Alright, new chapter, woo! *throws confetti*
I think I put in everything that I promised at the end of the last chapter. This chapter takes place before, during, and after 'The Stray.'
Enjoy
"So, are you going to give me anything useful today?" Ozpin asked Sedric as he walked into the white room carrying two mugs of coffee and took a sip of one as he sat down on the chair across from the wolf faunus then slid one at him.
"So you're going to drug me now?" Sedric asked the headmaster then slid the cup back.
"If you don't want it that's fine," Ozpin said then took a drink from the rejected cup making Sedric immediately regret his decision. "So, are you going to tell me anything?"
"What would you like to know?"
"The same thing I've been asking all this semester."
"I won't tell you the plan, because I actually have loyalty."
"So you'd rather sit here in this cell and rot while your employers continue their plan and people die than to be free and save lives?" Ozpin asked then took a drink from his cup.
"I won't be in here much longer," Sedric said then leaned in over the table.
"And what do you mean by that?"
"How many more days before the semester ends?"
"Today's the last day of the semester," Ozpin replied.
"I will be out of this 'prison' within the next three days," Sedric replied in a serious tone.
"How do you intend to do that?"
"I will be leaving by the New Moon," he explained leaning back in his chair.
"We're supposed to have a waxing moon for the next week," Ozpin said then wrote 'New Moon' down on his scroll.
"The New Moon," Sedric said then motioned at the door, "I'm done for the day. I believe you know your way to the door."
"Finals are OVER!" Zaria exclaimed as she ran out of her last class and jumped at Lapis who ducked causing her to collide with Blaise.
"Yeah they're over," Eva said as she took off her school jacket and neatly folded it then placed it under her arm, "but that doesn't mean you get to tackle our teammates."
"You're a hypocrite shortcake," Blaise said as he stood up only to be drop kicked by Eva throwing him backwards into team RWBY to be caught by Yang. "Just dropping in," he told her as he jumped out of her arms.
"So what are you guys going to do for the break?" Ruby asked team BLZE as they came over to their leader.
"Well we have about two and a half weeks," Lapis said trailing off into thought.
"I'll be staying here at Beacon," Zaria said, "My family and I aren't on the best of terms."
"I'll be staying here to," Eva said, "If I went home my dad would just dote on me the entire time and my sister would probably demand I tell her everything that happened here at Beacon."
"I might as well stay also," Lapis explained, "My step dad doesn't quite like me and my mom is not the most sane person on Remnant."
"Wow, I'm the only one leaving," Blaise said turning to his team, "Ozpin showed me my transcripts and he told me he knew about the amnesia. On the paper where it said I came from which apparently is an average sized island outside of the kingdom. So I'll be going there and hopefully I'll be back by the time school resumes."
"Well we all could go with you," Yang offered, "As far as I know we all have nothing else to do."
"Yeah we could go visit your home," Zaria said getting instantly perky.
"I have other plans," Weiss said coldly and walked away.
"What's wrong with her?" Blaise said looking over to Blake who locked eye contact then looked at Blaise's wolf ears. "Oh." Then he remembered the real plan. "Actually I would like to go alone," Blaise said making Zaria, Ruby, and Yang look disappointed, "It feels like something I have to do by myself alright?"
"We understand Blaise," Lapis said placing his hand on Blaise's shoulder. Blaise immediately took this opportunity to grab Lapis' arm and judo flip him over his shoulder.
"It was self defense I swear!" Blaise tried to explain without getting in trouble but his smile was betraying him. Yang and Ruby both chuckled at the same moment, Zaria burst out laughing, and both Blake and Eva both had a smile on their face.
"Whatever you say Chesh," Lapis said standing up then he knocked Blaise on the head.
"I wish," Blaise said rubbing his head, "The Cheshire Cat is a teleporting shape shifting cat. That would be awesome."
"So when are you leaving?" Yang asked the wolf faunus.
"In the morning. I'm taking a regular flight around eight in the morning," Blaise explained.
"Then we should have a party. Ren could make panca-" Ruby said before there was a gust of wind then a bubbly ginger appeared before the group.
"Pancakes!" Nora exclaimed.
"Sure why not?" Blaise said adjusting his grey trench coat then started walking towards the dorms.
Waking up at six thirty Blaise removed his glasses for a second to rub his eyes as he tried to think of what happened the night before. Somehow Nora got an energy drink and teleported around the room. Then Nora pulled out a couple of Yang's hairs making Blaise glad he had brought a fire extinguisher to the party. Blaise then found one of Ruby's secret cookies and that was when the night went black. At some point during the part Goodwitch came in and only shook her head then walked out. Maybe they went and attacked team CRDL but nobody can prove that.
Quietly he grabbed a change of clothes and his jacket then he carefully walked around the passed out teenagers scattered around his room noticing Yang almost covered head to toe in fire extinguisher foam. Out in the hallway he saw graffiti all over the walls that seemed to be drawn on with what appeared to be at least 17 different kinds of syrup and Nora passed out on the floor OD'd on sugar.
After storing his weapons, except his wrist blades, in his weapon's locker he walked out into the courtyard and saw Ozpin staring at the broken moon nearly approaching a half moon.
"Morning Professor Ozpin," Blaise greeted the headmaster distracting him from the moon.
"Hello Blaise," Ozpin greeted him. "So what are you doing this early in the morning?"
"Oh, I'm going to go home to hopefully find any answers on my past," Blaise explained then directed the attention towards the headmaster, "So what are you doing this early in the morning staring at the moon?"
"I don't sleep much anymore, not sure why," Ozpin explained then took a drink of his coffee causing Blaise to roll his eyes, "And I was also trying to figure out something someone said."
"What is it?"
"I will be leaving by the New Moon, and he said it would be within the next three days."
"I can't figure out what that means," Blaise simply said then looked at his scroll to look at the time, "I'm late." He then ran ahead to the airship dock waving goodbye to the headmaster who then looked back at the moon.
"Hello and welcome to Dust of a New Day," the cashier greeted Blaise from behind the counter.
"Morning," Blaise greeted as he walked over to the counter, "My name is Blaise Campione. I'm here to access the Campione family weapon cache."
"Alright, just give me a moment," the cashier said letting Blaise behind the counter and opened the false panel on the floor revealing a ladder into the basement.
In the basement there was not what he expected. He expected the same setup like on Xais Cay, but here it was much different. There were several mannequins with several different outfits that were almost the same. One had a black 1800s french military uniform (google it and the first picture is the one I'm talking about) with what appeared to be grimm armor around the edges, black cargo pants, and black military boots. On the walls were several different variations of a railgun, there were railgun pistols, railgun sniper rifles, railgun machine guns, and railguns in other things like weapons and armor. Hanging on the walls were schiavona swords which Blaise figured were aura cancelling. And one of the strangest things were the mannequin heads lined up in neat rows with wigs that have several different hairstyles and colors for each hairstyle that seemed to be specifically made for wolf faunuses. On the other side of the room was almost the same exact thing except the clothing and wigs seemed to be female.
"Wow," the cashier said coming down the ladder enough to see the room, "I've never been down here before, but this is impressive. Well I have a store to manage, and so I'll leave you to your private business." He then climbed up the ladder leaving Blaise alone.
After he found a backpack in the room he stored all his his clothes in it. He found his scroll and disabled the GPS then found the number for Roman's scroll and wrote it down. He pulled the french military uniform off of one of the mannequins and pulled on the outfit. Grabbing two schiavona swords off of the wall he attached the scheathes to his belt and then he grabbed a pair of black gauntlets with a mini railgun component that retracts into the armor and placed them in the backpack. Walking over to the wigs he grabbed a platinum one with the hair slightly longer than his own and pulled it on his head. looking in the mirror conveniently located near the wigs he saw what his new outfit looked like and he liked it. Grabbing a disposable scroll he put Roman's contact information in the scroll.
After climbing up the ladder he said goodbye to the cashier and walked out on to the street just in time to see team RWBY walking past the store towards the group of people decorating for the Vytal Festival. So he did the only reasonable thing and followed them staying within earshot.
"The Vytal Festival. Oh this is absolutely wonderful," Weiss exclaimed crossing her arms over her chest.
"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss," Ruby said then her face changed, "It's kinda weirding me out."
"How could you not smile?" Weiss asked turning to the two teams, "A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world. There will be dances, parades, a tournament. Oh the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking."
"You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring," Yang said.
"Quiet you," Weiss said scowling at her.
"Remind me why we're going around the docks," Yang asked the group as they approached the railing.
"Ugh, they smell like fish," Ruby said plugging up her nose.
"Well I heard the students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today, and as a representative of Beacon I feel it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom," Weiss said walking towards the docks.
"She wants to spy on them, so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament," Blake said with her monotone voice.
"You can't prove that," Weiss said turning to Blake.
"Wow," Ruby said stopping then turning to see a building practically covered in caution tape. "What happened here?" Ruby asked the detectives when the two teams got to the tape.
"Robbery, second dust shop to be hit this week," the detective said while walking away from the girls and Blaise, "This place is turning into a jungle."
"That's terrible," Yang said.
"They left all the money again," the other detective said catching Ruby's attention.
"Just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much dust?" the first detective asked the second.
"I don't know ya' mean?"
"Are you thinking the uh White Fang?" the first detective making Blaise's eye twitch.
"Yeah I'm thinking we don't get paid enough."
"Hymph, the White Fang," Weiss said crossing her arms, "What an awful bunch of degenerates." Blaise flinched as he heard that comment.
"What's your problem?" Blake asked the heiress with an annoyed look on her face.
"What's my problem? I just don't care for the criminally insane."
"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a collection of misguided faunus."
"Misguided? They want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet."
"So they're very misguided. Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale," Blake said looking at the dust shop.
"Blake's got a point," Ruby said inserting her opinion, "Besides the police never caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago, maybe it was him."
Weiss continued, "That doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum. Those faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal." Behind Weiss Blake was seriously starting to look pissed making Blaise take a couple steps away from them pretending to be interested in the crime scene.
"That's not necessarily true," Yang said to the heiress.
"Hey! Stop that faunus!" the two teams heard a voice say behind them. the teams ran to the railing to see a monkey faunus followed by two people.
"Thanks for the ride guys!" the faunus said then jumped off the boat.
"You no good stowaway," the people from the boat said to the faunus who was hanging upside down on a lampost.
"Hey, a no good stowaway would've been caught, I'm a great stowaway!" the faunus shouted to the people on the boat while opening a banana then dodged a rock being thrown at his head.
"Hey, get down from there this instant," the police officer from before said only to get a banana peel to the face. The faunus then jumped over the detectives and ran off the docks. Then he passed the two teams and as he passed by he winked at Blake.
"Well Weiss, you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes," Yang said to the heiress.
"Quick, we have to observe him," the heiress said then ran of with the rest of team RWBY and Blaise following behind a couple steps behind them. They chased the faunus around the corner until Weiss ran into a girl and fell down. "No, he got away."
"Uhh Weiss," Yang said then pointed at the orange haired girl in a green and grey dress who smiled at Weiss making her jump up.
"Salutations," the girl greeted the group.
"Umm, hello," Ruby greeted.
At this point Blaise took this opportunity to walk past the group only getting a slight glance from Yang who then rubbed her eyes and shook her head dismissing her thought.
After reaching a nearby park he pulled out his scroll and pulled Roman's contact up the started typing away.
-Hello, hello. Testing one, two, three. This is Blaise Campione. Am I talking to Roman or Neo?-
A couple of seconds passed then he got his reply.
-Hey, this is Neo. You got a new scroll? We haven't talked in weeks.-
-Yeah, I had to study for my finals. Is Roman still looking for his hat?-
-No. He found it on the skyscraper gargoyle after two weeks. So why are you texting me?-
-Well, I have two and a half weeks of break and I need a place to stay for a while. Any ideas?-
-Well, you could stay with Roman and I. I might need to convince him, so can you go to Junior's club till I can give you a confirmation?-
-Yeah, I was going to head there anyway.-
-Great! It'll probably be after seven so don't get too drunk.-
-No promises. See ya.-
He closed his scroll and headed towards the place he knew the ground would be rumbling from the bass.
"May I help you?" Junior asked Blaise not recognising him because of his disguise.
"Right, right," Blaise said then pulled off his wig. "Blaise Campione. I helped out when the Amethysts attacked here a couple months back."
"Right, kid," Junior remembered. "So why are you here now?" he asked as Blaise pulled back on his wig.
"I'm waiting for Roman and Neo because they are probably my last hope for finding a place to stay for about two and a half weeks," Blaise explained, "Can I get a Disaronno?"
"I don't serve minors," he said only to see Blaise unsheathe his left wrist blade, "Fine." He then started to prepare the drink.
"So, what else do you do except run a bar?" Blaise asked.
"Well," Junior said as he mixed the drink then slid it over to Blaise, "I do run a little information business on the side."
"So you know a lot about the criminal underworld?"
"You could say that."
"Then could I ask you for some information?"
"That depends on if you have enough lien."
"Then I need as much information on the Campione family as you can find," Blaise said then drank some of his drink.
"That will take some time seeing as they like to keep to themselves. And aren't you a Campione? Why do you need to find out about them?"
"I just need to know," Blaise said then wrote his disposable scroll's number down on a napkin and handed it to Junior, "Contact me here when you have the information and how much it will cost. I'll come with the lien." He then took his drink and walked over to the table he sat with Roman and Neo the first time they met.
After a couple of hours Blaise was about ready to pass out from boredom. Within those hours he downloaded 3 full length rpg games on his scroll and finished each of them, 'very legally' downloaded 2 full albums from a band Ruby told him about, and drank 7 Disaronnos without even getting buzzed.
Meanwhile the party was in full swing down on the dance floor with the bass making Blaise's Disaronno vibrate in the glass. Then during one of the bass drops Blaise felt something poking his head. Swiveling his head around he saw Roman poking Blaise's head with the end of his cane with Neo standing behind him.
"Hello," Blaise said slightly slurring his speech from the alcohol in his system, "Ya found me."
"It was easy since your wig is lopsided," Roman replied as Blaise reached up and fixed the crooked hair. "Neo explained to me the situation and as long as you help out with a couple projects, you can stay with us for your break."
"Great," Blaise said standing up abruptly now regretting all of his drinks after the third glass, "Sign me up."
"You're drunk," Roman said as Blaise stumbled and he caught him with his cane.
"I'm not drunk," Blaise said then took two steps and then leaned on a nearby table, "but I'm definitely not sober."
"Neo, you wanted him to stay with us so you're in charge of him. Make sure he doesn't do anything stupid like puke on the couch," Roman said then headed towards the door, "I have some business to attend to, so just bring him to the apartment until he sobers up."
"Ooh, a late night visit," Sedric said as Ozpin walked in carrying a stack of papers under his arm and two mugs of coffee in his hands. Sitting down he put one cup next to himself and the other next to Sedric, then he placed the stack of papers down in front of him. "What are those? Files you have on me?"
"Final tests," Ozpin said as he pulled out a red pen and started to correct his papers, "I may be the headmaster of Beacon, but I'm still a teacher."
"So," sedric said almost taking a drink of the coffee then he swapped the coffee mugs and took a satisfying drink from the cup enjoying the flavor, "You're not here just to correct student's tests, are you?"
"Very observant," Ozpin said then pulled a picture out from the stack of papers and slid it across the table, "Do you recognise this man?"
Sedric picked up the picture and saw it was the one he had been waiting for for the past few months. It was the picture of Blaise at Junior's club shortly after he killed the leader of the amethysts.
"I know him," Sedric said then slid the picture back to Ozpin, "He's Wolfgang Costantino. My little brother who doesn't like to keep our last name. A couple years back he ran away from home and became a freelance mercenary/assassin who liked to call himself the Blood Moon."
"Blood Moon?" Ozpin asked as he wrote that down on a student's paper.
"Yeah, Blood Moon," Sedric said then he heard some familiar noises coming from the hallway. "I am called Full Moon and she," he said then pointed at the one way mirror causing Ozpin to look, "is New Moon." As he said that there was a muffled gunshot and the mirror shattered as a dart connected with Ozpin's neck.
"Full Moon," Ozpin heard the girl's voice say from behind the shattered glass as she jumped through the window and unlocked his handcuffs, "More like Moon Moon."
"You seriously spend too much time on the internet," Sedric said as he walked over to Ozpin and handcuffed him to the table. "Anyway, I need to get to a White Fang safe house. Xais Cay has been compromised."
"Should we go back home?"
"You of all people should know there's no home left for us," Sedric said as they both left the room and Ozpin fell unconscious.
Alright, now here we go. Blaise is with Roman and Neo. Sedric is released by New Moon. Ozpin is unconscious. It is implied that Blake ran off and met Sun.
What will the next chapter have in store? I honestly don't know because I haven't typed it up yet, but I have a general idea.
-J. Van A