A/N: so here is chapter 11 guys! And I gotta say, having a co-writer is wonderful! Mine is so much of a help that I wouldn't have even had chapter ten out by now, but thanks to him even with my schedule these can come out semi frequently, so drop a review and tell us what you think, oh and he also convinced me to make a Tumblr, so I did and I am amazed at all the awesome art I see on it! I'm even considering commissioning someone to do art for this story, but on that, we'll see
We'll also see me say I don't own RWBY
Weeks have passed since the initiation and the students have started to grow accustomed to their partners and colleagues around them. Nero and the rest of NOCT where off doing their own things; in the cafeteria was Trevas and Orin having lunch. Orin was having a turkey sandwich while Trevas had a bowl of what looked like beef stew...
"Man...I've made a horrible choice" Trevas said pushing away the bowl of mystery stew
"What is that even supposed to be?" Orin asked disgusted " and the smell ugh!" he continued
"I'm not too sure about this myself. It smells sour like the crushed hopes and dreams of students" Trevas said mixing his spoon around the bowl when suddenly bubbles busted out of the stew
"Ewww" Orin said startled
"Why do they serve this stuff?" Orin asked when a boy walked by them overhearing their conversation
"Ah bad choice dude " the student said. he was wearing the standard male uniform, and had dark orange, unkempt hair and a pair of lion ears on his head, the same color as his hair they could also see a lions tail swishing around as he talked "the lunch staff always find a batch of this stew every morning but never really question where it comes from so they serve it either way" the student explained
"The mystery stew already claimed several students" the boy continued
"Wait...people died from this?" Orin asked concerned looking towards Trevas
"Oh no, it just puts them in the infirmary" the student said assuring much to Orin's relief
"I heard that's just as bad..." Trevas said
"yeah I heard that the school's doctor was a serial killer before coming here to beacon!" the student shivered for dramatic effect.
"Why would people think that?" Orin asked
"Have you ever seen him? He's the epitome of creepy! From the way he acts and talks, to the frighten students that always leaving his office" The student explained" that pot of mystery stuff and the doctor are part of the seven mysteries of beacon" the student continued
"The seven what?" Trevas asked
The student turned his head when he heard someone calling out to him "Crap gotta go" the student said running off leaving Orin and Trevas alone.
"Hmm a mystery stew and a possible killer doctor..." Orin said to himself "looks like we got a mystery to solve! Come on let's go!" Orin said getting up and running out the cafeteria
"What are you twelve?" Trevas said to himself. He got up and noticed Orin didn't eat the other half of his sandwich, Trevas stomach growled and Trevas let out a sigh as he began to walk away, heading in Orin's direction
In the library there was Nero and Cecilia, Nero was shaking back and forth struggling to keep his eyes open when suddenly he felt something smack him in the back of the head "OW! " he yelped in pain and was hushed by everyone around him.
"Nero pay attention" Cecilia hissed at him "our report for professor Oobleck isn't due till Friday why are we studying so early in the week?" Nero asked
"Because the sooner we finish this report the sooner we can finish our other work" Cecilia explained
"And here I thought you were gonna say something positive...we're going to fight monsters for the rest of our lives why do we need to write a 10,000 word report on the discovery of dust?" Nero complained
"Because...it's to show...our diligence?" Cecilia said uncertainly
"You see! Even you don't know" Nero said with a smug look on his face.
"Shut up and write your report" Cecilia said rolling her eyes
As the pair worked on their reports two girls where talking, loud enough for Nero and Cecilia to hear everything the girls were saying
"it happened again last night! The librarian told me it happened last night!" the loud girl said in excitement
"What happened last night?" the curious girl asked her friend
"The books! The books where left out in the open again!" The loud girl explained
"Wait what?" the curious girl asked confused
"the past few nights a few specific books gets pulled out of the shelves and are left out in the open on different pages as if a ghost is reading them!" the loud girl explained
"a-a ghost?" the curious girl asked nervously
"Yeah and last night the librarian took these books and put them behind the counter. If it was a student there was no way they could have known!" the loud girl said
"Wow that's really creepy, what are the books that keep getting pulled?" the curious girls asked
"That is something the librarian won't tell Me." the loud girl said
"Oh well looks like this can be another mystery of beacon huh?" the curious girl said as the two walked away. Cecilia turned to look at Nero who had a big smile on his face
"Sounds interesting! He said full of excitement that matched the girl telling the story.
"You can't pay attention for 5 minutes in our classes but you can probably recall every word those two girls said." Cecilia said shaking her head
"Come on let's see where this go or do you want to continue improving your diligence? " he asked rhetorically. Cecilia looked towards the pile of papers and books then let out a big sigh "alright fine..." she said reluctantly.
"Awesome! Let's come back here tonight!" Nero said excited
Orin and Trevas where hanging around in the halls scouting out the infirmary
"See anything?" Trevas said bored and uninterested " man I'm hungry now can we go?" Trevas whined when suddenly Orin put his waving his hand gesturing Trevas to shut up.
"I see him! He's coming this way!" Orin said quickly leaning against the wall with his head down. The doctor walking out to them was a tall, middle age man with a clean white lab coat and wore black slacks with matching shoes, his black hair neatly combed and had a very rugged look to him, and he could have passed as a model.
"What are you two doing here?" the doctor asked looking at Orin who immediately looked away then looked to Trevas.
"We...Uh...We..." Orin stammered
"We don't have any classes this period and I'm feeling kinda light headed got anything to help me out?" Trevas asked casually
"Oh I'm not the school's doctor!" the man said laughing " I'm just checking in on my old colleague!" he continued
"Oh yeah? How did that go?" Trevas asked, the man's smile faded and he had a bit of a grim look on his face
"He's a lost soul now" the man muttered to himself
"What was that?" Orin asked
"uh...He's alright!" the man said faking a smile "I have to go now, you kids take care now" the man said walking down the halls Trevas was a bit concerned now as he looked to Orin and noticed he still had his face down and his face was a bit red
"Areā¦.are you blushing?" Trevas asked surprised
"No I'm not! I'm just feeling a bit hot that's all!" Orin stuttered. Trevas was about to say something when suddenly a figure crept from the counter they were leaning on. It was a man, a man who was hunched over, wore a dirty lab coat open for everyone to see his yellowed stained white shirt and wore ragged black pants and shoes that squeaked with every step he took. He had brown unkempt hair and wore foggy glasses. Both Orin and Trevas froze in fear
"Where are you two going?" the doctor asked in a low raspy voice. The two were too afraid to speak but Trevas stomach wasn't as it let out a loud growl
The doctor simply looked at Trevas and reach into his coat pocket
"here, students shouldn't go hungry..." he said handing Trevas a candy bar. Trevas was hesitant but managed to take the candy bar
"th-th-thank you.." Trevas said nervously when suddenly a faint scream could be heard, grabbing the attention of the doctor
"You two run along now, I have work to attend to" he said turning around and disappearing around the corner. As soon as the doctor was out of sight Orin and Trevas ran as fast as they could back to the dorm room shutting the door behind them.
"Man that was too creepy" Trevas said trying to catch his breath. Orin was having trouble breathing he kept taking fast and short breaths of air
"Hey..." Trevas said concerned but Orin was starting to calm down
"Sorry it's uh, asthma" Orin said still catching his breath
"I think we should stop for today" Trevas said
"Not like these 'mysteries' are going anywhere" he continued as he fell on his bed, Orin following his lead
"Yeah, I think we should leave the doctor case alone...forever" Orin said as he adjusted himself on his bed.
"Hey, where are Nero and Cecilia?" Trevas asked while he was trying to open the candy bar
"I don't know..." Orin replied " they should be back by now..HEY! Don't eat that! It could be laced with poison!" Orin said swatting the candy bar out of Trevas hand onto the floor.
"Oh...right..." Trevas had a look a defeat on his face as he lay back on his bed.
The sun was beginning to set as Cecilia and Nero snuck back into the library, it was quiet and all the lights where off.
"Okay now what?" Cecilia asked "remember what the girl said? The book that keeps appearing out in the open is behind the main desk. Let's find it" Nero instructed. Behind the main desk was a book, a romance novel, on its cover Nero could just make out the title "60 Shades of Black"
"Ugh, just when I thought it was something cool..." Nero said disappointed. Grabbing the book there was a bottle of whiskey, much to Nero and Cecilia surprise "wow...who knew being a librarian could have a toll on people" Nero said sarcastically as he opened the book to a random page, before quickly blushing and slamming it shut "ugh this is just like one of my sisters books"
"Okay now what?" Cecilia asked but Nero didn't answer he simply put the book out in the open
"Now we wait." Nero said the two of them where hiding behind one of the book shelves. Cecilia was sitting on the floor reading a magazine while Nero was on a ladder barely peaking over the top of the book shelf. "Something should happen soon." Nero said to himself
Hours passed and nothing had happened. Nero was bored from the first 20 minutes of the stakeout but refused to leave because he committed too much time to turn back. At this point he was just trying to stay awake and hopefully not fall off the ladder. Cecilia threw another magazine on the floor, what was once three magazines had turned into a pile now. Despite her opposition earlier she was quite relaxed and didn't mind reading in the moonlight.
Suddenly Cecilia caught a scent as a door opened and closed. Cecilia became fully alert now and took another whiff of this scent; it was an unpleasant smell, a smell that made her instinctively mad. "it reeks of cat in here..." she thought to herself. Nero was trying to find this mystery person but it was too dark to see anything, he quietly tried to climb down the ladder when he say a spider crawl on his hand
"Gross" he though as he swatted the spider off his hand and continued to climb down.
One advantage Faunus has over humans was their natural night vision. Cecilia was getting up from the floor ready to pounce on the enemy. She leaned from the corner of the bookshelf and saw a girl. Cecilia could only see the back of this girl who had long black hair and had a ribbon on top of her head. Suddenly Cecilia felt something on her back crawling, Cecilia froze in fear, and this sensation was crawling up to her shoulders
Cecilia turned her head and saw a spider and Nero walking up to her.
"what's up what do you see?" Nero whispered to her "EEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK! GET IT OFF ME! GET IT OFF ME! "Cecilia shouted. Nero looked over at the table and saw a shadow look up and run for the exit, He turned to see Cecilia jumping and jittering around trying to get the spider off, which was long gone.
Cecilia stopped and saw the spider scurry across the floor and she jumped back and let out a little yelp. Once the spider disappeared she turned to see Nero who turned around and was shaking uncontrollably he was trying his best to suppress his laughter.
"hahaha..I-I'm..so sorry..hahaha" Nero said grabbing his sides " That was so cute of you" Nero said still laughing. Cecilia face turned red and Nero just realized he just called her cute, he straightened himself out and cleared his throat.
"Ahem..sorry about that." Nero said regaining his composure. Cecilia walked past him; her face still read and finally spoke
"Talk about this and I break your neck"
It was almost one in the morning when Cecilia and Nero returned to their room, thankfully Orin and Trevas where fast asleep. Nero changed out of his clothing and fell on his bed and simply thought "for a Monday, today was pretty damn good."
