Author's note:

Hello dear readers, Lorion here with another chapter. So as of Chapter 6 I've officially made Weiss have a crush on Allen, so that has happened if you haven't noticed.

Now, more peeks at his new elemental development, keep guessing if you don't already know what it is. A concrete statement for what the power is will be available in the next chapter hopefully.

Please leave a Review, it helps me so much to know what people liked and what they didn't like.

Anyways without further ado, here's the chapter.

- Lor

Chapter 7: Under The Stars We Roam

It was now night time, and I was lying on the couch in the dorm room. Ruby, Yang and Blake went out to get food leaving only me and Weiss in the room. I was sitting down drinking a cup of water, my dress attire still on except for my hat. Prior to this I had flung it onto a hook I installed on the back of the door.

The room was dead silent say for Weiss writing notes and such on a table tucked in the corner. I turned over my head from my position and found her working diligently. I better not bother her, I thought turning back. There was a faint light from Weiss' table, illuminating the rest of the room from the single light source. Yang's bed was a mess with everything sprawled all over the place on it, from magazines to books and papers. Weiss' was neat and proper tucked in cleaned to almost perfection, I did find a part that seemed to stick out from under the mattress, I guess no one's perfect. Blake had a book neatly placed on her bed up top. Ruby's was similar to Yang's in which it had tons of papers sprawled on top of it, these were mostly extra notes as I've noted from before, she was a hard working girl and I admired her for that.

I sat up from my position and grabbed my cup of water. I began to bring the liquid to my mouth before I noticed a tangible yellow shade in a single area. This was then followed by several other spots as I looked closer. My hands began to sweat as more spots began to form. Gah, was what I immediately thought as I realized what it was. I immediately focused on my aura and the yellow spots began to deform. Phew, I thought relieved as the spots deformed.

I looked up and saw that Weiss was staring at me curiously. Somehow I seemed to have startled her. "Is something the matter?" Weiss asked as her cold blue eyes stared straight into mine.

"Nope, nothing at all," I replied shaking my head.

"Fine," Weiss said with a harrumph.

Well this is new, is this a new power? I questioned to myself as I looked around the room. Maybe the book that Professor Ozpin gave me has answers. I checked around to see where the book was, I found it lying on Ruby's bed open, with several pages of notes lying on top of it. I removed the notes and took back the book. I looked through the book for any resemblance to what was happening to me right now. Sadly I found no common resemblance for what was occurring to me. I guessed that the book was too old to show any resemblance and what I had was a recent development.

Weiss closed her book and looked at me. It got really awkward for a moment. I then noticed that she was actually studying me and I closed my book and sighed. "What's up Weiss?" I asked.

"Nothing, I was just thinking," She replied turning back to the table.

I decided to do some training on the simulations as it seemed like Ruby and the others were slow on getting food. "Welp, I'm heading out to do some training, want to come? I could use a sparring partner," I asked closing my book.

Weiss closed her book, she continued to hold it as she seemed to be indecisive about whether to go or not. Eventually she sighed and eventually put it down. "Sure, hold on a sec."

"Alright then," I said waiting by the door as she went to get her rapier.

We walked down the hallway and she seemed concerned about something, she wasn't the Weiss that I remembered, the one that was always upright, punctual and intellectual. She seemed, different. I decided not to press anything, though I did take notice of her behaviour. We walked through the halls in the evening as the moon began to rise, illuminating the hallways with its glow.

We arrived in the training room; the room was dark and empty. There was a control box to the right of the circular arena used for battles and I made my way over. Weiss began to walk onto the stage and I flicked the light for the arena. The stage lit up as it seemed to be powered, and the lights hanging from the ceiling shined the arena allowing for us to see clearly. The rest of the room was dark as the semi-circular seats surrounding the arena were unlit.

I took my place opposite of Weiss and taped my watch. My revolver teleported into my hand as a white light materialized from the watch to my hand. Weiss took out her rapier as she took a combat stance holding it in front of her, pointed at me. I touched a release button and the revolver sprang upwards, changing into the blade form. I caught it and held it to my side at an angle towards the floor. "Ready Weiss?"

"Ready," She stated.

I made the first move and instinctively charged her, part of the reason I wanted to spar with Weiss was to determine how good her swordsmanship was and how well I would function without my armour, the second part being the lesser reason.

I struck first horizontally aimed for her chest, she hopped back and using her rapiers reached forward, wrapping her blade around mine. Noticing this I pulled the blade back releasing the blade from Weiss' rapier. I then made a vertical strike, she side stepped out of the way and I quickly made a horizontal strike. She blocked and made a counter attack, I rolled out of the way. A series stabs came in my direction and I was put onto the defensive. I noticed something about Weiss' strikes, they did not seem as fast as when she was fighting earlier today. She seemed to be slower in fact, she seemed to be in deep thought about something, and her heart wasn't in it today.

"What's the matter Weiss? You're really sloppy today," I boasted.

"I am not sloppy!" She protested.

I countered one of her blows hitting her aura straight on, I then got in close. Weiss attempted to stop my assault by vertically striking me. This time I completely had her as I leaned back, dodging the blow and countering with one final vertical strike. Weiss' aura was broken and I took notice of it as she was panting from exhaustion leaning slightly towards the ground.

I stood upright and asked her, "So tell me what's really wrong."

Weiss got up and dusted herself off. Again she was worried about something and seemed to be choosing her words carefully, she then sighed, "I've just been thinking."

"About what?" I asked.

She tensed for a moment and I could see that she was formulating some kind of answer. "I was thinking about why you didn't fight in your armour right now." She stated.

"I wanted to see how far I could last against you in a fight, when I did see you before this you were in your top form. Of all the fighters here at Beacon you showed exemplary battle skills combining quick strikes, counter strikes and quick movement perfectly," I stated.

As I finished my statement Weiss blushed slightly as she looked down at the ground, her white hair looming over her shoulder. "Thanks."

I walked over to her and held her shoulders, "Weiss, look at me. Focus, I want to actually see you fight."

She looked up with determined eyes, her eyes reverted to being the cold Weiss that I knew before. "Right."

"Okay, let's do this again. No hold backs now," I stated as I returned to my side.

I hit my watch and my armour enveloped me. The armour whirred to life as a white light glowed from my armour. I was ready to fight, I decided for this fight to leave my swordplay for later switching it to revolver mode. Weiss charged me with a motion glyph and I was caught off guard, rolling to the left I unloaded a clip into her from a crouching position. She parried all of the bullets and I was impressed. She then spun her rapiers rotator, loading fire dust into it. She stabbed the ground, sending a wave of heat in my direction. I had no chance to evade; neither did I have the time to creating a block with any other elements. With no other option I activated my fire form, "BURN BURN BURN!" My watch said as I absorbed most of the intense heat. The rest of it was blocked by the aura powered shields projected form the armour.

I was stuck in one place and Weiss repositioned herself with her motion glyphs propelling to the side before propelling herself straight towards me. I shook the flames off of the armour and activated the jets; flying upwards I dodged her coming blow and flew to the center of the arena. I was still holding onto my revolver and flew backwards as tapped my watch, a new clip in came into my hand and I flicked the cylinder out. The clip holder was a metal object designed for me to easily insert it into the cylinder and take it out, leaving the rounds in the revolver. I did so quickly and flicked the cylinder back in, I spun the cylinder with the palm of my hand to get it to the first shot. I took aim quickly at Weiss' head and took a shot.

Weiss was turning to look up at me, when she finally turned it was already too late, the bullet was near inches from her face and she couldn't do anything but take the hit to her aura. The shot sent her backwards; she only managed to stop her fall by stabbing the ground, stabilizing her as she panted from the blow. She got up again, even more determined than ever. I landed on the ground and decided to end this, running my fingers over the blade portion of the sword it began to glow with a flame. I held it to my side as began to overcharge my jets for a full forward attack. Weiss also prepared herself similarly setting up a glyph behind her and making her blade glow an ice cold blue. We both had the same idea, a duelling strike.

We charged at each other, disappearing from the human vision for a blink of an eye.

I got to the other side and Weiss did so too, I felt an exhaustion and a lack of aura levels as Weiss had struck me as well down my chest. I stabbed my blade into the ground as I leaned on it for support, I could hear Weiss do the same as we both panted. "Draw?" I asked.

"Draw," She stated.

"So, feeling better?" I asked, my voice sounding robotic as it was put through a microphone.

"Of course!" She retorted immediately.

"Good, now can you answer to me what is truly bothering you?" I questioned.

"What do you mean bothering me? I already told you," She said denying what I asked.

"I know you better than that, well, from what I gathered when I saw you talking to Ruby and the rest of us," I said making a hand gesture and tilting my head slightly.

I walked over to her and looked straight at my usually cold hearted teammate. She was looking down as I approached her. I deactivated the armour and I held both of her shoulders. "Weiss, look at me straight in the eye, and tell me, the truth." I demanded.

"Allen, about you and," Weiss began to say before being cut off.

I heard a loud bang from the door and turned around, Ruby and the others were bag with boxes of food from the cafeteria. Ruby and Yang were cheerful while Blake remained her usual reserved self. They were dressed in their combat uniforms as they were doing some training before while Weiss and I did homework. "Hello Al!" Ruby exclaimed. "We brought food!"

Weiss immediately reconstructed herself to her prim and proper self but I was too focused on the group coming to us to notice her change in character. "Hi Ruby, me and Weiss were just sparring," I replied before sniffing the air of food. "Mmm, did you bring cookies?"

"Absolutely, I love them!" She replied exclaiming.

"God, could I have some? I absolutely would love a cookie right now," I replied.

"Sure thing," She answered smiling.

I could see Yang eye me up, again I knew exactly what she was thinking at this moment. I decided not to pay attention, "So, who wants to eat, I am absolutely starving," Yang asked.

"Let's eat," Blake stated.

We all sat down on the benches and ate. Ruby had gotten each of us a box of potatoes, gravy and chicken with a side of steamed vegetables. I sat next to Ruby on her right followed by Weiss, Blake and Yang. We all ate and had pleasant conversation, at one point it seemed that Weiss was drifting off from the group conversation and we seemed to broke off into two groups. Yang, Blake and Weiss seemed to be chatting together as me and Ruby engaged in conversation.

"So, are you ready to try it on tonight?" I asked.

"Absolutely!" She said.

"Shh, not so loud other people are doing things in other rooms," I replied cautioning her.

"Sorry, it's just this is so cool and exciting and awesome and cool and ohmygod I can't wait!" She exclaimed almost running out of air.

"Slow down, take a deep breath," I said taking a deep breath. She followed suit and took a deep breath, we both breathed out at the exact same time. "There, better?"

"Yeah, now, can we go try it?" She asked.

Weiss was conversing with the others about Ruby and Allen's close relationship. She was in deep thought as her own were conflicting with what she was seeing. She leaned over to Yang and Blake, questioning them about the hunter and huntress in training. "What's with those two."

Yang immediately piped up, "Oh, those two? Haven't you noticed? they totally like each other."

"Impossible he's so," Weiss began to state before being cut off by Yang.

"Cool? Yeah, I guess he's a big softie in his heart," Yang said chewing through a piece of roast beef.

Blake herself was pleasantly eating when she noticed Weiss in an exclusive conversation. "Opposites do seem to attract, especially in love," She stated.

Weiss stopped the conversation with a harrumph as she went back to eating her meal. "Oh, does Weissy have a crush on Allie?"

"Absolutely not, he's a ruffian!" She denied, although her cheeks were a very small tint of red.

"So you do?" Yang asked as she looked at Weiss' expression.

"Shut up, quiet you," Weiss replied.

"It's like that one story about a thief and a princess," Blake stated.

"I remember that story, he he, oh Weiss, you don't have to hide it," Yang commented. "But, I can't help but slip a comment in there."

"You wouldn't dare!" Weiss scowled.

"Wanna try me?" Yang said amused.

I looked over at Yang and Weiss who seemed to be in a heated argument, Blake was waiting it out as the argument was intense. Yang seemed to be amused in the argument poking fun at Weiss while Weiss was frustrated at Yang for some reason.

I finished my meal and Ruby was opening up a box of cookies. She handed me the box and we both looked at our two teammates in an argument. I took out a cookie and munched on one, "What's wrong with them?"

"No idea," Ruby answered watching the argument unveil.

"So, wanna try it on now?" I asked.

"Absolutely!" Ruby said getting up.

I got up and walked to the trio of girls, "Well we're going back, see you guys later."

"See ya Allie," Yang replied with a smile.

"See what I mean?" Weiss stated.

"You're just jealous," Yang teased.

"Am not!" Weiss denied becoming slightly flustered.

"Are too!" Yang stated.

"Are not!"

Needless to say the duo argued for a long time before Yang decided for things to settle down, tired of the charade that occurred between her and the cold Heiress.

We were up on the a rooftop overlooking Beacon. The night time lights illuminating the courtyard were on and it was brilliant and vibrant below. The night sky was up and the stars were abundant, showing their constellations in the autumn night. The constellations that I could make out at the time were Andromeda, Aries and Pisces.

Ruby walked over to the edge and I saw her silver eyes twinkle a bit under the moonlight, are my eyes playing tricks? I thought before unclipping my watch off of my hand. I tossed it over to her and she caught in with both hands. "Wow, are you sure?"

"Sure, why not," I replied going over to her side. "Now, clip it on and slam your hand on the watch," I instructed.

She did so and the usual circle appeared around her, unlike my circle the watch seemed to radiate a crimson like colour causing for the barrier and such to be a deep crimson colour. The armour teleported onto her body, automatically calibrating itself to fit the smaller frame, finally when the armour was complete and the pressure stabilized Ruby waved her hands in front of her face.

"THISISSOCOOLOHMYGERD!" She exclaimed in joy bouncing up and down.

Ruby was now at my height as the frame of the armour happened to always make the user taller. I smiled putting my hand on top of her head, "Wanna know the best part?"

"There's more?" She questioned cheerfully.

"Hold your arms and legs like this," I instructed showing her an example. I kept my legs close together and my arms to my sides, my palms faced the ground.

Ruby did so and I heard the jets activate, "Oh my god! Look at me I'm flying!" She said doing a 360 flip in the air.

"Go have fun," I told her.

"Really?" She asked me holding her hands close to her face. Thankfully I designed the jets on the hands to automatically close when the hands are closed otherwise they'd be burning right now.

"Yeah," I stated.

She flew off in the night sky and I saw her fly around in circles in the air. I couldn't help but smile as she was having the best time of her life right now. "Woo hoo!" She said as she flew in the air.

I heard the door behind me leading to the roof creak open and I saw a large tuft of blond hair which I instinctively knew was Yang. She walked over and stood next to me, "Having a good time?" She asked. Yang was dressed in her night clothes, she wore a yellow top with black pants.

"Yeah, it's interesting seeing her act this way," I replied.

"Oh you, I knew it," Yang teased.

"Knew what?" I said feeling slightly flustered, my temperature began to rise as I felt my heart beat increase slightly.

"Oh you know," Yang teased smiling. "Well, make sure to bring my sis back before 10."

"I will," I agreed, nodding.

"Good night," She yawned leaving.

I waved my arm in the air to try and get Ruby's attention. After she flew around in a few circles she finally noticed me waving towards her and flew back. She attempted to float to the edge stepping her right foot on first. As she stepped on the edge the jets turned off, as they should as they approach the ground, and Ruby lost her balance slipping on her right foot and almost falling backwards. I immediately extended my right hand to catch her left hand, bringing her back onto the ledge.

Apparently I had used to much force and she got very close to my body, she clung onto me as a bits of the roof shingles fell off and onto the ground below. We both looked at how high we were and sighed a breath of relief, only then did we notice how close we were and backed away embarrassed. I know Yang is here somewhere. Just then I thought I heard a giggle from somewhere inside but I dismissed it, my brain was probably playing tricks on me as I my heart rate was accelerated.

"Sorry," Ruby apologized.

"No worries," I said shaking my head. "I'm just glad you didn't fall." I continued.

"Thanks," She replied.

She gave me back my watch and I disengaged the armour from her opening it up, she hopped out as she was rather short and landed with her feet on the ground. I tapped in a command for it to teleport back to my locker and it dematerialised in a white glow since it was back in my control. "So, bed time?" I asked as the conversation was sure to get weird soon.

Ruby yawned at this and I checked my watch, it was already 9: 59 and Ruby was getting tired. Then the clock turned immediately to 10: 00 and she began to fall to the ground snoring. I caught her in my arms and she snored blissfully. Her head was lying on my right arm and I shook it, "Hmm, dead asleep." I said to myself. I couldn't help but smile at her adorable characteristic as she slept in my arms. I carried her through the halls and back to the dorm.

The room had a dull light on from a lamp that Blake used for reading. I set Ruby down on her bed and I lied on the couch that I used to sleep. I breathed a breath of exhaustion as Blake looked over her bed and down at me. I looked up at her and our eyes met for a moment, "What's up?" I asked.

"You're awfully late," she stated.

"Well you know what they say, under the stars we roam till our hearts tire weary," I said.

"Where'd you learn that?" Blake questioned curiously.

"Nowhere, I just made it up," I smiled.

Blake was curious as she thought about where I had learned that. I think that she thought that I learned it from somewhere but in truth I actually just made it up. After she pondered on the proverb I said before returning back to her book.

"Welp, time to get changed for bed," I said leaving with a pair of long clothes for the night.

I came back and the room was dark except for a glow of moonlight from the window. Blake had turned her light off and gone to sleep and I could hear Ruby snoring blissfully. Weiss was sleeping well as she had her hands on her pillow. Yang on the other hand was such a mess when sleeping that she was partially on the bed and partially not.

I sighed and smiled at my teammates. I walked over to the couch when I heard Ruby brr, she didn't have any covers on so I decided to tuck her in. When I raised her blanket over her she instinctively latched onto it and hung onto it tightly before resuming back to her small snores. I smiled as I finally lied down on the couch to rest. I held my arms behind my head while looking out at the moonlight thinking about what my other friends were doing right now, they were probably stressing over upcoming midterms during their final year. I sighed take care, old friends I thought as I finally fell asleep after the eventful day.