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Adam was starting to regret fighting Cinder. Straight after, Ruby questioned him as of to why he was trying to kill Cinder. He didn't want to deal with that, so he just ignored her

That wasn't the best move

In turn Ruby stopped interacting with Adam, Yang either ignored him or yelled at him, Weiss also yelled at him and refused to be anywhere near him to the point where she would literally sleep on the roof

Adam sighed

'How am I supposed to fix this?' Adam thought. The only people who still interacted with him was JNPR, Blake, and Silver along with the rest of the team CMEA (Chimera)

But, even then, Adam felt alone. He was broken and didn't know where to even begin in fixing himself. And whats even worse is that he had to explain the events of last night with Ruby!

'Please Oum, if you're out there, I can't take anymore.' Adam thought

[Timeskip]

Adam and Ruby were going up the elevator. Ruby pressed all the buttons in the elevator, so they had a long ride ahead of them. Ruby looked over to Adam before turning away. Adam saw this and acted on it

"If that was about last night, I wanna say sorry. But it's not for my actions, it's because you were there to see them." Adam said

"But why?" He heard Ruby ask

"Because I don't care whether or not Cinder lives. I care that she doesn't hurt anyone." Adam answered before the door opened

"Sorry we're late. Someone pushed all the buttons on the way up here." Ruby said. Adam sensed she was about to put the blame on him, so he interjected before she could

"Ruby did it." Adam said. He looked over to see her mouth agape

"Adam, Ruby, how are you feeling?" Ozpin asked

"I'm fine sir." Adam answered

"Okay, I guess? I'd feel better if my bad guy catching record wasn't 0-3!" She joked to hopefully bring the mood up, only to see it had the opposite effect

"Oh, so that's the tone we're going for. Got it." Ruby said afterwards

"Ruby, Adam, I just want to let you know that what you did is what a huntsman is being about. You recognized a threat, and acted on it." Ironwood said

"Thank you, General." Adam said

"T-Thank you sir." Ruby also said

"Now that you're better, can you tell us anything about what transpired last night?" Glynda asked

"Neither did she say much nor did she put up a fight. Had we tuned out the elevator, we would have captured her." Adam explained

"It sounds like your blaming the general?" Ozpin asked

"I'm not blaming him. Theres absolutely no way he would've known we were up there before hand. The timing was just inconvenient ." Adam said

"Hmm, the blood sample didn't help us name anyone." Glynda said, wondering who could've done this

"Oh well, we're bound to figure out. But I think that's enough questions for now. You're free to go." Ozpin dismissed Adam and Ruby

"Oh, one last thing, she muttered something about a base in the southeast. Apparently just outside the kingdom." Adam said. This worked because everyone in the room knew Adam was a faunus. However, Glynda misunderstood him

"Wait, I thought you said the intruder never said anything?" She questioned

"I didn't say she didn't say anything. I said that she barely said anything." Adam said, flipping the conversation into his favor

"Hmm, You can go now." Oz said after that

[Timeskip]

"That was a risky move." Weiss voiced her opinion. Adam and Ruby were back in the dorm and Ruby had just explained that they released the info they gathered to Ozpin

"Risky? Sure. Necessary? Absolutely." Adam said to them. They ignored him, like they had been

"Well, I'm sure you did the right thing." Yang said. "Which reminds me." She said after turning around and grabbing a cylinder

"What's that?" Ruby asked

"Dad sent something in the mail for us. He felt like we would need a good cheering up." She answered, opening the box

Something rugged and furry jumped out. It shook on the ground, still in its cylindrical shape. Everyone gathered around only for the thing on the ground to turn into a dog. It barked at them

"Ah!" Ruby screeched. Adam jumped backward since she startled him

"Zwei!" She yelled

"He sent a dog!" Weiss yelled

"In the mail." Adam said in astonishment

"Oh please, he does this all the time." Yang said while Ruby was cuddling Zwei

"Your dog or your dad?" Adam asked. He still went ignored. Adam put his hands up before putting them down

"Your dog or your dad?" Weiss mirrored Adam

"*click* Would all first year students please report to the amphitheater? *click*" Glynda said over the intercom

All of team RWPY except Adam walked out of the room

"Girls!" Adam yelled at them

"Argh! What?!" Weiss yelled back

"We need to talk about this!" Adam said as if it was obvious

"What is there to talk about, huh?!" Yang yelled at him, deciding she had enough

"You nearly murdered someone! In front of Ruby!" She yelled in his face

"She was gonna escape or call for help or... something!" Adam yelled back. "I did what needed to be done!"

"Oh don't give me that crap." Yang said back, sternly

"I will give you that crap because it's true!" Adam still was yelling

"Well, what's true isn't what's right!"

"Well, she could've hurt someone! I stopped that!"

"Don't you say that! What good is hurting someone do, even if it was meant to prevent someone else from getting hurt?!"

"The fact that maybe they will stop?!"

"Listen-!"

"NO! YOU LISTEN! I MAY HAVE HURT HER, BUT I WOULDN'T KILL HER UNLESS IT WAS NECESSARY!" Adam yelled out in a rush to the test if his team. He sighed

"I wouldn't have even hurt her if she wasn't against us." Adam said calmly. "But, after I learned that she was in the bullhead with Roman the night before Beacon, I knew she wouldn't have stopped."

Everyone in the room stared at him

"Look, what I did will never go away. But I can guarantee that I won't kill someone unless I'm forced to. Because, I can't just let someone get away because I refuse to kill. No. If it means that I stop them, whether I captured them or not, I'll do it. But, I promise that killing will be a last resort." Adam spout out

Yang walked up and hugged him

"That's all we could ask for."

[Timeskip]

They had missed the assembly, but Adam already knew what to do. The White Fang used a similar mission system

RWPY walked to a mission board that showed that the location was in the southeast

"Look here, search and destroy." Ruby said

"It's in the southeast." Weiss said

"Well, what are you waiting for? Sign us up!" Yang said boisterously

Ruby typed in there team name only for the board to say that no first years are allowed

"Oh, well... I don't know what to do about that." Yang said afterward

"Well, we could mail ourselves." Ruby suggested

"Or stowaway on the bullhead." Adam added

"Both viable options." Ozpin said, seeming appearing out of nowhere

"I'm afraid the Grimm concentration was deemed to high for first years." He said. "But I have a feeling you'll find yourself there, regardless of whether or not I gave you permission to."

"So, instead of breaking the rules, why don't we bend them." Oz typed a few things into his scroll and Ruby re-typed there team name

It was accepted this time

"Thank you professor." Adam said while bowing

"It was my pleasure. I doubt I'll ever get the answers I want. Like how a witness saw rose petals at a nightclub. Or how eyewitness heard sounds of fighting and saw a man dressed in black and red." Ozpin said

Adam walked away

[Timeskip]

"So, which huntsman do you think we were assigned?" Adam asked

"I don't know and care! All I care about is seeing a real huntsman in the action." Yang said

"Hello girls and guy! Who's ready to fight for their lives?" Oobleck said to them

Adam could only stare in shock

Here y'all go! Fuck it sucked that I lost my progress on this chapter. But I guess it works out in the end. And, in case y'all was wondering, I've been hanging out with some friends on discord otherwise I would have posted this yesterday

Luine Mercury LWG: That is one of the reasons the fight is shorter. That, and the fact that Adam was pretty much boasting to Cinder

Anyway

See y'all later!