A.N. Second chapter, here goes nothing. You guys like traveling? I hope you like traveling because we're going on a trip to the far off land of... Shhh spoilers. *Puts finger to lips.*
Spartan25798: and we wouldn't want spoilers' like- *Gets knocked out for almost revealing spoilers*
RedMoose: There we go. Enjoy the chapter dear reader(s) while I find somewhere to hide the body.
Chapter II
"Okay we're here but where are our students?" Elm asked Clancy while they were waiting by the airship that was commissioned to take them out of Vale and deep into the mountains.
"Probably still getting the good luck speech from Ozpin." Clancy said, not very interested in what his partner had to say.
"Hey I think I see them off in the distance." Elm suddenly said, breaking the silence.
"Really then why don't you go say hi?" Clancy told Elm.
"Good idea let's go." Elm grabbed Clancy's arm and dragged his very uncooperative partner along.
"Hey, I said you, not us!" Clancy complained, trying to breaking free of his partner's unsettlingly strong grip.
"Stop being such a party pooper." Elm told his unwilling companion.
"Fine, but let me walk on my own." Clancy said failing to resist Elm's unmatched stubbornness.
"Ahh there we go." Elm said setting Clancy on his feet.
The two hunters approached the team of students who were going to regret their decision to pick this particular job.
"HELLO THERE! HOW ARE YOU ALL TODAY?" Was the first thing Mahogany heard from the man who was going to look after him for the next few days.
As they got closer they could see two different people walking towards them. The one who was talking to them had a dark green vest with a white shirt underneath. He had on loose khakis and carried a cane. The second hunter who appeared to be following behind as if he didn't want to be there had on red suit jacket with a white suit shirt and blue jeans.
"Hello nice to meet you, my name is Elm Zaffre and this is my partner Clancy Aruna." The man called Elm introduced himself, holding out his hand.
"Nice to meet you too. I'm Mahogany Birch this is Helo Turpentine, Gold Sevroph, and Ying Redwood together we are team MHGY" Mahogany said listing off his team members. Mahogany took Elm's hand and felt the joints of his hand pop at the strength of Elm's grip. He withdrew his hand shaking it to return the feeling.
"Well then, now that introductions are out of the way why don't we head off?" Elm said gesturing for them to follow.
"Where are you all from?" The man named Clancy asked.
"We're actually from Haven but we're here for an exchange program." Mahogany explained.
"Really no way, were graduates of Haven ourselves!" Elm said, excited.
"What team were you on?" Helo asked.
"Team ABEX." Elm said boasting.
"Really, you guys are from the worst team of that graduating year." Gold said holding back a laugh.
Clancy sighed longly before speaking. "Yes we were terrible but you have nothing to worry about, this is only a scouting mission. We won't be doing anything too dangerous." Clancy said glaring at his partner who kept walking on as if Clancy wasn't there.
"ELM!" Clancy shouted.
"What sorry I spaced out there for a second." Elm said with a grin on his face.
"Holy fucking god you are annoying." Clancy said walking away and onto the ship.
"Aww thanks, I try really hard." Elm said mockingly as his partner stormed off.
"Well let's get going." Elm told the team as he climbed on the ship.
"All right then let's go." Ying said climbing onto the ship.
The rest of the team followed him as they prepared for an interesting adventure.
"SO WHERE ARE WE GOING?" Mahogany shouted over the noise of the engines.
"FIRST WE'RE OFF TO THE AIRFIELD, THEN ATLAS WHERE WE WILL MEET THE HUNTER AND TEAM WE ARE WORKING WITH." Elm explained.
They rode in silence for a while until Elm broke the silence.
"FUCK!" Elm suddenly shouted.
"WHAT IS IT?" His partner asked.
"I FORGOT PRETTY MUCH ALL OUR GEAR AT THE INN." Elm confessed to his partner.
The only way team Mahogany could tell that Clancy sighed was his mouth opening and his shoulders moving up and down.
"I'LL GO GRAB IT AND MEET YOU EITHER AT THE AIRSTRIP OR ATLAS." Elm shouted as he jumped out of the moving airship.
That earned a surprised look from the entire team of students.
"DON'T WORRY HE DOES STUFF LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME." Clancy shouted.
They rode in relative silence for the rest of the way.
Once they landed they saw Elm standing with 4 large duffel bags at his feet and two on his back.
"Where the hell did all this stuff come from?" Clancy asked his partner bewildered.
"It was dropped off after we left." Elm explained.
"You beat us here carrying all that?" Gold asked completely lost.
"Well he is a hunter after all." Ying said not quite believing his own words.
"We should better get going or the plane will leave without us. All right everyone grab a bag." Elm said tossing bags to each member of team Mahogany.
"Holy shit! This is heavy!" Ying exclaimed as he caught the bag and nearly dropped it.
"What's in this?" asked Clancy who was able to catch the bag but needed both hands to carry it.
"Not sure, the note said not to check." Elm told his partner as he tossed bags to the rest of team MHGY.
"They could be bombs." Clancy whispered to Elm as they walked behind team MHGY who were struggling to carry the heavy bags.
"Don't worry I checked for that there is no hints of dust in any of them." Elm told his worried partner.
"Good, now why don't you go help the students over there it seems they are having issues carrying these ungodly heavy bags." Clancy said as he readjusted the bag on his back.
"Oh come on they're not that heavy." He said as he held one up with one hand.
"Yes that's you with your unnatural strength. This is the rest of us." Clancy explained barely holding his with two hands.
"Ughh fine, I ran here with all six I deserve a break." Elm complained as he shifted one of his to his back.
"You can have a break on the ship." Clancy told his partner.
Elm sighed but walked over and took bags from Helo and Mahogany.
"Thanks." Breathed Helo who looked like she was ready to pass out.
"No problem." Elm said with a smile.
"Hey what about us?" Asked Gold who, like everyone else, was having trouble.
Tossing a bag to Clancy who caught it and just about fell over, Elm began to speak:
"Mahogany help Gold, Helo help Ying." He told the team as he walked ahead as if the bags were weightless.
"Just how?" Ying asked Helo.
"I don't know maybe his semblance or something?" Was Helo's response.
"All right set those bags down here the loading crew will get them on the plane." Elm said, pointing at a trolley by the cargo hold of the plane.
"Finally! My arms felt as if they were about to fall off." Helo complained.
"All right then everyone, pass me your weapons and dust they need to go into a case and be stored in the hold." Elm told the crew setting a large case as tall as he was on the ground. Elm opened the case and team MHGY saw spots for weapons ammo and dust.
They all took turns handing their weapons to Elm who disassembled and placed the proper tags and locks in place, Mahogany handed his weapon in sickle form, Helo all the dust she carried, Gold simply handed her armour bag to Elm who checked it over and set it in the case. Ying's weapon caused the most problems because the hammer was too long to fit in the case. Elm ended up taking the head off the hammer setting it in the case and the handle in a separate cylinder along with his own staff. . Once that was all done Elm locked the case with several padlocks.
"Now then, who's ready to fly to Atlas?" Elm asked the group.
No one raised their hand.
"Well this will be interesting." Clancy to his partner as they boarded the ship.
"Yay, an eight hour flight with quiet and not very chatty students." You could probably scoop the sarcasm that was dripping from Elm's mouth with a spoon.
"It won't be that bad, maybe you'll get something out of them." Clancy told Elm.
"Yeah, anyway let's get going." Elm said boarding the ship.
"Ladies first." Clancy said, a large grin spreading on his face.
"Age before beauty." Elm got out quickly before he entered the cabin of the airship.
"Damn that was fast." Clancy said to himself as he boarded the ship.
The flight went pretty well and Elm managed to get some responses out of Team MHGY. Their leader Mahogany didn't talk much, a stark contrast to his partner Helo who, once she was comfortable with her surroundings, wouldn't shut up for most of the flight which was much to Clancy's dismay. Gold was polite and formal as her birth from a family of ancient knights that could be traced back from before the first human Faunus war always taught her to be respectful of her elders. Ying was from a family of martial artists and had considerable skill but he never picked up on it, so he learned from a teacher at Sanctum to fight more on the berserker side of things. By the end of the flight they all were laughing and smiling obviously to the enjoyment of Elm who made it his personal goal to make them laugh at least once a day. Once the plane landed they all unloaded and got their heavy bags. This time it was Helo and Gold to one bag and Ying and Mahogany to another.
"We don't have to carry these back to the hotel do we?" Helo asked stretching out her sore arms.
"No, we're meeting the Atlas team who will be accompanying us on our trip." Elm told the team looking around the crowded docks.
"So what's this team's name?" Asked Ying.
"I think its team BOOP." Said Clancy, startling everyone.
"Jeez! It's easy to forget you're there." Exclaimed Helo.
"I'll take that as a complement." Clancy rolled his eyes and gave a sigh. Without another thought, he continued to look around the area.
"I see them." Elm said after a while pointing south.
"Yep that's them alright let's go." Clancy said hoisting his gear on his back.
"You heard the man, let's go." Elm told the team grabbing his things.
"If only I could fire my weapon a few times the kinetic energy would give me enough strength to carry this." Ying told his teammate as he struggled to carry his bag.
"You said you need kinetic energy?" Elm asked, over hearing Ying's conversation.
"Yeah, my semblance allows me to absorb kinetic energy and add it to my strength." Ying explained.
"How long does it last?" Questioned Elm.
"Until my aura replenishes." Ying answered.
"Hmm I have an idea, set the bag down and get ready to block a punch." Elm explained to Ying as he got into position.
Ying got ready, Elm threw a punch, and the force from it sent Ying stumbling back several steps.
"There you go, how's that?" Elm asked, tossing Ying a bag.
"Much better." Ying said as he caught the bag.
"How did you do that? I've never even seen Ying move from a punch much less take several steps back" Gold asked suddenly.
"My semblance allows me to focus my aura and send it out in concentrated blasts of kinetic energy." Elm explained to a bewildered Gold.
"Which is why if he ever offers a high five, for the love of god DO. NOT. TAKE. IT!" Clancy glared at Elm, who pretended that nothing happened.
"Now then, off we go." Elm said pointing to team BOOP who appeared to be no closer than before.
"Yes let's get this over with already." Clancy said, clearly not impressed with Elms ideas.
Once they reached the Atlassian team and traded off the gear they agreed to meet at the airfield at noon the next day. They arrived at the hotel and got their rooms. It was Elm and Clancy in one room, Helo and Gold in the next room over, and Mahogany and Ying in the room across the hall. They were all tired from a long day of traveling and decided to meet in Elm and Clancy's room at ten the next morning. With that they were all asleep within five minutes, little did they know that the next day was going to involve much more excitement than they had originally expected
A.N. Well that didn't take me as long as I expected. Probably about four days including all the editing and revisions. Although for the first day I had about two lines written in.
RedMoose: Well that turned out way better than expected.
Spartan25798: what did you expect from that exactly?
RedMoose: Umm, not as well thought out.
Spartan25798: I see, well, I'm going to go work on my story now, and hope that someone (Not naming names) actually fills out the damn character sheet
RedMoose: Really? Because it's like 12 at night when we're writing these.
Spartan25798: I do my best/worst work at night.
RedMoose: Fair enough well then I wish you the best of luck to you in your endeavours.
Spartan25798: Thanks, now all of you readers, get to bed, or go do work… I guess it depends on the time of day… anyway, bye.
RedMoose: See ya later. *Goes for high five*
OrigamiEnderdragon: Like he's going to return that.
