Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY, just Dylan and the idea of team DARK/C. Rest of team DARK/C belongs to my friends.
Another month had passed since Dylan and Blake had started going out. Dylan had visibly changed, being a bit more social and somewhat happier than when he first came.
It was a friday, classes had ended and team RWBY was going out for a walk in the middle of downtown Vale, just hanging about, not really doing anything of importance. JNPR and DARK was also there, but the two other teams had gone to do other things. Dylan, for one, had to get Blake something for her birthday next week. Kieran and Rapha had gone to look for anything the team dorm would need. Alexis was at a bakery, looking to buy a strawberry cake. JNPR was at an arcade, Jaune and Ren having taken up a hobby of crushing those who chose to challenge them at the dancing game, their two female companions going with them to watchRuby noticed there was police tape over what looked like a crime scene. The team of females approached and asked one of the detectives about it. They learned that it was the second dust shop being hit that week. After the second detective's comment about it possibly being the White Fang and the two not getting paid enough, team RWBY left. "The White Fang, what an awful bunch of degenerates." Weiss remarked, an anger in Blake rising up. "What's your problem?" Blake asked, some anger seeping into her voice. "My problem? I just don't care for the criminally insane." "The White Fang are hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a bunch of misguided faunus." After a small bit of back and forth between the two, team RWBY left to the docks.
Team RWBY reached the docks, Ruby complaining about how it smelled like fish while Blake had somewhat of a dreamy face, also due to the fish. "Hey! After him!" A distant yell was heard. The four turned and saw a blonde monkey faunus jump off of a light pole. "Thanks for the ride boys!" He yelled back as he ran past the two detectives. As the monkey faunus ran past team RWBY, he winked at Blake, then continued to run, making a left turn. Ruby looked at the hidden cat faunus, "Uhhh... should we tell Dylan about that?" the small reaper asked, Blake shaking her head, it wasn't really worth it. "After him!" Weiss yelled as she dragged Ruby to chase the faunus. The remaining pair sighed and ran after the two skirt wearing teens. Weiss ran into a ginger haired girl, who simply smiled. "Salutations!" She said, still smiling. Weiss got up and apologized, the fallen girl still making no motion of getting up. "Do you... want to get up?" Yang asked the girl, who nodded and did a kick-up. The four took a step back in surprise. The girl introduced herself as Penny, and told them she was planning to compete at the Vytal Festival. Weiss's eyes lit up at that. "Does that mean you know that monkey tailed rapscallion?" Penny looked confused. Weiss continued to degrade the faunus, and Blake snapped. "Stop calling him a rapscallion, stop callig him a degenerate! He's a person!" Weiss glared at Blake, and the two went off onto an argument. The argument carried on unto the dorm, Ruby and Yang looking between the two. "I'm a victim!" Weiss said, rather loudly, allowing Dylan's more sensitive hearing to pick it up. He sighed and changed clothes, still hearing the black and white themed women arguing with each other. He left his dorm in grey combat pants and a black hoodie with black combat boots. He had a lot of boots, okay? "Maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!" He heard Blake yell. He started making his way over to the dorm when the door shot open and Blake ran into his chest. She ended up knocking him over. His bracelet caught onto part of her clothing and he ended up being dragged to the monument at the middle of the school. "Blake why... I though you loved me!" He wailed as he was dragged. She stopped and he got up, noticing she had tears in her eyes. She wiped it away and took off the bow, not realizing that she had ended up dragging Dylan and the blonde monkey faunus from before were there. "I knew you'd look better without the bow," he commented, causing Dylan to growl. Blake put her right hand on his arm. He looke down to her and visibly calmed.
The three faunus were at a café, Dylan having gotten up because his team had called for something. "So you want to know more about me..." Blake started, causing the monkey faunus, now known as Sun Wukong, to smirk. "Finally she speaks! Nearly two days and you've given me nothing but small talk and weird looks." Dylan came back, "Team called, need me to help them out with something. Call if you need me." He told the two, more specifically Blake. He leaned down and planted a kiss on her forehead before leaving the café, the lien for his tea on the table already. Sun looked both confused and a bit heartbroken, but didn't touch on the subject. "Sun, are you familiar with the White Fang?" "Of course, there isn't a faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. A bunch of stupid, holier-than-thou creeps who use force to get whatever they want, a bunch of freaks if you ask me." "I was once a member of The White Fang." at this, Sun choked on his tea. "Wait, YOU were a member of the White Fang?" "You could almost say I was born into it."
*Flashback images start*
"So, have you told your friends any of this?" Sun asked her
RWY were walking down the streets of downtown Vale once more, this time looking for Blake. "Maybe we should call Dylan, he might know." Yang suggested, but immediately taking it back. "Nevermind, he looked pretty out of it when he got to the dorms, almost about to collapse. Almost like he didn't get any sleep." Ruby made a sound of agreement while Weiss laughed slightly. "He won't say anything even if he was wide awake, you know how that reptile is." She told the two. "Weiss, you're not helping!" Ruby whined. "You know who might be able to help? The police." "Weiss..." Ruby whined again after hearing Weiss's comment about the police. "It was just an idea" she defended, only for her small reaper of a leader to retort with "Yeah, a bad one." Yang jumped in, "Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story first." "I think when we do, you'll realize I was right." "And I think Weiss's hair looks wonderful today!" Penny said excitedly, causing the three to jump back in surprise. Yang explains to Penny that they're trying to find Blake, only for Penny to surprise them with her knowledge of Blake's cat ears. "Cat ears? She wears a... bow..." Yang finished, a tumbleweed passing by. Penny grabs Ruby by the shoulders and tells her that she won't stop until she finds Blake.
"So what's the plan?" Sun asked the cat faunus next to him, his arms behind his head. "I still don't believe The White Fang is behind these robberies. They've never needed that much dust before." Sun's eyes widened, "What if they did? I mean, the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place they would most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there, right?" He said, using both hands to point at her with both his index and middle fingers out. "The only thing is, I have no idea where that would be." She responded. "Well, while I was on the ship, I heard the crewmen talking about unloading a huge shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas." "How huge?" "HUGE. Big Schnee Company freighter." Sun's arms go up to emphasize. "You're sure?" Blake asked, leaning in to check if he was lying.
"Thanks anyways!" Yang called out to someone in the building she and Wiess were in, asking if they had seen Blake. "You really don't care if we find her, do you?" "The innocent never run, Yang."
Ruby and Penny were walking down the streets once more, Penny alsing Ruby a bunch of unnecessary obvious questions. "She might not be who we though she was." Penny gasped at this. "Is she a man?" "NO PENNY. Well, I dont know what she is. She didn't really say when she ran off." "I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things." Ruby looked down dejectedly, "Me too..."
(Music: Emperor's New Clothes by Panic! At The Disco)
Night had taken over Vale. Blake and Sun were on the roof of a warehouse overlooking the area of the SDC shipment. "Did I miss anything?" Sun asked the cat faunus. "Not really. They unloaded the duet, but now they're just sitting there." She responded "I stole some food for you." He said, holding out an apple. "Do you always break the law without a second thought?" "Hey, weren't you in a cult or somthing?" He retorted, only for her to glare at him. "Okay, too soon." Multiple bullheads can be heard in the distance. "Might as well call Dylan." She mumbles to herself. Sun looks at her, confused. "We can take 'em" he assures her. She puts a finger to her lips and points towards Roman Torchwick and a white fang lieutenant with a sniper rifle. Upon closer inspection, the lieutenant had blue hair, a green hooded cloak, green and gold combat skirt and tall black boots. "Yeah?" Dylan's voice is heard through the scroll. "White Fang are here, we might need some help." "On it. Be there in a bit, kitten." The dragon faunus hung up. "So are you and he a thing or..?" Sun asked, somewhat afraid of the answer. "Yes, he's my boyfriend." She affirmed him and jumped down, both blades of Gambol Shroud at the ready. She dashed forward and held Roman Torchwick and blade point. The lieutenant takes aim with her sniper , as do the rest of the White Fang soldiers. Blake takes off her bow. "Brothers of The White Fang, why are you aiding this scum?" She asked, seeing as how the soldiers hesitate to shoot. Roman chuckled. "Didn't you get the memo kid? The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together." "Tell me what it is and I'll put an end to you little operation." Blake emphasizes her point with pushing her blade up to Roman's neck a bit more. Another three bullheads come into view. Using her surprise to his advantage, the criminal uses Melodic Crudgel to shoots at her feet, the red dust blowing up and launching her back. The explosion catches the attention of Penny and Ruby.
A motorcycle is heard as Sun jumps down from the building. Both Sun and Blake turn towards the sound. Sun frowning since he didn't know what it was and Blake smirking since she knew exactly what it was. The lieutenant stepped forward and shot at the now visible black motorcycle. Dylan, now wearing his regular combat gear, growled as he unsheathed Lux and cut the bullet in half, drawing looks of surprise from all the faunus and Roman. He got off of Drákon, the motorcycle using it's autopilot feature to drive away from the battle. "Son of a-" Roman is cut off by Blake kicking him in the chest.
Dylan looked at the lieutenant. "Oh look, Kitty called her boyfriend." Dylan growled. "Oooo, he's a feisty one." Dylan charged at her, using Lux to swipe and slash at her open abdomen. The hawk faunus evaded and kicked him away, her wings now being shown off to the world. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT BULLSHIT!" Dylan yelled out in anger. The blue haired faunus laughed and landed. "I am Lydia, one of the two White Fang lieutenants." Dylan pointed his sword at her. "I dont care who you are, you tried to hurt my kitten, PREPARE TO DIE." With that, Dylan rushed her, only for her to shoot at him with her sniper and multiple other White Fang soldiers to also fire. Blake heard the gunshots and saw her lover be taken down. "Dylan!" She cried out, only to be hit in the stomach by Roman's cane. Sun had disposed of his batch of soldiers and had gone to help Blake. A loud roar echoed through the vicinty, causing Ruby and Penny, who were on the roof, to stagger, as well as all the people on the ground. A large ethereal dragon rose from the ground and knocked all the soldiers surrounding Dylan away. Dylan got up, only for Lydia to snipe at his arm again. This time, the bullet dinked his arm and fell to the side, defeated. Her eyes widened when she saw the scales all over his body. His irises glowed red as he ran at the soldiers , striking them in non-vital places, seeing as how he didn't want to kill them. Lydia pulled out a dagger and ran at Dylan while his back was turned. She let out a battle cry and stabbed his upper back, near his shoulder. The semblance enhanced faunus roared in pain and grabbed the hawk faunus, who tried flying away. He opened his mouth and black flames shot out, draining the female lieutenant's aura. He let go of her leg, and she dropped. Dylan roared and flared his black, red and purple aura. DragonForce caused his aura to pulse out and knock down Lydia, who tried to get up again. She used her wings to jet up in the air, only for Dylan to also jump up and kick her in the stomach with an aura infused roundhouse kick. She screeched and hit the ground, a crated forming. He yanked the dagger out of his back and snapped it in half. "Cheap ass knife." He laughed and tossed the two pieces aside, not caring his back/shoulder was bleeding.
"Is the dragon your friend, Ruby?" Penny asked the red reaper. Ruby looked confused for a minute, then nodded frantically. The scythe wielder was about to jump down when Roman had shot her with dust, knocking her back. Penny jumped down and her swords activated, and she attacked the remaining soldiers. Dylan's eye's widened as he saw a lot of blood from some of the soldiers. Blake saw the angry look in his eyes and went to stop him, but she and Sun were preoccupied with Roman. Dylan ran at Penny, blocking her swords with Lux. Penny looked at the angry dragon confused. "Aren't you Ruby's friend?" She asked. Dylan roared angrily and kicked her aside, taking note of the fact that he felt metal when he kicked her. "YOU'RE KILLING THEM!" He yelled out, shooting another concussive blast at a couple of soldiers with half of Umbra. Penny's eyes widened in what looked like fear at the angry dragon faunus in front of her. Dylan dashed back to Roman, who had just knocked Blake and Sun aside. Penny ignored Dylan's previous concern of The White Fang and charged up her energy beam. Roman kicked Dylan in the knee and smacked his face with Melodic Crudgel. At this point, he stopped using DragonForce and was weakened by his fight with Lydia. Dylan, Blake and Sun all got up. "Woah, calm down, my animals" with that, he shot out his last dust crystal at Blake, only for Dylan to push her out the way and take the full brunt of the blast. Sun and Blake double teamed Roman, who ended up escaping with Lydia in a bullhead. Blake realized that Dylan had not gotten up from Roman's blast and went to go see where he had landed. He was currently climbing out of a bunch of rubble from impacting the wall of the warehouse. Sun had gone to go get Ruby from the roof. She had come put relatively unscathed, same with Penny. Blake found the wounded dragon faunus on top of the pile of rubble and helped him up. "I'm fine kitten, don't worry about me" he tried to assure her, but winced as she moved his left arm. An ambulance and police were already on the way. Blake wrapped Dylan's arm around her shoulders and helped him walk over to some crates and barrels. Soon the ambulance arrived and the wrapped his wounds with gauze. Dylan turned to the cat faunus next to him, "How... How many died?" He asked, his voice breaking. "About 15," Sun responded, also saddened by the deaths of some The White Fang soldiers. Dylan winced in pain as he got up. "Where is she." No one answered. He growled and looked at Ruby. "Tell me where she is." Ruby cowered. "I don't know, she just left."
Dylan growled and punched the warehouse wall, causing it to crack. Yang and Weiss walked up to them, having followed the police vehicles over to the site. "Woah, what happened to him?" Yang questioned, referring to the wounded Dylan, who was partially leaning against Blake, not being able to stand at the moment. "White Fang, took a shot for me that took a lot out of him." She summerized. Blake got up and walked towards Weiss. "Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang, back when I was with-" "Stop." Weiss cut her off, "Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you? Twelve hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this." Everyone looked at Weiss, Dylan attempting to grab Tenebris, but giving up seeing as how he was weak as shit right now. "And in those twelve hours, I've decided, I don't care." "You don't care?" Blake asked, surprised. "You said you're no longer one of them, right." "No, I haven't been since I was younger an-" Weiss made a noise to cut her off, "I don't want to hear it. All I want to know, is that the next time, is that when something this big comes up, you'll come to your teammates." Dylan coughed. Weiss sighed, "Or boyfriend, and not someone else." Dylan cut in, "Technically she came to me and then we ran into Sun so I don't know how that would work." Team RWBY looked at him. He smiled sheepishly and moved back and sat down, wincing as he felt his back crack. "Of course." She replied. "YEAH, TEAM RWBY IS BACK TOGETHER!" Ruby cheered, rather loudly. Dylan whined and covered his ears at the sound, causing Ruby to apologize. Sun and Dylan stood up, Dylan internally crying at all the unnecessary movement he just made. "I'm still not sure how I feel about you," Weiss told Sun, who laughed nervously. Dylan leaned over to Sun, "You'll get used to it, trust me." Sun laughed again, this time out of humor and not at the thought of having his balls frozen off. "Hey, where's Penny?" Ruby asked, looking for the ginger haired girl.
Penny is seen inside of a car, looking out towards the group of teens. "You should know better than to running around in a strange city." A man's voice is heard. "I know, Sir." Penny said as she looked down, sad. The car drove away, leaving the Beacon teens to go back to Beacon and Sun to do whatever it is he does.
Ozpin is looking at his scroll, a video feed from the encounter having been played. Soon, a message popped up from Qrow Branwen, saying: "The Queen has pawns." Ozpin's expression became grim at that.