Cardin. Dan had caught him picking on a faunus yesterday after dinner.

Plan B worked like a charm, he thought, I'm honestly surprised

The Cafeteria erupted into laughter, Especially Owen, who barked out, "Pink's a nice Color on you, really brings out your eyes."

TIMESKIP

Professor Ozpin seems like a real douchebag. This was only one of the thoughts rushing through Dan's mind as he flew through the air. This was definitely not the first thing he had in mind for initiation, Finding a relic? Pshh, this will be over WAY too soon. Just as long as Dan didn't have HIM as a partner.

How am i going to land? He wondered for not the first time today. Then it hit him. A tree. Literally. Not on purpose, obviously. The tree somehow broke when he made contact, sending him downward into many other branches. When he finally made contact with the ground, he groaned loudly.

"Fuck." he rubbed his nose as he stood up.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Dan turned around quickly, hand latching onto the handle of Lily, his pistol. The growling was coming from a baby wolf. Not a beowulf, just a regular old baby wolf.

"Oh. My. God…." Dan was dumbfounded, "YOU ARE SOOOOOOO CUTE!"

He ran over to it, looking at it intently and adoringly. Then he thought of something, "where's your momma little guy? Or your pack for that matter?"

He proved to regret his words almost immediately, the little guy turned his head downward in a depressed manner. "Oh nonononono little guy! Don't be sad….. Uh, Hey!" He thought of something that would cheer up a wolf, "How about, you come with me?" the little guy perked up almost immediately. Barking and jumping onto him, he found shelter in Dan's satchel.

"I don't think that's allowed Dan." That voice

Dan whirled around quickly, pulling Lily from her holster, to see HIM. "Gabriell Atwood"

"Then again painting the student body isn't allowed either but that's never stopped you before," He smiled his usual stupid smile, with his stupid perfect face, and his stupid perfect blonde hair. "That's how we met if i remember correctly. You painted Brain during one of our sparring sessions. I believe you said it was because he-"

"Because he looked at me weird." Dan finished. He wasn't wrong, Dan did paint the young prince's mentor, "And earned a spot as your personal manservant, a position where i saved your life hundreds, if not thousands of times."

"And a position where you became my best friend." Gabriell sighed, "Look I'm sorry for what happened to you two years ago-"

"Save it princess! I don't want your damn apology. We both were at fault" Dan sighed as he lowered Lily, "Now can we stop it with the chick-flick moment please."

Gabriell laughed, "It's good to see you-"

"NO! No more chick-flick!" Dan yelled. "Also, i am keeping It. I don't give a shit what you say, He has no family and I will be his momma."

"Uh… Dan you're a guy."

"So?" Dan shot back, "Fine captain buzzkill, I'll be his Dad. or DAN! Eh?" Dan looked over to where Gabe was only to find an empty spot, "HEY YOU KNOW THAT WAS FUNNY!"

ELSEWHERE

"Another match has been made, Gabriell Atwood and Daniel Renard." Glynda stated matter o' factly, "Although Mr. Renard seems to have picked up a bit of contraband" Ozpin only replied with a hum, "...Ozpin you aren't going to let him keep it….. YOU ARE AREN'T YOU?!"

"Oh come now Glynda what's the harm?" He shot back.

"UGH THERE'S NO ARGUING WITH YOU!" She screamed, letting her rage boil over

TIMESKIP

"I Can't believe you got us lost." Dan said as he lie down on the ground staring up to the sky.

"I don't see you helping." Gabe said in a rather monotone voice.

"Well what the hell am i supposed to do?" He shot back, "pull out a map? Or do you prefer a compass?"

"Either would be good about now."

"I was being sarcastic"

"Really? Hard to tell, you break the rules so often i have trouble telling when you aren't"

BOOM! *GIRLY SCREAM*

"Uh….."

"TO THE CHAOS!" The faunus ran in the direction of the boom.

"DANIEL!" Gabe was soon after,

ANOTHER TIMESKIP, YANG POV.

AN: Sorry

"CAN EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR LIKE TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN!?" She at least got her two seconds.

"Uh Yang?" Ruby tapped her sister's arm, pointing up to the sky.

Weiss was currently hanging from a nevermore. "How could you leave me?"

"I said Jump" Ruby shot back.

"She's gonna fall" Owen said.

"She'll Be fine"

"Oh hey look, she's falling" Lucia pointed out.

The tree's where suddenly shot apart as one such Dan shot through, on a collision course with Weiss. He managed to maneuver from flailing to a stable position facing the sky, that was sort of impressive. But the really impressive bit was when he managed to catch Weiss, and make an accident into a rescue. The group's attention was then directed to a giant Beowulf Roaring from where Dan immerged, fighting another kid.

DAN'S POV

He couldn't believe he had managed to do that. He had been pounded by the Beowulf and he was just going to fly through the air but then, after evening out, he saw little ice queen (That'd probably make her an ice princess) falling through the sky.

"So uh, You gotta plan?" she asked him, clinging into his arms as they flew through the air.

"I do but you might not like it." Her face went from scared to petrified. "Hang on tight!"

She screamed as he pulled out a dust crystal, igniting it with a burst of aura, blasting him toward the ground. The faunus had managed to shield her from the blast, it still hurt him like a bitch though, well that and her constant screaming in his ear as they flew towards the ground.

As they neared the earth he used a trick his old mentor taught him, pushing his aura downward and flipping backwards. He landed softly on the ground, Ice princess still in his arms.

"Um… Thanks" she turned away blushing.

"No problem," he said as he set her down, "Just uh, try not to use a giant bird as a taxi next time okay?" he said lightheartedly.

"DANIEL, I COULD USE YOUR HELP!" OH SHIT THE BEOWULF.

He ran off towards the fight, checking on the little guy on his way, he was just kinda chillin' he seemed perfectly comfortable.

He Grabbed Lily and unsheathed his Chokutō Tamashī as he ran up to the big bad wolf. It slashed at him as he approached. He hopped off his right foot, flipping over big bad's swipe and slashing at it's jugular. Gabriell came down with a heavy slash with his own sword, splitting it's head in two.

"That was fun." Dan said nonchalantly sheathing Tamashī in the scabbard on his back hip. (A/N: Think Sasuke's sword placement.)

"Next time i'm not even going to bother to shout your name."

"Oh come on! I knew he was there"

"Exactly my point" Gabe replied.

"OH ALSO!" Dan exclaimed exuberantly, "I FOUND THE RELICS!"

Gabe facepalmed as the faunus ran over to the group. He sighed and then followed his companion.

"Hey there Goliath!" Dan said as he pat said giant on his back, "Miss me?"

"No"

"Aw don't be like that buddy," Yang walked over with a flirtatious smile.

"Did You miss me?" she said in a mock worried tone.

"Aw, of course i missed my favorite blonde bombshell!" She smiled as he walked past the rest over to a pedestal. "Hey this one fits you perfectly Gabe," The faunus grabbed a white king piece and threw it over to the prince.

"Uh, Dan are you sure you should talk to him like that?" Ruby asked worriedly.

"Oh no, don't worry i'm not the most important person he's talked to so casually"

"Well I don't know if you guys noticed but we seem to be kinda screwed here." Owen said matter o' factly as he pointed out toward a Giant Death stalker, the nevermore from before, and three more beowulfs emerging from the forest.

"Not if i can help it!" Ruby said as she dashed from the group in a flurry of rose petals. After a failed slash at the death stalker she turned back running to the group. Yang ran forward, attempting to help her little sister. (A/N: Dan found out they were sisters after the thing with Cardin, Just so you know.)

Dan ran out to help her also. The nevermore saw the two running to little red and decided to help out it's demonic brother. It charged up a feather storm, raining down large black needles o' death, catching Ruby's cloak. Yang was cut off as three feathers blocked her out. Dan jumped over the wall and weaved through the rest, just as the death stalker's tail was about to hit Ruby, a white blur sped past all of them, planting her sword into the ground, creating a wall of ice.

"You are SO childish" she said.

"Hey Gabriell i found your twin" Dan shouted back to said prince

"Weiss?" Ruby asked quietly

"And Dimwitted, and hyperactive, and don't even get me started on your fighting style"

"It's like you were put in a copy machine without enough toner"

"And i suppose, I can be a bit…. Difficult but if we're going to do this, we're going to have to do this together. So if you will quit trying to show off, i'll be…. Nicer."

"Nope, nevermind."

"I'm not trying to show off, i just want to show you i can do this,"

"Your fine" weiss finished as she walked away.

Ruby then whispered something that sounded a lot like, "Normal knees."

Yang then ran up and squeezed Ruby half to death, "so happy you're okay'

"Well as okay as Normal knees can get" Dan put in, making Ruby turn Red…. wow that's ironic.

"Guys that thing is circling back," vomit boy added in.

"Look there's no sense in dilly dallying, our objective is right in front of us"

"But Aerith you were impaled by sephiroth." Dan said.

"She's Right our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things."

"Except to make sure they don't cut us off-"

"DAN!" Gabriell shouted.

"What?"

"Run and live, that is an idea i can get behind." Vomit boy added in.

"Time we left," Said some asian guy.

They then began their run to the cliffs, with Owen slapping Dan as he passed. As the group ran to the ruins Yang caught up to him, "I got the joke."

"Thank you, at least somebody understands culture."

To be continued

End of chapter 2

A/N: Sorry it took so long. I've been a bit busy with work and all but HERE IT IS!