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Chapter 10: always stand by me
It has been almost an entire day since they admitted Icarus to the west wing infirmary, rumors have been floating around that the team that came out with Glynda Good witch were the ones who took down the raider warships along with Icarus. But it didn't have enough evidence to make it a fact. It was late at night in the ballroom. There were sleeping beds all around. Like a huge slumber party. Syaoran set up two hammocks for him and snow rose. Snow was on the floor juggling two slightly large mallets. She didn't have permission to attend beacon because of her age, but since she proven herself on the raider warship, she was given special permission to attend, but someone older than her was supposed to look over her. One of the seniors volunteer, but Syaoran spoke out. Telling professor Ozpin that it he would look out for her, since they been through a lot. Ozpin gave a small nod. In the afternoon they went to see Icarus in the infirmary. They stood there for almost 3 hours, until nurse Shizuka came in and told them to let Icarus rest. Snow kept juggling the mallets but she threw one of them too high and landed on some guy crotch as he cringes in pain. Snow got the mallet and apologies and leaves quickly before the guy could recover and say something. She tripped and landed next to Ruby who was writing something.
"Sorry Ruby-Chan", Snow apologies.
"It's okay, um…Snow was it?" Ruby asked
"Yosh, I am Snow Rose." Snow smiles and Ruby giggles.
"I'm Ruby Rose, maybe we are sisters." Ruby sticks her tongue out playfully and giggles, Snow squeals softly on for Ruby to hear.
"I always wanted a sister! All I got was 3 big smelly brothers. Syaoran-kun, Tony-san, and Icarus-chan." Snow laughs out loud that the whole ballroom looks at her, she looks at everyone. "Look away, and I don't break legs!" everyone turns away quickly. Nora cheers.
"That's my student!" Nora shouts and laughs.
"Thank you Nora-senpai!" Snow looks back at Ruby who was continuing to write something. Her sister Yang walks by and lays down on the bed next to Ruby's.
"It's like a big slumber party!" Yang tells Ruby and Ruby doesn't look at her.
"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys." Ruby telling her sister.
"I know I would." Yang said dreamily as she kept looking around to the boys with just pant on. She drools a bit until a blonde boy passes by, his name was Jaune arc. He was wearing a one piece pajamas with a bunny in the middle of the pajama, he sees Yang checking her out and slows down a bit.
"Ya like what you see?" Jaune ask and Yang twitches a bit. Snow shouts.
"Anybody without a shirt, get ready for a gay time. And I mean a happy time! Except blondie, cool pajamas!" Snow gives him a thumbs up and jaune gave a thumbs up and continue to walk happily while the others put on a shirt, some girls glared at Snow but she was happy as she was.
"What are you doing little sister?" Yang asked Ruby.
"Oh, I'm just writing a letter back to signal academy. Telling the gang how it is." Ruby kept writing.
"Aaaaawwww! So cute!" Snow and Yang said it together and both received a pillow to the face. Snow laughs and Ruby got a mad look.
"Shut up. I didn't get to go to beacon with my friends…I got moved up two years ahead… it's hard to make new good friends." Ruby look at Snow and Yang.
"But Ruby-Chan, what about blondie boy, isn't he a good friend?" Snow tilted her head to the side as she asked.
"Yeah! That's plus 1 friend." Yang agrees.
"Yeah, and that makes Weiss a negative 1 friend. So I am back to zero." Ruby sighs.
"Do you mean tsundere ice queen?" Snow points at Weiss who was against the wall.
"Hey!" Weiss shouts from the background.
"There no -1 friends, there just one friend and one enemy." Yang cracks a smirk and all she received was a doggy pillow to her face. As it hit her it barked for some reason. Snow face palmed herself. Ruby lays on her back with her arms behind her head as yang continues. "Ruby, it's only been a day. Things will get better, trust me."
Ruby and snow nods and they lay down, they began to talk about their future plans. Syaoran was looking at Snow. He was lost in thought. He had a muscle shirt and some black pajamas on. He was wearing his red scarf. His eyes hazed as he closed his eyes. He opens his eyes and sees himself on the steps of a stone house. A small girl comes up and holds out a present. He opens the present and sees the red scarf. He smiles and looks at the girl. She had a blank face, no eyes, no mouth, not even a nose. Her hair was silver and with cat ears. She was around the age of 5-6 years old. The scene changed and he was holding the scarf but the house was on fire. The same girl was on the floor. Her ears ripped off. She kept bleeding. Syaoran looks around. There were people in black mask who were setting things on fire, killing people and robbing. Young Syaoran closed his eyes and he opens it back. He was back in the ballroom at beacon. He looks up at snow and she was over there with the girls Yang and Ruby who went to go talk to a girl that had some candles lit and reading a book. Tony come by and lays on his bed.
"What's wrong ninja boy?" Tony asked and Syaoran sighs.
"Just thinking of something…" Syaoran looks at Snow and the rest. And tony smiles.
"AAAH I get ya, you got eyes on that mystery girl." Tony point out at the girl with the black bow on her head. Her amber eyes illuminated through the dark. Her dark hair was like a piece of the night. Syaoran was looking a bit longer but he wouldn't give tony the satisfaction.
"I am just worried about snow…that's all." Syaoran looks at tony and he just nods.
"Ya know, she is going to be a handful, for all of us." Tony looks at snow. She was looking at ruby and yang who were engulf in a dust of a fist fight. Snow giggles and jumps high in the air, she screams out yolo and dives into the cloud of fight. Tony chuckles.
"I hope Icarus makes it out okay. Dam, it's been almost a couple of days and we been through a category hell hole hurricane and come out of it without a scratch. Hell, and I wasn't even a bit drunk. That's how much of a hell it was." Tony stretches. Snow was laughing after the fight was over. Yang and Weiss arguing and ruby was trying to calm them down. Snow kept on laughing until the girl with the black bow blew out the candles and they all went to bed. Snow said her goodnights to ruby, yang, even Weiss. She climbed in the hammock and lays down. In a matter of seconds, she was fast asleep, and so was tony asleep. Syaoran began to fall asleep and finds himself in a dreamless sleep.
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Blake creeps around the corner and looks for the infirmary room. Her heart was beating with nervousness. Icarus found out that she was a Faunus. She didn't want him to think of her as the enemy and rat her out. She didn't want to live with the racism. She finds a faint blue glow under a door. She looks at the sign. It was the infirmary room. She was about to enter until she heard a voice.
"Young lady! What are you doing?" Blake jumps a bit and turns around. It was professor glynda. She had that medusa face. She was waiting for an answer and was getting very impatient.
"I…um…I came to see Icarus…yeah, I wanted to see him before I fell asleep." Blake answered softly, but she was nervous. Glynda narrows her eyes at her.
"Then please wait for tomorrow, all of the students are having their Initiation. You should rest." Glynda came closer but Blake stopped her.
"Wait, you don't understand… I haven't seen Icarus since I left the town of Venice. I found him unconscious with cuts and bruises. And then I find out he was here in beacon almost dead. I just want to check on him." Blake told her, it wasn't the truth but it sure wasn't a lie either. Glynda eyes widen. Her expression soften.
"Was there anything else wrong with him? Anything at all?" glynda asked and Blake shook her head as in no. glynda continued, "Okay 10 minutes and then lights out. Agreed?" Blake nodded and she knock on the door. There was a muffle though the door.
"Come in" Icarus called out. Blake came in and closed the door. Icarus was a bit surprised. "I never thought I would see you again." Blake nods and pulls up a chair. She saw a blue holographic orb on the counter.
"How are you?" Blake asked. Not meeting his eyes.
"Very alive, not dead." Icarus was calm. Blake was being a bit twitchy.
"…so…you don't hate me…" Blake muttered. Icarus looks at her a bit confused.
"Why would I hate you?" Icarus asked and Blake growled.
"Because you know I am a Faunus, you kind hate my kind! And I bet you already ratted me out for that dust freight heist!" Blake got up. She didn't want to but she would have to make a run for it out of beacon. Icarus raised a hand.
"Why would you assume that I would hate you? I may be human, but other than my Grimm family, you are not a bad person or Faunus. I promised you that I haven't said a word, what about you? Have you kept your end of the promise?" Icarus looked at Blake and she has forgotten about the promise. He nodded.
"I always keep my promises." Blake answered back. "But what happened after I left you in the town of Venice?" Icarus sighs. She tells her from him escaping out the window from the black claw to the funeral of his uncle jack. She stood stiff as he mentions Oswald.
"You met Oswald?" Blake asked and Icarus nodded.
"You met him?" Icarus looked curious.
"Oswald was once the leader of the white fang, but he resign and became a mentor for the young ones. But is rank 3rd in leadership, 2nd would be Adam." Blake explained.
"Then who is 1st rank?" Icarus asked and Blake shook her head, she told Icarus only the 10 ranks may be able to see him, only when it was a war council or a private meeting. Icarus mind was racing. The leader wanted to recruit him. But who requested his recruitment for the black claw. Icarus began to continue his story until he tells her about how he wakes up in the infirmary. He doesn't tell her about what's been happening to him. Blake nods and looks at the clock. It was almost midnight. She gets up from her chair.
"I must go, I only came to check up on you. Please be careful Icarus. You look like you got the weight of the world on your shoulders." Blake pointed out. Icarus chuckles.
"I won't make such promises. But I will try to keep myself alive. That much I can promise you. Goodnight." Icarus answered.
"Night" Blake closed the door and walked back to the ballroom. Icarus stops smiling and sighs. He lays down and begin to close his eyes. A big day was coming tomorrow. The initiation. But he won't take part of it. Not yet.
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-the next day, morning. 8:32 a.m.-
Everyone began to wake up slowly. Syaoran open his eyes to find a hyper snow rose. She had her white hoodie and her red battle skirt.
"Syaoran-kun! Wakey, wakey! Its morning!" snow was jumping around. Syaoran sighs as he looks at another person that was being awoken up brutally by the second wall breaker.
"Dam author-Chan…you're going to kill me…" syaoran mutter as he saw Nora waking up one of her friends.
(Well, my cousin insisted that her character was the student of Nora, what did you expect?)
"A peaceful morning." Syaoran muttered angrily. He grabs a random chair and throws it to-
(Oh shit! *it crashes out the 4rth wall and smacks author-Chan*)
"Finally…" syaoran sighs but encounters two pillows to his face and was repeatedly smacked by snow.
"Nee-san! Leave author-Chan alone, you almost hit Fatima-Chan! Hai Fatima-Chan!" snow waves through the 4rth wall.
(Fatima: yosh! Hai snow! *waves back but author-Chan wake up and quickly repairs the 4rth wall.*)
(Author-Chan: let's not do that again! *puts an ice bag on his head and continues to type*)
A few hours later everyone was eating in the lunch area. Syaoran was sitting there next to a boy with some green martial arts clothing. He was being brutally bombarded by random comments of Nora, both her and snow were eating pancakes, but snow was eating waffles as well. They both argue on what was better, waffles or pancakes. Syaoran looks at the boy and the boy looks back.
"Nora is your friend?" syaoran asked.
"Childhood friend. What about her?" he asked about snow.
"Adopted little Hitler- I mean sister." Syaoran responded and the boy chuckled.
"I'm Ren, lie Ren." Ren introduced himself.
"Syaoran, syaoran uzumaku." Syaoran nods.
"Martial art style?" Ren asked.
"Nine-tails fox style. You?" syaoran was feeling a bit more comfortable.
"Qui Gong. Lotus style." Ren answered and began to continue to eat. Everyone began to make it to the barracks where they were assigned a locker.
"I know! Let's make a code name after we bribe the headmasters with pancakes." Nora smiled widely.
"No senpai! We bribe them with waffles! They will totally fall for that!" snow squeal in excitement. Syaoran sheath his Sai blade and his katana. He checked for his dust crystals. 3 orange, two blues. He also got his cherry pie and gave it a sweet kiss for good luck.
"We need a call sign! Let's make a sloth sound." Nora said it in a chipper voice.
"Nora." Ren said calmly.
"Yes?" Nora answered back.
"I don't think sloths make noise." Ren cracked a small smile. Nora shifted her eyes and they became as big as silver dollar coins.
"That's why it's perfect! They won't suspect a thing!" Nora cheered. Ren told her to follow and Nora followed. She said bye to snow and snow went to syaoran.
"Come on snow." Syaoran began to walk out and snow does a flip and landed on his left shoulder as she pointed the door.
"Come on big daddy! Little sister wants to fly like angels!" snow puts on her hoodie. Tony looks left and right and takes a small drink of a whiskey canister.
"Okay, I'm half sober. Excellent." Tony grabs his kendo sword and puts on his pork pie hat. Follows syaoran.
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"Don't I need to take the initiation professor ozpin?" Icarus looks at ozpin as he drank his morning coffee. He came to greet him before he went to start the initiation.
"In due time, for now you must recover." He hands Icarus a scroll. Icarus opens it up and small cameras went online. He saw all the new students assemble near the cliff. "A little something to keep you from missing out. Take care Mr. Light."
"Thank you." Icarus lays back on the infirmary bed and keeps looking at the scroll. Kari was up in her small holographic state, watching the morning news. There was a report of another turf war between the black claw and the white fang.
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Ozpin and glynda stood on beacon cliff in front of the new students who were in a line on top of a square launch pad. Ozpin begins.
"For years, you have train to become warriors. And today your abilities will be evaluated in the emerald forest." Ozpin takes a sip of his coffee.
"Now, I'm sure that many of you have heard the rumors of about the assignment of teams." Glynda speaks and everyone looks at each other. "Well, allow me to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates. Today."
"What?" ruby groans in frustration? Snow kept on juggling her mallets while balancing a waffle on her nose.
"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here, at beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone whom you could work well with." Ozpin finished explaining the guideline and now moving on to the rules. Ruby was getting more uncomfortable. Ozpin continued, "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next 4 years." Something inside ruby shattered.
(Fatima: probably her mind. Talk about a "shattering" experience. Eh?)
(Author-Chan: no Fatima, bad Fatima.)
"What!" ruby exclaimed.
"See I told you" Nora nods.
"After you partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet oppositions along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy anything in your path…or you will die." Ozpin finished. Snow smiles after she hears that. She flips her mallets and transforms them into an akimbo FMG9's.
(author-Chan: for those who don't know or are not a gun otaku. They are small automatic pistols. They can be folded up and stored but can be deployed fast. If not, just look up the gun name for more information.)
"Hah…" jaune chuckles nervously and gulps. Ruby was sharing that same reaction. Everyone nods in anticipation.
"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene." Ozpin looks at everyone to make sure they all were paying attention as he continues. "You will find an abandon temple at the end of the path, containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. We will guard that item, as well as your standing and grade you appropriately."
"Tony. Ready?" syaoran looks at tony.
"No, I'm half sober." His response grumpy.
"Are there any questions?" Ozpin asked rhetorically.
"Um yes…sir" jaune raises his hand.
"Good. Now, take your positions." Ozpin drinks more of his coffee as the students prepare themselves. Syaoran opened his legs a bit and bended his knees a bit and held his sheath and the handle of his Sai blade. Tony put on some sunglasses and put on his pork pie hat on tight. He holds his kendo blade over his shoulder and waited. Snow was already ready to launch. She looks at syaoran and tony.
"Nee-san, tony-kun. Can we be in teams?" Snow asked. Syaoran knew that Snow would be more difficult to work in other.
"Of course, we are a team and always will be." Tony gave a thumbs up.
"We will always stand by each other. Through thick and thin." He ruffles her hair and she backs away laughing.
"Um sir, I got a question?" jaune still had his hand raised. "So this landing strategy thing…um…what is it, y-you're dropping us off?" Weiss was the first to get launched into the air.
"No. you will be falling." Ozpin finished it bluntly.
"Oh…um…I see…like, did you hand out parachutes for us?" jaune ask skeptically. Nora looks at snow and waves.
"Be prepares my faithful student!" Nora salutes and quickly gets to her position and was launched.
"See ya senpai!" snow waves at Nora.
"No. you will be using your own landing strategy." Ozpin answered jaune. Glynda still kept her medusa face. Jaune didn't like his answer. Yang looks at ruby and gives her a confident wink while she puts on her aviator sunglasses and gets launched. Ruby gave a smirk and launched.
"So…what's a landing strategy-yyyyyyyy!" jaune was launch in the middle of his sentence, spinning through the air.
"Fly blondie! Be free!" snow raises her hands. "HALLELLUJAH!" snow felt the launch pad ready to launch, but something felt off. Before she could react the launch pad was in two pieces and was going to crush her until syaoran was quick on his feet and pulled snow away from the malfunctioning trap. Snow looked a bit scared. Syaoran pulls her close and puts her on his right shoulder.
"I guess we are the first pair in the team, I told you before, we will always stand by." Syaoran smiled and that made snow a bit. She pointed upwards to the sky.
"Big daddy and little sister launcher! Launch!" snow shouts and both were launched into the air. Ozpin watched as they were launched. Glynda goes to check on the malfunctioning launch pad.
"Professor! This was sabotage!" glynda exclaimed. Then the last launcher was launched, but no one was on there.
"We are missing someone." Ozpin glace at the empty launcher and glynda began to look at the initiation rooster. Each launch pad database had a name on where the student would be. On the original data, Icarus was supposed to be where snow was.
"Professor…this was supposed to be trap for Icarus." Glynda's blood went cold.
"The girl was on the wrong placing at the right time. Notify a security team and keep him in a hangar under a 24 hour watch. The saboteur hasn't found his location yet." Ozpin looked at beacon and then at the emerald forest. Glynda got on the radio lines and issued a command in a secure line. On the distant near the bushes, a black figure was hidden and looked at the launch pads through binoculars. He got on the radio headset.
"My lord. He wasn't in the initiation." The black figure spoke.
"Do not threat my harbinger. We have the time until the blood eclipse. A year it will take. You will prevail." The voice in the radio responded.
"Yes. My god. Eneru."
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-Location: infirmary-
"Icarus! Come on ya lazy bum. They already began the initiation!" kairi calls out impatiently. She kept looking at the scroll. She was still a small hologram. Icarus came out of the restroom changed from his old clothes. He had some dark blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and his grind shoes. He goes on the bed but some security came in.
"Icarus light?" the security guard asked. Icarus looks at him. He looked around in his late 30's. He had jet black hair. A scar going down his cheek. His white eyes ever piercing his soul he wore a vale uniform but it was black. This security was high rank. Icarus didn't like him. But at least he was part of security.
"yeah." Icarus nodded.
"There is an assassin targeting you. Please gather your belongings and come with us." The guy tells him and Icarus nods.
"My stuff are at the other room, third door down, wait her please. It won't take long." Icarus told him and he nodded. He grabs the scroll where Kairi was in and goes out the door to grab his stuff. He grumbles that after all he has been through. There out there ready to kill him. He looks at the second door was slightly open and it caught his attention. He opens the door slightly and sees a body slump over. He turns on the light and finds a pile of clothing. There was the black claw logo on the shirt. He realizes that this might have been a kidnapping. A pair of hand covered his mouth and began to suffocate him into unconsciousness. Icarus struggled and was able to break free. He grabbed to something in his belt and fell into the room. The fake guard chased him but he saw what Icarus pulled and closed the door. Icarus looked at his hand and it was an orifium grenade. This was 2x more deadly than the original grenade. Icarus dropped it and was going to go out the window but he remembered about the unconscious security guard.
"Icarus! Get out now!" kairi was screaming from the scroll. Icarus tried to pick him up but he was heavy. He was three steps from the open window. He was going to make it but he gagged in pain and fell. The grenade went off and everything spiraling. Icarus was on the floor outside. He groans in pain as he felt a sharp object impaled into his shoulder. He hears screaming. Icarus was losing conscious and he falls into darkness. He hoped he was able to save the security guards life. He just had to be alive.
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