Chapter 3, we finally get some info on Onyx's past.
"Why should we bring you to Ozpin?" Weiss asks.
"If you won't help me, I'll find him myself!" Onyx reponds.
"Enough!" Ruby yells.
Everyone stares at Ruby.
"Ozpin can help." Ruby says, "Come on guys, let's go."
"You can't be serious." Weiss responds.
Ruby starts walking towards Beacon Academy. The rest follow, some reluctantly. Onyx stays in the back keeping track of his surroundings, not losing his guard for a second. Ruby slows down until she's next to Onyx.
"What's wrong?" Ruby asks.
"Nothing." Onyx answers.
"We both know that's not true." Ruby responds.
Onyx stays in silence.
"I haven't known you for a full day and I've already seen two sides of you." Ruby states.
"How so?" Onyx asks.
"You're more aggressive. It's like anger is the only emotion you have now." Ruby explains.
"And what emotions did I have before." Onyx asks.
"None, you weren't showing any emotion." Ruby answers.
Onyx stared at her, his crimson eyes burning with hate and rage.
"You know who did this, don't you?" Ruby asks.
"No." Onyx says. "But when I find out, he's going to pay."
"How do you know it's a guy? And what does he have to pay for." Ruby asks.
"Besides us, only a handful of people know of the Shadow Zone's existance. Those who know about agreed to keep it secret, those people include my former team and Ozpin. They are all males, so whichever one did it, or leaked the secret for someone else to do it will pay for breaking the agreement." Onyx explains.
Onyx speeds up, leaving Ruby in the back.
The group arrives at Beacon Academy. Team JNPR departs while the rest enters Beacon Tower.
"Ozpin's office is..." Ruby begins.
Onyx was already gone. He had entered the Shadow Zone to enter Ozpin's office unnoticed.
"Well that was rude." Weiss states.
Ozpin was standing at a window looking at the view in his office. He heard the door open and close but didn't react.
"I know you're here Onyx." Ozpin says before turning around.
Onyx exists the Shadow Zone and leans on the wall.
"It was the lack of footprints despite hearing the door open and close." Onyx states.
"Yes. Why have you returned to my school?" Ozpin says.
Ozpin sits at his desk and Onyx walks over to it. He takes the black shotgun casing out of his pocket and rests it on the desk. Ozpin picks it up and stares at the O embedded on the bottom of the casing.
"We both know he's dead." Ozpin states.
"It was left there on purpose to lure me to him." Onyx states.
"Why are you afraid to say his name?" Ozpin asks, "Will it increase your anger towards him?"
Onyx grabs the casing and crushes it into tiny shards.
"My anger has reached it's limits." He states.
"What is the point of getting angry about something that happened ten years ago?" Ozpin asks.
"My anger is the source of my strength." Onyx responds.
"'Anger is the strongest source of power and the most dangerous, for both the user and his opponents.' Do you remember who said that?" Ozpin says.
Onyx clenches his fists.
"I didn't come here for a lecture already given to me by a dead man." Onyx says.
"It's been ten years since Team NWOR (Pronounced Noir) disbanded." Ozpin states.
"Not much of a team when the only other member is Rubine." Onyx states.
"Not true, there's still Night." Ozpin states.
Onyx slams his fists onto the table.
"Don't talk about Night, he killed Windsor!" Onyx yelled.
"You didn't come here just to discuss former events?" Ozpin asks.
"No. I need you to help me find Night and stop him." Onyx states.
"Night dropped off the face of Remnant, he was last seen the same day the Rider was." Ozpin says.
"I only need your resources." Onyx says.
"You mean my students." Ozpin corrects.
"You think now that he's shown himself to me he won't be coming here? We both know what he wants." Onyx says.
"I will not allow you to put my students in danger." Ozpin says.
"They are already in danger, if we don't strike first we may not be able to stop him." Onyx explains.
"Night is a master strategist. He needed another piece on the board, so he summoned you. He would have planned for us to attack which would give him access to whom ever we send after him." Ozpin states, "The only way to win this game is to not play."
"Night would be prepared for all scenarios, this is the one that gives us the highest chance of victory!" Onyx states.
"Which is why it would be the one he is best prepared for." Ozpin says.
"Fine, I'll do it myself. I work better alone anyway." Onyx says.
"Wait." Ozpin orders.
"You can't stop me." Onyx states.
"I know." Ozpin responds.
"Then what is it!?" Onyx asks.
"Here." Ozpin says as he hands Onyx a key.
Onyx puts the key in his pocket and walks out.
"You can come out now." Ozpin says.
Team RWBY enters the room.
"You want to help him, don't you?" Ozpin asks.
"I do." Ruby says.
"Why? He has done nothing good to us recently." Weiss says.
"Onyx has had a troubled life, and not just the death of his teammate. He grew up on the streets as a thief. Once Onyx tried to rob me and I caught him. I allowed Onyx to enter my school because if he was not shown a light, he would forever walk a path of darkness." Ozpin explains.
"I see he followed that path of light." Yang comments sarcastically.
"It is not too late to change that." Ozpin states.
As Team RWBY turns to leave Ozpin calls to them.
"One last thing, don't get caught." Ozpin orders.
Onyx walks up the garage at the address marked on the key. He uses the key to unlock the garage door and opens it. He enters the garage, turns on a light, and closes the door behind him. Inside is a black suitcase, a matte black motorcycle, and a chest. Onyx opens the chest. He digs inside and pulls out a picture of him when he was younger wearing a Beacon uniform and someone else. The stranger was around his age then, with long black hair and flame yellow eyes. He had on a Beacon uniform. Onyx took the picture out its frame folded it up and put it into his pocket. He grabbed the suitcased and dusted it off revealing Atlesian Assassin-001 embossedonto the front of the case. He opened the suitcase revealing black Atlesian soldier armor with a skull stratched onto the front of the helmet (Which covers the entire face). Onyx puts on the armor and then his overcoat over it. He opens the garage door and sees Team RWBY waiting for him outside.
"Why are you here?" Onyx asks with his voice distorted by the helmet.
"We are her to help." Ruby states.
"If Ozpin allowed you to come then I have no right to question him but you are to do as I say without question, understood." Onyx says.
Ruby nods and the rest do reluctantly.
Questions answered to only bring up more questions. Who is Night? Who is Windsor? Who is Rubine? Why did Night kill Windsor? Who is the Rider? What is Night goals? What's next for Team RWBY?