I Don't Own RWBY

"Now, have any among you have been discriminated against because of your faunus heritage?" I thought about it for a few seconds before raising my hand up, I was one of the first but not the only one, while I might not care about it, it doesn't mean I don't know what it is. We were in history class at the moment, a class that I found to be quite interesting, if only because all this information was completely new to me. I had never heard of any of this before so I found it to be quite the eye opener about this world. It wasn't as nice as one would hope. There was a lot of fighting and a lot more racism.

From there, the professor, Bartholomew Oobleck, continued on to talk about the White Fang. I had nearly forgot they were a group, mostly because I didn't much care about them and their, personally, ironic and hypocritical way of going about things. Sky though seemed to become a bit more interested in the subject. She really has seemed like someone that has been very interested in fuanus rights. I can't tell if she's always been like that or if it has something to do with me being her partner.

So she pouted a bit when the subject was changed away to a battle in a war that happened a while ago. Though that quite changed after Jaune made a show of having the wrong answer and Cardin made a comment about animals being easier to train. I absently raised my hand and placed it on her shoulder to make sure to get her attention so she wouldn't start shouting. I didn't feel like having to wait after the lesson while she got detention for yelling out during a lesson, it wouldn't be the first time.

She huffed a bit at that while Pyrrha, that girl I had talked to on the second day here gave an answer about our we have night vision, something Meral shuddered a bit at, more than likely thinking about how he probably still thinks I watch them all sleep with that ability. I just kept my hand on Sky's shoulder so she wouldn't try and yell at our team mate next to her. Even after I had explain the new standings with myself and him, she still is prone to over reacting for some reason.

From there two people got detention which just told me I had made the right decision and form there the class was dismissed. Walking out of the room, I looked around for a moment while Meral and Terra went off, saying something about getting something back at our dorm while Sky said she wanted lunch. I just stayed there for a moment, not seeing a reason to start walking without a place in mind to go towards when a voice spoke up from behind me.

"Oh, your name is Ash right?" I turned to look at the girl in front of me, it was Pyrrha, I had been expecting her to not be here as class had been let out but then again I believe it was her team mate that was going to be receiving a detention from the teacher at the moment so maybe it wasn't that surprising. She seems to have started a conversation however so it would be rude to not say anything back.

"Correct, and you are Pyrrha. Nice to talk to you again" She smiled and nodded though it was a bit clear it was a bit fake. She still had that habit I see. I do not understand it, if she does not wish to smile why does she? I don't wish to express so I don't, simple as that and yet she doesn't seem to see it that way.

"Right, you had talked to me briefly before the initiation. I am sorry you had been forced away from the conversation" I looked at her for a moment, wondering once more why she had done something like that. She wasn't lying, though she had nothing to do with me being forced out of that conversation, that had purely been on Weiss's hands, and as such I have yet to bother with trying to talk to her or her team, though that was because Yang seems to not like me and Ruby seems to be as awkward as me and that wouldn't be a good mix.

"Don't worry about it. I see no reason why it would be your fault. How have you been enjoying Beacon so far?" I believe it's an icebreaker, one that seemed to work as she seemed to brighten up a bit.

"It's been nice. My team all seems to get along and it's been nice to get along with them" Her face was happy, it was one of the most genuine expressions I've seen on her, it was nice to know that not everyone was having team problems...But also a bit of something else, it also gave me another feeling, I wasn't use to this one, it was new, or newish, it was a negative one, I know that. I've felt so many emotions over time that some of the less felt ones were a bit hard to distinguish.

"Good to know. My team has recently started getting to work together a bit better now. I'm hoping to start some team training soon so we all are use to fighting together...It's been a bit challenging" I've tried but it's clear that while we have started getting along a bit better, we still aren't the best at working together, something I had hoped would be fixed by all of use working together, which since we still don't get along the best made getting use to working together to fix made it a never ending loop.

"I see. I hope you the best of luck then. If you would excuse me, I'm going to have a conversation with my team leader" I nodded at Pyrrha, who had spoken after the door next to us opened up. With that I walked away from the doorway, I still didn't know about where I was going but I did know that staying around would be unneeded and unappreciated at the moment.

Fire Dust Round
Rank: B

A crystal of fire dust that was made to be compatible with most standard firearms.
Made by Ash Kay

Dust Round shots remaining: 30
Bonus to base damage: 30 Fire

It wasn't the best, it did give me a few levels in Manufacture. It was at level seven now, and still it doesn't give me a bonus or tells me anything about what the levels give me. It was strange that this skill gives levels when it doesn't seem to give me anything for it. It doesn't bother me any but it does confuse me slightly. Maybe I just hadn't gotten enough levels on it or something.

Anyway, my problems with the skill aside, I had made ten out of two fire dust crystals, I still now had a large stack of normal bullets on stand by but because I've been able to buy six new magazines to use for my latest model of weapon, twenty count. I filled two with dust rounds just to use in my primary while the others were fitted with normal bullets. Thankfully, they still fit into my wrist holder.

Still, that was just me taking stock of my inventory, with that I loaded one of the mags up with some fire rounds and then loaded it into the gun in my hand before lowering my gun hand down to my side while I held my left hand up to look at it for a moment and smiled a small bit as I felt the ability to use my fire dust skill. So I can use this as a way to keep dust on me to use. Good. It is convenient. Now then, I will have to do some math to see how much damage I should be able to do with theses rounds.

Before the normal base damage was about one hundred-eighty, shifting if I enhance my DEX stat. A critical hit goes to around two hundred-twenty to two-thirty. Dust with the damage reduced from my lackluster skill in using fire dust times the dust mastery is almost seven, add that to the formula to my gun skills...One hundred-ninety to two hundred and for a critical is two hundred and thirty, or close to that. If I wanted to be more accurate I would need a calculator with all the decimals involved.

Still, while it might not be the best of damage increases, it will go up over time with both Dust Mastery, and hopefully soon Fire Dust Manipulation as well. Either way, even if there wasn't a bonus in damage, I would still do this just for the fact that a fully loaded magazine with rust rounds to in total exactly one hundred shots more than my gun can hold normal bullets.

Now then, with that set out I believe it's late enough for dinner at the moment and I would hate to miss it. I've missed enough meals already. I do quite enjoy eating, even if I don't need it I still find the experience to be fun. With that I made sure I had everything of importance in my inventory before heading out.

"You copying my look" I looked over towards Meral, it had been a few days, and I had finally pushed the issue enough to get the two to come out with Sky and me to train for a bit. I believe it says something that this was the first time I had seen him pull out a set of batons, apparently those were his weapon of choice, it made sense with how strong he was to go with blunt weapons...I wonder how they are guns? Anyway, what Meral was complaining about was the design of my resting state form of Memento.

"As a weapon it isn't as effective as the sword or gun but it can be used as a blunt weapon...If you won't mind, I could use some training with them since I already have a handle on blades and firearms" He looked at me for a moment while I pulled out Nova as well to hold to my side while I waited for her to give me an answer. After a moment he sighed and looked away for a moment then said.

"Yeah, it would be hypocritical if I said no" I gave him a grateful nod, glad that now he had opened up to me a small bit more than before he was more open to my words now. At least when they made sense to him, which seemed to be most of the time, something I found good on account that it made us working together much easier.

"Thank you. Sky, Terra, you two can spar for a bit if you want, otherwise I feel it would be good if you Terra could do some conditioning for your body, Sky can help, she's both stronger and faster than you. With your intelligence you should be able to find some efficient way to exercise, if you do that option, then would you mind coming up with something for Meral? He is quite slow" The two, neither my partner, turned to look at me for that while I was about to ask why when Sky rolled her eyes and said.

"Because you two have done your best to stay away from him for the last three weeks, you two have no idea about his semblance" Meral was prickling up again while Terra didn't bother looking like she could justify herself on that front, she just didn't care. I should still interfere and make sure to talk to Sky again later to try and stop her being so dramatic.

"My semblance quantifies information in all forms. I know exactly how smart, fast, strong, lucky, and even how much aura everyone I see has, including myself. Though my own information is a bit more specific. It lets me know what you two need to train more in to be more well rounded while also letting me compare our team's strength to the other's in this school" The two stared at me for a long moment before Terra just shrugged and grabbed onto Sky and dragged her off to do whatever while Meral just sighed and said.

"You know, you make the whole seeing you and not being creepied out thing really difficult" I didn't know what to say to that so instead I just lifted Memento up to him to remind him that he was here to give me pointers for a while until we sparred for something else. He sighed then nodded to me and pulled out his two batons, they reminded me of police batons.

"Alright, look, your's are a bit different, your's is more of a club than a baton. So your going to be able to get more momentum but it's also going to sting your hands a hell of a lot more as the shock of the impact is going to go straight to your palms. You're body is clearly use to short, quick high impacts with how you can use those hand cannons of yours, but with clubs, and to a lesser extend swords, can have the impact come and hit in certain areas that can make you release your grip without meaning to. So first things first, grip"

I nodded to that and looked down at the handle of the weapon for a moment as Meral walked up and helped me get the proper grip necessary to use the weapon in my hand. I didn't have to think about it with blades and guns, that 'natural' skill came from actual skills. Still, from there Meral moved me through the strikes he learned while learning to use these types of weapons. It wasn't hard though getting complaints on my footing was a bit strange since I'm self taught in everything. From there we moved through a few more stances of the basics when a window popped up.

By being trained by what is as close to an expert you can find, Skill: Blunt Mastery has been unlocked and leveled up

(Passive) Blunt Weapon Mastery [Level 2]-
The User's ability to freely use blunt force weaponry
15% more damage with bladed weaponry
7% Faster attack speed

It had interrupted me for a moment but I dismissed it quickly enough and felt the stances he had given me slip into a number of others that my skill supplied me with. Meral looked a small bit surprised then a hint annoyed as I quickly repeated the stances he had given me with speed and precision I hadn't had a all the first time around before catching himself and said.

"Well at least you don't waste time by being a slow learner" I nodded at that while he began to move around and started the next few sets of strikes, I already knew a few of them, while the others my skill informed me were a bit more advanced. I'll learn these and if I get another level or two from them then I'll move onto a spar with him. That'll be enough for me right now. Afterwards, I'll check to see how the female members of our team have been doing.

"You are a god damn machine! We fought for like an hour and you aren't even sweating, and don't even get me started with how fast you picked up using those clubs!" He was acting like I didn't mess up once, but he had smacked me a number of times and had done a lot of damage over time, I'm fine now but with how much faster I am, the hits hadn't mattered as much as he would have liked. Over all, I managed two points in STR, one in DEX, and two in VIT. All in all, it was quite productive. Though Aura Enhance had also leveled up once, though all it did was decrease the cost by one again.

"You're a good teacher" He rolled his eyes at that but it was true. In the last hour and a half, Blunt Weapon Mastery had leveled up to level four, Gun Mastery was at level nine at the moment, and Blade Mastery was at seven, and those two had been my primary choice of fighting so to get so many levels in such a little amount of time it said that having a teacher did in fact prove to be useful.

"He's being modest for kicking you around" Sky wasn't helping but surprisingly Meral just sighed and rolled his eyes, not bothering to get annoyed at what just common practice at this point. Right now we all were sitting around at the lunch table and were eating at the moment while recapping our training...It was nice, almost like we were a team really, it felt...whole, so unlike me, it was...something. Something I couldn't put a name on. I was about to say something before a sudden pulling pain came from the top of my head.

"Ow?" I had said it because I was confused, though the three pairs of glaring eyes focused on a figure behind me let me know what was more than likely was happening behind me, and why my ears were in pain. Though maybe Sky's look couldn't be considered as a glare, if I had to put a word to it, it was closer to murderous. That look some how got worse when the person behind me tugged harder as a sound was pulled from my throat without my allowing it, I don't believe I could make that sound, it was like a whine, though it might also be from the fact that right after laughter rang out...Though I must admit, this is getting a bit annoying now.

"Would you mind stopping? If not, I believe my partner is going to try and kill you if you continue" I heard a snort and suddenly Sky was missing. I sighed, something I hadn't done much of ever but seemed to be doing more recently as I listened to a yell as the tension that was pulling my head up and back was released. Both Meral and even Terra was looking a bit more than pleased that the person behind me had a girl currently, from the sound of it, trying to claw their eyes out.

"Sky?" There was a small break for a moment when the voice in question asked.

"Yes Ash?" I felt the weird urge to sigh again as I said to the girl behind me that was probably about to stab a man.

"Please stop and finish your salad. And the racists behind me? Leave or I'll step in instead of Sky" A box showed up in front of me with the words informing me that Intimidate had been leveled up. With that the sounds of receding steps echoed out behind me as I closed my eyes for a moment. I don't particularly care if some racist sneers at me but if you do something like that, well, that annoys me a good bit more.

"You really should do something about that. I swear, it's not satisfying enough when all you do is scare them off" This wasn't the first time, but it had only really involved random people bumping me in the hallway, nothing like that, and nothing so public. We were in a room surrounded by people at the moment. Oh well. It works well enough though I do wish racism wasn't a thing, it seems to keep making my life slightly inconvenient.

"If I did what you did then they would feel justified in their actions. The only way to stop them fully is to change their mind about me...I'm not good enough at talking to manage that" Sky just growled at that looking angry again, surprisingly both the other two humans on the team also looked annoyed, well, Meral did, while Terra was looking off to the side but I knew what the expression meant all the same.

"It's so stupid though! Fine! Only thing to do is to whoop anyone that tries anything for you!" This is the third time we've had this conversation in the last week, and it always seems to end with that conclusion from her, which leads exactly to the situation that just happened. Thankfully this was only the second time this has happened at all, but the glares were much more frequent. I'm beginning to think it's starting to be a problem.

"I'd rather you not" She acted like she hadn't heard me so I just held back a sigh, something that I hadn't felt the urge to do before meeting her, and returned to my sandwich. I think it had ham in it. I haven't had ham yet, so I choose to focus on my excitement on that rather than the thoughts I just had.

Quest Created

Forever Fall
You've been assigned by Glynda Goodwitch to collect red sap and not die while you do so.

Objective:
-Collect at least four jars of red sap
-[Optional] Collect extra jars of red sap
-Time limit 2 hours

Rewards:
-500 Exp
-50 Exp for every jar past four

Accept?

I accepted the quest quickly enough, it wasn't all that rewarding but I didn't mind, it was mandatory anyway so getting some bonus experience out of it wasn't something I was going to complain about. Still, I wasn't really focusing much on that, instead I was looking around at the sights, everything was red at the moment, well the ground and the leafs were, the tress looked normal, but the separation was quite the sight to see.

"Hey, mind holding on to our jars until we find some trees?" I nodded at Sky's request, no reason to say no after all, it would just make our job more efficient. So with that, I was handed the three other jars we had been given, noticed that between the four of us, we only had four jars, and then decided I didn't really care. Sure if I managed to fill twenty-one jars then I would get another level but I'd rather not spend so much time on that activity with such interesting surroundings to look at.

So with that we walked on into the forest while each of us looked for a open and ready tree to harvest from. I had a bit of an advantage and instant was able to find a few ready to go trees with Observe. Sky looked happy, Meral rolled his eyes like he normally does when it comes to my semblance and Terra just followed along. She really doesn't seem to do anything to my knowledge. I find it strange.

"Here, you all can collect your own jars while I can just hold onto them until we turn them in. Afterwards, we can just relax for a while" That seemed to lighten Meral's mood and Sky whooped a bit at that as we all got to work. It took a bit to figure out but I managed and got a Harvest skill out of it. Soon, only about ten minutes later the quest was completed, which made sense for how quickly I managed to complete it, even with help.

"Hey! Look other people!" I blinked before turning to look over my shoulder in the direction in which the voice had come from. It was that Ruby girl that I had talked to twice before her sister rushed her away from me for some reason. She looked down towards us for a moment, saw me, looked hesitant for a moment before her sister Yang dragged her down to the rest of us while her two other team mates followed. I don't get it. Yang tries to keep her sister away from me, and now she's dragging her towards? I wonder if anyone else finds that strange? Probably not, I was alone when I met those two.

"Hello" Even if our meeting hadn't been the best, I see no reason why to use that to hold away from making another friend or at least an associate, which is what I believe me and Pyrrha are now. Ruby looked up at Yang for a moment before sighing and giving me a wave. I didn't understand waving, but I waved back anyway, no reason not to. Anyway, I just lowered my arm afterwards and said.

"Already finished as well?" Ruby nodded, seemingly relaxing a small bit while I looked to the others, Yang seemed fully relaxed, Blake looked bored though she kept sending me looks, mistrusting but no eye contact with my ears so it was probably something else, thinking of which, Weiss was giving me a look that I was familiar with, mild mistrust, most likely slightly racist with how her eyes kept catching on the top of my head. It didn't surprise me any, she seemed a bit like the type, though at least she wasn't one of those obvious types, those were the annoying ones that I have to pull Sky off of.

"Yeah, though some other stuff happened as well with team JNPR...That was interesting" She trailed off, clearly thinking about something. I decided that it wasn't something I needed to be told, if it was of importance, or I had any business in it, then I'm sure Pyrrah would tell me about it. So instead of saying anything about that, I said.

"Oh? Ok. We've had a pretty easy time. It's mostly just been me finding the correct trees" Ruby nodded, not really sure what to say to that, which is fair, I'm told I don't give much to conversations. Something Sky so far seems to be the only one that doesn't mind, and thankfully she didn't mind helping me out here either as she continued on and started an easy conversation with Ruby and from there the others joined in.

It was nice, I wasn't the one doing all the necessary talking, and yet I still got to stay around and talk when I wanted to. Of course there was some clear minor tension around my team and the other, but it was fine, none of them know each other, really I think I'm the only one that's interacted with all of them, and only two of the girls I can say I've really talked to before.

But for two groups that just met each other, they were getting along well enough. Sky seemed to get along with Ruby, Meral seemed to really like Yang for some reason, and even Terra seemed to be sharing a conversation with Blake, the two that I figured to be the more silent ones seemed to be having mostly a back and forth conversation. I listened in for a moment and suddenly a box popped up in front of me. I just looked over it for a moment before dismissing it. It was just an eavesdropping one. I think I had Perk around that actually. Anyway, the two of them were talking about books, something involving ninjas. And katanas? I don't get it. The again, I still have no idea where that library is.

"Hello" I blinked away from my eavesdropping and looked up at Weiss. She looked mildly uncomfortable but with everyone else having conversations beside us, I guess she felt the need to talk to someone as well. I didn't mind much, sure she probably doesn't like me and I find her rude, but it is poor form to just dislike her forever from then on. Besides, I feel like it would be hypocritical if I choose to not give her a chance when I've given less of a care about those that have actually attacked me.

"Hello Weiss" She blinked at that, more than likely wondering how I know her name. I explain my semblance a lot I feel like. Though maybe it could also be about the fact that I referred to her with her first name, I'm told it is poor form from Glynda when I called her as such during a class. I didn't really understand it but it might just be me and my first experience with people in this world calling each other by first name. I hear first impressions are quite important.

"Yes hi, I heard from Yang that Ruby had met you before? At a dust shop robbery?" She sounded...suspicious? I wonder why. With how long it has been, I know it would be unlikely if she thinks I was involved in the actual robbery, which was true, I had nothing to do with the people robbing the store, I just took advantage of the situation. My perk even says as much.

"We did, it was an interesting day. I had also met Meral and Terra, my two team mates over there, during another incident at a store. I had been buying clothes, the ones I'm in actually. And the cashier was a racist...one thing lead to another and he tried to attack the owner" She raised an eyebrow at that and said in a slightly disbelieving voice.

"You must have quite the unlucky streak" Did I? No, I believe I had tried that coin trick before hand and got about ten points in it, so I had about average luck before it all went down. Then I pushed my luck up to a high score, I wonder if that's the reason why I stopped getting those weird quests. Well, I can't complain about good fortune.

"At the time perhaps, though it seems to have turned around in recent weeks which has been nice" She nodded at that, though apparently my words didn't put her fully at ease. To bad, though I don't mind if she believes me or not as long as she remains civil it doesn't bother me.

"I see, that's nice? Um, well, I had come over here because I was curious..." She trailed off a bit for some reason. I was unsure why but I didn't bother with asking, it wasn't my problem really at the moment unless she told me what it was about, or if it was directly involving me. In which case I would prefer if she just said so and not trail off, I wasn't good at determining these types of things. Maybe it would be a bit best to push on the subject a small bit.

"Yes?" She sighed a bit and looked away for a moment before biting out.

"You're semblance is based on information right? I heard some people talk about it, saying it was...Well, I was curious, how strong am I compared to others in the school?" She was asking me to Observe her to rank her stats to others? She was using me to see her standing. I didn't really mind, but it was a selfish request and one that I don't feel like most would want to ask someone who they've previously insulted. Still, the information wasn't anything important to me, so I have no reason to deny her request.

"You're in the top as the strongest in general terms. In your team, your probably the most well rounded, though your endurance isn't the best. Yang is stronger, Ruby is faster, Blake is also faster and a small bit stronger but she isn't as smart as you so it balances out a bit in terms of strategy. If you want something more specific then you should ask now" She nodded at that though she didn't act like the second half was new information, though she seemed happy about the first part. Maybe smug? Yes that would be the better word to describe it.

"I see, thank you for telling me that...Out of wonderment, how am I compared to Pyrrha?" Pyrrha? I've looked at her stats before, I've looked at everyone's at some point or another. Her stats were quite impressive. Eighty in DEX and over ninety, nearing hundred, in STR. Compared to Weiss, it wasn't close, compared to me, well, there wasn't much to compare with the difference. And if her semblance is the same as I believe it to be from the name, she has a lot more going for her than just her psychical stats.

"If you would like a number...I believe she is almost two times faster than you and a little under three times stronger. Add in her Semblance and if she has a good control over it, then I would double those numbers I gave you just out of a skill factor" Weiss didn't look as happy about that than she had with what I had started with, but she had asked and I had answered.

"I see, well, she is a prodigy I guess" Correct, that was her title, though I have a good feeling she didn't know that the same way I did. Still, she just seemed to think about something for a moment before walking away again. It wasn't the most productive conversation I've had, at least not for me, but I didn't mind much.

Through repeated talks, CHR has increased by one.

Oh, I guess it was a bit more productive than I had figured.

Another chapter done, it was mostly a mix between some minor team building and the normal plot line. To be honest, I don't have much to add at the moment but I'm blaming that on the fact that when I'm writing this I'm still sick as hell and haven't slept in about a full thirty hours which is never a good combination for me. So, unless I change this later, See ya.