Chapter 2: Initiation

Anton woke up to a squawking Storm pecking him in the face wanting breakfast. "Alright girl I'm up, I'll get us breakfast, just stop it with the pecking." Storm stopped pecking and Anton got up. He walked to the waiting room where Silvaki was sitting at the desk reading the journal and smoking a cigar.

"Hey Silvaki I'll be out getting supplies for Storm and I." Anton said as he started walking out the door. Silvaki just waved his hand and gave Anton a thumbs up. Anton ran into town leaving Storm with Silvaki. He was looking at his map of Vale looking at nearby markets. Sadly the closest one was blocks away and once he got there it was under Officer Investigation.

"Damn why is it that every shop I go to gets robbed the day of or before." Anton asked himself and started to walk to another shop close by. Anton was out of luck so he walked to what looked like a club full of people dancing. He walked to the bar in hopes to get something.

"Uh excuse me bar tender, can I get something?" He asked and a man with black hair and beard with a black and white suit and red tie, wearing red sunglasses over his eyes came over.

"Yeah what do you want?" The bartender asked.

"Two things, one being some of your food supplies and two a cherry margarita." Anton said with a smile.

"Why do you need food supplies?" The bar tender asked.

"Because all the other shops in town are closed." The bar tender looked at Anton with suspicion.

"Alright come with me." Anton followed the bar tender behind the counter and into a storage room. "Aren't you a little young for margaritas?" The bar tender asked.

"I don't know is seventeen with a lot of cash to young?" The bartender stared at Anton with a serious look. "Alright I get your drift." Anton said in defeat.

"So how much supplies do you need?" The bartender pointed at all the food they had. Anton looked at the rows and rows of frozen food they had.

"Uh just enough to last me two months at the least." Anton said as two more men came into the room.

"Alright just sign your name and address here and we'll get it all to you as soon as we can." The bartender explained handing Anton a clipboard and pen.

"Great thanks. Name's Anton by the way, and you are?" Anton asked signing the clipboard and handing it back.

"People call me Junior, so that's is how you may address me. And that'll be one hundred fifty lien." Junior said holding out his hand.

"Cool, by the way have you heard anything on The White Fang?" Junior looked at Anton with curiosity as Anton pulled out a bag of Lien.

"I have no idea what you are talking about."

"I'll pay you triple for the supplies." Anton waved the bag around.

"Alright they're having an initiation tonight a big one, but the only way you're going to get in is if you either sign up or go through the roof, it's an initiation so it won't be far from here causing them to hide guards inside the building to keep it a secret." Anton dropped the entire bag into Junior's hand.

"Thanks Junior, oh and count on me being here often so save me a seat would ya, oh and don't tell anyone else, I'd hate to more people get hurt then what needs to." Anton stated as he walked out the door. Once outside he checked his watch, it said it was four in the afternoon. He whistled and Storm came flying in to his side.

"Okay girl, you and I are going on a trip through the skies." Storm cawed as Anton hopped on her back and took off into the sky. "Now where would I find a faction initiation?" Anton asked himself, Storm cawed and flew forward. As Anton looked around he came close to nothing.

"Well this is going to take forever." Hours passed by as Anton and Storm still found nothing. It got dark before he knew it and started to have second thoughts about continuing. That was until he saw a familiar monkey boy and familiar cat girl roaming the streets. Thinking they might know something he quickly swooped down and jumped off Storm landing in front of the two.

"Hey you two funny meeting you here." Anton said as Storm landed next to him.

"Hey Anton, You looking for The White Fang?" Sun asked as he and Anton high fived.

"You know it, which is why a came to you guys, you think you know where I can find the local initiation?" Storm squawked as Anton petted her head.

"Actually that's exactly where we are headed, but we only have two masks. How are you going to get in?" Blake answered as her and Sun pulled out their masks.

"You'll find me in the vents once I get on the roof. From their I'll be seeking intel on what they're up to, leaving you two to do what you are there for." Anton explained as they started walking.

"That's also why we're going, so any info you find on them I hope you can share with my team and I?" Blake mentioned.

"Hmm I'll have to think about it and talk to my employer."

"Alright well we're here." Sun pointed at the warehouse up ahead.

"Great see you guys inside." Anton hopped on Storm and flew off.

"We still have to ask about the young Nevermore he has." Sun stated.

"Later, for now let's do our job." Blake ordered as they put their masks on and walked inside.

Anton and Storm landed on the roof of the warehouse. Anton looked around for any points of entry but only found a window on the side of the building.

"Man I was hoping for the vents this time, oh well onwards and upwards." Anton said has he and storm went through the window and landed on some crates. Anton put on his hood and motioned Storm to stay put as he walked closer to the edge of the crate. He could see a giant group of White Fang and recruits down below a stage, he soon spotted Blake and Sun who were in the middle of the recruits. He looked around and saw a few guards at his level but were too far to see him but just in case he drew his Katana and folded the blade in half and held it like a gun. Soon one of the guards spotted him but Anton aimed his folded in half Katana and pulled a trigger that folded out from the handle of the blade. It fire one quick and silent shot as the guard fell down. Thankfully no one noticed, but went quiet when someone began to speak. It was a Whit Fang member but due to his different attire Anton assumed he was a higher rank.

"Thank you all for coming, for those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours. I can assure you he is the key to obtaining what we fought for, for so long." He sounded Russian like Silvaki but had a deeper tone. Then the guy in a white coat and bowler hat with a cane walked up next to the Russian White Fang member.

"Thank you, thank you, please hold your applause." He said freaking out the local crowd.

"What's a human doing here?" One of the recruits said pointing at him in frustration.

"I'm glad you asked dearie, I'll be the first to admit that humans are the worst. Case of point, so I would understand why you would love to see us all looked away or better yet killed." Sun looked at this guy in disbelief.

"So is he going somewhere with this or what?" He whispered in Blake's ear as the guy in a bowler hat continued.

"But I would like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy. The ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty rotten humans that run our kingdoms. The Government, The Military, even the Schools, they're all to blame for your rotten life, and they're all pests that need to be dealt with. Fortunately I'm the best exterminator around. No offense to any rodents in the room." He snapped his fingers and the curtain was removed revealing a giant, heavily armed state of the art robot. Anton just studied it looking for any weak spots, then decided to move and look for more Intel as the events continued.

"Oh well that's a big robot." Sun said sarcastically as he stared at the thing in horror.

"How did he get that?" Blake asked when the man in a bowler hat continued.

"As some of you may have heard this right here is Atlas's new line of defense against all the scary things in the world, and thanks to my employer, we've managed to snag a few before they uh, hit the shelves. Now many of your 'brother's' have already moved down to our operations to the south east but if you'd rather stay within the city that's 'fine', but if you are truly ready to fight for what we believe in, then this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?" The crowd was restless as they cheered this guy. Anton managed to sneak by everyone as he hung from the roof and got a better look at the robot. It stood on two legs and had two arms with big guns for hands, it had what looked like a cockpit for a driver but Anton wasn't sure. Sun and Blake however had a spot of trouble.

"We should get out of here." Blake said but the man in a bowler hat asked for the recruits to come forward.

"Well there goes that." Sun said as he and Blake stayed behind while the other recruits walked forward.

"What are we gonna do?"

"I'm thinking." Blake looked for any means of escape but found nothing. Anton seeing what was happening tried to look for a way for them without getting noticed but also found nothing. The man in a bowler hat noticed Blake and Sun not moving as he was about to smoke a cigar.

"I think he sees us." Sun said, the man in a bowler hat started walking towards them as Sun waved at him. Anton thinking it was time he intervened let go of the roof and landed right on top of the bowler hat man alerting everyone. Blake saw a circuit box then looked at Sun.

"Think he can see in the dark?" She asked then shot the box turning off all the lights. Anton whistled and Storm grabbed him, now everyone was in shock as someone screamed.

"Don't let them get away." The Bowler hat man yelled.

"Sun, Blake the window." Anton yelled.

"Stop them!" and soon everyone was outside and the chase began. Blake, Sun, and Anton crashed through the window as the robot crashed through the wall. Blake and Sun ran on the rooftops while Anton flew next to them. They ran through the city with the robot right behind while Anton flew up and around soon behind the robot. He pulled out hit Katana again and switched it to gun mode then started firing at the knees of the robot. Soon this fight was taken to the streets where they were joined by Ruby, a blond girl, a snow white haired girl, and a blue haired cool dude. Everyone pitched in one the fight but the robot was still standing. Anton decided to observe from the sky has he saw a huge mist come from nowhere. Soon the mist cleared and that's when Anton decided to jump in, jumping off of Storm and landing on the robot with the blonde girl. The blonde girl started punching it while Anton just sliced into the cockpit, though it seemed ineffective. Then they got thrown off But Anton held his ground, he started glowing green then charged at the robot. The robot tried shooting at Anton but proved useless as he kept coming then joined by Ruby they jumped and sliced an arm off. The blonde afterwards also tried to charge but the robot's arm soon had a hand then punched her to the ground. Anton and Blake were about to intervene but Ruby stopped them.

"No wait, with every hit she takes she gets stronger, that's what's special about her." Anton and Blake just looked towards the blonde, then saw her glowing gold as her eyes went red. She then leaped onto the robot then started pounding its head while shotgun shells came out of her wrist gauntlets. After a beat load of the century it fell down and out crawled the man in a bowler. Everyone tried to charge him a girl in pink and black showed up with an umbrella pushed them all back with a gust of wind.

"Well I'd love to stay and chat everyone but I've got an operation to run, ta ta." The bowler hat man said. Blake tried to charge him, but he and the other girl shattered into glass and disappeared.

"Well at least this night wasn't a waste" Anton said to himself as he started to walk away, but was stopped by Ruby grabbing his arm.

"Now just hold on, we just beat down a giant robot and now you're going to leave?" she asked.

"Well yeah I've got the Intel I needed, I could have just left you to the robot and left moments ago." Anton replied freeing his arm from Ruby's grasp.

"Then why didn't?"

"Maybe I thought a fight would have been fun." By now the rest of the group, minus Sun and the blue cool dude, walked over.

"Ruby who is this guy, what is he doing here?" The snow white haired girl asked.

"oh uh he's the guy Blake and I mentioned earlier." Ruby answered.

"Oh so you must be this Anton Sonreed they mentioned yesterday, Right?" The blonde asked.

"Yup and that's Sonreef not reed and you are?" Anton asked as he removed his hood.

"Well I'm Weiss Schnee and the fiery blonde over there is Yang Xiao Long." The snow white haired girl explained.

"A pleasure to meet you but now I must go and report all that I found to my employer." Anton explained as he again began to walk off.

"But what about the info you promised to share with us?" Blake yelled.

"Don't worry I'll see to later, goodnight." Anton whistled and Storm swooped down allowing Anton jump on her back and flew off.

"Think we'll see him again?" Yang asked.

"Without a doubt." Blake said.

Anton returned to the motel and found his supplies had come in.

"Oh good now we can actually eat." He said to himself as Storm cawed. Anton brought in all the supplies and reported everything he learned to Silvaki, later afterwards retreating to his bed. He turned and jumped on top of it then let out a lonely sigh.

"Something troubles you?" Silvaki asked as he took a seat on Anton's bed.

"Nothing worth mentioning." Anton replied putting a hand on his forehead.

"A sea of troubles, brings much doubt and despair, but only by facing it, will your ship sail safely." Anton just looked at Silvaki for a moment.

"*Sigh* Well I met some people with the past two days, that are also hunting The White Fang."

"And that is bad?"

"Well I'm afraid they'll get in the way or get hurt or something, I don't know."

"Anton, do not strive to prove you are better by being lonely, but strive to get better by being with friends." Silvaki patted Anton's head and started to walk out.

"Silvaki, could that be possible with the life I tend to live?" Silvaki just looked at Anton.

"That depends on the life you want to live. Do you want to be a lonely assassin, or an excellent partner?" With that Silvaki left. Anton looked at Storm who just flew in and landed on him.

"I guess I'll find out tomorrow." The he laid down, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.