I woke up with the sunrise, groggy as can be. "That was a weird dream. Ah well. time for food." stumbling into my kitchen, I was shocked to see Yang sitting at my table. "I- uh- but- what are you doing here?"

Yang smirked "waiting for breakfast, obviously. When i first popped in, you were still asleep. so I made myself comfy and decided to wait."

A thought popped into my still foggy mind. I never sleep with clothes on, and I hadn't touched my dresser yet. Oh sweet baby Jesus. My face abruptly went crimson as I turned about face and promptly marched back into my room, Yang catcalling from the kitchen "Hey, I was enjoying the view!" And I thought I had no shame. Returning to my kitchen in a much more decent state, I went straight to cooking, pointedly ignoring my blonde intruder. "Aw, you're no fun in the morning" Yang pouted. I merely smiled and bit back the many retorts coming to mind, focusing on my culinary work.

A few minutes later, I was dishing up two fat, fluffy pancakes the size of the plates they were served on. "Alright, Sunshine. You wanted breakfast, here you go." I set the plate down in front of her, her eyes lighting up at the brown disc of goodness. Words cannot describe the sheer destruction laid upon the pancake I had so carefully created not minutes before, but I shall try.

Yang opted to forgo cutlery and lifted the pancake as one would claim a prize, then brought it to her lips and savaged it with her teeth, ripping chunks away from the whole to be devoured. I merely watched as she destroyed the meal, piece by piece my creation sliding down her throat. Sated, the blonde let out a sigh as she slumped into her seat, eyes closed in content. "you know how to cook, Wonder boy, I'll give you that" she murmured, lidded eyes opening to stare at me.

The tension between us was palpable, disturbed only by my scroll ringing, with professor Ozpin's face appearing on the front of my screen. A message was displayed, stating that I was to meet him before my training in aura began. "sorry Yang, but O wants to see me, and I gotta go now if I'm gonna meet him on time. See you in aura training?" I said with some hope. Yang just pouted, turning away so as to hide the smile I saw beginning to creep onto her face. I really hoped that whatever she was planning wasn't too humiliating.

I met Ozpin outside Glynda's' classroom, curious as to what was so important "You rang? " I spoke up, alerting professor O to my presence.

"Ah yes, mister Ddraig. I did indeed, ring, as you put it. After your class today, you will be accompanying team RWBY on a training exercise. You will be there to observe, nothing else. I believe your class is about to start. Now hurry along, miss Goodwitch puts high value in punctuality." With that he walked away. I hurried into the room and took a seat, awaiting the knowledge I would need to succeed in beacon.

Miss Goodwitch began her class without an introduction, opting to jump right into the core of todays lesson. "Your aura is a manifestation of your soul, and has many applications. Today we will be focusing on one aspect in particular, that being your aura as a defensive tool." Miss goodwitch carried on with her lesson, instructing us on how to focus our aura into a shield. At one point, Glynda pointed at Weiss who was in perfect form, the physical manifestation of a shield maintained in front of her. The detail was perfect, down to the snowflake emblem embossed on the front. "Excellent work miss Schnee. As you can see, her concentration is flawless." At the praise delivered by miss goodwitch the shield of aura flickered and spasmed, before winking out of existence. Weiss flushed and set about recreating the event, in spite of the snickers going throughout the classroom. Class passed by with students having various degrees of success, even Jaune managed to manifest his aura, albeit briefly. I elicited curious stares as my hands became covered in sapphire gauntlets interlaced with bright orange lines. Miss Goodwitch marched up to my seat to examine my hands, turning the appendages over and examining the gauntlet in exquisite detail. "Two colours… You have a rare soul mister Flint." I became confused by her statement, investigating the phrase from all possible angles until my train of thought was derailed by the bell ringing.

I packed up my things and looked around for the team I was supposed to join. Rose petals leading me out the door and down the hallway. Continuing to trail the falling petals, I was lead to the landing pads outside the school where the four were convened, delayed by the one and only Ozpin. "And there he is, the man of the hour. Ladies, enjoy your mission." walking away with his ever present cup of coffee.

I walk up to the four, and was summarily greeted by a very perplexed Schnee. "Aura. Now" She snapped out a command, locking my wrists in her tiny grip. I was confused, but dutifully flared my aura, crafting the same gauntlet from earlier in class. Her eyes flicked between my gauntlet and my face, her lips forming a silent "Oh" as she examined my evidently curious aura. "How did you develop a second color in this? That shouldn't be possible." She asked, mild accusation mixed in with wonder.

"You do realise that I'm not from this world, right? technically speaking, nothing I do should be possible. This just happens to be a bit more obvious." Dry sarcasm permeated my voice.

"How dare you talk to me like that! Do you have any idea who I am?"

"Is this a face that looks like it cares, snowflake?" Yang is off in the corner dying of laughter. Ruby and Blake swap concerned glances.

"Alright team, we have to go now. Weiss, leave him alone. Flint, be nice." Ruby commanded, suddenly entering leader mode. I snapped a mock salute before heading towards the Bullhead. We all entered the dropship in single file, the team trying to get comfortable in the bucket seats across from myself.

"Aw, what's the matter? Come sit with us! I promise not to bite… hard." Yang teased. Weiss continued to glare at me, Blake was lost in her ninjas of love book, and Ruby was nervously looking at both of them, fidgeting in her seat.

Aw, that was no fair, now I have to return fire."Oh, really? You'd be gentle, just for me? I figured that you would be feistier, but I suppose we do have an audience." A slight smirk graced my face, betraying my true intentions. Ruby proceeded to become the colour of her namesake, with an exclamation of "MEEP!" as she hid within the depths of her hood, burying her face in Weiss's shoulder. Even Yang seemed a bit shocked at that one.

Weiss took the silence as an opportunity to scold Yang and myself. "You two should be ashamed of yourselves! Thanks to you, our team leader has been traumatised right before we start a mission! could you be any more shameless?!"

I just shook my head, my smirk becoming a full blown grin. "don't tempt me, Ice queen." yet another muffled meep was heard from our fearless leader. Before Weiss could launch into me again, I raised my hands in surrender. "Alright, alright, I'll leave it be." as I settled back into my seat, Weiss began a tirade on Yang. The smile never left my face as the gears inside my head began to turn. after all, I'm entitled to my fun as well, right?

Exiting the dropship, I surveyed the area. Despite there being copious amounts of snow back at beacon, the forest seemed to have been preserved in mid autumn, thunderstorms and all. "All right team, you know the drill. Sweep the area, eliminate the ursa, meet back here and be home in time for cookies! Weiss, Blake, you two are with me. We don't need the ursa knowing we are here because you start bickering. Yang, Flint… behave, please?"

I grinned, and saluted "yes Ma'am" as I turn around to Yang. "Alright, show me how its done sunshine." The two of us walked off into the woods.

Blake turned to ruby and spoke up. "Ruby, do you really think that was wise, sending those two off together?"

"I'm hoping that by the time the mission is over, those two will have gotten all of that… ookiness out of their system." Ruby replied simply.

Blake seemed happy with the idea, before realizing something. "Ruby. Its Yang."

"Oh no, what have I done!" The redhead made as if to disappear, but was stopped by weiss grabbing onto her collar.

"You dolt! They have already disappeared! No way are you going to find those two… degenerates! Who knows what they are doing to each other right now, I am not letting you go and find them and that is that is final, Ruby Rose!" Weiss would brook no argument and dragged ruby behind her, Blake following the duo, rolling her eyes the whole time.


Yang and I had been walking for a short time in silence, side by side. Yang pulled out an energy bar and began to mow down, which was my cue to drop a particular bombshell. "So… how long has Weiss had the hots for your sister?" Bits of energy bar flew everywhere as Yang performed a classic spit take.

"How long has weiss WHAT?!" yang began to stalk towards me menacingly, grabbing me and slamming me against a tree.

"First of all, OW. Second, you mean you didn't notice the looks Weiss was giving me when I made Ruby redder than her cloak?" I asked, feigning uninterest. "Or how about the fact that our resident Ice queen was comforting your sister? Come on, I've been here a whole three days and I can see it." Yang dropped me and took a step back. I had set the gears in motion, now I had to sit back and reap the rewards. Yangs face began to light up with the realisation of what I had just pointed out.

"Oh my god, you are so right! this is perfect!" Yang began giggling, still one of the most musical sounds I had heard. "It's adorable! Oh, I can't wait to blackmail Weiss with this!" I just smiled, things were turning out perfectly. Yangs face abruptly turned serious. "Flint. Go get Ruby." grabbing me by the belt, I was thrown down the path we had taken. I lifted myself off the ground to the sight of yang taking on three ursa, and more beginning to surround the area. Gunshots rang out as she continued her dance of death. "I said GO, wonderboy!" yang called out.

I began to run down the path as fast as I could, calling out for the rest of team RWBY. stumbling into the clearing we had started in, I realized I had no idea where anyone was. "Wait… I'm an idiot." I muttered to myself. pulling out my scroll, I opened up my contacts list and promptly dialled up Ruby. "Ruby speaking!" Thank god she picked up right away.

"Ruby, Yang is under attack! Go up the trail you sent us on, we arent far from it!"

"On it." click. I guess that takes care of that. Time to go back, I can at least do what I was sent to do. Returning to where I had ran off, I saw a pile of ursa thrashing inwards, followed by what I can best describe as an explosion of fire and fury.

Yang's eyes were blood red, and flames cascaded from her hair. She laughed and punched her gauntlets together, connecting perfectly with the thunder rolling across the sky. "Come on!" she snarled as she charged the ursai, sending the grimm flying like so many bowling pins. It became comical to watch actually. The sky lit up with bolts of fire coming down. A bolt arced into a tree and destroyed it, shards of smoking timber flying everywhere. The clap of thunder was deafening. I stepped backwards to avoid being impaled as a significant chunk of the tree came sailing to land where I had been standing. looking back at the blonde, I watched as she juggled an ursa with blasts from her gauntlets. She laughed, carefree as the wind blasting around us and wasn't paying attention, and that was what brought about her downfall. An ursa reared up behind her and, towering for a moment, it launched her across the way into a tree.I heard a crack, and Yangs body go limp.

Something in my mind snapped at seeing that. Reaching up, I took hold of a branch. Hatred fuelling my strength, I broke the branch off the tree with a hand. Using my impromptu spear, I charged at the mass of ursai. Screaming incoherently, I launched myself up the back of an ursa. Locking my legs around the monsters neck, I began smashing the end of my spear into its cranial ridge. Blood and brain matter went everywhere as I stabbed through the back of its skull, removing the stick with a squelching sound. "You want her, you go through me!" wrenching the impromptu weapon out, I brandished it at another. "COME ON! YOU WANT SOME OF THIS!" I bellowed out, desperately trying to bring my aura of armor up again. One ursa roared in reply, and I took the opportunity to push my crude spear down through its throat, making a grisly puppet of the beast. It thrashed about, no longer able to breathe and I was tossed aside like a rag doll, which left me weaponless against the rest, but I still wasn't sated. "I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" I screamed in defiance. I was abruptly proven wrong by an ursa who slammed me into the ground. My aura flared to life as I defended myself from its massive claws.

Yang dusted herself off, standing up in time to witness the ursa commence pounding on my form. her semblance flared back to life stronger than before, and once again ursai went flying. "I told you to stay back!" Yang yelled at me as she picked me up.

"You looked like you needed help, besides I can't let you have all the fun now can I" I said, feeling very battered. Yang tore off to deal with the rest of the pack. A rumbling that sounded very similar to thunder had me turning to the side, and having the supreme pleasure of being nose to nose with hands down the BIGGEST ursa I had seen. "Oh hello." I watched as a paw raised up, and then I saw a great deal of things from my vantage point in the sky. I stopped seeing as much after I began bouncing and finally skidded my way across the battlefield, coming to a stop near where I had began my fight. The giant ursa charged at me as I scrambled back to my feet in the mud. Roaring, the ursa bore down on me while I fumbled for a solid footing.

Something clicked in place with my mind, and I suddenly became aware of just what I could do. raising my hands, I caused a rift to open in front of myself, and above the spike that at one point was a tree. The ursa barrelled through the opening and promptly fell out the other, impaling itself upon the tree with its own momentum. Flicking my wrists, I closed both portals before I looked at my hands. Again, they glowed blue and orange, the tangerine hue dominating my aura this time. My mind whirled with ideas as hidden facets of my semblance came to the forefront of my mind. My lips twitched as a smirk crossed my lips, creeping into a full blown grin that graces only the mad. Chuckling to myself, I reclaimed my lost ground in a most unorthodox manner. Opening a portal both above and below myself, I stepped forwards into a freefall. The world rapidly became a blur of blue, green, and brown as I approached speeds normally considered unhealthy to the human body.

The stress of freefall was wearing at the aura shielding my body, and I adjusted the trajectory of my fall just short of ninety degrees. The adaptation in direction left my mind off-kilter, as it were. I reoriented myself mid-flight, in time to identify a stationary object standing in my path. I flared my aura into a shield just in time to blast through said object, flinging bits of grimm everywhere as I plowed through the unfortunate ursa.

Fists and shells were flying in equal measure as Yang brawled with an ursa, each blow staggering the Grimm further back. In a desperate attempt to save itself, the Ursa reared up on its hind legs, preparing to crush the blonde huntress. As it reached the apex of its strike however, an azure streak flew into the grimm, causing the beast to erupt in a shower of gore and bones, leaving nothing but the legs the beast had been standing upon moments before. as the limbs collapsed to the ground in a puddle of effluence, Yang was able to summon only one word from her lips.

"What."

The collision with the grimm was most unwelcome, as I was now careening in an unknown direction, bouncing off every conceivable tree and stone in the thrice damned forest. I had picked up a collection of sticks, rocks, bruises and cuts in my tumble I discerned as a tree brought an abrupt end to my flight. Staggering to my full height, my eyes found themselves alighting on multiple ursa. "Dear tonight, I'm sorry for whatever I did that made you hate me. Can we kiss and make up?" I voiced my apologies to the uncaring sky, mentally preparing myself for what was to come. Returning my gaze to the pack of riled up grimm, the warrior in my blood boiled to the surface as I voiced my thoughts.

"Bring it on."

I dropped into a ready stance as the bearlike grimm charged at me en masse, waiting for the right moment to present itself. The creatures came closer… Closer… I could almost smell the creatures putrid breath as I activated my semblance, tumbling backwards through the newly made portal to launch myself over the horde of grimm. Observing one beast falling through, I snapped the portal shut on the grimm, freeing the creatures organs from its bony prison. Returning to my feet, I turned to the remainder of the pack and took the offensive. Charging at the grimm, I opened yet another portal on the ground in front of me and launched myself towards the largest ones face. I negated my portals and opened two side by side, behind the grimm I was flying at. Twisting my body, I landed on the Ursa major and kicked off, pushing my latest victim into my trap. as the beast stumbled between the openings, I clapped my hands, sealing the rifts again and bisecting the grimm. Pure, unadulterated terror shone in the eyes of the creatures as I cackled maniacally, turning my gaze to the beasts. "Well? What are you waiting for? RUN!" I screamed at the cowering grimm, and with that cue, they bolted. The cheshire grin never left my face as I hunted down and dispatched the remainder of the pack in gruesome fashion. My bloodlust sated, I decided I should probably return to the team. I pulled my scroll out and activated the communications ping, using it to track my way back to the team, and Yang. Why was I singling her out? Her opinion shouldn't matter more than the others, but for some reason it did. I found Yang in the clearing I had blasted through earlier, surrounded by piles of ursa. I grinned, and jogged over. "Hey there Sunshine, how ya doin?"

"I'm fine, but what about you? What the hell was that?!" Yang exploded. "One second that ursa major was going to use you as an hors d'oeuvre, the next you're walking around killing everything like a total badass!" She seemed awestruck at the power I hold.

"I'm not sure. Hey Yang?"

"Yeah?"

I paused for a minute, trying to figure out what I wanted to ask. "Do you enjoy killing?"

She turned to me, concern in her eyes. "like, do I enjoy killing Grimm? Yeah, I do. Every Grimm I smash is one less that can hurt someone important to me. Why?"

I turned away from the blonde huntress and hugged my knees. "When I was fighting, I felt something dark in me. I enjoyed killing those monsters, a lot more than I should have. I saw blood and guts everywhere, and I caused it. Instead of feeling nauseous or anything, seeing that made my blood run faster than before. Killing those things got me excited. I'm not any better than those things out there."

"Nope. You are doing all of remnant a favor with every Grimm you kill, regardless of how you do it. The fact that fighting is in your blood doesn't change anything about who you are."

I stared at my toes, unwilling to look at my partner, knowing that I would cave as soon as I did. "I'm not so sure I like that part of me is the problem."

"Well, your options are this. You can be disgusted with yourself every time you do the right thing, or you can accept that this is part of who you are and feel better all around." Yang commented, giving me some tough love. I instinctively reached out, grasping the brawler and tugging her into a hug. Burying my head into her shoulder, I sat there for quite some time as i tried to sort through my feelings. Pulling away from the comfort that is Yang, I locked my gaze with hers. Trapped in her hypnotic eyes, I felt my head pulling forward, ever so slowly. Our breathing slowed down as I travelled closer to the brawlers face, and I found myself entranced by her mouth, tracing the curve and swell of her lips with my eyes as I travelled closer...

We broke apart after hearing footfalls and a familiar "meep!" Turning away from Yang, I saw the three huntresses surveying the carnage, Ruby pointedly looking anywhere but at us. Our crimson team leader spoke up first. "Jeez Yang, how did you do this much damage? This is unusual, even for you." Yang and I shared a knowing look. I guess I'd be the one to break the news.

"Turns out Yang can no longer lay claim to 'most destructive teammate' since I'm here now." I commented in an offhand manner. The three huntresses turned to me, and I raised my hands, gesturing at the chaos I had caused, grinning like a cheshire cat the whole time. "I lay claim to the title 'King of carnage' from here on out." I say with a cheeky grin. Sending a wink Yang's way, I said with some finality. "My first decree as King is that naptime shall begin… Now." With that, I fell on my face, passed out before I hit the ground.

Ruby began calling in for extraction, Yang, Weiss, and Blake convened to discuss my sudden onset of destruction. Yang opened the topic "You guys missed out. we were fighting the ursa, and I'm having a *blast*, when all of a sudden an ursa punches the shit out of me. I go flying and bounce off a tree, and wonder boy over there goes beserk. he killed two of them with a really big stick, and then an ursa major decided to pound the shit out of him, then he chopped it up! then he started pointing at ursa, and they- and then he- I was gonna punch one- and it just- It was awesome!" Yang finished, totally out of breath.

Blake looked at Yang for a while before glancing at weiss. "Did you understand any of that?"

"Nope. Did you?" Weiss commented.

"Nope."

Ruby raced over to the group. "Okay guys, the dropship is on its way- why is Flint passed out? and why is Yang breathing so hard?"

"We'll explain when we get back." Blake and Weiss echoed.

the drop ship arrived without ceremony, and the team of four boarded, yang hauling my unconscious body aboard like a sack of potatoes. Ruby summed up the thoughts of the team in a single sentence.

"Let's go home, guys."