A/N- Whoa HO HO! Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. Sorry I get laaaaazy during the winter in Canada. Some of you probably thought I abandoned this fanfiction, sorry! This chapter we will be focusing on the members of team GRNE and the character progression, as well as some seasonal themes (like as in snow fallin')
So, apparently Monty has posted on his Facebook wall that there is RWBY colour naming rule that he follows. Some of you may have heard about it if you've been active (or stalking) his Facebook wall and have seen it and others may have not. Anyway, I am probably not going to follow this rule. I personally think that it's great that there's a guide, but I already have too much characters fleshed out to be edited.
If you want to find it, take a look at it, check out his Facebook page.
Let's get on with tha chapttaaa.
Professor Port's Grimm Studies Class
Ben sat slumped in his seat, practically bored to death listening to Professor Port's tale of how he captured the Boarbatusk from the day they had been tested on their Hunter skills.
"- you must watch for the tusks!" Professor Port shouted out loud, waving his pointer in the air. Ben stared down at his sheet of lined paper.
Scrawled across it were his team members' names: BEN GREENE, CARSON RAYMONDS, NICHOLAS MARTIN, and EVAN ORSON.
He was doodling a drawing of Professor Port when he heard someone's stomach growl. He looked over to his right and saw Nicholas rubbing his stomach, trying to settle it down.
"Heh, sorry. I'm kinda hungry," Nicholas lifted his right hand and pushed his uniform sleeve back to reveal his black wrist watch. "10 more minutes." he sighed and rested his chin on his folded arms. Ben turned his attention to his left, Carson Raymonds. Carson was vigorously taking notes on Professor Port's "lesson" that flew off topic.
Originally the lesson was a discussion about the upcoming missions that were assigned to different teams. They were to discuss about strategies needed during the missions to fight the Grimm. Ben and his team were paired with another team, that they had not met yet, and were assigned a scouting and patrolling mission. They were to recon a village deep in the forest. It was something about a King Taijitu lurking in the murky forest.
Ben didn't remember, he was exhausted and Professor Port's lecture didn't help either.
"Don't sleep, Ben," he heard a whisper call him from above. He felt an eraser drop and bounce off his head, rolling onto his table. "I said don't sleep, you loser," this time the whisper was more urgent.
"Shh, Evan, you might disrupt the class," Ben mocked back at his partner. "You can sleep later, class is almost over and we'll leave." Evan said.
Ben slumped further into his seat and rested his head against the hard wood of the lecture hall's wall.
"If you fall asleep you'll get extra readings," Evan warned.
"That's if I get caught." Ben deadpanned and gave a small laugh.
Evan leaned down from his seat above Ben and tapped his jet black hair with his pen. "Get. Up. Wake up, moron,"
"No." Ben simply answered.
"Shhhut uuuppp," a muffled groan from a girl called from above. "Some of us are trying to sleep."
Evan immediately slouched back into his seat, his face heated of embarrassment. Ben smirked from his seat below Evan.
"Alright, sorry. I've gotten off track once again, ho ho," Professor Port took a sip of his mug of coffee and continued. "We will now discuss the details of the upcoming Scouting Missions.".
Immediately whispers and excitement could be heard as Professor Port had their attention, even Ben's ears perked to listen.
"I am sure some of you are aware that in the upcoming missions, teams will paired up to complete the tasks," Professor Port reached up and pulled down the projector screen to reveal several posters taped onto it. Each poster listed teams paired up with others.
"Team CNDL (candle) will be paired up with team FRST (frost). Team COAL with team DUSK. Team SQRL (squirrel, lol) and team GRNE -"
Ben sat straight up. 'Team SQRL?! What kind of name is that?'
" - Team CRDL will be paired up with team SEMI. Team WILT and team JNPR. Team RWBY with team LGHT (light). I will give some time for the pairs to get together to discuss." and Professor Port headed back to his desk and sat back to rest. Students stood up from their desks and shuffled to where their teams were gathered.
Team GRNE grouped in the row where Ben was seated. "What? Team SQRL? What a lame n-"
Evan cut short as a taller - slight muscular - boy with ashen grey hair approached their team, followed by 3 others. One a shorter girl with chin-length black hair, another girl with raven black long hair with purple streaks, and a boy with golden brown hair swept to the right side of his face.
The ashen-haired boy walked forward and reached out to shake someone's hand. "Team SQRL. Swell to be of your acquaintance. I am Eddard Landcaster, this is Kri Sade," he gestured to the shorter girl with chin-length hair. "leader of team SQRL. And members Quinn Quantum and Ryan Dorian." Eddard stood aside as the three gave small waves and smiled.
"Pleasure to meet you, my name is Carson Raymonds." Carson reached out and shook Eddard's hand, then the others. Evan stepped forward to shake. "I'm Evan!" he shook their hands, but stopped when Quinn pulled her hand back. She squinted and studied him. "You're that annoying kid that always whispers so damn loudly while people try to sleep," Quinn notes irritated and Evan retracted his own hand.
"I'm Ben and this is Nicholas," Ben elbows Nicholas and he smiled awkwardly.
"So, we were assigned a scout area near the village in the forest. I recall, that it was a report on the sighting of a King Taijitu," Carson turned to Eddard. "Yes, and I believe we are to exterminate it," Eddard commented. Ben nodded in agreement. "Is there a day when we will be scouting?" Ben asked. "It's within this coming two week span," Kri spoke. "if we start soon we won't run into harsh blizzards and we'll finish beforehand."
"Then, it's agreed. We'll start at least within this week span," Ben yawned and stretched. "I think we can leave." he pointed at the door. Students were slowly shuffling out the door as Professor Port snored in his chair.
Ben caught sight of Ruby's familiar vivid red cloak as she was trailing behind Yang and was speaking to Weiss. He jogged downed the steps and slowed as he was passing Professor Port's slumped body. "Ruby!" he called out. Ruby turned to whoever called out her name. She saw Ben wildly wave an arm in the air to get her attention.
Ruby turned to her teammates "Guys, I'm going to be back later. Just go on back to your dorms, okay?". Yang looked over Ruby's shoulder and saw Ben. "Alright, just be back soon. It's almost lights out." Yang smiled and walked off down the corridor with Weiss and Blake. "Don't be too long with your boyfriend!" Yang shouted halfway down the hall.
Ruby ignored her sister's teasing and turned around to Ben. "What's up?" she asked as she fell in step with him. Ben turned to answer her. "I was going to ask which team you're with," Ben said as he continued walking.
Ruby put her finger on her chin. "Team LGHT. There's Liam, some girl named Gwen, um... Hayden, and... I forgot the last one," Ruby turned to him to ask a question. "What team are you with?"
Ben breathed a deep sigh. "We're paired up with team SQRL. Weird name... The leader is this girl, Kri, Quinn, Ryan, and this tall dude, Eddard."
She mouthed the names. "Eddard is a funny name. Does he accept Edd?"
Ben only shrugged.
The couple stopped walking at an immense window by the balcony door. Ben's mouth was open in awe and he dragged her closer to the window and looked outside. It was dark out but the luminous lights outside emitted a soft gold. He pointed out the window and smiled.
"Look," he whispered, the heat from his breath forming fog on the window. Ruby's eyes widened wondrously as she spotted the small snowflakes swirl around the window.
"It's snowing!" Ruby whispered excitedly.
"It's the first snowfall of the year too," Ben continued as he stared at the small snowflakes flutter to the ground. "If it snows too much then that's a problem. We have the missions soon."
"Yeah," still staring at the falling snow. "What mission did you get?" Ruby asked. "My team and team LGHT got an extermination mission. Ursas."
"We're scouting for a King Taijitu," Ben reached and ruffled Ruby's hair.
"You be careful okay? If you run into any Ursa Majors find your sister. You can't be too safe." he said with a hint of seriousness and he turned away to look back at the window. Smiling bitterly.
Ruby crossed her arms over her chest, looking bold. "I can handle them myself perfectly fine," and Ben laughed. "You be careful too, Ben." and he nodded.
The two straightened and rounded to walk back to their dorms.
Feeling exhausted, Ben let out a yawn. "Welp, I'm tired. You?" Ruby nodded. "Let's get you back to your room," Ben suggested.
Ruby let out a small playful grumble. "I can walk back myself,"
Ben laughed again. "But what kind of gentleman would I be if I left my lady friend without escorting her back safely to where she were staying?".
Starting to feel her cheeks heating up, she bit her lip and looked away. "Fine,"
Ben smiled and started walking in step with Ruby.
In a few minutes, the two reached the split intersection that branched towards two other hallways.
Ben turned to Ruby to ask if she wanted him to walk her to her dorm room. "No, no, it's fine. My room is just there. Plus, it'd be a bit awkward" she muttered as she tilted on her heels.
She reached up on her tippy-toes and ruffled Ben's spiky hair. He let out a sharp gasp of shock. "My hair! You'll mess up my gelled hair!" Ruby laughed and waved goodnight, Ben waving back.
She walked from him to her room and turned around to wave a last goodbye.
Still standing at the intersection, after waving, he whispered under his breath.
"You have to be careful. I promised."
A/N- UUAAAA. Sorry guys for not updating for quite some time now. I'll be updating more frequently because in Canada we will be on our winter/ Christmas break. I'll devote most of my break so I can update even more chapters! Anyway, don't think I'll abandon this fanfic, I am definitely not. Please don't mind my mistakes 'cus I edited it pretty late.
Alright, sorry for my short rant. I'll see you lovely readers soon!