The group of 11 was sitting on top of the hill. The sun was just breaking over the horizon giving the sky a pinkish hue. The red forest was silent and still, no breeze shook the leaves of the thousands of trees. The plains west of where the team was positioned was quiet and unmoving, a dreadful silence was cast over the group only broken by small coughs or movements.

The sun was shining its light down in early morning rays. And orange color painted the green plains on the cloudless morning. Relishing in its beauty the group waited for their opponents to arrive. Looking over the group the sun cast warm rays onto the teams backs casting away the morning chill. Finally after nearly an hour of waiting vibrations began shaking the ground and brought the team to attention, they looked to the west. On the horizon was a mass of black charging forward. Apon closer look a dark blue dot was just ahead of the grimm.

"What is that?" Ren asked.

"It looks... like a person." Kai replied.

"How can you tell." Jaune asked.

"Well considering its blue not black, its running ahead of them, and how the grimm are charging after it I'm pretty sure its not their friend." Yang said sarcastically.

"Should we help?" Velvet asked.

"I mean I don't really have a weapon so I'd rather stay up here." Kai said suddenly realizing he didn't have his staff.

"Lets just see if he makes it over here." Jaune said

"Oh come on you arn't going to help him...her whatever!" Blake protested.

"We don't even know who it is! They could be a convict or insane for all we know." Weiss argued logically.

"It can't be... its a kid... a girl I think." Ruby said as she looked through the scope on cresent rose.

"Ah great here I go again... cover me!" Kai said as he began teleporting. A purple ball formed around him as runes of his symbol began dancing on the surface. The sphere collapsed and Kai was seen reappearing a good 30 yards in front of the running figure.

-Kai-

Kai knew he had forced the group into this situation but he didn't care. Everyone deserves a chance so as he appeared a good distance in front of the target. Getting a quick moment to take a look at the surroundings. The figure he was trying to save was approaching fairly quick. The person was being chased by too many Ursi. A quick estimate of how many there were was atleast 200. After a few seconds the person was almost next to him, Kai began running in the same direction to keep speed with the somewhat feminine figure. Seeing his team was at the base of the hill almost 200 yards away he tried getting level with the person as they ran. Finally getting close enough to communicate he began his plan on how to save his and the other persons ass.

"Hey you! Follow me if you don't want to be trampled by that clusterfuck of Ursa!" Kai yelled to the other person.

"Alright!" The person yelled back, slightly long raggedy brown hair covering part of the strangers face.

The two ran as fast as they could towards the rest of the group which had started getting into position about 70 yards away. The Ursa were gaining ground but everytime one got close enough to strike, it was struck down by a furry of bullets. Now they were only 10 yards away when Weiss screamed out "DUCK!" As she flung a huge jet of ice dust outward. Kai nearly got frozen, but rolled under the horizontal arc of bluish dust. The front lines of the horde of Ursi was frozen in place and slowed the rest of the horde so they couldn't charge right through the group. Reaching the safer area near his team Kai and the stranger both had their hands on their knees panting.

"Oscar... fetch me a big stick." Kai said to his Giant cat which dashed off.

"Alright listen guy. help us kill these Ursa and we may not slice your head off." Jaune said to the new comer.

"Sure, fine whatever, I was dead anyway." Said the person in blue as he pulled out two swords, one with a blue blade and another with a white blade. The swords edges sunk into the hilt of the sword as it shifted into duel pistols,again one blue and the other white. The owner began firing off heavy rounds at the Ursa. Ruby started firing also along with Nora, Ren, Weiss, Blake, and Yang and Pyrrha. Dozens of Ursa dropped onto the field, dark blood dripping onto the ground, nearly 50 were dead by the time the rest reached the group. Switching to melee the team held their ground. Kai broke position so he could do something effective which included snapping the necks of the smaller Ursa, his spot was filled by the blue swordsman, the newcomer was certainly not new to fighting as the swordsman laughed with a cocky attitude as he swung the duel swords around. After only minutes of battling Yang picked off the last Ursa. The team was hardly tired after only 10 minutes of battle.

"Alright... now that that's out of the way ,who... the hell... are you" Kai said to the now not so new comer, pointing his finger at him

"My name is Romeo, Romeo Blue." He said.

"Alright Romeo... I'm Kai, these are my friends." Kai said as he gestured to himself and the rest of the group. "Now why are you out here" Kai finished.

"I'm not going to tell a whole bunch of exiles who I am!" Romeo retorted smartly.

"Hey we're not exiles! We're students. Hunters and huntresses. Ya know the whole protect people from monsters deal." Ruby corrected.

"No offense but arn't you all a bit young to be Hunters." Romeo said hypocritically.

"Your not so old yourself there kid" Kai said in a passive aggressive tone.

"Yeah we did say we were students didn't we?" Yang added

"So your students. Not hunters or huntresses." Romeo retorted

"Anyway before I burn this bridge do you know what direction Vale is in. I need to find the headmaster of beacon." Romeo asked before anyone could make a response to his previous statement

"Oh professor Ozpin. What do you want with him?" Ruby asked.

"I need help." Romeo said dryly.

"Why?" Ruby asked.

"Listen I appreciate the saving me from a huge horde of Ursa but I should get going before nightfall." Romeo said completely ignoring the question as he began to turn to leave.

"Hey if you don't want a free ride to beacon that's your choice." Kai said stopping Romeo dead in his tracks.

"What free ride." Romeo said as he turned back around.

"Like we said were students. Students from beacon." Kai explained, a slight smirk displayed on his face.

"Uhhh... didn't expect that." Romeo said in supprise. "Why are students from Beacon out here?" He asked

"We'll tell you if you tell us your story." Ruby suggested.

"I guess... well I'm Romeo Blue. Uhm... I'm out here because my village was ransacked by a horde of grimm. Everyone from my village is dead... everyone. I'm trying to find Ozpin because he's a family friend and I need a place to stay so I intend to attend beacon when I'm acceptable to the school." Romeo explained. "That's all I'd like to tell. It gets emotional after that." He explained.

"Well as I said I'm Kai, this Is Ruby, Yang her sister, Weiss of the schnee dust company, Blake the bookworm, Jaune our leader, Pyrrha our most famous member, Nora who is excites all the time, Ren a very quiet guy, Oscar my pet, and Velvet the rabbit faunus." Kai introduced them with a slight grin received scoffs, tisks, a shocked look from Jaune, and passive aggresive looks. "We're out here on a mission to stop any grimm from getting to vale. They all come to this bottle neck for some reason so we're here to stop them from going any further." Kai explained. "And that's all we're willing to tell." Kai teased

"Well this doesn't seem to hard, only a small horde of grimm every now and then. Why is it so important?" Romeo asked.

"Oh today was the easiest day we've had. See I died three days ago!" Kai said cheerily

"Wait what!?" Romeo said a bit taken back.

"Its a long story" Yang said.

"Yeah and its quite confusing if you wern't there" Blake said.

"Well are we standing here all day or do you guys have a camp or something?" Romeo asked

"Yeah we have a camp. Lets go guys." Jaune said. "Listen Romeo a supply ship comes every 3 days to drop off whatever we need. When it comes hopefully you'll be able to hop on it. No promises though."

"I understand. Anyway how big is your camp? Is there anymore of you?" Romeo asked as the group of now 12 walked up the steep hill. Kai seemed to have found a walking stick and was using it to hile up the mountain.

"Its just a cluster of tents with a fire pit in the middle. Nothing much. And this is everyone." Jaune answered "so you said your village was ransacked... what exactly happened?"

"Well... it was chaotic. Fire was everywhere, people being mauled were strewn across the streets... my family was the only family with real fighting training and so we tried to defend our... home. And we couldn't stop the grimm... there were to many..." Romeo paused "my father, mother, and sister died... I'm the only one to survive the entire attack." By now tears welled I Romeo's eye threatening to come out.

"I'm...sorry for your loss... thats gotta be hard." Jaune said trying to calm Romeo down.

"Its whatever. I can't change it." He said dryly in reply

"Listen if you want to. You can stay with us for a while... we need all the help we can get... besides your not so bad." Jaune said awkwardly.

"Ill think about it." Romeo said as he stroked his chin.

Now the group reached the peak of the hill. The bright orange sun glowed bright in the sky making the group shield their eyes with their hands. The camp was empty, the same as they had left it.

"Camps right there. If you need anything don't be afraid to ask." Jaume told Romeo.

"Alright." Romeo replied.

-Romeo-

As the group of students and himself scaled down the hill Romeo started to feel fatigue take over his body, his posture slouched, his steps shortened, generally he felt horrible. He felt Dirty, a feeling he hated. The group walked through the entrance to the camp and the 11 dispersed leaving Romeo to find his own place to rest. Although he wouldn't admit it he was extremely uncomfortable and nervous. He didn't know why, he was a very outgoing person. Popular, funny, easygoing, and by no means awkward. But for some reason one person in the camp made butterflies well up in his stomach. Finally getting tired of being so sweaty and dirty he asked the nearest person where he could wash up.

"Uhm... excuse me." He said awkwardly.

"Yeah?" Ruby replied brightly.

"Do you guys have a place I can wash up?" Romeo asked politely, the most formal he'd been in years.

"Uhh...well no... you could help me find a place though... we've been trying to find a place like that for the time we've been here but we haven't found anything." Ruby explained.

"Well i guess i could help... where haven't you checked?" Romeo asked.

"The only place we didn't check yet was to the east. Maybe we shpuld start there." Ruby said.

"Sure. Lets go then." Romeo said back.

"Let me just let Jaune or Kai know, meet me over there." Ruby said, pointing over to the entrance of the camp as she went to go tell Jaune or Kai where she was off to.

Walking over to the entrance he heard a yelp of supprise and turned around. Ruby was jumping out of a yellow tent, cheeks red with embaressment. After a few seconds she walked over to Romeo.

"Alright lets go." Ruby said, walking through the entrance.

The two walked in the direct opposite of the hill. Heading across the relatively flat land, accept a few mellow hills. The grass was a dim green, wind blew across the plains and ruffled Romeo's hair. Ruby simply skipped ahead of him. After a little while of walking Ruby dropped back to walk with Romeo.

"So how old are you?" She asked him.

"15, almost 16" He said.

"Really? Me too!" Ruby replied.

"Cool... hey what happened back at camp in that yellow tent?" Romeo asked as they walked.

"Oh...hehe... yeah my sister was ahh... making out with her boyfriend." Ruby said a slight blush on her cheeks as she cringed at the recent event.

"Oh wow. Who's your sister? I didn't really see her when Kai introduced everyone.

"She's the blonde one. Real long hair. Purple eyes." Ruby described.

"Oh her. You two don't look to alike do you?" Romeo said

"Well were not blood related." Ruby explained.

"That would explain it." Romeo replied.

"Hey is that water?" Romeo said as he saw a blue pool they almost walked past.

"Oh wow that is. That's a lot of water... howd we almost miss that?" Ruby said as she examined the extencive lake in front of them.

"There's no way we almost walked past that." Romeo objected. "That's a bit embarassing..." he added.

"Well anyway I'm going to get washed up." Romeo warned.

"Oh sorry ill just wait over there. I need to take a wash too." Ruby explained. "Be quick!" She added cheerfully as she walked over a small hill.

Romeo took a look at the extensive pool of water. It was probably 25-30 yards in length and looked reasonably deep. Enough for a 5'8'' boy to wash with.

-Ruby-

Ruby couldn't believe what she was doing. After walking over the hill she waited for maybe 10 minutes before she found herself crawling behind a bush at the top of the small hill and spying on someone. Spying! Even as much as she tryed to force herself to look away she couldn't. The first time she saw Romeo in his blue and white armor she nearly lost it. She had a huge crush as she sometimes did in Signal. For some reason she felt different about him though.

Ruby looked at Romeo's lean figure, not very muscular or buff but lightweight and thin. His medium length brown hair was straightening out as it was covered in water. Finally Ruby got a hold of herself and brought herself down, ashamed of her actions. All she could think of was what she had just done. Whether it was worth it or not and if she really cared. The sun began being covered with clouds in its late morning/early afternoon state. Finally Romeo walked over the hill, fully clothed and looking neat and organized.

This was the first time Ruby got a good look at Romeo's apperal and look. He had white pants and shirt with blue detail on its collar, waistline, and a blue star with angel wings spread behind it on each sleve. He had white shoulder pads with the same patterns and a cape that was a royal blue with the symbol on its back. He had a matching royal blue skarff around his neck. Ruby looked at his face and saw that his features showed very little masculinity but on his right cheek was a small scar which stuck out on his pale skin. His eyes were black and Ruby got lost in them very quickly.

"Uhh Ruby... are you going to get washed up or something?" Romeo asked as Ruby stared at him.

"OH...yeah sorry!" Ruby exclaimed awkwardly, rushing over the hill.

-Romeo-

He and Ruby began walking back to camp, talking about weapons, music, and their personal experiences. Romeo had to admit he was warming up to the group and was really considering staying. Finally the two reached the camp. Walking in Ruby said a quick good bye before telling everyone about the place they could bathe which was quickly spread through out the camp. Romeo just stepped back and leaned on the low stone wall. A engine was heard in the distance.

The group watched as the supply ship landed a decent distance away. Dropping off a largish crate the door ramp began to close. Romeo tensed, this was his chance, his chance to be safe, but did he want that? He asked himself

His answer was displayed by his actions. Romeo was tired of being safe, his parents always kept him safe even though they were the only valiant fighters in his village. His feet stayed in place as the airship flew off. Jaune and Kai ran to go get the crate. They jogged back and placed it in the camp. He stood back as Jaune popped off the crate's top. Kai peered in, his face lighting up, he took out a 6 foot long glaive. The shaft was made of a chestnut colored wood covered by a double helix of dark brown leather, a dark almost black shade of purple metal was what made up the elaboratly curved metal on the end of the shaft of wood. The weapon almost looked like a sculpture but turned deadly. Two dips in the wood served as hand placement. Kai walked a decent distance away from the rest of the group. He swung the weapon like it was an extention of his body as he used its weighted side to twirl arou d his body. At closer inspection their was a crest embroidered on the glaives metal blade, a hawk with its wings spread behind it and a staff and Katana crossed behind it. Romeo watched as a button was pressed and the glaive's metal blade looked as if it melted onto the smooth shaft forming a staff. Another button was presses and the metal formed a katana.

"Its feel like my old staff... more versitile... and seems to operate on magnetism to move its blade to another form." Kai mumbled.

"Alright. So Romeo." Kai said suddenly.

"Yeah?" Romeo said, snapping to attention.

"Lets see how well you fight." Kai told more than asked.

"Like a duel?" Romeo asked.

"Yeah. Ill only use the staff and you can use non-leathal ammo." Kai explained quickly.

"Alright, your lucky I have some non leathals." Romeo said as he unsheathed his swords and switched to non lethal rounds.

Kai lead him to the plains north of the camp with the group of 10 bystanders formed two lines, making a crude sparing field.

"Alright blue boy, if you push your opponent out of bounds you win, if you knock then to the ground and point your weapon at their neck you also win. And by the way if I lose I have a excuse, I have a new weapon. If you lose then that makes you even worse." Kai taunted as he tried to get under Romeo's skin much to Romeo's unknowing.

"Lets put your mouth were your skill is!...IN the DIRT!" Romeo taunted back as made the first move.

Stabbing forward with his swords, using his aura to add speed to his strike. He had never had anyone block this move. He flew threw the air at speed that was almost invisible to untrained eyes. Romeo closed the distance between him and Kai in less than two seconds. To Romeos suppries he didn't hit anything but was thrown to near the edge of the makeshift arena, he slid through the dirt browning his white clothes. Kai stood back and chuckled a bit. He didn't let it show that Romeo almost hit him dead on. Scrambling up Romeo switched his swords to pistols and began firing. Kai seemed to have experience dodging dust bullets. Just as Romeo was sure he had Kai a grapple hit him strait in to chest, clinging on to his shirt it pulled him forward. He used this to his advantage and charhed the staff wielder who used this to wrap the cord around the swordmans legs and tripping him. Now the swordsman lay face down in the dirt as Kai pointed his staff at the opponents neck. The match was over.

The grapple unravelled around his legs and left him sitting upright with his face burried in his knees. Everyone walked away except for two people. Looking up Romeo saw Ruby's extended hand and Kai standing right next to him. Romeo took Ruby's hand and was pulled up. Letting go he looked at Kai who bowed. He bowed back and then a question formed in his head.

"Romeo if you want I can teach you my methods." Kai offered suddenly before Romeo could aay anything.

"What?... I didn't hear you?" Romeo asked a bit baffled. He had known these people for a few hours and he was already part of the group, he was being offered a most likely one in a lifetime offer.

"Listen I see potential in you and though I'm still a student and you still are a valiant fighter I can teach you ways to fight better." Kai repeated.

"I'm sorry this is all happening too quickly. Just let me think it over." Romeo replied.

"Sure. Sorry if we warmed up to fast." Kai appologized as he turned to leave.

He and Ruby just stood north of the camp in silence.

"Have I told you guys Im a musician?" Romeo blurted out.

-Kai-

He didn't know why he liked Romeo but something drew Kai towards the other martial artist. Whatever it was it didn't matter. Kai thought these over as he entered the camp. He began cooking a meal while talking to Yang when he was interupted by the strums of an accustic guitar.

"Hey can you finish this up, I have something I want to do real quick?" Kai asked.

"Sure" yang replied sullenly.

"Thanks a bunch Yang" Kai said guiltily.

Kai ran over to his sleeping area and pulled out a large black case with a handle from his bag. He ran towards the noise. Finally he saw Romeo playing a song. He was perched on a large boulder and Ruby sat at the bottom of the rock. The tune was slow and melodic and Kai instantly recognized it as a duet. He heard Ruby and Romeo begin to sing a sad song about the war that had happened generations ago. He decided not to interupt. He went back to the camp and put the large case back into his bag and he walked back to his now finished meal that was for dinner.

"Hey. What was it you were doing?" Yang asked as Kai returned.

"Well I heard music and wanted to know who was playing." Kai explained

"Well who was?" Yang questioned.

"Romeo was. He was singing a duet with your sister." Kai finished.

"Oh...wow." Yang said in shock.

"Is that surprising?" Kai said quizzingly.

"Yeah... Ruby hasn't ever been with someone so it is. Anyway why did you HAVE to find oht who was playing?" Yang said nosily

"Well I'm a musician too..." Kai whispered.

"Well todays just full of surprises! " Yang said sarcasticly.


Authors Note- Hey guys! So I finally posted all of my pre writen story (as in I wrote before I published the story) and I'm trying to take it slower but I am obviously failing. Anyway thank you for reviewing and giving me ideas and request. I can add one more OC so if you have an idea TELL ME. To Ghost Fire 6, who gave me the idea for Romeo, thank you. Reviews are appriciated! PM me if you have any ideas! See you guys in the next chapter! -Symph out! (Please report any spelling errors, I am horrible with grammer :P)