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Ozpin and I caught the night ship to vale, and arrived at approximately 3 in the morning. Ozpin offered me lodging at the academy and I graciously accepted it. "You will be introduced to your classmates tomorrow, they are in their second year, I don't think you going through an initiation will be necessary, you have already proved to me that you are skilled. Anywho, get some sleep, and and come to my office when you wake up.".
The bed that I was provided with was quite nice, this must have been some sort of staff room. Removing Belligerence from my back, and Defiance from my hip, I set them next to the bed, and onto the nightstand respectively, taking off my coat and undershirt, revealing the supporting straps that reinforce the hold on my arm, unbuckling them, and removing the heavy piece of metal and setting it on the table along side Defiance, undoing the zippers along the side of my boots, and removing my pants.
Now fully undressed, and greatly fatigued, moved the blankets and slid under them, and brought them over my body, laying my head on the pillow and letting sleep take me.
I awoke, not wanting to get up, but I knew I had to, I brushed the haziness from my eyes with my arm and looked over at the night stand, there was a note, I picked it up and began to read it.
"Good morning, I hope this note finds you well rested, I have left you everything you will need for your time here at Beacon, the contents are as follows, one student issue Scroll, one uniform, feel free to carry whatever weapon and make whatever modification you like, all of the textbooks you will need, and your assigned classes. A locker for all your extra equipment you may have will be provided. When you are ready for the day, come to my office and I will introduce you to the rest of your classmates. regards Ozpin."
I put the note aside, and picked up my arm, resting it in it's place, holding it down while I slid my arm through the leather belts, that went across my chest and back, wrapping itself under my arm, and resting just below my armpit, with the strap in place I pulled it tight, causing the arm to shift into place, then reaching to the shoulder and pressing the switch that detected and attached the nerve endings, allowing the arm to be used. flipping the switch a jolt of pain that I never could get used to was sent, wincing for a second before testing all the axis of movement.
'Fingers, check, Wrist, up and down, check, side to side, check, rotation clockwise, check, counterclockwise, slight skipping, repairs needed, Elbow, up and down, check, side to side, check, Shoulder, up and down, check, out and in, check. Perfect.'
Satisfied with the workings of the arm, I looked at the uniform, and debated whether or not I should I should put it on, it was nice enough garb, and. Ozpin provided it free of charge, I assumed that the other students would have to pay for their own supplies.
After the mental argument in my head subsided, the uniform won out. Reaching out and grabbing it, and putting the white collared shirt, red tie, blue striped vest and black blazer, black slacks that fit rather comfortable, skipping out on the dress shoes and opting for my boots instead, once dressed, wrapping the holder for Defiance around my waist and inserting the weapon into the holster, securing it to my hip. I looked back to the nightstand, and grabbed the scroll, then noticed the single right handed black leather glove, I cocked a coy smile 'Sly old man.'.
Leaving the room and walking down the hallway, and walking to the elevator that would take me to Ozpin's office, pressing the button, and having the door open, I stepped inside and was greeted by a robotic female voice "Please place your scroll under the scanner." I did as instructed "Thank you, now departing." The elevator lurched a bit, and then began its ascent, the elevator door opened to an office with pillars at the corners, with marble flooring with the inner workings of a clock emblazoned onto the floor.
"Ah, Galahad, I hope this morning find you well." Ozpin greeted, then I noticed his assistant, the vibrant blonde hair, fiery orange eyes, wearing a white blouse with a black corset stopping just under her already large bust, further accentuating it, and a purple pencil skirt, simply put, this woman was one of the most attractive middle aged women I have ever seen. "Good morning professor Ozpin, and who would you be my dear?" I said, turning my gaze over to the women, she blushed and said "I am Professor Glynda Goodwitch, and you will refer to me as so." she said curtly, but I could sense the embarrassment, Ozpin had a slight smile. "Now that you are here, let us go meet your classmates.".
Glynda was furious, as we were arriving, the students could be seen having a literal food fight through the windows 'What have I gotten myself into.' I thought, as we neared the door. Glynda sped up and kicked it open, Ozpin and I entered to see Glynda - I assume - using her semblance to reorganize the cafeteria. "Children, please, do not play with your food." she said, angrily as she readjusted her glasses, the students resting and laughing about the events the transpired, and a very blonde girl, falling through the ceiling, and landing, unscathed. Ozpin rested a hand on her shoulder.
"Let it go." she sighed and replied "They are supposed to be the defenders of the world."
"And they will be, but right now they are still children, so why not let them play the part.".
Ozpin walked in front of Glynda and said "Teams RWBY, and JNPR. Allow me to introduce to you your new classmate, Galahad Snow." I walked forward and gave a wave "It's nice to meet you all." the 8 of them straightened and began to speak, a small red headed girl started first "Hi, I'm Ruby Rose, Leader of Team RWBY!". The blonde who fell through the ceiling stood up and gave a wave "Heya, I'm Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's older sister." the next girl with black hair, and a soft voice introduced herself "I'm Blake Belladonna, it's nice to meet you." "You as well." I replied, then a shorter girl with Ivory white hair stepped forward "And I am Weiss Schnee, it's nice to make your acquaintance.".
I stiffened, and balled my fists "Did you say 'Schnee', as in The Schnee Dust Company." I said, angrily, Weiss slowly nodded her head I grit my teeth and grabbed Defiance off my hip and leveled it at her head and quickly marched forward "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH YOUR ESCAPADES HAVE COST ME!" I yelled, Team RWBY as well as JNPR, readying offensive and defensive stances alike.
Weiss had an expression of fear on her face "I don't know what you're talking about!" She replied fearfully.
"Galahad. Put your pistol down, and step away from the heiress, she herself has done nothing to you, if anything you should blame her father." Ozpin said, then sudden realization came to Weiss' face "Oh, oh no, please i'm so sorry for what my father has turned the company into, in truth I only found out myself about a month ago." Weiss said more calmly than before 'I can't fault her for being ignorant all this time.' I thought. Holstering Defiance and extending my human hand out to help her up, she took mine and got her to her feet.
The rest of the group seemed hesitant to be around me "I apologize for my outburst Weiss, I had a… let's say, tragic, run in with a dust mine when I was young. Weiss looked sheepish, and the rest of Team RWBY calmed down, then I looked over at Team JNPR.
"So, I know who you four are, how about you four?" I said gesturing to the aforementioned Team JNPR, a scraggly blonde haired boy spoke.
"I'm Jaune Arc, Leader of Team JNPR." before he could wave hello, another gingerly haired girl jumped in front of me, this slightly startling me, caused me to stumble back a couple paces.
"Nora Valkyrie is the name, Smashing things with my hammer is my game!" the now named red head said, another boy with black hair sighed and said.
"You will have to excuse Nora, she does this a lot, I'm Lie Ren by the way, but just call me Ren." I looked to the last member of Team JNPR, and saw someone who I didn't expect to see.
"Hello, I am-" I cut her off "Pyrrha Nikos, The Invincible girl, and Champion of MIstral. It is a great honor to be in your presence." I said as I took a bow "Oh, well I certainly appreciate it, do you happen to be from Mistral?" she asked, I nodded "Born and raised, although, in harsh environments." I replied, Pyrrha cocked and eyebrow and asked "Oh, where from?".
I sighed, and before I could answer Ozpin piped up behind me "I guarantee you, he will tell you in due time . Now, for sleeping arrangements, I think I am not the only one who think it would be awkward if Galahad dormed with Team RWBY, so why don't you take lodging in JNPR's dorm, I will have the rest of your belongings transferred, they should be there when you arrive at the dorm. With that, I shall take my leave.".
Ozpin turned around and walked out of the door, I turned around to face the group to find Ruby, oogleing my hip "Woah, thats a cool gun, what round does it fire?" I cocked a smirk "Custom tooled 19.2x101.6mm explosive dust rounds, fired out of my soon to be applicably named pistol, Defiance, built it myself when I was 13 or so." I explained "Why don't we all head back to the dorms so I can show you my other weapon.". Everyone looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
When Team RWBY took their leave, JNPR and I did as well. We arrived at the dorm, and opened the door. it opened to four beds all lined up next to each other, and the rest of my clothes and gear sitting against the wall, we all entered and JNPR, began to go about their night routine, Nora and Pyrrha going into the bathroom, to change into their pajamas, leaving Jaune, Ren, and myself to our devices, I began to strip the top half of the uniform, removing the glove off the hand of my bionic, then the blazer, the vest, and finally the shirt, I heard a gasp from behind me, I turned around to see Jaune with his mouth agape.
"Never seen a Bionic arm before?" Jaune shook his head slowly.
"I'll tell you how I lost it when the girls come out." 'For now, I will deal with that skipping.' I finished in my head. Sitting down and grabbing my tools, opening a series of maintenance panels in the forearm, and looking into them, turning my wrist counter clockwise, slowly observing the inner workings and watching for anything that shouldn't be happening, and then I spotted the problem, a very tiny fragment of brick had gotten lodged in between the teeth of one of the gears, grabbing a set of finely pointed needle nose pliers, and removing the object and tossing into a nearby trashcan.
The girls had exited with bathroom and when they laid eyes on me, they had mixed reactions Nora was the first to speak.
"Wow, the Queen of the Castle likes what she sees." Pyrrha had a different reaction "That is not what I expected exiting to, mind telling us the story?" I smiled and said
"That's actually what I intended to do." I said was I was closing all the maintenance panels on my forearm.
"When I was four years old, the village that I was born in, was attack by Grimm during a 'Coming of Age' ceremony that involved gladiator style combat, I guess the fear of death coupled with the collective hatred for each opponent had attracted a very large amount of Grimm, in a matter of minutes the whole village populace was killed, leaving my parents and I hiding in this broken down shed, with the Grimm honing in on where we were, my parents told me to run, and to not stop until I came to civilization or passed out, with the latter happening about an hour later, the last thing I saw being snow of a cold Mistral winter evening. I awoke in an orphanage, they nursed me back to health, and kept me their, they used child labor in a dust mine, underneath the orphanage, and after six years of hard labour, an accident happened, a collapse of some rock later and my arm was gone, and I was back in the infirmary, with one less arm. then a week later, HeadMaster Lancelot of Arthuria Combat School came to me, he told me he could give me a father, and a new arm. I jumped at the opportunity, and at 10 years old, was given barely functioning prosthetic, with a simple claw on the end, but as the technology improved, it was upgraded, then at 12 years old, I built this." I said grabbing Belligerence.
"This, is Belligerence, it is a Two Handed Chainsword, with Dust Alloy teeth, and a hardened steel casing. Barely able to wield it, I had to get stronger, and in ten months time, had the muscle and bionic tech to wield it, I trained, and trained and got stronger, and more skilled, then finding myself lacking in the ranged department compared to other students, I built Defiance, and the rounds it fires, I measured them and it comes to 19.2x101.6mm, way bigger than something like a .308 or .338, or even a .50, if you put that into caliber it comes out to .75, five years passed, bionic tech was at it's height, with state of the art technology in my possession, I began to tinker, and tinker I did. I made some modifications such as.".
I finished talking and started to shift my fingertips into various forms, ranging to regular fingers, to drills, to serrated blades, to smooth blades. The reactions on all their faces was priceless, Jaunces mouth was open the whole time, Ren had a blank expression, I could already tell that he was the most mellow of the group, with Nora being the craziest, Pyrrha seemed phased but comfortable, I liked that.
"After graduating from Arthuria, I started taking odd jobs, go kill this pack of Grimm here, go escort this mob boss there, et cetera, and after a year, the market started to dry up, so I.." My voice trailed off and then I got an idea, I took out my scroll and went to the news, and sure enough, the assassination of was there, I showed Team JNPR and said "I did that, Ozpin is probably working on getting the whole thing under wraps right about now, so yeah, that's my story, now I am here."
Pyrrha was the first to ask a question "What did you say the name of the village was?"
'I didn't, but it was Broch Tuarach." Pyrrha's eyes widened.
"Did you say Broch Tuarach, as in the clan of the Tuarachi Warriors, I thought they were wiped out hundreds of years ago, well, I guess they are now, and you are the only remaining one." I nodded
"Son un guerreiro de Broch Tuarach" I said, in ancient Mistralian.
Jaune was the next one to ask a question "I've never heard of that Combat School, with that being said, how did they have the money to keep upgrading your arm?" I smirked and said
"One word answer, Ozpin, it turned out that him and Lancelot were friends, so he helped him out with funding and such, I guess that's how he found me, after I killed he was in my apartment waiting for me, I was going back there to grab a few things before I took one of the night ships to Vale, to seek asylum in case I was ever caught."
"Why did you kill ?" Asked Ren "She used child labour to fund the orphanage, that and she was abusive to me, and almost every other child in the damnable place, in my eyes, she deserved to die." I looked to Nora and asked if she had a question, she thought a moment and then said "What was that outburst with Weiss earlier?"
"When the accident happened, that month's collection of dust was being shipped to the SDC, thus cutting off funding for the orphanage, we had to cut down on food quantity, and quality, had to cut off central heating and air, had to cut most of the power from the building as well, just so the bills from the month didn't come up too expensive, and all the while, ' Office had all the things we didn't, fine food, heat, air conditioning, standard comforts, selfish cunt."
Jaune looked around at his team and addressed the elephant in the room "Ok, so are you gonna sleep on the floor, or are Ren and Nora gonna share, or are Pyrrha and I gonna share?" I noticed a blush appear and Pyrrha's face and oddly, a blush appear on Ren's face. "I can sleep on the floor, it's no trouble at all." Nora looked at me and smiled "I have no problem with sleeping with Ren...wait, not like that because we are not together, together, I mean we're partners but not…partners, ugh, I can't make this sou-" I cut her off "I get it Nora, you can calm yourself, although the thought passed my mind.".
No one started to move so I laid out my coat to use and an impromptu bed, undid the leather straps of my arm, flipped the switch in my shoulder to disconnect the artificial nerve endings, and set it over where my tools and weapons were, and bid everyone a good night.