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-Chapter 10 Investigation-

After the class with Professor Peter Port was over, my teammates and I returned to our room, preparing for the investigation. Today, we will investigate on Torchwick and the White Fang.

Each of my teammate was wearing new clothes. Ruby wore a red skirt with a large black-colored image of her emblem, which is a rose, on the side of it, and the inside of her skirt is black. There were few pieces of metal attracted to her sleeve on her left shoulder in an abstract shape. She still had her red hood, but this one had a scarf.

Weiss changed to a pure white dress with black edging and two columns of black buttons on the abdomen. She also had a print of her emblem, the snowflake on her back in blue instead of white. Her new high-heel boots were white and she also wore black stockings that you can see it because it was little above her boots.

Blake was now wearing a white v-neck zip-up shirt, which was black along the bottom and had mid-length sleeves. Her emblem, the belladonna flower was in printed in off-white on the left side of the shirt, and for the pant, it was black and there was a vertical gray stripe on the outer side of each leg, and black belt came with them.

Yang's clothes were black shirt covered with collared cream top, and over the top of the former was a black article of clothing that consisted of a raised collar, a strap across her collar bone, and sleeves that were mid-length and gold at the end. As for her bottom half, she had a pair of crooked black belt across her hips, and a purple piece of fabric with lilac lace around the edges, hanging from her left hip, and pair of black boots with a series of belted strap across them. On the backside of each boot at the top was a large white ribbon tied with a bow.

As for me, I wore the same clothes since I came into this world.

"I thought that class would never end." Blake commented.

"Alright, ladies and gentleman, today's the day! The investigation begins!" Ruby exclaimed very enthusiastically.

"I am glad to see that we're taking this seriously." Weiss said sarcastically.

"Hey, we've got plan! That's….moderately serious." Yang exclaimed.

Yeah. I am not sure how this will go well.

"Right!" Ruby said as she looked around at her teammates. "Everyone remember their roles?"

"You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem." Weiss said very confidently, and nobly.

"The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out missions and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning." Blake said seriously.

"I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard..." Yang said.

"And, I will check and revisit local places where Dust robberies took place. I will gather as much information from local sources." I said. And, perhaps I can meet that hooded man I met during that night of the dock.

"Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. Let's do this!" Ruby stated excitedly.

"Yeah!" A voice said, cheerfully. We all looked to the windows, where we saw Sun hanging on the tree upside down with his tail.

"Sun!" Blake surprised.

"How did you get up here, Sun?" I asked.

"Ah, it's easy. I do it all the time." Sun answered.

"You do what!?" Weiss exclaimed.

"I climb trees all the time." He explained further, giving him a scowl from Weiss.

Sun, if I were you, I advise you to be careful with your words, especially around Weiss.

Blake stepped forward to Sun. "We're going to investigate the situation…as a team."

"Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to." Ruby explained.

"Psh! That's stupid! You should always have all the help you need, and we should always get friends involved!" I don't think that is really good philosophy, dude. "That's why I brought Neptune!"

We leaned out of the window, noticing Neptune gestured at us.

"Woah! How did you even get up here, Neptune!?" I asked, feeling scared as he was.

"I have my ways." He replied. "Seriously, though, can I like come in? We're like, really high up right now."

Neptune and Sun entered our dorm room through the window. We were all standing in a circle as Ruby proposes a new plan.

"Alright, now there are seven of us, I have a new, revised plan! I'll go with Weiss; Sun, you can go with Blake. And, Neptune, you go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner. And, Ellix, well, you will be our most important solo investigator! Everyone's good?"

"Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she is your sister." Weiss suggested, suspecting.

You only want to make her go with Yang because you want to be with Neptune.

"But, Weiss, who would go with you, then?" Ruby asked.

"Well…I guess I will go with Neptune, then." She said as she and Neptune smiled at each other.

Oh, get a room, you two!

"Hahaha, nah!" Ruby laughed as she pulled Weiss away by her back out the door.

"But! But!" Weiss whined, sticking her arms out powerlessly trying to get back to Neptune.

"Well, I guess that's that. Let's begin." I said confidently.

Each of us went on our own separate way. I walked around Vale, asking some questions to each local storekeeper. It lasted for some hours. It was almost night time, but I had nothing.

"This is hopeless. I wonder if everyone else is doing better than me." I said as I walked to the dock, where I had my first fight with Torchwick.

"What are you planning, Torchwick? I know that you are stealing Dusts and working with the White Fang for some reasons, but what are they!?" I pondered.

"You're very deep thinker…Ellix Knight." A female voice said.

I turned around, and jumped by the girl who was behind me. She had a long white hair, whiter than Weiss' hair. She had clear blue eyes, and wore a pure white cloth, very similar looking to what Namine from Kingdom Hearts wears.

"Um, hello…waits! How did you know my name!?" I asked her. Is this girl somehow link with that mysterious hooded man?

"I have watched you from the beginning, Ellix." She answered.

"Wait, what!?" I gasped. Okay…this girl is creepy!

"Sorry for startling you, but I just wanted to meet you in person." She said calmly. "I see that you've been investigating around the place."

"Yeah…well, I am, but first of all, how do you know me? What do you exactly want? Who are you first of all? And, do you know that hooded man!?" I asked to her seriously.

"Like I said, I watched you since the very beginning. All I want is to talk with you. As for whom I am, my name is Crystal. Finally, I do not know of a hooded man." She answered each of my question, plainly and short.

I stared at her for a moment, then breathed in and sighed out.

"Okay. At least now, I know your name. But, then why do you want to talk with me? What is your reason?" I asked.

"There are many things I want to talk with you about, but my time is limited." She said cryptically.

What does she mean by that? She got to go somewhere or something?

"One thing I want to say before I leave is beware of the future, Ellix." Her word there spooked me.

"What do you mean? Is something bad going to happen in the future!?" I questioned her seriously.

"Yes. And it involves with you and the future may already be happening as we speak. Just remember that do not lose hope, no matter what, Ellix." She said, holding my hand together. For odd reason, her hand felt cold like ice. Her hands made me shiver.

"Brrrgh! Okay, Crystal, but your hands, it feels so cold!"

"And your hands feel warm. It feels…nice." She said, blushing.

This is just getting weirder and weirder...wait, if her hands feel cold, is that mean this girl...a ghost!?

Suddenly, I got a vision coming through me. I saw my teammates fighting against some kind of giant robot. They fought against it until my vision stopped there.

"Ah!" I gasped.

"You saw the future, didn't you? Your friends are in trouble." She stated. How does she know that!?

"Sorry Crystal, but I need to go and help my teammates! They're in trouble!" I said.

"Do not worry, Ellix. I will lead you to your friends." She said as a flash of light appeared out of nowhere.

"What the!? Aaahh!"

I gently opened my eyes. "Oof. Where am I?" When I regained my vision clearly, I was not at the dock, but in the middle of a highway. Suddenly, a car was approaching and I dodge rolled quickly to evade it.

"Woah! Sorry! Excuse me!" I got safely to the side.

"How did I even got here!?" I exclaimed surprisingly.

That was then I heard some noises behind me. I looked down, seeing Ruby and others fighting against the robot.

"Ruby! Weiss! Blake! Yang!" I yelled. Ruby heard my cry, and looked up.

"Ellix!" She yelled. I jumped off from the highway, and landed with my gauntlet on the ground and leg stretched out. Surprisingly, I didn't rip my pant or break my legs when I jumped from a high place like that.

"How did you even find us here!?" Weiss questioned.

"Never mind about that! I am here to help!" I replied as I took out my sword blade.

I charged forward with an attack. I sliced the leg, but it didn't completely cut through the armored leg. It punched back at me, but I blocked it with my force shield.

"What is this thing, anyway?" I questioned.

"It is a weapon stolen by the White Fang! It is piloted by Torchwick!" Blake stated.

"And, soon it will be a trash!" Yang said enthusiastically as she activated her semblance.

While Yang trashed the robot, I strike it with my gauntlet, using it in its punching form as I destroyed one of the legs.

"Crap!" Torchwick cursed out loud from the inside of the robot.

"It is working, but we still got to slow it down!" Blake stated.

"And how do you propose to do that?" Weiss asked.

"Ice flower!" Ruby thought out loud.

Twirling with her weapon, Weiss summoned a series of glyph in front of Ruby's scythe's sniper barrel. Ruby shot one bullet out, creating a large icicle upon impact on the robot. They continued shooting at it until it was completely trap in a giant ice like a glacier. Blake swung Yang around in one more circle, using her weapon to do that as her fist hit the robot so powerfully that it flew into the air. That was when I jumped high into the air and slashed the robot in half before I landed and second later, the robot landed.

Torchwick got out of the robot, feeling little dazed, but unharmed. "Just got this thing cleaned ..."

He looked up just in time to see Yang as she fired a single shot at him until at the last minute, he was saved by a girl, deflecting her shot with her pink umbrella.

"Woah! Who is she!?" I exclaimed.

Torchwick fully recovered from his daze. "Ladies, gentleman, and Ice Queen…"

"Hey!" Weiss shouted.

"Always a pleasure! Neo, if you would like…"

The girl curtsied us with a bow, but Yang didn't take it well, charging forward with fists, but only breaking their image made out of a mirror strangely. I realized they escaped in that plane, the Bullhead.

"Aidos, ladies and gentleman!" Torchwick waved at us.

We ran up to Yang's side as we watched him and his new assistant escaped.

"So, I guess he has a new henchman…" Yang said as she was cooled down.

"Yeah, I guess she really made our plans…fall apart!" Weiss said, making a joke.

She smiled while Ruby giggled, but Blake just walked away from her. "No. Just...no."

"What-But, you do it!" Weiss said madly.

"There's a time and a place for jokes." Yang said.

"Was this not it?" She asked.

"No. It just wasn't very good." Yang replied, following Blake.

"And very corny." I said, following after her.

"Well, at least I'm trying!" Weiss exclaimed, following after her.

"Wait…Where are Sun and Neptune?" Ruby questioned.

I was wondering the same thing not that she mentioned it. "I think they will be fine, Ruby. Let's just go home."

"I guess so." Ruby said as we all walked back home.

When we got back to Beacon, we discussed about what we gathered. Ruby met Penny again while Weiss got some of the data from her family's company. Blake, with Sun, found out that the White Fang is using a weapon stolen from the Schnee Company. Apparantly what Weiss and Blake found were connected. As for Yang, she didn't quite find anything, but she said she was "happy" meeting the man who she beaten up. As for me, only thing I said was, like Yang, didn't quite find anything. I didn't tell them about that mysterious girl, Crystal I met several hours ago. I thought it was too unrelated to the investigation, but now I feel like I want to know more about her and everything that's been happening with me lately. Perhaps now I can get my answers to the questions, but it felt like as I try to find answers, I stumble upon with more questions.

Author's Note: And, that is for Chapter 10, Investigations! So, another mystery is opened up to Ellix. Who is this mysterious ghost girl, Crystal? What is her connection with Ellix? And, what is she meant by the danger coming in the future? Only time will tell...Next time in Tales of Ellix, Ellix will go on his own investigations to find out just that. See you all in the next chapter!