A/N: I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter, this next one is going to stray a bit from the RWBY canon and deal with team SPHR, I hope y'all enjoy!... did I seriously just say 'y'all'?
Chapter 9
Team SPHR walked started to collectively wake up. Shade and Hunter woke up at their usual time of 6:30 am. Petra and Rona woke up at about 7:15 to find that both Shade and Hunter were not in their beds.
"Umm… where are the guys?" Petra asked.
Her question was answered when Shade walked in the door with Hunter behind panting.
"Freak… you… Shade…" Hunter said between breaths.
"You're just mad because I outran you without breaking a sweat." Shade challenged.
Petra just stared at Hunters massive bulk with his t-shirt clinging to his muscles.
"Do you two always start your mornings out with a run?" Petra asked.
"I do, Hunter just challenges me from time to time. Which he regrets doing every time he does so." He said glaring at Hunter.
"Hey! Just because you can outrun me doesn't automatically make you better." Hunter remarked.
"True."
"When did you two even wake up?" Rona asked.
"6:30, Shade here woke up at 6:29." Hunter said with a smirk "You owe me five lien by the way."
"Fine." Shade growled opening up his wallet and handed said lien to his partner.
"Wait, did you two seriously bet on who would wake up first?!" Petra asked almost laughing.
"He bet, I just agreed to it. Something I regret every time I do so." Shade said.
Shade looked at his watch. A little over two and a half hours were left between now and their first class.
"Well since we still have awhile before classes start i'm going to go take a shower." Shade stated before walking over to his suitcase and grabbing a change of clothes before walking into the bathroom.
"Well I got dibs after Shade." Hunter stated.
"Dang it!" Petra said "You beat me to it!"
….
After all four of them finished their showers they started to unpack. Which turned out to be a more complicated task than they imagined, at least for the two girls it was.
"How do they fit that much stuff into a suitcase?" Hunter asked Shade.
"Same way they do with purses I guess." Shade answered.
Watching Rona and Petra unpack was fascinating. They seemed to be able to fit three suitcases worth of stuff into a single suitcase.
The two pilots had finished over ten minutes ago and had agreed to share a dresser as their seemed to be no reason for them each to have their own. But seeing how much the two girls on their team had they almost wondered if they might have to use the extra dresser.
"Sooooo…" Hunter started.
"No. No I do not want to bet on how long it will take them." Shade said before Hunter could ask.
The two girls finally finished after about a half hour of unpacking.
"And now its…" Shade looked at his watch.
8:45
Shade let out an audible sigh.
"Classes start in fifteen minutes." Shade deadpanned.
"WHAT?!" both girls cried out in alarm.
"I have never seen so much clothing fit into one suitcase." Hunter said scratching his head.
"We're going to be late!" Rona announced.
Rona and Petra quickly ran out the door with Shade and Hunter slowly walking out.
Four heads popped out of the door just down from theirs.
One of the students turned to the pilots.
"Is everything alright?" He asked.
"Eh, they'll be fine. I'm Hunter by the way" Hunter introduced himself.
"Jaune, they your teammates?" Jaune asked gesturing in the direction the two girls ran.
"Yeah, not really sure they know where the classroom is though." Hunter said.
….
Shade and Hunter were sitting in a class dedicated to learning how to fight Grimm. And the teacher was simply rambling on about his heroic acts as a young man.
"...despite smelling of cabbages…" Shade only caught bits and pieces of the lecture, most of his attention was spent trying to find the logic in the weapon mounted on the wall.
A blunderbuss axe?! How does one aim with that thing?! Shade thought.
His train of thought was suddenly interrupted when someone shouted.
"I Do Sir!" the voice shouted.
Shade identified the voice as Weiss Schnee, one of the members of Ruby and Yang's team. Ruby had introduced her team to the two pilots the night before.
"What just happened?" Shade asked.
He looked over to see Hunter asleep on his desk.
"Well I'll figure it out." Shade said to himself.
A few minutes later Weiss was in her combat outfit ready for a fight.
"How did he get that thing in here?!" Hunter said next to Shade.
Shade looked to the left of the room to see a cage of some kind. "Ok, what?!"
But before he could ask how the professor got it in without them noticing, The professor hacked at the lock on the cage for a boarbatusk to come charging out.
The preceding fight consisted of Weiss attacking the Grimm while arguing with Ruby, who Shade noticed was trying to give decent advice and encouragement.
"Weiss! Go for it's belly, there's no armor-"
"Stop telling me what to do!" Weiss yelled.
Ouch. Granted Shade had argued with Hunter if he ever tried to interfere with his training program or tried to mess with their Jaeger, but Weiss was just being rude!
Finally Weiss seemed to take Ruby's advice and stabbed the Grimm in the stomach.
"Ha ha! Well done miss Schnee. Well class it seems we are indeed in the presence of a true huntress in training." prof. Port stated.
Shade didn't know why, but he was really angry at Weiss for some reason… AND THEY HADN'T EVEN HAD A CONVERSATION YET!
….
Team SPHR was now sitting in pro- sorry, Dr. Oobleck's class.
Hunter could barely understand the doctor because he was talking incredibly fast, seriously! What kind of coffee was this man drinking?!
"Asyoucanseestudentshistoryisextremlyimportantinoursosciety! Any questions?" he asked.
Hunter slowly raised his hand.
"Yes! Mr. Green! What do you ask?"
"What kind of coffee are you drinking?"
The room was dead silent.
"Decaffeinated. Moving on!"
….
In miss Goodwitch's class, things were going a bit differently.
Shade watched Petra and Yang beat on each other, and they seemed to be enjoying themselves. Finally, Petra's aura dropped into the red.
"Petra Brown's aura has entered the red zone, Yang Xaio Long takes the match." Ms. Goodwitch announced.
Petra started walking over to her team while yang went to hers.
"Good job Petra, you almost had her." Hunter complimented.
"Thanks, you're right, I almost beat her at the end but…" she paused "She just seemed to get stronger."
"That may be due to her semblance," Hunter stated "kinetic energy absorption and transfer. The harder you hit, the harder she hits back."
"How did you know that?" Petra asked.
"That's… kind of a long story." Hunter said avoiding the question.
"Did you two… date?" Petra asked with a smirk on her face.
"What?! No!" Hunter exclaimed.
"I can back him up on that one, him and Yang were never a thing." Shade said. "She's too good for him."
"Thanks buddy." Hunter said feeling a bit dejected.
Shade let out a bit of a chuckle.
….
After classes, Shade was walking down when he noticed Weiss walking down the hall towards the balcony.
"Hey! Wait up!" he shouted trying to get her attention.
She turned around to see Shade running towards her.
"I'm sorry who are you?" she asked.
"Your Weiss schnee correct?" he asked.
She nodded.
"I'm Shade, Shade Royal. And if you don't mind me asking, why were you yelling at Ruby during class?" he asked.
"Why do you care? You don't look like you're related to her." Weiss stated.
"True enough, but her and Yang helped me and my partner out when we didn't know where else to turn." he said. He wasn't lying, The two sisters had helped them both out.
"What could have been so bad that you didn't have anywhere else to turn?" she asked skeptically.
"Well, when you wake up on the beach with no aura, and enough wounds to kill someone and you're still alive…" he trailed off realizing he was treading into dangerous territory.
Weiss was a bit shocked. Had her leader really helped someone from the brink of death?
"Look, don't get me wrong Ruby is anything but mature, but you should still show some respect." Shade said.
"I still don't know why she was picked to be leader instead of me." Weiss stated.
"Well, I can think of multiple reasons, for one your team name wouldn't make sense if it was spelled W-R-B-Y would it?" he asked "As for the second reason, from what I've seen, your a spoiled brat who's gotten everything she's ever wanted, without fail, until now."
She was taken aback by his statement.
"That's not at all true!... Mostly…" she trailed off.
"Look, I can't know what it was like for you. But I never had it easy, my parents died when I was four years old and I was raised by my adoptive aunt." he said "Being the leader isn't easy, I doubt Ruby knows what she's doing, I knew someone who was a leader in the military and he hates his job, but he has to do it."
In all honesty, Shade was wondered what the Marshal was doing now.
"I may not seem like it, but I might have grown up to be like you had my parents not died when I was so young." he said "My point is, the biggest reason Ozpin didn't make you leader was so that you could be humbled, you have no idea what it's like to follow."
The two of them stood there quietly for several seconds before Weiss finally spoke up.
"How are you so good at this?" she asked.
"At what?" he asked back.
"You just single handedly convinced me to put trust in an immature dolt, while at the same time made it make sense," she stated "and I still have one other question."
"And that would be?"
"Why are you defending Ruby? Granted you said she saved your life, but, The way you defend her It seems like you know her more personally than that." she asked.
Shade paused. Why was he defending her? She wasn't on his team, and he'd only known her a few weeks, but he felt some urge to protect her. Why?
"I don't know." he answered.
"Hm, well, ok then." she said.
"Just like that? You're just going to accept my answer like that?" he asked.
"Well, I am going to try to get the other end of the story." she stated before walking off.
….
A/N: And that's a wrap! I must say, I've enjoyed writing this chapter, I wanted to give Shade and Weiss some kind of confrontation, and this just presented itself so yeah.
Edited by: Robocop 3301 :)
A/N-2017: more continuity errors, though I will say, Robo did a good job of catching spelling errors.
