After the fight he followed the smell of food and found himself inside of a giant dining hall for students. Drake grabbed a tray and got in line for what smelled like heaven in food form. After a few minutes of impatiently waiting for the food he found that a rich beef stew and fresh bread was being handed out to the students. Drake grabbed a bowl and a few slices of bread. He looked around for where to get a drink and saw that most students were buying from soda machines. Holding his tray in one hand Drake relieved a student's pocket of a few quarters and bought a random drink. Then he walked around to an empty table and sat down with a thud and a sigh, he began to tear is bread apart and dip in into his stew; enjoying the meal. When his bread was gone he grabbed a spoon and started to eat but was interrupted by someone sitting on both of his sides and across from him. His body tensed, he didn't think someone would ambush him in broad daylight but he would rather be safe than sorry, he looked up and visibly relaxed. Ren was the person sitting across from him, he seemed nice enough and Drake didn't think he would attack. To his right was a girl with long bright red hair and even brighter green eyes. To his left was a boy with short sandy hair and blue eyes. The annoying girl, Nora, didn't seem to be anywhere within sight. Drake breathed a sigh of relief just as she sat down next to Ren. Luckily she seemed more interested in the food than Drake had been. No one was talking so Drake accepted the company and lifted his spoon to take a bite.
"Hi I'm Juane" the sandy haired boy said "And that's Pyrrha" he said as he pointed at the girl to Drake's right
"Hello!" she said with a cheerful wave
"I'm pretty sure you have already met Ren and Nora, right?" Juane said
Ren stopped eating and made a slight wave; Nora ignored the conversation and kept eating.
"You want something, what is it?" Drake asked as he took another large bite
"We want you to join our team, we didn't see you fight but uh… word travels fast" Juane said
"Oh does it now? Tell me what have you heard?" Drake said, enjoying his fame
"Pyrrha was there but not the rest of us, she knows exactly what happed" Juane
"Hello again!" Pyrrha said with another cheerful wave
"Apparently I don't get to choose what team I go on, team leaders gotta decide for me" Drake said as he lifted up his bowl and drained its contents
"Well that couldn't have gone any worse" Juane mumbled as Drake got up
Drake opened his soda as he left the dining hall, by the time he reached the exit the soda was gone and in the trash. After lunch he went to the library to kill a few hours. The librarian was nice enough; he was an old man with older eyes and spectacles to cover them. His back was hunched from to many hours looking over books and sorting them. Even so he helped Drake find a nice book of fiction about a man with two souls, he said it had just gotten back from another student and she had apparently loved it. The book was interesting enough and Drake tore into it, hoping to find the ending soon. He finished around 9:00 pm. He joked with the librarian as he left, having finished just as the library closed left plenty of room for a few jokes between two readers. Drake left the library in a good mood, and ready for bed. His muscles were stiff from siting for so long, in an attempt to loosen them he jogged to the dorms. Once he reached the dorms he found himself once again walking next to the green haired girl, Emerald. She raised her hands in mock surrender as they passed each other. This brought a small laugh from each of them as they carried on their way. Once Drake was in the dorms he headed to the room he had slept in the night before. Once he was at the door he knocked, unsure if he was still supposed to sleep here. The door was swung open by Ruby who held a small energetic dog.
"Am I still allowed to sleep here?" Drake asked unsure of what to do
"Uh sure but Yang is a little grumpy about…you know" Ruby said "Enter if you dare"
"Thanks, err no hard feelings" Drake said with a nervous smile
"Like I said, enter if you dare" Ruby said as she closed the door behind him
"You…you shall die!" Yang said, with a slur, as she perked up from her bed, then fell back unconscious
"Blegh" Drake said as he faked a stumble
After a bit of small talk with Ruby and introductions with Zwei, Ruby's dog, Drake went into the bathroom to relieve himself and grab his meager box of possessions which had been pilled together and thrown in the corner. By the time he got out Ruby was asleep in her bed and the lights were off. Drake guessed his way towards the bed and accidentally slammed his knee into the bedpost. He did his best to express his pain without disturbing the others. After a moment he laid the box at the foot of his bed and stripped down to his underwear, folding each piece of his suit and laying it in the box as he removed it. Once that was done he hopped into the bed, wriggled under the covers, and fell into what he expected to be the warm embrace of sleep instead it was the cold chokehold of nightmares. Just like the night before he was plagued by vivid nightmares. This time he was in a dark house and needed a weapon. Something was coming for him but he didn't know what. He ran through the house like he had lived there his whole life, eventually he was in a room filled with guns. Here he dressed himself and grabbed a few weapons, Drake stepped over to an aisle of rifles but something confused him and caused him to turn around quickly. When he did a horrible pain exploded on his face, in the dream it caused him to fall unconscious, in the real world it caused him to shoot awake. Drake shot up from his bed to see Yang taking his clothes from his box, before he could stop her she bolted out the door. Drake cursed and looked through the dorms window, he saw her outside by the schools flagpole raising his clothes and respectfully saluting them. He turned around to see Weiss sitting on her bed facing the wall opposite of Drake, blushing, and Ruby staring at the ground blushing, trying not to look at Drake in his boxers.
"I did warn you" Ruby said, meekly, her eyes still glued to the floor
Drake didn't hear her and marched out of the dorm with his head held high. When Drake opened the door to leave Nora, in the room opposite Ruby's, was just leaving herself. It was the first time he had ever seen the girl at a loss for words, Drake greeted her like nothing was out of the ordinary and continued to make his way out of the dorms. She wasn't the only one who gave him a funny look on the way. Once he exited the dorms he could see almost every student ogling, and Yang bent over laughing. Drake kept his composure and walked with the confidence of a god. Just before he reached the flagpole he used the neural link he had with his arm and set it to ten times normal human strength, then he brought his back metallic arm back and punched the pole. It bent at a sick angle where he punched it and soon its own weight caused the pole to fall the rest of the way down. Drake proceeded to grab his clothes and get dressed in front a large crowd and a no longer laughing Yang. Once he was fully clothed he looked at Yang, winked, and pushed through his lovely audience towards the dining hall where he hoped for a nice breakfast. He wasn't disappointed in the food; the school was serving large fluffy pancakes with bacon, biscuits, eggs, and all the milk you could drink. As he sat down to eat, a messenger kid came to interrupt him. This time was just like before, sign the clipboard, kid bolts, etc. but Instead of a box, this time it was just an envelope. Inside was a letter that read:
Dear Drake, as for the issue of teams please be at the landing pad by 9:00 a.m. sharp.
Best regards, Ozpin
Drake looked at a large mechanical clock on the far wall of the cafeteria, it read 8:51 a.m. which means Drake has nine minutes to find the landing pad and shovel a giant plate of food down his mouth. For the sake of efficiency Drake shoved his bacon and eggs between two pancakes to make a breakfast sandwich the likes of which the world has never seen. He then wrapped the bottom half in napkins so it didn't fall all over the place and took his glass of milk and sandwich outside to find the airstrip was much easier to find than he would have thought, considering a giant helicopter was landing on it as Drake stepped outside. He jogged over to what he suspected was his ride and found a bunch of other students were already there, with them was Ozpin and another professor who Drake had heard was named Glynda. Glynda had long blonde hair and she seemed to be the headmaster's assistant or something along those lines. By the time Drake reached the helicopter half his sandwich was gone and so was half his milk. He noticed most of the students with him were eying his sandwich so he hurried to finish it. As he took the last bite, Juane came running up the ramp to the helicopter. He bent over to catch his breath and apologized for being late. Once Juane was done apologizing Ozpin began to hurry everyone into the helicopter. Drake drained his glass of milk and, when he was finished, realized that everyone was waiting for him to get on the chopper. Now it was his turn to apologize and rush to catch up. On the way to their destination Ozpin explained that they were going to a forest just outside of the city, there they would need to find a Relic and bring it back to a safe area. AppaRently this was a challenge all students had previously done to match up teams and the first team leader who saw Drake would get him as a permanent addition. After a rocky and strangely quiet ride to the forest the helicopter landed and Ozpin had everyone line up and stand on what he referred to as a launching pedestal, everyone except Drake who Ozpin had stand next to him.
"Drake, these are all the leaders for most first year teams and, to my surprise, a more advanced team leader." Ozpin said "Their names are: Juane, Ruby, Cardin, and strangely Coco"
"You're team leaders?" Drake said as he pointed to Ruby and Juane
Before they could respond Ozpin cleared his throat and told Drake to step on a launching platform. Reluctantly Drake stepped on and braced himself for the worst.
"Hey do we have parachutes or something" Drake asked, Juane seemed just as panicked
"3" Ozpin said
"Anyone? I'm more than a little worried! Why's he counting down?!" Drake said
"2"
"Why is it called a launching platform?" Drake said, beginning to panic
"I would tell you, but apparently I'm not fit to be a leader" Ruby said with a smile
"Oh go f-" Drake started to say
"1"
Drake was launched up and forwards through the air, far above the forest. He was flying at high speeds, had no parachute, and to make matters worse there wasn't even a comical whistling sound as he fell to his death. He raced over the forest at ludicrous speeds, zipping past trees both big and small. Drake tried everything he could do to change his speed, or direction, or anything! All of his attempts were fruitless. Soon Drake realized he was, rapidly, approaching a mountain that was really nothing more than a large dirt mound. Before he could react Drake was crashing into the mound, sliding and flipping as he slowed down. When Drake stopped he couldn't even curse or yell in pain, all he could do was groan. In fact he could barely groan, when he crashed into the ground the air had been knocked out of his lungs. His best efforts gave him nothing other than a pale rasp that was reminiscent of the "f" sound. After a few moments, or minutes it was hard to tell, Drake sat up slowly. His upper body seemed to be in better shape than it should be no broken bones and only a few scrapes. His lower body was a different story, luckily he still hadn't broken anything but a sharp tree branch had stabbed through his right leg. It seemed to have missed any major arteries as there wasn't too much blood; however it still made walking an issue. He tried to remove the stick but nearly blacked out in the process. After a few moments to recuperate Drake was ready to try again but a menacing howl from the trees stopped him in his tracks. Drake slowly turned to the source of the howl and saw a large hulking werewolf was prowling around him. The beast's upper body was covered in bones, almost like armor. His face was the same and large spikes of bone rose from his shoulders. The bones had a blood red pattern about them; it would have been beautiful if it were just a picture. The beast bared its fangs and roared again, it began to charge Drake at a full sprint. Drake didn't think it wanted a belly rub so he bolted up, ignoring his leg, and ran as fast as he could into the trees.
Minute's later Drake was still running for his life, pushing through overgrown branches and trying not to trip over giant tree roots. The beast had been slowed through the trees but not stopped. No matter how fast he ran Drake could still hear its heavy breath behind him. After a while he was pretty sure more than one beast was following him. While sprinting Drake tripped over a root and crashed to the floor, bashing his head on another root as he collapsed. He shot up on the ground as fast as he could, ignoring the cut on his forehead that bleed into his eye. He wasn't fast enough, just as he began to run claws raked across his back tearing flesh and shredding his clothes. Drake ignored this as best he could and ran further, soon the trees parted and he found himself in a clearing. If he was in any condition to fight this would be a great situation, a large flat clearing with plenty of space to move was perfect for a fight. However Drake was hurt too bad to fight and to make matters worse his previous guess about their being more beasts was correct. The demons emerged from the forest slowly, circling around Drake before they attempted to kill him. One of them was more reckless than the rest; this one was like a giant wolfhound with long sickly teeth and red eyes. It jumped on top of Drake and forced his to the ground, hitting the dirt made his back flare out in pain but he ignored it as best he could. Drake used both hands to hold the creature back, his right hand ended up pushing the creature's upper jaw while his left ripped the lower half off. The monsters fangs cut his hand and stabbed through it; Drake ignored it and broke the demons neck with his metallic arm. The monster began to disintegrate as Drake threw it to the side. The other beasts were more cautious, and waited until the moment was right to attack. Before that moment came, Drake's metallic arm had a long black blade extend from his wrist and over the top of his hand.
