A shadow loomed outside the school, one window in particular: Team RWBY's dorm room
"Hello my beautiful kitten I'll be back for you and that Heiress" the shadow said disappearing, at the same time Blake shivered knowing that something was going to come after her, but remained asleep. Blake had gained an uncanny sense of danger since being a part of her team. One that allowed her to clearly sense danger around her but somehow this sense of danger wasn't clear as the others.
"Lien for your thoughts?" Ryo asked Edward just stared up at the ceiling late at night while listening to the sounds of the loving couple breathing
"I think I could have finally found the one" Edward said
"Weiss Schnee?" Ryo asked
"I just can't get her out of my mind" Edward said smiling.
"The sweetest kiss is usually that of love" Ryo said
"Wait, are you saying as I stole her kiss I fell in love with her?" Edward peering over his bunk to the one below
"Most likely my friend" Ryo said rolling over to sleep "now go to sleep and dream of your maiden and try not to be a pirate about it"
"Screw you mate" Edward laughed before zoning off into the sweet oblivion of sleep.
"Weiss Conroy does have a ring to it"
"Go to sleep Conroy" Dante said only to hear Edward's deep rumbling snores fill the room
"Quit being such a light sleeper" Dante said to himself as he went back to his partner and girlfriend who smiled at the fact the pirate of the team may have just found love.
The next day Edward was in the cafeteria eating a hearty breakfast of sausage, bacon tomato toast and eggs when Aeris sat down with a simple breakfast and a curious smile on her face
"So I hear you've fallen for the heiress of Schnee" Aeris said taking a bite of her honey covered toast before scooping up some fruits salad to accompany it, making Edward pause looking up at her
"Ye Can't be proving that" Edward said scowling
"Cut the pirate language" Aeris said
"alright but I'm telling you now I"
"Am but being very subtle about my affections for the heiress?" Dante asked
"Shut up" Edward said slamming a sausage into his mouth before noticing a certain heiress from across the room.
"You're staring" Dante said smiling
"Oh bite me" Edward said flipping the bird at his team's leader
"Did you guys sensed anything last night?" Blake asked
"Blake, you're the team's sensor; we only know if danger's near when you say it is" Ruby said
"You sensed something last night?" Yang asked
"Yes, but I couldn't make it out clearly" Blake said unnerved
"Wait, according to you there's only one thing you can't sense clearly and that is Adam Taurus" Yang said
"Who's Adam?" Weiss asked
"My old partner and a high ranking officer of the White Fang" Blake said
"And how can he block your sensory abilities?" Weiss asked.
"He helped me develop them" Blake said
"And what are we going to that about that?" Ruby asked
"Nothing, there's nothing we can do" Blake said darkly
"Besides waiting?" Yang added.
That night while the students were sleeping the shadow from the other night slipped into Team RWBY's dorm room via the door, this was none other than the criminal Faunus Adam Taurus; Blake's former partner. He crouched low to the ground and threw a crystal of some sort
'I can't get the two on the top bunks before of the dispersal of the sleeping dust; but Blake and the heiress will be easy prey for it' Adam thought as he placed a breather on his face to venture into the dusty room and picked up Weiss and Blake before using a window to Exit
"SkyBull Online" Adam said as his personal airship came by and got him
"Take us to Forever Fall" Adam commanded dumping his hostages in the back of the ship before taking the controls
"Acknowledged sir" the AI said
"Soon Blake we'll be together again" Adam said looking back as Blake who was still out cold.
"PROF OZPIN! PROF OZPIN!" Ruby cried out making the old professor
"Miss Rose what's wrong?" Ozpin asked alerted
"Weiss and Blake; we think they've been kidnapped" Yang said
"And where is your evidence?" Goodwitch asked
"Here, its a Dust containment crystal" Yang said
"And as you can see its empty, I'm guessing since we're her and our friends aren't either we were out of range or didn't contain enough Dust to affect us" Ruby said as Ozpin looked over the crystal
"Sleeping dust, and this delivery system only allows for low level deployment, so in other words" Ozpin said
"Weiss and Blake were being targeted?" Yang asked
"I'm afraid so I'll have an elite team to recover them" Ozpin said walking off.
"Are you sure that Team DARE is ready for this?" Goodwitch asked
"Yes" Ozpin said
"It is rumoured that Edward has been starting to obtain affections for Weiss Schnee" Goodwitch said
"That's good. It will mean that they will be giving it their all" Opzin said
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SOMEBODY KIDNAP WEISS AND BLAKE?!" Edward shouted making Goodwitch giving a Ozpin a look that said 'I told you so'
"Easy Edward, it almost seems like your worried for the heiress" Dante said
"Shut up" Edward said in a growling tone
'If this mission goes south I will have to give a suspension to Edward, so he can chill out and clear his head" Goodwitch said
"So what's the mission?" Aeris asked hopefully defusing the tension in the room
"A simple rescue mission, retrieve Weiss Schnee and Black Belladonna" Ozpin said as Team DARE acknowledged these words and leaving before Edward was called back by Good witch
"And as a bonus objective for you Edward is to try and keep a level head, I know of the rumour and gossip about the school about you falling head over heels in love for her, but that must not, I repeat NOT! get in your way, and if it does well, expect consequences" Goodwitch said as Edward left pulling his hood up
'Now get those girls back for us' Goodwitch said feeling a tenseness in her shoulders before a tender hand helped soothed them
"Are we really doing this Victor?" Goodwitch asked
"Yes we are Glynda, we need them to be, otherwise Ms Schnee will be killed and I fear for the safety of Ms Belladonna" Ozpin said as he hugged his partner
"We haven't been like this for ages" Goodwitch said
"I know" Ozpin smiled.
"So do you think you can keep calm?" Dante asked Edward as the two walked out to the Daredevil
"I am calm" Edward said
"It's obvious you're not calm, you're not even dating yet and you look like you're going to everything in your power to rescue her, even sacrificing your life" Dante said
"So what?" Edward asked taking his position in the back
"Where are we heading Ryo?" Dante asked starting up the engine
"Forever Fall, it looks like he's using the rail system to get around" Ryo said
"Why are we always fighting on trains?" Dante asked rolling out.
'We're coming guys' Edward thought
"ETA around ten minutes" Aeris said
"Okay guys, let's go!" Dante said.
Once the Train was in sight Ryo and Edward got into position
"Dante Something's wrong" Aeris said
"Yeah I feel it too; Ryo Edward MOVE OUT!" Dante said as the two jumped across
"I'll move up" Dante said over comms
"Understood, I'll keep an eye on him" Ryo said as Edward entered the car.
"Nothing in here, not even any Dust" Edward said
"The energy Dust of the dirt dust?" Ryo asked
"Either, it's too clean" Edward said drawing his sword
"Something is wrong here" Ryo said pulling out his Gunfas.
"Dante we've got a ghost train" Aeris said as she was helped up by Dante
"I know, but they have to be here somewhere" Dante said heading for the front.
"I'll head back to our friends" Aeris said drawing her staff Aura star.
"Good idea, keep your radio on just in case we get into trouble" Dante said as he walked through the door
"Sensor" Aeris said as her eyes became magenta and an aura developed around her.
"I sense five on board, but one is difficult to track" Aeris said walking the other way to Dante.
"Where are you?" Edward said looking around for a sign of the hostages. He walked by a tall box, stopping to try it only to find it locked.
"This box is locked, probably nothing in it" Edward said walking off as the door opened quietly to reveal Adam was hiding in it, stealthily stalked his pirate prey drawing his blade Wilt from Blush its sheath and prepared to strike when a black sword blade was nestled against Adam's neck
"Ryo, never did I once think you could have snuck up on me" Adam said
"I agree Adam, you were always an elite member of our clan" Ryo said
"Which our master took me into" Adam said
"I always thought that was a mistake" Ryo said taking a stance
"Agreed, but then again my abilities were more advanced than your own, even the Red Grimm's skills of our clan are not up to mine skill level" Adam said making Edward pause
'The Red Grimm, he learnt the same ninjitsu techniques as Adam and Ryo, but that could only mean' Edward said as he heard swrods clash, it appeared the Sunekuaizu and Wilt were being used in battle already.
"So he knows about him: Akai" Edward said surprising Ryo
"Where did you hear that name?" Ryo asked becoming distracted
"Its a local legend at school: The Crimson Ninja Akai" Edward said stepping in to block Wilt as Ryo got his footing
"I'll deal with Adam, find the girls!" Ryo ordered stepping back in to the fight
"Roger" Edward said dashing off
"So this is the cockpit" Dante said putting his gunblades away and looked around for any clue about the young huntresses
"Now if I was an evil madman with Ninja skills where would I hide the girls?" Dante asked going to a console and activating its keyboard
"Aeris any luck finding them?" Dante asked looking at the screens while typing away
"Nega...wait I think yeah I have" Aeris said
"What did you find?" Dante asked
"It appears to be a ribbon of some kind" Aeris responded
"Blake wears a black bow it could be hers. It might of slipped off when they brought her here" Dante said.
"Understood" Aeris said hearing the door open as Edward walked in
"Edward, you're supposed to be checking the back sections!" Aeris said
"I did, the only thing we found was Adam" Edward said
"And all I could find was Blake's ribbon" Aeris said holding the piece of black material out to show Edward
"So where are they?" Edward asked before Dante spoke again
"Bad news, they're not on the train" Dante said
"What do you mean?" Edward asked as the sound of something heavy dropped behind them
"He was never here" Ryo said indicating the fake head of the Adam droid he was facing
"But the weapons?" Aeris asked indicating Wilt and Blush in Ryo's hand
"Duplicates, it appears after Adam hijacked this train he discovered some left over androids and used them to make a duplicate of himself which was stationed on this train to guard it from those who would try and recover the train" Ryo said
"But we found a ribbon" Edward said
"But it is not the right type, that ribbon is more nylon than the satin bow Blake Belladonna wears; it is more than likely the scrap material left over from their bonds" Ryo said
"Alright team move out, the mission is a bust" Dante said
"no it is NOT!" Edward shouted ready to attack anything that moved
"NOCTURN!" Aeris said using one of her sleeping spells
"No don't do this" Edward said collapsing in a heap
"Goodwitch is not going to like this" Dante said
"Where am I?" Edward asked waking up before seeing Goodwitch
"You're in the Beacon infirmary Mr Conroy" Goodwitch said "and I must say it is not surprising to see you in here" Goodwitch said
"Shove it Goodwitch" Edward said leaving and where do you think you're going Mr Conroy?" the vice headmistress asked
"Back out there" Edward said
"Mr COnroy I told you if you didn't keep your cool there would be consequences, and as of now I have to but them in effect. Starting now you are hereby put under suspension from Beacon Academy until further notice" Goodwitch said
"Wait what?" Edward asked.
"Your temper nearly cost the team on more than one occasion. so until you can prove to keep your cool you won't be able to attend Beacon Academy; so that is all for now Mr Conroy" Goodwitch said as she left
"I better go pack" Edward said.