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The RWBY Chronicles:

Team CLST

Chapter 2- Accommodation

Ozpin looked out from the balcony he had retreated to after his speech, observing all his new students. Considering the unique backgrounds of certain students, ranging from the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company to an amateur who had forged his transcripts, it was going to be a very interesting year. The students dressed in predominantly red colors intrigued him the most. Of course there was Pyrrha Nikos, a seemingly untouchable champion, as well as Ruby Rose, a combat prodigy he allowed to enter early and blessed with silver eyes, to say nothing of how she resembled her mother. He could only hope that she turned out just like her mother. Then there was the third…

Ozpin looked over to see Crimson glaring at him from across the amphitheater, obvious signs of distrust in the boy's eyes. He was curious as to how the young man would progress through the next four years. From what little information they had on Crimson, he was very proficient with the scythe, impressing him as much as Ruby had when reviewing footage of the attempted robbery by the infamous Roman Torchwick. The Beacon Headmaster was focused on a different talent of Crimson's, one he felt would be crucial in the days to come. When he had met with Crimson that morning, Ozpin had sensed some hostility from the teen. He still wasn't sure why Crimson had been so adamant against going to Beacon, whether it was some grudge or simply disliking the concept of leaving the mountain. However, all it took was one question for the teen to open up to the idea. Despite being the one to ask the question, even Ozpin was surprised.

"You don't know anything, do you?"

"I spent 5 God damn minutes giving you advice and you start with THAT!?" The shout of Laven Monsight drew several curious glances from the surrounding students, but the purple-clad teen couldn't care less as he swatted his new friend upside his head. To say that he was disgusted was an understatement. "Out of all the pickup lines, you go with that!?" He swatted Jaune upside the head again and gestured towards where Weiss had once been standing. "Well guess what! She's gone now!"

Yang glanced over at Teal, who had suddenly pulled out a bag of popcorn ("I'm always prepared for a show!"), and asked, "Do you think we should help at all?"

Her companion turned and mumbled around a mouthful of popcorn, "No way, this is way too entertaining to watch!" He swallowed and grinned at Yang. "It's like Tony Stark giving Bruce Banner dating tips."

Jaune ducked under a third swipe and finally retorted, "Well why don't you try if you think you're so good?"

Laven stopped to consider Jaune's challenge. He put a hand to his chin and closed his eyes in concentration, as if he were trying to solve a complex equation. Laven opened his eyes and met the curious gaze of both Ruby and Yang, "That's not a bad idea but unfortunately, neither of you are my type."

Ruby scratched the back of her head, confused, "I don't know whether I should be relieved or insulted." She decided on the former and let it go. It was the first day of school, she wasn't looking to get hit on anyways.

Yang, on the other hand, raised an eyebrow as she placed her hands on her hips. "And what exactly is your type?"

"I'll let you know when I see her," Laven replied as he began scanning the crowd of students, searching for the perfect target. He smirked as he spotted a girl dressed in silver and blue. As Laven made his way towards her, he made sure to check his breath and straightened his hair as best he could. Laven called out to her as he approached, getting her attention. "Hello my fair maiden, I am the ingenious inventor Laven Monsight of Infer. Who may you be?"

His target scowled at him and replied, "Not interested." With that, she strode off with her monochromatically dressed friend. Laven was stunned, a shattered look on his face while Yang and Teal laughed at his misfortune.

Ruby leaned over to Jaune, giggling. "Seems that he doesn't have as much skill as he thought."

Somehow he heard her comment and whirled around. "Shut up, that was just bad luck!" Laven indicated Jaune with a wave of his hand. "His idea of flirting is to just say how smooth the name 'Jaune Arc' is!"

Teal's eyes widened in surprise as he glanced at Jaune. "Wait, you mean like Joan of Arc right?" Jaune just looked at him as if he was crazy, which probably wasn't too far off. Teal on other hand, realized his mistake. "I've said too much!"

He instantly ran out of the amphitheater while using his Semblance to increase his speed, a blue glow appearing around his frame in the two seconds he was still visible. Wide-eyed, Yang leaned over to Ruby and commented, "And I thought you were a speedster!"

Ruby shrugged, still trying to piece together why Teal would freak out over such a simple comment. Whoever this Joan of Arc was, it must have meant a lot to him. She shrugged it off as first day jitters. "Maybe I'll race him someday to see who's faster. That'd be fun, right?"

Meanwhile

Dani sighed in irritation as she left the Great Hall, her companion unable to hide a grin at her consternation. As happy as she was to be at Beacon, THE Beacon Academy, she'd been hoping not to attract the wrong kind of attention, which thanks to that overzealous blonde, didn't happen.

"I see you're becoming popular with the boys." Dani glanced over at her companion, who had pulled out her book and had her nose buried in it again, but the amused smirk she gave Dani told her she had been paying full attention to her recent interactions.

Dani rolled her eyes, not amused. "I didn't come here for the boys."

"Unlike the two behind us," Blake said dryly, tilting her head ever so slightly so that Dani's attention was drawn to a pair of giggling girls that were talking about something. Dani strained to hear without letting them know she was eavesdropping and heard "-and his ass is amazing!" before deciding to tune out just as quickly.

She snorted in amusement. "There are more important things to learn at this school than boys. I liked it better when we were talking about books. Let's go back to talking about those."

Blake chuckled. "Sure, should we talk about Star-crossed Lovers or Maiden and the Grimm?" Despite her nose being buried in her book, all appearances pointing to her being a reclusive loner, Blake's current mood was anything but. Dani was passionate about books, but they really seemed to bring Blake out of her shell.

Dani facepalmed in annoyance. "Please no more romance stories! It's about as bad as when Ninjas of Love was popular." She didn't notice the light blush that came across Blake's cheeks, as the monochromatically themed girl composed herself quickly. "How about that new one that just came out, Grimm Island? I heard that's getting good reviews."

Blake raised an eyebrow at that. "Isn't that based on a story with a focus on romance?" Her yellow eyes betrayed her amusement.

Nope, books weren't going to get Dani out of this one. In desperation, she looked around for something to change the flow of the conversation. Her distraction came in the form of several people entering into yet another of the many large buildings on campus.

"What are they all doing? I thought we were supposed go to the ballroom, and that doesn't look like place with a ballroom inside." Dani gave a glance towards Blake, who in turn gave a shrug, and they both proceeded towards the building.

Once inside, a quick glance around was more than enough to make Dani a very happy girl. The entrance hall was plain enough, but the sign with directions to the various gyms located within the building.

"This place has it all!" Dani gushed as she took a closer look at the holographic sign, an interactive display that was cycling through all the facilities available within the gym. "Aura enhancement chambers, training dummies, all sorts of workout machines, hell they even have a pool for underwater combat! Is that a simulation room too?! Yo, I'm definitely spending a lot of time here!"

Blake studied the images as though she were trying to memorize the layout. "They certainly seem to have thought of everything." The climbing chamber intrigued her ever so slightly, including what seemed to be the top three times. Depending on what was allowed, she was fairly certain she could give those records a run for their money.

Her silver and blue clad companion began to swipe through the hologram, prompting it to switch even faster through the facilities. "This is too cool!" Enraptured as she was discovering just what this building had to offer, Dani failed to notice the crowd of students moving away from the two of them. Fortunately, Blake was a little more observant

"Looks like everyone's headed for the locker room," Blake commented, snapping Dani out of her mesmerized gaze.

"Then let's check it out!" she said cheerfully, leading the way. Blake sighed, closing her book and following. The locker room was expansive, dozens and dozens of standard lockers lining all the walls. It was relatively Spartan, not that a locker room for several hundred students needed that much decoration.

Dani looked around and frowned. "So if we're given lockers to put away our stuff, then how do we know which ones are ours?".

"It's said on your student ID." Both Blake and Dani turned around to see it was another female student wearing bronze armor who spoke to them. With long hair as red as the autumn leaves, she was quite the striking figure, in top shape as evidenced by her toned body. Yet her green eyes had a kindness to them Dani didn't think was possible. Taking her advice, Dani checked her Standard Issue Scroll to see it did have a list of her student information. While most of the students already had Scrolls, everyone had to either get one provided by Beacon or have data uploaded onto them in order to carry them around the academy and be recognized by the computers.

Dani scratched the back of her head with an embarrassed laugh. "You'd think important stuff like that would be announced or something."

Blake glanced at her curiously. "They told everyone this when our Scrolls were being updated, weren't you paying attention?" The annoyed look Dani gave her answered that question.

The student who helped them laughed gently before saying, "It's alright, not everyone is on top of everything." Despite her attempts to lighten the mood, Dani still felt rather stupid for not knowing something so necessary.

Despite her discomfiture, Dani perked up and extended a hand towards her new potential friend, who somehow seemed familiar. "Thanks for the help, my name is Dani and this here is Blake."

"My name is Pyrrha, it's nice to meet you both," She said as she shook Dani's hand. The name registered in Dani's memory, and she finally put the pieces together with a gasp. The red hair, the bronze armor, how had she not noticed it before?! She'd only watched all the regional tournaments ever since she'd decided on becoming a Huntress. And here was the winner of the Mistral tournament four years straight!

Pyrrha paused, concern on her face. "Is something wrong?"

Dani had to hold back a squeak of excitement. "You're THE Pyrrha Nikos! Here at Beacon!"

"Thank you for stating the obvious," Blake deadpanned.

Dani ignored her. "Sorry, I just didn't think I'd ever get to meet you. We totally have to have a friendly match sometime, cuz I wanna see how I stack up!"

"Is that so?" Pyrrha said, a touch of awkwardness in her tone. "Well I'll be happy to have a match with you later on in the semester, so long as we have the spare time for it."

Dani's grin was from ear to ear. This was going to be a fun semester after all.

Later that night

Laven Monsight was not amused. He'd emerged from the changing room and was preparing for sleep, and then Jaune walked up. The Infren native had changed into his sleep attire, which consisted of a lavender t-shirt, flame decals all over the shirt, and dark purple pajama pants, nothing too out of the ordinary. It was Jaune's outfit that was causing his eye to twitch.

"Jaune?" he began, unable to keep the ire out of his tone.

"What's up Laven?" Jaune asked as he walked towards his sleeping bag, trying to put that swagger in his step.

"First off, you can stop with the swag, you're not fooling anybody," Laven snapped. "Second, why the hell are you wearing a onesie with a rabbit on it? I thought you wanted to impress the ladies, not make them bust a gut laughing at you!"

Jaune was taken aback. "But it's Pumpkin Pete!"

"Like that's supposed to justify wearing something a five year old would wear willingly," Laven countered, "Do you not have a plain old t-shirt and some shorts or something?! Hell, I wouldn't mind you going shirtless, but of all the things to wear, a God damn onesie?!"

Jaune was sullen. "Well my sisters never made fun of me for it…"

"I don't know if you've noticed, but we're not exactly surrounded by your sisters," Laven snapped. "I can already feel myself getting judged for being around you!" A glimpse of silver caught the corner of his eye.

Jaune saw her too, and he seized on the opportunity to change the subject. "Isn't that the girl who flat out rejected you earlier?"

Laven scowled. "You just had to bring that up." His scowl turned into a smirk rather quickly and he tried to smooth his hair down, but that was hopeless. Undaunted, he winked at Jaune. "I'll get her this time."

"And how, exactly, will you do that?" Jaune asked curiously.

"Just watch the expert at work," Laven replied, grinning. "Just not too closely, your onesie isn't exactly appropriate for this type of work."

"It's not that bad," Jaune muttered, but watched Laven approach the girl regardless.

The Infern native took a second to scope out his target. She was wearing azure pajama pants covered in little chibi silver dragons with glowing azure eyes paired with a white tank top, a dark silver dragon-like "S" emblazoned on the front. Not a bad combination for the eyes. She had a book in her hands, also a plus. Perhaps she was getting ahead in her studies. Laven was already set for the first month of classes, if the school curriculum was anything to go by. Then he saw the title, Millennium Shadows: Dragonforce Five and sighed. Perhaps not. Still, the smile she had on her face was cute. She was sitting under the candlelight with another girl, this one in a black nightgown and also reading a book. He coughed gently to get her attention.

A part of Laven was mildly amused at how quickly her smile disappeared, though it wasn't an encouraging sign. "What do you want?" she snapped at him, glancing back at her book.

"Can't a fellow say hello to a fair maiden?" Laven asked smoothly.

"For starters, you can drop with the whole 'fair maiden' bit," she began, "Only one man is allowed to call me that, and you aren't him. Second, you obviously want to do more than say hello."

"Guilty as charged," Laven admitted with a little flourish of his hand.

"So I'll ask again, Mr. Monsight," the silver-clad young woman said, glaring at the Infren native. "What do you want?" Her blue eyes were dead serious, though Laven was glad to hear that she remembered his name.

Laven smiled at her. "A name will do for now, unless you changed your mind on 'fair maiden.'"

She snorted. "As if." She appeared to be thinking it over.

"It's only fair that you share yours since I shared mine," Laven prompted.

"You shared yours without me asking for it," she deadpanned. "I'm not some side chick to be wooed over with a few cheesy pickup lines."

A brown-haired boy with a blue streak in his hair and wearing simple teal pajama bottoms walked past. "You'll have better luck in Season 2 mate." There was a moment of dumbstruck silence, as the three of them watched the boy continue on, whistling some jaunty tune as he plopped down on a dark blue sleeping bag situated next to a blonde in black shorts with orange tank top and a smaller girl with rose pajamas and a black tank top.

"Well that was a thing," the girl with the bow commented dryly.

Laven decided to confront that boy later about what he said and got back to the task at hand. "Now then, your name please?"

The silver girl groaned. "Will you leave me alone if I tell you?"

"I'm not leaving without your name," Laven said simply.

She sighed. "It's Dani. Now leave me alone, I'm getting to the good part."

"As you wish," Laven said, unable to hide a smile. He had a name. That would be enough to work with for now. Time to retreat and figure out a proper strategy. He'd show Jaune just how suave he could be with the ladies. These things took time. Now to see what that boy was about. He remembered him from earlier. Laven strode up just as the smaller of his two female threw a pillow at the blonde, catching her in the face.

"It's only been one day," the blonde was saying after tossing the pillow back, much more gently than the other girl. "Trust me, you've got friends all around you. You just haven't met them yet."

"You never struck me as the philosophical type," Laven said, getting their attention.

"Oh hey you," the blonde said looking up at him, "You the guy who's all 'you're not my type.'"

"I only say things cause they're true," Laven said proudly.

"Or you're just an asshole," the boy said, glancing around for some reason.

Laven narrowed his eyes. "You."

His target pointed himself innocently. "Me?"

"Yes you," Laven said, "What was that all about with this 'Season 2'?"

"That's not important, just a little joke," the boy said quickly. "My name's Teal, what's yours?"

"Laven," the Infern native replied. "A pleasure I'm sure for you all to meet me."

"You thinking what I'm thinking Yang?" Teal asked his friend.

"Only if you're thinking about how long it'll take before he cries uncle when we start the best pillow fight ever," the blonde, Yang apparently, replied. She picked up a little corgi shaped pillow and fluffed it menacingly.

Laven held up his hands defensively. "I'd rather not."

The rose themed girl smiled. "You really don't wanna take on my sister in a pillow fight."

"Or a regular fight for that matter, right Ruby?" Yang said with a laugh.

"At least you're friendlier than those two over there," Laven commented, indicating the two girls reading by candlelight behind him.

"I'm sure they aren't so bad," Yang said with a glance in their direction, "You just started with a pickup line, which was stupid."

"I'd like to see you try and befriend her," Laven muttered.

"Challenge accepted," Yang said, grinning as she rose from her sleeping bag. "Come on Ruby, we're gonna get you plus two friends."

"What?! Wait! What are you doing?!" Ruby protested as Yang grabbed her arm and began to drag her over.

The sounds of a squirming Ruby got both bookworms' attention. "Hellllooooooo!" Yang sang with a wave.

"This is new," Dani commented dryly.

"I believe it's time you three got acquainted," Yang as she yanked her sister forward.

"Aren't you the girl that exploded?" Blake as she appraised the newcomers.

"I thought she'd be bigger," Dani commented. "At least anyone who explodes is normally pretty big."

"It's not my fault she was waving all that Dust around!" Ruby snapped. "But yeah, my name's Ruby." Both girls went back to their books. "But you can just call me Cra… actually just called me Ruby."

"Cute," Dani commented, putting down her book. "So why did you explode?"

"It was an accident! This crabby girl Weiss kept waving Dust around and I had to sneeze and because there was so much Dust in the air my sneeze made it go boom," Ruby explained quickly, looking rather sheepish.

Dani laughed. "Brilliant. Just brilliant." She looked behind them and her eyes narrowed at the sight of Laven. "Did he put you up to this?"

"Who, Laven?" Yang asked, looking back. Laven appeared to have struck up a conversation with Teal "Well, kinda sorta, but we're not helping him. I'm helping my little sister here make some more friends. My name's Yang, what's yours?"

"I'm Dani, and the silent one is Blake," the silver clad girl responded, indicating her friend with a nod. Blake rolled her eyes.

"Well I gotta admit, those pants are cool," Yang continued, "All the dragons!"

"Thanks," Dani said, glancing down. She touched one of the dragons with a glowing finger and when she moved her hand, the eyes on the dragon were glowing brightly. "They light up too."

"That is so cool!" Ruby said, kneeling down and poking one of the dragons. "Glow in the dark pajamas! How'd you do that glowing finger trick? Your Semblance?"

"Yup!" Dani said, holding up a finger and a small ball of light appearing at the tip of her silver fingernails. "Light manipulation." She flicked the ball at Ruby and it burst into several sparkles before fading. "Now if you don't mind, I'd like to get back to my book. It was a pleasure meeting you two." Ruby blinked several times, trying to get the sparkles out of her vision.

"Well if that's what you want," Yang said, turning to leave.

"What's it about?" Ruby asked.

"Hmm?"

"Your book. Does it have a name?"

Dani was intrigued by this sudden query. "You ever hear of the Millennium Shadows series?" When Ruby shook her head, she sighed before continuing. "Well this is the third in the series, this one about a group of people connected by these special birthmarks."

"Real lovely," Yang said, obviously not interested.

"I love books," Ruby said. "Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters, they're one of the reasons why I want to be a Huntress."

"And why is that?" Blake asked suddenly, looking up, "Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"

"Well, I'm hoping we all will," Ruby replied. She looked out the window at the full moon hanging in the night sky. "As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books, as someone who fought for what was right and who protected people who couldn't protect themselves."

"That's very ambitious for a child," Blake noted, "Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."

"Ain't that the truth," Dani said bitterly, an unpleasant memory coming to her mind. "Just gotta do what you can to keep this world from going out of control."

Ruby smiled. "Well, that's why we're here. To make it better."

Yang couldn't contain herself. "Ooo, I'm so proud of my baby sister!" She glomped Ruby in a bear hug.

"Cut it out!" Ruby snapped as she tussled with Yang.

Dani and Blake shared a glance. "Part of me is glad I'm an only child," Dani noted.

"Ruby, Yang," Blake began in an effort to not attract all sorts of unwanted attention. "Really, you don't have to-"

"What in the world is going on over here?!" a piercing voice asked. Yang and Ruby froze, Ruby holding onto one of Yang's legs in an awkward position.

Dani looked up at this newcomer. Long hair as white as snow, blue nightgown, and an apparent attitude as well. She noted the scar over her left eye, and wondered if it was from actual combat or from a violin accident. "Oh boy."

"Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?!" the newcomer demanded, then realized who she was talking to. "OH NOT YOU AGAIN!" She shouted with Yang, who stepped forward as she recognized her.

Dani shared another glance with Blake. "I take it this is the infamous Weiss they were talking about."

"Oh how cute, you were talking about me behind my back," Weiss snapped, hands on her hips.

"Weiss Schnee, Heiress of the biggest Dust company in Remnant," Blake whispered to Dani, not in the mood to draw the ire of the heiress. "and yes, she apparently has the attitude the size of her company."

Dani snickered. "Lovely."

"We weren't talking about you behind your back!" Ruby said quickly, looking very apologetic. "It just so happened that little incident came up."

"Where you nearly blew us off the side of the cliff, how could I possibly forget?" Weiss said with a glare.

"I said I was sorry!" Ruby said.

"What's your problem with my sister?!" Yang demanded, "She's only trying to be nice!"

"She's a hazard to my health!" Weiss shot back.

"Oy, rich girl," Dani said, getting her attention. "If she's so hazardous, why the hell are you over here?"

Weiss seemed rather incensed. "Well someone has to stop all this noise! People are trying to sleep!"

"I'm trying to read actually," Dani quipped, unable to hold back a grin. "You're making more noise than these two were with all your whining."

Weiss scoffed. "I do NOT whine! I am merely using a tone that is appropriate for putting two immature girls such as these in their place."

"Ok rich girl, whatever lets you sleep at night," Dani grunted. "You've stopped the noise, now will you leave us alone?"

"I will," Weiss snapped, "Because obviously you people aren't worth my time." She stomped off as Blake picked up the candlestick.

"I'll make it worth her time when I give her a black eye," Dani growled, sending a glare after Weiss. "Some people, I swear!" She looked up at Ruby. "Why'd you have to explode on her?"

"I wasn't trying to!" Ruby said quickly. Blake blew the candles out and the room descended into darkness, the only source of light coming from the moon outside, which was enough for those with good eyesight to barely see the other. The room lit up again as Dani created a small ball of light in her hand.

"Could you at least let me finish the chapter Blake?" she asked, getting a laugh out of the other three girls.

Half an Hour later

Crimson stood outside at the edge of a balcony, staring at the full moon shining along with the stars. It was moments like these where he felt most at peace, without any pests like the Grimm to bother him. He glanced behind him for a moment, looking into the now dark ballroom. Crimson had noticed that all of the students inside the ballroom wore a different type of clothing than before and no longer possessed any of their weapons. It was rather curious to him, this form of sleepwear, if he was guessing correctly. Crimson himself still wore the same clothes and carried his trusty Grimmlock, having only removed his grey cape and his black jacket in preparation for sleep.

So far, Beacon has done nothing to impress him, it was just a strange place with strange people. Tomorrow would be Initiation, so there might be some fun to be had when that happened, though Crimson had overheard that students were to be sorted into teams of four, which displeased him greatly. If fact, it outright infuriated him the more he thought about it. He was a loner and worked best alone.

"It's bad enough I have to deal with all of these imbeciles but now I'm forced to work with them too? I'm starting to miss the Grimm, at least I could kill them to relieve the stress." He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself down before he blew a blood vessel. That's all this day has been, stress. Going to a new location and encountering idiotic people, these all were going to take time to get used to. So far the only thing that hadn't worsened his temper was when he encountered-

"Hey there Crimson!"

The sudden presence of another person caused Crimson to quickly open his eyes and turn towards the rapidly-becoming familiar girl. Unsure of what to do, Crimson responded, "Hello Rose, what's the occasion?" He had wanted to remain alone for the rest of the night but it looked like Ruby wasn't giving him that luxury. The strange feeling from before was still there, albeit not nearly as intense as when they first met but it still lingered in the back of his mind.

She gave him a nervous smile, taking notice of Crimson's weapon, before continuing, "I saw you out here and wanted to know how you were doing. Shouldn't you be getting ready to sleep?"

Crimson noticed that she herself had changed her appearance, swapping her combat clothes for a black sleeveless shirt and white rose patterned pants. Admittedly he missed the hood, liking its red color. He shrugged. "Being around a crowd of strangers doesn't make me feel comfortable, so I'm staying out here. Considering what's gonna happen tomorrow, I'd rather be prepared. How about you, why are you out here?"

Ruby pointed at a blonde haired girl who was snoring into her pillow, "I couldn't sleep with my sister Yang's snoring so I came out for some fresh air, that and her new friend constantly sleep talks. When I saw you I figured we could talk or something to make up for me kind of abandoning you earlier." She looked at him sheepishly. "I really am sorry about that."

Crimson grunted before turning his attention back towards the moon, getting himself lost in its white beauty. Speaking of white...

"So I heard the screeching of that white harpy earlier, Whine or something. Did you have anything to do with that?" He distinctly remembered her voice from that morning echoing throughout the ballroom, which was not pleasing to Crimson's ears.

Ruby looked a bit confused before blushing in embarrassment as she realized who he was referring to. "Oh you mean Weiss, yeah I might have been involved. You see, me and Yang were making a bit of noise and Weiss came over to tell us to stop and she was being really mean and this girl Dani and my sister were getting mad at her and then she left and things calmed down real quick after that."

The red haired teen chuckled. "Sounds like she wasn't too much of a pain. I assume you're prepared for Initiation? With all the buildup, there'll probably be a big challenge of some sort."

A smirk grew on her face, "You bet I am! Anything they through at me will be no match for Crescent Rose. And hey, if we play our cards right we could be on the same team. I can see it now, the unstoppable scythe tag team. I'm so exci-." Before she could finish rambling, Ruby was cut off by a loud yawn and rubbed her eyes. "excited," she finished.

Crimson could feel the drowsiness setting in and decided to call it a night, "Not that it's bad to listen to your excitement but I think it's in our best interests to rest for the night, wouldn't you say?"

Ruby sighed. "Yeah you're right. Well, see you tomorrow."

Crimson briefly waved his hand as Ruby walked away, wondering why she insisted on approaching him not once, but twice now, and by the looks of it she'd be approaching him in the future too. He categorized it as a question for later. The teen gave one last glance at the moon before laying down on his discarded cape to sleep.

But he didn't notice the moon faintly shine a blood red…

This came out a lot longer than I intended, so I hope you all enjoyed this. As always, huge thanks to my Beta Reader, NuttyBuddy792.

See you next time in Chapter 3: A Hop, Skip, Crash, and Burn.

MaleficKing, Signing Off.