The Howl of the Wolf

by RadiTheCrusader

As a kid, I always wanted to be some big strong scary monster, like the werewolf. Never actually thought that I would become one, much less in the world of Remnant.

6. Chapter 6

AN: Hey guys, it's me, ya boi, Radi, back at it again with another late ass chapter… sorry bout that lads, gonna try and make a schedule, but video games get in the way… that's it really (sry kinda finishing up at 23:00)… reviews?

Thanks again for everyone reviewing, It makes me happy that you guys like this stuff… If I keep repeating myself its gonna become a bit redundant, but still, you guys are awesome, thanks for readin!

DISCLAIMER : I DO NOT OWN RWBY, IT IS OWNED BY ROOSTERTEETH!

"WHAT?" - normal speech

"WHO?" - a characters thoughts

"GIMMIE MUFFINS!" - Warwick/Tony trying to be scary… or gods talking… you never know

Tony's POV

This day I was able to get up early, well earlier than yesterday at least. It was about 9:30 in the morning and whilst I was happy that I could have more time in the day I was not entirely happy that there was no tea for my breakfast. Somehow in this magnificent world, in this awesome school, that had a principal with a very questionable back-story granted, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TEA. "THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! I MAY NOT BE A BRIT BUT COME ON, WHAT KIND OF BARBARIAN HAS BREAKFAST WITHOUT TEA?", I may have been having a mental breakdown in my head for about 10 minutes until my scroll vibrated.

It was a message from Ozpin, "If you are awake please come meet me, we need to speak", "… If this guy wants me to talk to .DAY. I just might burst a vein", so eating quickly and without tea like the madman that I was, I went once again to Ozpin's office. This time there was no Flying Jaune in the skies or any other students for that matter. "They are probably having classes… it is about 10:15".

Entering Ozpin's Office I noticed he had a small smile on his face while looking at his computer monitor.

"Sup Profoz", I greeted while walking towards his desk, "So what lengthy conversation are we having today"

"Good morning Tony, have you seen the news today?", he asked not looking away from his monitor.

"Nope, I was too busy trying not to blow my head off, question, where is the tea?", I said with slight annoyance in my voice.

"Oh we are getting a shipment in a few days don't you worry, but if you haven't seen them, first congratulations Mr. Wolfson, also please refrain from doing such things in public again", he said turning the monitor towards me so I can see the news story… about me… again.

"Now what you have done is definitely a good deed, but seeing how the public has responded I would suggest you don't use your powers in the city for the time being. On that note I wanted to ask you, do you have any experience in hand to hand combat?", he asked me.

"I took a self-defence class like a year ago, but other than that no, I just kinda do what my gut tells me too.", I explained.

"Yes, I thought as much. Such as the case you will need training", he said sipping from his cup.

"Please don't tell me it's gonna be with Glynda and also why? I know I ain't that good, but being a werewolf is certainly enough", he smirked at my comment.

"No don't worry I will be the one training you, and yes you may be a strong opponent when you are a werewolf, but what happens if you can't transform? Your transformation is connected to your Aura is it not?"

"Well yes but…"

"Well in time you will be fighting the other students", he cut me off.

"I'm gonna do what now?"

"In a few months you will be attending Miss Goodwitch's classes, now before you say anything me and my colleagues have discussed how we can train you, first I wanted to oversee and train you for the first month then we can get you in with the other student's daily student life"

"OK, first off Prof, awesome, second I just finished my school life like a few weeks ago, I am not ready to be a student again trust me."

"Well I am truly sorry but there is really no other way, you see we made you a back-story", "great… just perfect…"

"Now because of your abilities and your lack of weapon we have said to the students that were interested that you do not own or fight with any sort of weapon aside from your Semblance, You have had some problems with your team in Haven and at the start of the second year you were almost expelled, I have found you to have what it takes to become a Huntsman even with the problems you faced in Haven"

I didn't say anything for a bit,"… you know thats not that bad… sure why not we can go with that. Ok, so we got that out of the way… when do we start training?"

Ozpin stood up from his desk, "Right now, if you can please follow me", and he headed to the elevator.

"I knew you were gonna say that and I still don't like it Profoz…", I said following him.

"Where exactly are we going to be training though?", I asked in the elevator.

"The Amphitheatre, of course, why would you prefer to go outside?"

"Nah, just asking", after getting out the elevator we went towards the Amphitheatre. To my slight annoyance, Miss Goodwitch was there. "Well I think it is kinda her classroom technically"

"Professor Ozpin, Mister Wolfson, welcome", greeted Glynda

"Hello Glynda, Tony and me are here for the spar I told you about earlier"

"Yes, of course, let me set up the arena", she tapped a bit on her scroll and the lights focused on the middle of the arena, dimming the ones above the sitting area.

"Isn't this a bit much for a spar?", I said and looked up, on the screens on the walls were a picture of me "How did they get that?", and Ozpin with our respective aura levels.

"Maybe but you have to agree it gives a nice vibe", said Ozpin.

"Suuuuure, ok we gonna do this?", I said and walked opposite of Ozpin.

"En garde", he said raising his cane, "where the fuck did the mug go?"

Before I could get out of my stupor Ozpin made the first move and attacked me with a strike from the left. On instinct, I put my arm up to block it, which was not as good of an idea as he hit me harder than I thought and pushed me with its force.

"Use your aura Mister Wolfson", he said as he went for a right swipe. This time not being a dumbass I again put my arm up but focused on my aura and a when his cane hit me a silver forcefield blocked it and it bounced off.

"Good, now again", he said and started to throw swipes and stabs at me, I managed to put my hands between his cane and my body in time and using my aura I deflected almost every shot, with an exception of one that went for my left leg.

"You have to be faster, and staying on the defencive can only get you so far", he continued his attacks on me. I started to get a bit angry at him, it was supposed to be a spar, not me being a test dummy, "No it's not only a spar, but he also wants to see how good I am… and I have the best idea", after a jab to my stomach that instead of deflecting I sidestepped "Wow, when did I become faster?", I threw a jab at his face, which missed as he ducked to his left and hit me with his cane in the back, which made me tumble to the ground.

"Good try but it was predictable", he said while I stood up, I looked at the board and had already lost about 30% of my aura, "OK smartypants, how about this", I charged him with my left hand ready for a punch, but at the last second I lunged forward and tackled him to the ground. I could sense my anger growing, and so While on the ground I tried to punch him but this time I focused my anger into the punch. He moved his head in time though and then rolled away, before standing up. That I expected, what I didn't expect was the force behind my punch as when my fist hit the ground I made a fist sized crater.

"Control your anger Mister Wolfson, If you be overcome by rage and transform you may hurt a person more than you wanted.", he said.

"Isn't the point of fighting to fuck your opponents day up?", I said standing up, part of my vision was getting a bit more red.

"Well if you want to kill them then, by all means, go for it, but right now you are in a huntsman academy and you will be thought how to fight like huntsman, that means you go all out only against grimm, because in a battle with another huntsman or huntress there may be civilians that may get hurt because of negligence", he said.

"Isn't that a bit specific?", I asked now imitating boxers positioning.

"Maybe, but as I said, don't let anger control you, you have to control it", "damn ok gandhi"

I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself, after a second I opened my eyes and saw Ozpin staring at me, this time I was the one to attack first. I went in with a right hook, only to get deflected by his cane, then I followed up with a kick to his legs, that he jumped over. My attacks went on for a solid minute, but they all got deflected or dodged. Then Oz went on the offencive, with more swipes and stabs, forcing me to defend again. "This is getting old, really quick!".

After 10 minutes of going back and forth between me defending and him dodging my attacks and started to feel my anger getting the better of me, trying my hardest to control it I mentally slapped myself, "SCREW CONTROLLING IT, DO THE COOL THING AGAIN ME!"

I went in for another strike but this time instead of focusing all my power in the attack focused it in a jump straight at him. I launched myself like a bullet at my fist finally collided with his face, throwing him back a few meters, but in spite of my minor victory a buzz sounded in the air, and the lights came back on.

"Well Mister Wolfson you survived more than I thought you would", said Glynda

"Yeah yeah, I'm just happy I landed one hit", I said sitting on the ground now noticing how much I was sweating.

"I must say that was an interesting idea for an attack, instead of using your aura to amplify your attack you used it to make yourself quicker, or rather launch yourself further, well done", said Ozpin walking over to me. "But next time watch your aura levels, and try using a bit less"

"Got it Profoz… now if you don't mind I would like to go and wash up, I feel like a train went over me", I stood up

"Alright but from now on we will have two sparring matches every day, one in the morning and one in the evening, so see you later tonight Tony", "fuuuuuuuuck…"

"Sure thing Prof.", I said as I walked out and towards my room.

Ozpin and Glynda POV

After Tony went out of the room Glynda went down to Ozpin to talk to him.

"Maybe a weapon would not be a bad idea for him", she said.

"Maybe… but consider this, he will most likely fight in his other form. The weapons would be useless.", said Oz.

"Still he is nowhere near good enough to fight without using his semblance", she said, "Although that single punch was something", she was looking at her scroll with the aura levels of Oz and Tony, the aura levels were 93% and 14% respectively.

"It was rather strong yes. But I have a feeling his anger had something to do with it. I assume the angrier he is the more powerful his attacks are."

"… are you sure he is Huntsman material without him using his semblance", she asked after a small pause.

"Right now? No, not by a long shot. After some practice? Yes, and I will see that he becomes one", said Ozpin.

"What do you see in that boy that wants you to tutor him?", asked Glynda looking at Ozpin with one brow up.

"I see a person willing to do good… even if a bit more violent than one would assume."

"Do you think he can help us, against you know who?"

"I think he already is", said Ozpin taking a sip from his cup.

Tony's POV

I got back to my room and took a nice long shower, which reminded me that I should go and get new clothes. I washed the ones I had and put them to dry, then being the lazy twat that I was I stayed in the room until evening. When my scroll vibrated and I saw Ozpins message to go for the evening spar I almost jumped out the window, not because I forgot that I was supposed to go and get my butt handed to me for the second time today or anything like that… definitely.

And so I got up from my bed, put my clothes on and made my way outside. Ozpin had set up a schedule for our spars/training sessions. In the morning around 10:00 when there are no combat classes in the amphitheatre, and in the evening at 20:00 when theres no more students present.

Well the no more students present thing was a nice, as I was hoping no one would know my transformation abilities and try and beat me up because I made them miss out on sleep a few nights. Saying that running into Ruby and Yang was not something I intended to do. Now the problem was that I actually ran into them, well more like they ran into me while I was going around a corner outside the academy, knocking all 3 of us on the ground.

Now if it were not for the large amount of blond hair currently in my face ears and overall head, I could have heard what Ruby just said. But the thing I definitely heard was loud angry shouts coming towards us. And as much as a certain female protagonist currently laying ON ME be awesome in DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES* , right now was making me feel a bit uncomfortable… a bit, so I grabed her by the shoulders and helped her to stand up alongside me.

"Oh jeez, sorry about that", said Yang with stars spinning around her head, "I didn't see where I was going."

"Ah don't worry about it, accidents hap…", I was interrupted by Ruby.

"OH MY GOSH I'M SO SORRY, ME AND MY SISTER WERE RUNNING AWAY FROM WEISS AND WE DIDN'T SEE YOU AND…", she stopped when she saw me and my glorious golden eyes a bit better.

"THERE YOU ARE, YOU CAN'T JUST RUN OFF LIKE THAT AND RUN INTO… people", said Weiss now coming near us. "…can I like, meet them when I choose universe?…no?…ok then."

When Yang finally came back from looking at swirls, she stepped back a bit and looked at me.

"OH, hey you're the exchange student from Haven right?", she said, "WHY ARE THEY MORE NERVOUS THAN I AM?"

"Yeah, though exchange student is a bit… not the right term, I had… a bit of a problem with my old team mates and the principal and technically got kicked out, thankfully Professor Ozpin gave me another chance, but because of some legal stuff I am considered an exchange student",I said rubbing the back of my neck. Now that I could finally be face to face with the girls excluding Blake, the most noticeable thing, was how much taller than them I am, I was a whole head taller than Yang, and I had to look down to look at Ruby. "Damn, I was tall before but 204cm (~6ft8in) ain't no joke"

"I'm Tony by the way", I extended my hand, and after a few awkward seconds, Yang shook it.

"Pleasure to meet ya, I'm Yang and this is my sister Ruby", she said pulling her sister closer to her. "Hiii", said Ruby

"And this is one of our teammates, Weiss", continued Yang, "It's nice to meet you", said Weiss with a bit of a cold tone "why do I have a feeling you don't like Weiss… I cri"

"Nice to meet you, why are you out so late though?", I asked.

"We can ask the same for you", said Weiss , "… I no longer cri… smartass"

"I have a meeting with Professor Ozpin", I said.

"What for?", she continued

"It's for the reasons why I'm here… listen I gotta go, don't wanna be late, have a good night", I said and went past them.

"Yeah… goodbye", said Ruby , and they started walking towards their dorm. "Y U DO DIS UNIVERSE?"

Team RWBY dorm

"OH MY GOSH WEISS", said Ruby as soon as the trio went into their dorm. "That sounded very mean"

"What did?", asked Blake looking up from her book for a second.

"Well we finally found that new guy from haven and Weiss practically scared him off", said Yang.

"For the last time, Miss Goodwitch said that he was dangerous."

"Yeah he is big but he sounded like a nice guy", said Yang getting on her bed.

"So you managed to talk to him before Weiss scared him off?", asked Blake turning over a page.

"Yeah, we talked for a minute before the Ice Queen here got all Interrogation mode", said Yang.

"All I wanted to know is to see what story was, and why Professor Ozpin took him in the school.", protested Weiss.

"Ok, all that aside what was he like?", asked Blake.

"Well he was super tall, taller than Professor Ozpin even", said Ruby.

"Oh and his name is Tony", said Yang.

"I told you that yesterday", said Weiss.

"Eh, I wasn't listening", shot Yang back, "Also Blake I didn't think you would be so interested in him.", she teased.

"I'm just curious.", said Blake.

"Mhm, just don't take those books into real life", Yang said again, prompting Blake to focus further on her book.

"Seriously though, how about next time we talk to him we don't ask him all the questions, he looked a bit shy to answer them", said Yang.

"Or maybe just not have Weiss talk to him… a lot", said Ruby, earning a glare from Weiss.

Tony's POV

2 weeks passed. 2. Bloody. Weeks. Of me getting my ass beaten, or rather being educated on hand combat, or so Ozpin said all them beat ups where. It wasn't totally fair, considering he was using his damned cane, and I couldn't use Werewolf form. Though I was dangerously close to transforming once, but I got stopped in place by Glynda's Semblance, somehow levitating in the air kinda made me feel less angry. It was that or that blood was rushing into my brain from hanging upside-down. Never the less I calmed down a bit, and got another lecture from Oz about controlling my anger. I was getting better at least so that was something. I wasn't a master, not even close, but the matches between me and Oz were getting longer by the day. It went from 10 minutes on average to about 25. Main reason being I started dodging instead of using my aura to block his attacks, haven't gotten better at hitting him though, but there was time for that.

And that was all well and good, but the thing that they don't tell you in the show, is how fucking exhausted you feel when your aura drops. Maybe it wasn't like that for other people but I had to sit down for a solid 5 minutes to even get enough energy to walk to my room. "Even with a body like this, I still feel like I ran 20 minutes on the treadmill when I was heavier.". Apart from that I was being a lazy asshat. I wanted to go outside and do stuff like a normal person. But when there is a computer with internet next to me, my former lazy gamer self kicked in and I stayed inside, unless Ozpin made me do workouts… forgot about thoseo though they weren't every day, only if he thought I was being way too lazy. "How dafuq is he a teacher… I mean he is ok, but come on man, isn't beating my ass enough for ya?". And when you have to do random workouts and fight the principal, being lazy was nice. Only thing I regret was not talking to the girls. I would see them in the hallways or on the campus grounds, but I was either going back to my room to wash and be lazy, or was already in my room being lazy, so talking wasn't an option.

I did manage to get some new clothes… online, so they got delivered, so I could stay a lazy prick for longer. But other than that no other outside interactions. As much as I wanted to do something about Torchwick or talk to the girls… I was too damn lazy… "This is gonna bite me in the ass in a bit, I can feel it… fuck it's time for another 'beat me up' with oz… lovely"

Team RWBY's dorm/evening

The girls had been done for the day and were just chilling in their room. Blake reading her books, Weiss writing something on her desk, Ruby and Yang playing on their scrolls. It was a peaceful evening, until a rather loud and familiar voice stormed into their room.

"GUYS!", yelled Nora

"AH!", yelled all of team RWBY.

"GUYS YOU GOTTA COME WITH US WERE ARE GONNA WATCH THE TRANSFER STUDENT FIGHT WI…", she continued shouting until Ren put his hand on her mouth to shut her up.

"Nora", he removed his hand, "Yes Ren?", "Please be quiet", "Okey!"

"Hey guys", said Jaune from behind them both.

"Hey", said Yang, "So whats going on?"

"Well Nora found out that the Transfer student was doing sparring matches with professor Ozpin"

"Wow, really? How?", continued Yang.

"I followed him, duh", said Nora, "He has been doing it for the past week or so, every morning and every evening"

"So thats what the buzzing sounds where", said Weiss, "He was sparring with the Professor in the amphitheatre."

"Yeah, so were gonna go and watch em, wanna join us?", continued Nora.

"Not like have anything better to do", said Blake and closed her book, got up and went towards the door, followed by Ruby and Yang.

"Well, I still have homework to finish and…", she was interrupted by a pair of sisters grabbing her hands.

"Homework later, fight now", said Yang and pulled Weiss from the chair. And so out 7 exited and one annoyed protagonists went to see just what has been going on with the transfer student.

When they go to the amphitheatre they managed to sneak on the highest platform and duck behind the seats. Miss Goodwitch was busy with her scroll and they were looking for other people when a sudden "AHEM", surprised them. On their left was professor Ozpin looking at them curiously.

"Team RWBY and JNPR, how very surprising to see you", he said.

"You too Prof", said Nora.

"May I ask what you are doing here at this hour? Classes are over for the day, you should be resting", he said.

"Well you see, weeeee…", Ruby trailed off.

"Came here to see Mister Tony spar with me", they all looked at him dumbfounded, "Miss Nora stealth isn't your forte", Nora laughed awkwardly.

"But I suppose I can't stop you from being curious. You are free to watch this one time", they all looked at him with different levels of 'come again?'

"But I would suggest you stay out of sight before Mister Tony comes", he said and went down to the arena.

"What just happened?", asked Jaune after a solid minute of silence.

"We are gonna see them duke it out and not be in danger of getting in trouble?", said Yang.

"Listen Jaune lest just watch it and then we can debate why Ozpin let is do it", said Nora a bit annoyed.

"Shhhhh, hes here", said Ruby, and true enough Tony was just entering the arena.

Tony's POV

My heart was going at 1000 km/h, jest before I entered the arena, I got a call from Professor Ozpin: "It seems like both team RWBY and JNPR will be watching our little training session"/ "WAIT, WHAT?"/ "Also I would like for you to use your semblance"/ "Wait a minute Oz, what do you…", and he hung up. So now for whatever reason, both team RWBY and JNPR were gonna watch me duke it out with Oz. AND HE WANTS ME TO TRANSFORM! To say that I was nervous was putting it lightly, but from somewhere in me a small voice said, "hes doing this to show them you aren't just a scary monster", and to a degree I thought the same, but considering Yang was watching did give me some pressure, "don't worry about it, act like they aren't there". And so with semi-confidence, I walked in and onto the arena.

"Hello Professor Ozpin", I said as I took my place on the opposite side of him.

"Hello, Mister Wolfson. Are you ready for today?"

"Like every other day, I suppose"

"Yes, but this day is different"

"I ummmm… you sure about this Prof?"

"100%. Now if you please?"

"Deep breaths dude, deep breaths, act like a badass… NO ACT LIKE ITS HARD FOR YOU TO LOOK LIKE THAT!… I'm just digging a deeper hole with lies, aren't I? Fuuuuuuuck", I thought, and then I turned. In barely 5 seconds my body Grew, my muscles got bigger, my jaw extended, my claws became sharper and my body grew a lot of fur. And I opened my eyes. All of a sudden my anxiety and nervousness disappeared, and the feeling of power washed over me.

"Gotta warn ya prof… this time it's going to be different", I said with my deeper voice.

"I would hope so", and he attacked.

Team RWBY and JNPR

All of them were watching with eyes like plates. They knew he was the beast, the one that killed the big Nevermore, the one that haunted their dreams for a while, the one that saved a person from being mugged, though that last part was a bit… questionable. But to see him transform, was something else. Since the start, Yang was wondering how he was going to fight given that he doesn't use a weapon. But when she remembered that he used only his semblance to fight, and when she saw the beast come forth all her questions went away, and she was focused on the giant creature now getting attacked by Ozpin, just like the rest of her friends.

They have not seen the professor fight before, but from his first attack, he acted like the professional he was. He went for a small jump and a swipe to the creature's face, only to get deflected by its massive arm. The Werewolf went for a right hook that missed but the followed up with a backward elbow strike that the professor was forced to block. Then he landed a left strike on his body making the professor stumble to the right.

Ruby looked up at the scoreboard, Tony had lost about a third of his aura while the professor merely lost 6%. They continued to fight, this time Ozpin focusing more on agility and faster strikes rather than sheer force attacks, while Tony was mainly knocking him about the arena. That is when he was able to strike him, but with each miss and every successful attack from Ozpin's side, the werewolf would become more and more angry, to the point where his golden eyes turned Bloodshot Red, similar to Yang's. This went on for about 15 minutes, until Tony howled in anger and jumped at Ozpin, tackling him. Then he grabbed him be the torso and flung him over his head and into the floor.

Ruby once again looked at the score. Whilst Tony had lost merely 10% of the aura he had when she last looked, the professor was at 67%.

"Ok, ok I give in", that was something no one expected to hear from Ozpin.

"Wait what?", said Warwick confused, but still somehow angry**.

Ozpin got up from the ground, "You win this one Mister Wolfson, this is all for today".

"Wait, wait, wait what do you mean I won?", asked the wolf.

"Look at the score", and everyone looked up to see the scores.

"Whilst I barely lowered your Aura in this form you managed to knock me down a bit, even with me being focused on dodging. Now for tomorrow I would like to come to my office we will skip the morning spar, I would like to talk to you more about strategy rather than outright battle sessions. What you loose in fighting tacktics of course you gain in strength behind your attacks, but I think there is a way to help you out with that.", he explained

"How?", asked Warwick.

"I will show you tomorrow, but for now you may have the night off", the wolf still seemed a bit confused but didn't argue, and so he transformed back into his human form and to the people watching the scores above, that being Miss Goodwitch, Ozpin, Ren, Phyrra, and Blake they saw a huge chunk of Tony's Aura get depleted. Then the boy left the amphitheatre.

After a few moments Ozpin called out, "Team RWBY and JNPR can you please come down here?"

Walking one by one the 8 friends stood in front of Ozpin. "Are you satisfied?", he asked, a row of nods followed.

"Good, now for a few questions, what happened in that fight?", he asked. They all looked at him, some with confusion others with annoyance, they didn't come here for a pop quiz damn it!

"Well, he lacks any sort of fighting style", said Phyrra.

"And he seemed to lose control the angrier he got", said Weiss.

"That is correct. Now why am I asking this? Because I want you to see the problems he faces"

"Is that why he got kicked out from Haven?", asked Ruby

"Unfortunately yes. He has anger issues and with a Semblance like that it led to a lot of problems, one being the hospitalisation of a student", a few gasps.

"Do not worry the student made a quick recovery, but Mister Wolfson was then denied any person v person battles in fear of something worse happening. Now I want you all to know that he is a good kid, just like you, he wants to make the world a better place, like you, he wants to fight the grimm so that normal people are safe, just like you. So that being said. Miss Nikos, Miss Schnee, and Miss Xiao Long tomorrow I want you at my office at 10:00, you are pardoned from the class you are supposed to attend", all three girls looked at him confused.

"Why?", asked Yang.

"Oh well, considering that miss Nikos and miss Schnee here are the best students in the first years and you having control over your abilities that are also connected to anger, you will be helping Mister Tony Wolfson in his little… predicament", they all looked at him dumbfounded.

"Have a good night", and with that, he and Miss Goodwich left the amphitheatre.

"What just happened?", asked Jaune after a few seconds.

"A lot of headaches", said Weiss, "I'm going to bed", and she went off, followed by her friends.

AN:

* cirCUMstances if you catch my drift 'insert Lenny face here'

** When you are a barbarian and wanna try and be a diplomat at the same time (D&D reference… kinda)

Also I am very shitty at doing fighting scenes so just bare with me until I can make better stuff, trust me I too want awesome fighting scenes.