Cookies
Malak wakes up and goes through his usual morning routine before getting dressed in Beacon's uniform and heading to the communication tower to talk to his mother. His transfer to Beacon was not one his parents fully supported but at least one of them was able to accept the fact that the academy was what Malak wanted. So in exchange, Malak thought he could at least give his mother the courtesy in calling her every now and then to see on how she is fairing. He would do the same for his father but he seems like he's always apparently too busy to give him the time of day.
Argent finishes his workout and glances at the photo of his team. He puts his necklace on that has an earring and a ring on it. He dons his armor and sets out to the town.
Ully got up showered and dressed, then just walked around the campus. Leaving his scroll on the bed.
Revan wakes up and gets ready to start his day. He takes a shower and goes to the cafeteria to gorge out on some breakfast (wait a minute I don't have class today. Well shit either I go back to sleep or I go chase pretty girls. Why is life so hard!).
Peter has his breakfast in the dining hall, sipping tea while reading the newspaper. Peter sees Reven, "Good morning Rev!"
"How is it going, Pete? Still not crazy yet?"
"Ah, to be insane, one must have first been sane," he laughs, "Care to join me for breakfast and conversation?"
Revan laughs awkwardly, "Good one Pete and sure, sounds good."
Peter smiles. "Glad to hear it. What would you like? I'll have someone fetch it for you."
"Don't worry about it Pete, I had enough to eat. So how you liking Beacon?"
"I must say you have a wonderful school. Everyone is so friendly, well save a few but such is life. How about you? You enjoy Beacon?"
"I love it here, It is sure a hell a lot of better than where I use to stay."
"Oh? And where was that?"
"Prison." His scroll goes off. "Excuse me Pete." Revan checks it, "Well shit, team lead wants a team meeting." He gets up, "Hey Pete let's finish this conversation later. Have a good day." He heads to the room.
"Sure thing." He raises his cup, "I'll see you around some time." He resumes reading his newspaper.
On his way to the Comms Tower, Malak sees Nilla carrying around with crates and decides to walk to her. "You need a hand with that, Nilla?"
"Oh hey Malak!" She grins and her tail starts wagging, "That's okay I've got it. Gotta tone up somehow," Her mouth moves like she's chewing gum. "How have you been? Getting back into the school routine?"
"I'm fine, and yeah I guess you could say that. Our huntsman wrote to our professors that our mission would've lasted longer than on what it actually did so for now we're on break. You sure you don't need me to at least grab one or two of them? It wouldn't bother me."
"nono that's fine it's really no trou-" she gets to the booth and drops her crate. She stares. wide-eyed. as her eyes water. "The booth has been vandalized." The sign has been overwritten with "GO HOME DOG." A leash is tied around one of the supports. "GOOD GIRL" is written on the front of the booth.
"Wow." Malak walks closer to the booth, "I wonder on who are the assholes who could've done this." he walks back to Nilla and places his hand on her shoulder. "Vanilla are you alright?"
Her tail lowers and she looks down. She remains silent for a minute then looks up, smiling, "never been better. I've been wanting you redo the booth. Now I have the perfect excuse. Malak would you be a dear and take this crate somewhere? I have to get to work." She flexes and walks to her booth, humming to herself.
"Where would you like them placed?"
"Anywhere is fine! Take 'em for your team if you like. I think it's safe to say I won't be doing outreach today. She sticks her tongue out."
"Well alright then, I'll see you in a bit." Malak lifts the crates then runs to his room where he decides to store them. He opens up scroll and contacts his team to meet him in the room. In solitude, Nilla allows herself to cry for a minute.
Malak awaits patiently for his team to arrive while at the same time thinking on what to say to them. Jasper heeds Malak's call and heads to the room. The whole team except for Ully finally arrives.
"You guys I'm going to need your help." said Malak.
"What's up?" said Jasper.
"Alright so the girl we met yesterday, Vanilla, is going through a really rough time right now. Somebody thought it would be funny to vandalize her booth cause she's a faunus and all in all, they were just being assholes to her. So I thought maybe we can cheer her up by giving these cookies to the incoming students and letting them know that she made it under the pretense that it was a way for Beacon to be friendly towards them."
"Sure man. Can I try one first? I gotta know the goods that I'm handin' out." said Jasper.
"Or we could make those guys scream for their mothers and make them apologize for their ignorance." said Revan punching his fist into his open palm.
"Go ahead, they're really good and no, Revan not now. If they act up again, then we can go hunt them down but for now let's keep it low. Half of the school thinks we're demons right now and I'd rather not have them think we're purely evil by attacking these people immediately."
"Did she rebuild her booth? Or have another one somewhere?" asked Jasper.
"She wants to be left alone for now, so after we do this for awhile, I was going to check up on her."
"Aight. I'll head out and start passing these out." Jasper grabs some cookies and makes his way to start greeting people.
"Let's move out MRUVJ and let's make this girl's day." Malak grabs a bag to put the cookies in and goes to meet the incoming students."
"Fine..but next time they fuck up, I will show them no mercy." Revan takes a crate and puts on a fake smile. "Time to go sell the shit out of these."
A red head guy bumps into Ully. "Ah jesus! Oh hey sorry 'bout that man. Wasn't paying attention."
"It's fine." said Ully.
"I don't think I've seen you around. Name's Krimm." He extends his hand, "New student?"
Ully shaked his hand. "Ulysses. I'm a student here. I'm part of team MRUVJ."
"Oh really? That's awesome. Really cool to meet you. Hey, is it true you once devoured an Ursa cuz you were bored?"
"...No."
"Eh? Then how about the time you guys faced down the entire Atlas military?"
"Again no, where do these rumors come from? We went on one mission so far."
"But I heard that you were guys were actually undercover huntsmen who infiltrated Beacon to find a secret enemy..."
"Whoever made those rumors has a very active imagination."
"Sad... anyways what are you up to?"
"Enjoying our day off of classes due to our mission supposing to have taken longer."
"Ah. well my team leader is busy with something. Do you wanna go hang out or something? Maybe scope for babes?"
"Scope babes, you sound like my squad mate."
"Well he sounds pretty cool to me. Maybe I can meet the rest of your team."
"My team leader is probably out helping a wolf girl. The rest of my team might be at the dorm."
Krimm raises his eyebrow, "Wolf girl?"
"Ya she was out trying to greet all the students from other schools. She also makes some rockin' cookies."
"Vanilla? Are you talking about Vanilla White?" Ully nods.
Revan appears behind the red head. "Hey man you want some good...BAKED TREATS?!"
Krimm spins around, "HOLY FUCK DO NOT SNEAK UP ON A GUY LIKE THAT!" He has a combat stance. "So that's what she's been up to." He pokes the cookie. "Nilla's my team leader."
"Oh well ya my team leader has been trying to help her out." said Ully.
"Don't be afraid I just got some of that good cookies. You know you want some." said Revan.
"Why would he have to help her out?" Krimm takes a bag and eats absent mindly, "She's been doing great. Last night she said she gave everything away."
"...Malak offered her assistance and she took it." said Ully.
"She told us that she had made no progress because she is socially awkward and some ignorant scum destroyed her booth and now we are selling these and then I somehow ended up here." said Revan.
"THEY WHAT!?" Krimm drops the cookies "Fucking. Shit. I'm...im gonna find out who did that." He storms off.
"Revan, you're an ass, you know that?" said Ully.
"How? I told him his team leader, probably his friend, is being harassed? Man, I'm such a Torchwick." said Revan.
"It's not 'cause she's socially awkward, you fucking idiot!"
"That and because she is a faunus."
"Ok so you do get it."
"Yeah I get everything."
"So your helping out Vanilla then?"
"Yeah but I'd rather be fighting those bastards who destroyed her booth but Malak thinks people are afraid of us so he wants us to be peaceful."
"He has a point. I just heard some of the rumors, they make us sound like badasses."
"Us?"
"Ya us. We should probably meet back up with Malak."
"He is probably with Nilla. Let's give them some privacy. How about we go walk around town and eat every food thing we see?"
"Ya I'm down for that. Maybe I can find some new tools."
"Hell ya, I'm going to go get my street clothes. I can't hit on older girls in this."
Ully already had on his street clothes. "We don't have classes, why were you in uniform?"
"That's a good question." Revan heads to the room.
"Oh wait, " he checks himself. "I don't have my scroll. Shit!" He runs back to the dorm to get his scroll.
Revan runs into Jasper who was aimlessly wandering the school grounds. "Hey Jasper, me and Ully are going to hit the town, you want to join?"
"I was looking for a place to train so I can get used to my new semblance. But I guess I can hang out with yall." said Jasper.
"Alright team bonding i don't think we done this yet. I'm going to go get changed and i think he left his scroll on his bed i don't know how that happens meet us by the front."
"Alright." Jasper heads to the front and waits for them to get their stuff. Ully grabs his scroll and heads out. In his dorm Revan gets changed and walks to the front of the school.
Ully walks up to Jasper at the front gates. "You coming too?"
"Yes sir."
"I'm not your drill sArgent." said Ully.
"Alright guys. Let's go find us some babes." said Revan.
"You're going to scare them away Revan." stated Ully.
"I'm not the best when it comes to interacting with women romantically." said Jasper.
"Oh please the ladies love me and who says it's going to be romantic." said Revan.
"If love is running and screaming then ya the lady's love you." said Ully with a laugh.
"Please you never seen the master at work. I'll show you." They embark on their town adventure.
"Can't wait to see."
Ully follows "Can't wait to see the "Master" fail"
Meanwhile the team made good progress and they were able to make a good impression on the incoming students. Malak had problems with one student but after having given them a cookie, the students calms down and the two were able to get a conversation going. Malak eventually runs out of cookies and returns back to Vanilla to see on how she's doing. While on his way there, he recounts the whole experience he had with the incoming people and he smiles as he can't remember a time where he interacted with so many people.
Nilla smiles her eyes watering as she hugs Malak "Thank you so much. You didn't have to do any of that. My team doesn't even know." She stops embracing him. "I'm glad to have such good friends, and lo and behold they were the most intimidating people I've ever heard of. I'll take you out to dinner later as a way to say thanks. I just have to finish up here."
"No problem, but it's a shame you found out I was trying to be discreet."
"You gave a bag to my team member and she brought them to me." She grins.
"Ohh, I didn't know she was your teammate."
"Heehee! I didn't expect you to silly. You're too sweet to a girl you just met."
"Well I can't just leave a girl like you hurt like that…"
Nilla's tail wags fast. But she grabs it to stop it. "Thank you. Knowing that there are still kind people like you...it means a lot to a naïve girl."
"Naïve, is that on how you see yourself?"
"Of course! A lot of people say that there are no good people anymore. That everyone is selfish. But, I try to see the best in everyone."
"... That's very noble of you, this world is pretty dark so it's always nice to meet someone who's not as selfish."
She smiles. "Oh hey!" She gives him her scroll info. "In case you need to get a hold of me."
Malak puts her info in his scroll. "Wait, you said you wanted to go to dinner but don't you have classes still?"
"Well yeah silly. That's why I said later. I'll take you and your friends out, just pick the restaurant," she smiles.
Malak scratches the back of his head, "I ah, kind of came from Atlas so I have no idea on what's around here…"
"Then I shall give you all the grand tour of our lovely town!"
"That sounds nice of you to do."
"Not nearly nice as Team MRUVJ," she grins, "Anyways thank you so much I gotta get to class." She picks up the vandalized sign, "Bye bye!" She skips off.
(Huh, what a lovely girl.) Malak then remembers that he never called his mother and hurries over to the tower. Malak talks to his mother and she was worried at first that he had forgotten but he explains that he got caught up helping a fellow student and their conversation goes on smoothly. When their conversation ends he heads back to his dorm. Malak sees a note from Revan on his bed and seeing that he has nothing better to do he switches to his civies and tries to catch up to them. Malak running behind his friends who are walking slow enough for him to catch up quickly enough.
"How is it with you and your new girlfriend?" Jasper asked Malak.
"Did you get laid?" asked Revan. "I didn't bust my ass on selling those cookies for nothing."
"Girl friend? What girl friend?" asked Malak.
"Nilla." said Jasper.
"Oh, well she wanted to treat us for our hard work." said Malak.
"Sounds nice. Did you ask her to the dance?" asked Revan.
"Well, shit I forgot. I did get her scroll info though."
"Then after classes are done ask to meet up with her." said Ully.
"You have failed me for the last time Malak." said Revan.
"Or I could ask her when we go out for dinner."
"oooo. You guys are going to dinner together? When?" asked Jasper.
"That's on what I meant when I said she wants to treat us. I believe she wants to treat us with food." said Malak.
As they have this conversation Revan spots a group of hot girls. "Gentleman if you will excuse me" the hot girls gossip about the boys.
"Sounds good. You sure you want us to come though? Don't wanna ruin your guys mood." said Jasper.
"And how are you pretty ladies doing on this fine day?" said Revan.
"We can all day. We can make it and it could be just you and her." said Revan.
"She said she wanted to treat all of us and this was a group effort." stated Malak.
"Alright" said Jasper.
"I didn't help so I can't go then." said Ully.
"Nah man. You were moral support for us. You come too. Good team bonding." Jasper said with a smile.
"Ugh, so not." said one of the hot girls to Revan before they walk away.
"Mayday mayday! He's going down!" Ully said out loud for Revan to hear.
Revan goes to the guys "I just hit on a bunch of lesbians. Why does that always happen?" The girls happen to flock to Peter who pays them no mind as he goes into a bookstore.
"Yea. That was the problem. Oh wise master." Jasper chuckles.
"I'm pretty sure they were straight." said Malak.
"No, definitely lesbians. I can tell."
Ully laughed. "Ya ok if you say so."
"Hey peter!" Revan called to him.
"I can practically taste the salt coming off of you." said Malak.
"Salt? Why would i be mad at lesbians? Don't be ignorant Malak." said Revan.
"Revan come on. Learn to swallow your pride and see that they just weren't interested." said Malak.
Peter stops and turns around and grins and waves at them "Hello gentlemen." he starts to walk to them he winks at the women "Please pardon me lovely ladies." one of them swoons. He continues walking to the group "What brings you guys over here?"
"Just a casual stroll." said Jasper.
"They weren't interested because they are gay oh well shit happens." said Revan.
"I got a note from Revan saying 'getting bitches.' I got worried." said Malak.
"I pretty sure they were all up in peter." Ully said to Revan.
"Don't be stupid."
Peter chuckles "Oh you guys and your shenanigans. Well I hope you do enjoy your stroll. I heard that this bookstore was lovely."
"Never been in it before in my travels so it might." said Ully.
"I love books." said Revan.
"Well so am I, but I do require books to nourish my mind." said Peter.
"Well what kind of books do they sell here?" asked Malak.
"Tukson's Book Trade, Home to every book under the sun." said Peter.
"That's a pretty bold statement." said Malak.
"Hey, free country, the gentleman can use whatever slogan he feels like." said Peter.
"I wonder if they have the third crusade?" asked Revan.
"The what?" asked Ully.
"The book The Third Crusade. It's pretty bloody." said Revan.
"That sounds pretty badass." stated Malak.
"Quite a great read~" Peter chuckles "So where are you off to?"
"No idea." said Malak.
"Just looking around" said Ully.
"I do hope you find something to divert the time." said Peter.
"Revan is trying to find a girl to bang him so that will take up most of the time...well all of it" said Ully with a sigh.
"I'm sure he will be in luck. He's a good looking fellow. I'd be surprised if he didn't." said Peter.
"You should hear his pick up lines." said Ully.
"Now I am curious." said Peter.
"Grimm mating rituals are smoother than him." said Ully laughing.
"Oh dear." said Peter.
Meanwhile Argent has returned to his room dropping his sword on the bed. He takes off his armor and sets it on its stand. He's tempted to flop onto the bed and go to bed. But knowing it isn't very late, he decides to wash up and change into his modified Atlas suit and heads into town. He finds a bar and realizes how good ale sounds. He goes in and orders a drink. He thinks about his most recent adventure and drifts off to MRUVJ. They reminded him a lot of his friends. He raises his glass to do a toast and drinks. On the other side of the room, a woman is being harassed by a man begging her to do sordid acts. She tries to leave but the man grabs her and his lackeys look on with greedy eyes. Argent stands up and walks over to the man, towering over him. "I believe the lady would like you to let go and stop pursuing her."
"Mind your own goddamn business!" the man laughs and his cohorts all laugh. The woman slaps the man and spits in his face. The man attempts to slap her but Argent grabs his wrist. A sickening snap is heard and the man is flung across the room sobbing and cradling his broken wrist.
"You never strike a lady." the woman horrified runs out of the bar. A glass is heard breaking behind Argent he turns around to find the lackeys standing all pissed off and a few with broken bottles as makeshift weapons. "I would advise non-combatants to leave now." the bar is quickly evacuated. The bar owner lights up a cigarette.
"Shouldn't we call the cops or something?" asked a patron.
"Nah, wouldn't want to cause Argentum Stella problems." replied the bartender.
"Last chance to leave with your dignity." one thug throws off his cape. (Oh boy, if only Vincent were here) Argent takes his jacket off, rolls up his sleeves, loosens his tie and unbuttons the top of his shirt. A goon lunges at Argent who counters by using his long legs and sheer stopping force to deliver a kick to the man's face. The man's body stops and he flies backwards hitting the wall. Another one swings his broken bottle at Argent's abdomen. Argent hops back and grips the man's wrist and delivers his knee to his elbow, snapping his armor. The man falls to the floor weeping "Let's avoid lacerations. I only have one suit."
One of the thugs quivering says "Umm...no fair you have a robot hand."
"What?" he looks at his left hand. "Oh you perceive this as an advantage. Very well." he detaches the hand from his wrist and stores it in his jacket. "Better?" while he was putting the hand away one got behind him and gets him in a full Nelson. Another one runs with a bottle at Argent. Argent leaps up planting his feet in the man's chest and pushes it off throwing the man down and allowing him to reverse the hold by flinging his assailant into the other one. He pats off his shirt "and no blood. It's awful to get out of a white shirt. he looks around there are quite the multitude of you."
A man in a gray and black jacket with a silver dragon insignia on the back was drinking at the bar he downs a shot then looks back at argent. "You should tell them you kill Grimm for a living that usually works."
"Eh you'd be surprised" he looks over his shoulder "pleasure to meet you I'm Argent" he ducks as a leaping man flies over him towards the drinking man.
With amazing speed the man turned to the side letting the guy go over the bar "I'm Malcom."
"What brings you around here?" he does a spin kick to another bottle user and slams his head against a wall
"A friend of mine offers me a job at the school he runs, and what brings you to beat the shit out of people who are not on your level."
"My civil duty as a huntsman." Argent straight headbutts a man who collapses
"Huntsman are supposed to protect the people not beat the shit out of them." Malcom takes a sip of his beer.
"Isn't that what I'm doing?" he blocks a blow with his left arm punching the guy with his right hand "in case you missed it they were harassing a woman. Then they started trouble. I'm putting it down."
"Did you even ask the miss if she needed help before riding in on a white horse."
"I'm not that rich." he smirks and decides to simply glare at the last one who passes out. He starts reattaching his hand "I can tell you and I won't get along all too well."
"I don't know kid, first impressions are normally bad I bet when people find out you're a Stella. They think of you as a uptight atlas grunt. Is that why you don't use your last name when you greet someone?"
"First off, don't call me kid. No kid has become a hunter. Second off, why I don't use my surname is none of your business." he fixes his tie and jacket "my omit of my name has no deeper meaning than I just didn't feel like using my family's name. And third, big talk considering from the man who drank while an innocent was being harassed and who also refused to give me his surname."
"I didn't help because I saw a capable young hunter walk in that could handle the situation. I didn't use my surname cause I just didn't want to. You did well was hoping you wouldn't just fly off the handle when I acted like an ass to you but I guess we all have things that drives us to anger."
"...you enjoy crawling under people's skin don't you?"
"Sorry, let me make a proper first impression my name is Malcom Grey a hunter and former student of beacon."
Argent stares at Malcom "Argentum Stella, Hunstman, former student of Atlas, finished at Beacon. People call me Argent or statue. You realize that people may think we're related."
"What? You don't want to be mistaken as my twin brother?" he chuckled sit down "I'll pay for your next drink."
Argent looks around at the chaos and sobbing men. He shrugs "I got your tab." he leans over and pours himself some more ale and sits "considering I'll be paying for the repairs might as well get the drinks."
"Don't worry this place gets destroyed a lot."
"Is that right?" he knocks back another glass.
"Ya, let me tell you if these walls could speak they would be yelling at me cause I have put so many holes in them."
"So I wasn't the only one thinking that."
"Hey bars are a great place to find those who wish to harm the people of remnant."
"I wouldn't go that far." he peers into his cup. "There's far too many who hate the world they live in."
"True. So what brings you to this town since you know my reason?"
"Ozpin same as you. He doesn't want me running solo anymore. I'm looking out for this special team." And he lays his face on the counter "I have to chaperone a dance."
"A dance.. I feel bad for you I would rather wrestle a grimm."
As he brings his head up, his cheeks are red from his drinking "and why can't I hunt alone huh? Qrow gets to. What does Qrow have that I don't? Oooh I have a special weapon that's complicated Ooooh I'm so good- FUCK YOU! I AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIN'T HAVIN THAT SHIT!"
"Ozpin just doesn't want to see you die at a young age."
"Oh right I forgot I have self-destructive tendencies silly me. I'll show you self-destructive tendencies!" he gets up "lade deeda!" he cartwheels out the front window and lies then yelling so Malcom can hear him "I have a robotic hand! You ever unconsciously pick your nose with a robot hand! It hurts! Not as much other stuff but still! I'm not self-destructive I'm Goodnight" he passes out
Malcom looked out the window "Damn. I have to carry him don't I." Malcom picks argent up and hoists him over his shoulder and brings him back to Beacon.