Yall listen to Old Town Road with Billy Ray Cyrus? Shit's tight.
Thanks to Genetools for letting me use one of his OCs, and thanks to My Turn for giving me inspiration to write again.
TheFrostZone: Thanks! I like his story and want to use some of his ideas, but I'll keep that to a bare minimum.
Guest: Axe Murderer?...….what.
Artemis-ArcherOfCrimson: Thanks C: pokers fun, really got into it when my 10th grade geometry teacher taught me to count cards.
Note: I don't own RWBY, that right belongs to Rooster Teeth!
"You will show your poker greatness by the hands you fold, not the hands you play." ~ Dan Reed.
"Hey Coal, how've you been man?"
Billy Willy owner of the gun smithy. You know the Catch-A-Ride guy from Borderlands? That really hick dude? Yeah that's Billy. "Nothin' much just wanted to see how my orders are going."
"Ohhh thise orders on second my dude." He disapered into his workshop to most likely grab the items I ordered. Look around the shop, I mean Billy as dumb as he looks and sounds makes some really cool weapons. Like this chainsaw shotgun, pratical? Maybe not, but it sure looks sick.
I pick up a pistol, a mass produced PMM from Atlas military. It's basically a Makrov but instead of 9x15mm it's 12mm. Honestly I would buy this pistol alone just so I can go around yelling Cyka Blyat.
I"Here you go muchacho, this is what I have done right now, your bigger order won't be done for another week." Billy said coming out of his workshop with a case, that he puts down on his counter.
"Thats alright I just needed something to protect myself." I grab the case and open it, inside it lay my weapon...the Ranger Seqoia. You know from Fallout New Vegas. "Perfect a job well done Billy."
"Thank you! What're you going to name 'er"
"Sequoia, it means redwood." I pull the weapon out popping the chamber out and making sure it's empty before pointing it at a wall feeling it's weight. Perfectly balanced, "Does it fire the ammo I asked for?"
"Yeap, as asked. Enough to punch through any grimm, and deal a sizable chunk to any huntsmans aura." I nod as I look down the sights of the weapon making sure it's lined up perfectly. "Oh and before I forget, your holster." He reached under the counter and pulled a holster out.
I grab the holster and attach it to my belt loop on my jeans. "Can I get the ammo?" he pointed at the box.
"There should be enough, that if you shot 100 bullets every day, you would run out in like 3 weeks." I nod as he went to describe the weight of the weapon loaded and unloaded.
"You said that the shotgun was going to take another week?"
"Yeap." I nodded as I loaded then holstered Sequoia. "If you ever need more ammo give me a days notice and should have it done in that time."
I gave a nod, before I grabbed the box and left. "Have a good day Billy." I call as I leave the store.
"You too Coal." He calls back as I close the door behind me. I start to head back to the house to put the gunbox in my room. I'm going to head to the bar today, because Joe wants me too meet someone. So far this day seens like it's going good.
Todays not going good at all. When I got to the bar Joe called me other to where he was, the pool tables. Now any other time I would have been happy to play some pool, but today...I'm terrified to be where I'm standing. Because right now Qrow is standing next to Joe looking pissed.
"Joe, Qrow" I say trying my hardest no to let my fear into my voice. You see, even though me and Qrow got along on my trip to The Village, I obviously did something to piss him off.
"Oh you too know each other?" Joe asked curiously.
"Yeah, I'm the one who got the kid here. Joe can you give us a few minutes to talk it's been awhile."
"Yeah sure I'll go grab some whiskey and we can play pool." Joe said as he left to the bar.
"Kid you fucked up." I gulped looks like I did do something, "Do you know how hard you've made my life?"
"N-no I don't."
"Amber got so fucking pissed and took it out on me." What? "And you wanna know who pissed her off, well it was you asshole."
"Wait, what? How did I piss her off?"
"She caught saw you smoking a cigar when you were playing poker a few weeks ago"
"How did she see me if she wasn't there?"oh shit that guy was recording probably put it on their version of YouTube.
"She saw it on DustTube." Figures, I mean cigars are not even that bad for you. You mostly keep the smoke in your mouth to taste it.
"And since you were the nearest to her she took it out on you?"
"YES!"
"I think you need some whisky." I'm trying my best not to burst out laughing right now.
"Whisky is served boys!" Joe said as he came back with a bottle and a few glasses.
I give Qrow a look of pity and grab a glass from Joe that got filled. " you guys up for some pool?"
"Sure." Qrow grabbed a glass and took a gulp...how can you do that? I mean I'm Irish and I have trouble doing that.
"Perfect, standard 8-ball?" Joe asks as he grabs a cue from the wall nearby
"Yep."
"Sounds good."
...
After We grabbed our cues, and set the balls up we needed to decide who would play first, and what better way than rock paper sizers, which I won by the way.
After Qrow and Joe's match it was decided it would be me and Qrow to play our first match. Me and Qrow decide for me to break the balls.
Nothing came out of it, like usual though I did give Qrow a lot of easy shots.
"Y'know kid you're not that bad"
"Thanks...I guess" He made a stripe in meaning he takes another shot. "Hey Qrow would you mind unlocking my aura?"
He stopped before he shot giving me a weird stare. "Kid you mean to tell me that you went into a Grimm infested forest without aura?"
"I wasn't really in the best state of mind when I decided to leave my home."
"I'm not sure wether to call you brave, or the dumbest person alive." He missed his shot.
"I assure you it's the second one." I take a shot at the solid near the top right socket and...missing?
"Ha! Nice shot!" Qrow said mockingly.
"Yeah fuck you too."
He takes a shot making two in one go. "But if you're wondering I will, mostly because if Amber was mad that you were smoking I don't want to se her when you die."
Nice...you really got your priorities straight Qrow. He missed the second shot allowing me to get another turn...and I missed again.
"Fuck!" What is with me today? I'm usually not this bad at pool.
"Heh let a master show you how it's done" He took another shot...three in one what is this bullshit it's almost like he is extremely lucky, and...I'm...unlucky...I forgot his semblance.
"Now I just need that 8 ball, back right pocket"
He made it if your wondering, I took a big sip of the whiskey and sat down after my grueling lose.
"Oh Coal, I would've though you were good at pool." Joe said as he came back from serving guests.
"I usually am, just-" I turn to Qrow, "-unlucky today for whatever reason."
"Why are you looking at me it's not my fault!"
"Well you've been lucky, I've been unlucky...almost like it's your semblance." I gave him an accusing glare.
"How'd for figure that?"
"Qrow I play poker, you can't lie to me often."
He sighed, "You caught me, my semblance makes other people unlucky, happy asshole?"
"Yes very." We all sit in silence for a good bit drinking whiskey and making small talk, you know the usual things.
"Hey Qrow mind unlocking my aura now? Just to get it out of the way?"
He sighed again before walking up to me. "Close your eyes." I did as followed and he started talking again.
For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of greed and deceit to rise above all. Infinite in wisdom and unbound by death, I release your soul, through the hand dealt by life, play thee.
You know how everyone talk about how after then unlock their aura they feel invincible? Their lying you don't feel invincible you feel GODLIKE.
"I can't even begin to describe how good I feel right now, I feel like I can conquer the world if I tried." I look at Qrow in a state of nirvana.
"Yeah just give it 5 minutes and you'll begin feeling like shit again."
"Let me enjoy this then." Like for real, I've smoke weed but never felt this good, even when I was baked out of my mind.
"Thank you Qrow, hopefully my semblance will be useful." Honestly, for real though it would suck if my semblance is annoying like Qrow's. Because let's be honest Qrow struck out on semblance's.
I look outside and realize how late it is. "Sorry guys but I got to go, I got work tomorrow, can't get too drunk"
"See you man"
"Bye kid"
"Hey Qrow, tell Amber I said hi alright?" I turn back calling out into the bar.
"You got it kid." I heard Qrow call back.
(TheNextDay)
ThunkThunkThunk
Me and Adam are currently out chopping wood right now, because it's my job and all.
We are about done, and the days light is on it's last breathe. Mostly when me and Adam head out on these trips we joke around, helps keep the negativity away and lightens the mood you know?
But today it felt like no matter what we said to each other, this dreadful taste was always present.
"Adam we should head back, I've got a really bad feeling about this." I slowly unholster Sequoia and cock the hammer back.
"Alright, you sure?"
"Yeah just...a horrible taste in the air right now." We heard some howling in the distance. "Well...shit."
"Coal, we need to get to the car."
"Yeah no shit."
We start running to the car, and I have Sequoia fully out when a Beowulf jumps in front of us
Bang
One down. "Adam start the car, I'll protect us while you start the car!" I yell looking around for more Beowulf's.
BangBang
Two down...holy shit that's a lot of Grimm, I hear the truck start behind me, and I hop in the back with the wood
SlashBang
F-fuck one of them got a claw on me, why didn't my aura stop it? Okay deep breathes
BangBangClick
The car begins moving rather quickly thankfully. "RELOADING!" I tell hoping Adam he would hear me
Slash
God damnit another one got me, the trucks not moving fast enough to escape them.
BangBangBang
Fuck three for one target, not good enough, at least we're picking up speed. My vision is getting bleary...the shots are becoming harder to hit
BangBang
Their slowing down thank Christ. I look at my left shoulder, where I got clawed twice...hmm not as bad as I though it was. Still very deep, this is not good.
You know a nap seems very nice about now.
...
Hmm I know that smell it's uh...hmm. OH! It's bleach, wait why would I smell bleach? Am I in a hospital? What happened cmon Coal remember...oh that's what happened. I open my eyes and let my eyes adjust to the sudden light to see a hospital room.
"Hello, Doc? Adam? Anyone there?" If I'm at a hospital, that probably means I'm at docs. Doc is our resident...uh well doctor. The Village has a small hospital it only has like two rooms.
The door opened showing Doc with a clipboard and a scroll in his other hand. "Ah Coal you're up, how are you feeling?"
"Pretty mediocre if I'm to be honest."
"Perfect, so do you remember what put you in here?"
"Grimm, me and Adam were out in the forest and we ran into Grimm, one or two got a hit on me I can't remember to much after that."
"Well lets start from the moment you got hit, you have aura yet it went through." Hey I remember that now, that's bullshit! It's supposed to help me not become a security blanket!
"I don't know why it didn't protect me...honestly." He nods as he writes that down
"When did you get your aura unlocked?"
"Yesterday." He wrote that down too.
"There's the issue. You see aura, it like a muscle you have to train it, for it to work properly."
"Huh didn't know that."
"Most people don't, unless you went to a combat school you couldn't have known." He writes something else down on his paper. "You find your semblance yet?"
"No, I thought those took forever for you to discover?"
"Something we tell kids so the actually work when we give them aura." That's actually hilarious.
"How long does it really take?"
"Depends on the person, some take one day, most take a year. It's somewhere in that range."
"Huh the more you know." I shift in the bed so I'm sitting up cracking my neck. "How long do I have, till I get released?"
"Oh, you can go now if you wanted I just have to do a check up before you go"
"Lets get it out of the way then." Honestly I hate check ups, it's just awkward most of the time.
"Alright stand up." I follow his order. "Alright you're good to go."
"What?"
"You're good to go." Can all check ups be like this. It's great all you need to do is stand? Perfect no more ball touching.
I leave the room I was in, going into the receptionist area. Adam is in a chair sleeping. I walk over to him shaking him a bit.
"Adam let's go." I kept shaking him...holy shit he's more knocked out than I was.
"Hmm wha?" I kept shaking. "Alright, alright I'm awake stop shaking me"
"Cmon sleeping beauty, lets head to the house." I begin to walk away seeing him follow behind me.
"When'd you get up?" Adam asked, his voice still slurred from sleep. "They said you wouldn't be awake for another day."
"...How long was I out?"
"You didn't ask Doc?"
"No I wanted to leave, I don't like hospitals never been to one for a good reason." We walk out of the hospital. " and the last time I was in one it was for a dislocated ankle, which hurts a lot to be set again."
"Hmm, well you were out for little over a day." Huh shorter than I thought I was out. "When did you get your aura unlocked"
"I would say a day ago, but with new knowledge, two days." He nods as we continue walking.
"We're going to take a break tomorrow, you need it, and I need to destress." Hey I'll take it. I am a master a being lazy
I nod as we get to the house, Adam unlocks the door as he is the only one with a key right now. We walk in and I start heading towards the stairs to go to my room.
"Hey Adam I'm going to lay down let my body's healing finish its course and then tomorrow we can head to the bar and play some pool, or something like that"
"Alright, see you tomorrow then." I nod as I head into my room and plop down onto my bed
"Seriously...what a day man...what a day." I close my eyes and fall asleep never though it's half past noon.
(Qrow P.O.V)
You know Ozzy was right. This kid does know more than he lets on. Ozpin got suspicious when we ran into him...as was I. But then the kid goes on and learns my semblance. Something's up with him and it doesn't sit right with me.
Not to mention his story of fighting with his family is fake. Or more like a white lie. Because no where in any medical records of any frontier towns. Mentions the family black, or the name Coal.
I watch as he fires and kills a few Beowulf's then him and his buddy take off in a truck. Coal Black, as suspicious as you are Ozpin wants you as a piece. Sorry kid this was necessary, we need to test you.
I pull my scroll up and sent a message to Ozpin.
'The Knight is in play'
Coal Black you just entered a game you never wanted to play.
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