Before reading this, I recommend that you read the Prologues first cause I'm not going to describe what the OCs look like again; I'm too lazy for that.
Chapter 1: The Weird Beginning (
Derek's POV Vale 7:30 PM commercial district (North Side)
You would think that it would be easy to find a mountain of an Uncle. "*Sigh* What a pain in the ass," getting a little bit annoyed by the fact that I haven't found him yet. "Seriously, ya think he would be easy to spot, considering he's a fuckin' giant, Dontcha ya think Dare," Drakkon says that while looking around as well. When I imagine what Drakkon looks like, he would like me, with red hair and golden serpent eyes. "Exactly, you would think that, but no, he's oh wait, he might be in here," as I notice the little shop Tukson's Book Trade.
Now that I think about it, I haven't seen Tuks for a couple of months now; it would be nice to say hi to an old friend. I walk into the bookstore to take a gander of the place, and I notice that he added a couple of new books the last time I was here. 'I don't like it,' is what I thought when I look around the newly arranged store; now I'm going to have to remember where everything is at again. "Well, hey there, stranger, haven't seen you in a while," as I looked around to said that. And there he is, my old friend Tukson standing behind the counter wearing his signature short-sleeved quarter-zip burgundy and black shirt. "Hey Tuks, how have you been," I said as I walked over to him. "It's good to see you again, Book Master," I said to Tukson while giving him a fist bump.
"*Chuckling* So what are you here for this time," Tukson asks me with a smile on his face. "Looking for a giant, have you seen him," while I was looking around the bookstore, and now I memorized the sections again. "If it's you're talking about your Uncle, then the answer is no, I haven't, but I did see Glynda not too long ago," Tukson points out. Now, this piece of information piques my interest. "So what did Aunty G come here for," I ask. It's semi-rare for her to be in the city around this time, considering that she is a Beacon Academy teacher. "Same reason as you are here looking for your Uncle, and it was about 30 minutes ago, I think," Tukson tells me. That would be beneficial information for me. "Any ideas where she is heading?" if anything, I can at least find my Aunt, and we could compare notes.
Before he could speak, the door opened. In walks a girl wearing a black buttoned vest. The vest has coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath the garment is a white, sleeveless, high necked crop undershirt. She is also wearing white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg. On her feet, she also wears black low-heeled boots and full stockings with a color gradation of black to purple at her ankles. "Now, there's a face that I thought I would never see again," I say while walking towards my old friend Blake Belladonna who I haven't seen in three years. "It certainly has been a while, hasn't it, Derek," Blake says while walking towards me. When she reaches me, she rests her head against me as if she had a long day. "So, are you doing alright? You look a little down," As I say that while trying not to do anything yet. "I'm sorry, I just need a moment, so could you let me stay like this for a little bit," she says in an exhausted tone.
"As if you need to ask," I patted her head, and she didn't move away or anything, so I guess it was fine. "For fuck's sake, we don't have time for this shit. We are needin' to find our crazy-ass of an Uncle," Drakkon protests to me, reminding me that I still need to find my Uncle in Drakkon's way. I know that I need to find him, but I can't leave Blake when she clearly needs a friend right now. Then I thought about what to do and said to Blake in a soft tone, "So we can talk about it now or later; it's all up to you. But I could use your help if you're okay with that." Blake raises her head to look at me. With a slight grin, she said, "Thanks; I'll talk to you about it later when we are alone." The moment she said that, I turned my head and looked at Tukson, pretending to be looking at a book. "Right, we'll talk about it later *Clears Throat, Tuks did my Aunt say where she was heading to?" I removed my hand from Blake's head. "Uh *clears throat* no, but I did see her go further down the strip," Tuks points to the general direction of where she. "Alright, I'll see you another day, Tuks, so uh Blake, you want to come with me, or you want to stay here," turning my attention to Blake to see what she will say.
"Yeah, I'll come with you, so what are you see your Aunt for?" She looks at me with a curious look on her face while we're walking out. "To find a giant beast in the city," That I say in a sarcastic tone, and Blake is looking at me with a confused look on her face. "You're looking for your Uncle, I take," well, that didn't take long for her to figure out. "Damn, you remembered that quick, but yes, we are looking for my Uncle, who is currently somewhere in this city," while we were walking down the strip, I started to notice that a couple of stores that currently boarded up.
"Anyway, Dare, how have you been?" Looking at her while debating on what to tell her first. "Hm, well, recently I was in Atlas visiting Uncle Wolf for a while, and we dealt with a Grimm problem," and Blake looks at me with a curious look on her face. "What kind of Grimm problem are we talking about?" She looks at me with a quizzical look on her face. Oh, the cat jokes I can think of right now. "Well, there was a herd of Megoliaths that were about 50 miles away from the city," and Blake has surprised look on her face made me smile a little bit. "So, what did you do?" Now she is curious about what I'm going to say next. "Well, I *Bang Bang* oh for fuck sake," looking for where the sudden gunfire is coming from and in which direction. "Blake, any idea where that is coming from?" still looking around while Blake is trying to pinpoint the location. "They're coming from over," Blake points to where it's coming. "Alright, let's go *Boom* well fuck," an explosion went off in the opposite direction.
"Okay new plan, we're splitting up, Blake; you head over to the explosion. I'll head to the gunfire," Blake nods her head, and then she stopped to look at me. "If I find your Uncle, what should I tell him," I stopped for a moment to think about it. "Tell him that his wife and I are looking for him, and you be careful," that will get his attention right away because he loves my Aunt with a passion. Blake nods and then starts to head the explosion while I head over to the gunshots.
"So what are you going to do if it's not Uncle D," Drakkon does bring up a good question as well as a stupid question now that I think about it coming from him. "I'll take care of the situation; I'm not even going to let you out in the city ever again," I remember way too vividly what Drakkon did when I let him loose one day. We were lucky it was just two city blocks, but still that much damage; I'm surprised we didn't get thrown in jail for that. "I got us out of there before anyone ID us," and that was supposed to make it better? "Oh, for the love of you started that fight, and then it escalated into a goddamn riot," this fucker chuckling about it as if it's funny. "That's not funny psychotic bas- whoa there," a person crashing towards me, and I barely dodge the fucking bastich. "Now, where the hell did you come from," oh wait, never mind as I see where you were flying.
Well, I was not expecting my little sister Izzy to be here in the city. Yep standing at 5' 11" with long silver hair, a crimson bang covers her right eye and has her hair in a spade braided ponytail, and she has the same blood-red eyes as I do with light caramel skin. She is wearing a silver high collared long jacket with black trim and red ruby buttons and the same crescent moon with a star family symbol on her right sleeve. She is also wearing black steel full cuirass and matching colored black and silver pauldron on her left shoulder, left black rerebrace, and two silver and blood red gauntlets. She wears blood-red thigh-high stockings attached to her black miniskirt by garter-belts on the front and back of each thigh and wearing black steel toe combat boots with silver studs. She is also wearing black steel greaves and silver steel knee cop. Izzy swings her weapon Parabell which has three forms to it. It can turn into a broadaxe mode, a scythe mode, and an anti-tank rifle mode.
Oh, would you look at that Ruby is here too? I should've figured from the gunshots? "Guess we figured out whose Ruby's friend is now," This one must be a recent friend that Izzy made while I was traveling. Well, I'll be; that's a damn good combination that they got going on there. Izzy swings the broadside of her weapon Parabell, then hits one of the guys in the suits up in the air, and Ruby uses her Crescent Rose to him right down to the ground. I spot one of the men in suits trying to make a break for it. I saw a trashcan near me, so I grabbed it and threw it at the guy, and it hit his back, making him fall into the pavement. "And that's what I call taking out the trash," Izzy took notice of me and with a surprised look on her face. "There you are," was she expecting me to be here, pretty sure I didn't say anything that I was going to be here. "How did you know that I was going to be here," moving towards her while looking around, seeing if there were any more suits still standing, and I saw one of them standing back up behind Izzy. "Hold that thought, Dare," Izzy turns around and chokeslams the guy to the ground. "Damn, someone has been improving while I was away," Izzy stares at me for a minute, then she giggles at my humor.
"You were worth every cent, truly you were," said a man that had slanted, dark-green eyes and bright, long, orange hair, with long bangs covering his right eye. He wore a red-lined white suit with long black pants and black shoes. His accessories included a small gray scarf, black gloves with buckled sleeves, and a black bowler hat with a small feather tucked into its red band. Have to say the guy has style.
"Well then, I think we can all say that it has been an eventful evening," he drops his cigars to the ground and puts it out. "And as much as I'd love to stick around," he points his cane at Ruby. "I'm afraid this is where we part ways," then he fires a shot, but Ruby shoots up in the air dodging it.
"Well, this is like a regular Friday for me," looking, and I found the bowler guy climbing up a ladder up to a building. "Will you be okay if I go after him," Ruby looking at the old store clerk, and he nods his head. "Alright then, Izzy, you go on ahead with Ruby. I'll catch up with you guys in a second," Izzy nods; her head goes with Ruby up to the roof. Looking at one of the guys in suits, I now have a better look at them; I soon realize that these are Junior's guys. It looks like I'm going to visit him later, "Or a beating, you can pay him a beating if he gives any lip." So violent my counterpart, I spotted a Bullhead aircraft going towards the building where the girls are. I jump up slightly higher than the building to assess what's happening so far. "End of the line, girls," the bowler guy standing in the aircraft tosses a fire dust crystal at their feet. He fires a shot at the dust crystal, and then all of a sudden, someone just appeared in front of the girls to block the explosion. There's Auntie G knew that I would find at least you or my Uncle in all this noise.
She has very light-blonde hair tied back in a bun with a curl hanging down the right side of her face. Her eyes are bright green, and she wears thin ovular glasses. She has dangling teal earrings that match the hanging pendant on her collar. She wears a white long-sleeved, pleated top with a wide keyhole neckline and gauntlet cuffs flare in pleats at the wrist. A black high-waisted pencil skirt covers her lower body with bronze buttons and black-brown stockings. She wears black boots with bronze heels and a purple cape inside and black on the outside. The cape's cut is stylized to end in flames and arrows, with a row of diamond-shaped bronze beads on the back. Above this line of beads appears an emblem of a tiara that is her symbol. She holds a black riding crop with a simple black and purple design on the handle called Disciplinarian.
I landed right next to the girls to get a good seat, "This is going to be good." She shot the aircraft with her shard missiles, got a few hits got it off-balanced. Then she summons a storm cloud, and it's shooting ice shards at the Bullhead aircraft. Then all of a sudden, a fireball came at us. We barely dodged it, then Auntie G swipes her riding crop again the shards from the rooftop, turning into a spear-looking thing. It fired at the aircraft, and then it tilts so there wouldn't be any significant damages. Still, the attack continues as the construct split into three and circled the Bullhead aircraft. Then, a burst of energy in the air disintegrated the shards. "This is problematic," looking at the girls starting to shoot at the aircraft. Still, the enemy swipes away the bullets then suddenly, the ground around us began to glow. "Oh shi-," we jumped out of the way right before the explosion. While recovering from the blast, the aircraft made a quick getaway.
"Well fuck, they got away," I hate it when they get away; it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. "Language, young man," Auntie G is looking at me with her signature glare. "Hi, Auntie, how have you been," I haven't seen her in a few months. "*Sigh* I swear you are becoming more and more like your Father and Uncle by the day," I heard my sister snickering at my suspense. "Whoa, you're a Huntress," Ruby gasps at the sight of Auntie G; I almost forgot she was still here. My Aunt and I looked at each other as Ruby giddily shook about and said, "Can I have an autograph!?"
1 Hour Later
"Well, I wasn't expecting my day to go like this," here I am, sitting in an interrogation room at a local police station with Izzy and Ruby sitting on each side of me. "How long do you think we have to wait here for?" looking at Ruby, sitting next to me, seeing if I have the answer. "Who knows, but what I know one thing though in the next five minutes, I'm leaving with or without Aunty's approval," Ruby looks at me with a confused look on her face. "Don't worry, my brother is joking for now anyway," I looked left to see my little sister, who has a grin on her face; it made me realize how much I missed her. "So you're the elusive big brother that I heard a lot about from Isabella," looking at Ruby, who is grinning at me like she is sitting next to a celebrity, I think I see stars around her. "I suppose I am, so did she say about me," getting myself comfortable in my seat, I have a feeling that it is going to be quite a few questions. "So is it true that you took out a pack of Manticores all by yourself?" she eagerly awaits my answer. I swear it feels like her eyes turned into stars. "Oh yeah, that crazy venture, I still can't believe I survived an avalanche," getting buried under all that snow was no fun, and getting lectured by old Iron-Ass even less. "That's so cool, so how did the avalanche happen," I turned to look at Izzy, who was hiding her laughter. "Well, I-," then, all of a sudden, the door opens up and appears my Aunt with a stern look on her face. Oh shit, here we go, it's going to be a long-ass night.
"I hope that you three realize that your actions tonight won't be taken so lightly. You put yourselves and others in great danger," Aunty G pacing around the interrogation room with stern on her face. "They started it!" Ruby defending her actions which I don't think is our actions, were utterly justified given the circumstances. I mean, we did cause a couple of minor property damage. "If it were up to me, you three would be sent home... With a pat on the back and a slap on the wrist," Aunty hits the riding crop on the table, which made Izzy and Ruby cower behind me for cover. "But... there is someone here who would like to meet with you three," I sensed something was off. "It's not who I think it is, is it?" she nods her head, then gives me a look saying, behave yourself.
The headmaster of Beacon Ozpin is a middle-aged man with tousled silver hair and thin, light brown eyes. He has a fair complexion and sharp facial features. Interestingly, Ozpin has black eyebrows, suggesting that he may have had black hair when younger. He wears shaded glass spectacles and a small, purple, cross-shaped pin on the cowl around his neck. His outfit consists of an unzipped black suit over dark green, buttoned vest, and green shirt. He also wears black trousers shoes and long dark-green pants. Caring his signature mug bearing the Beacon Academy emblem, from which he drinks hot cocoa.
Walking in with a plate full of chocolate chip cookies while looking at the three of us, then said, "Ruby Rose, Derek, and Isabella Night." Wait, did he say Rose by any chance is she related to Summer Rose, hmm questions for later. "You... have silver eyes," Ozpin closely examining Ruby's eyes; judging by that she is reacting, I don't think she knows about the hidden power she has yet. That probably explains why she didn't use her ability to wipe out that pack of Beowolves earlier today; however, using it would take up a lot of energy. "So, Miss Rose and Miss Night! Where did you two learn to do this?" he points to the footage of the girls fight Jr.'s goons. "Signal Academy," Ruby says with a nervous grin on her face, then Izzy answers, "Also at Signal." "They taught you two how to use two of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" when he puts it like that, it does sound kind of bad. "Well, my family taught me the basics, and Derek was and still is practically teaching me from the ground up," aw, Izzy appreciates my teachings; it's giving me a warms my heart. "Well, as for me, it's one teacher taught me," Ruby states, which made me realize that she is talking about Qrow Branwen. It only made sense since he is the only scythe wielder at Signal teaching that I know of.
"I see..."Ozpin places the plate of cookies in front of us, and barely a second, Izzy and Ruby are going at them; now I'm starting to see why they are friends; they both have a sweet tooth. "It's just that, Miss Rose, I've only seen one other scythe-wielder of that skill before. A dusty, old crow," Qrow Branwen from what I was told at the guild and my family he is a grade-A Huntsman worked for the guild for a while then he became a teacher at Signal Academy if I remember correctly, and a friend of the family which is not that easy to obtain especially with my Dad and Uncle. From his records from the guild, he is a good Huntsman, but he has a little drinking problem nobody likes to talk about. "Mmmm! Thash much unkul," with a mouth full of cookies, Ruby tried to say something. I looked over to Ruby, "Finish eating first, then talk." "Sorry, that's my Uncle Qrow! He's a teacher at Signal! I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing. And now I'm all *kung-fu noises," *snorting* no wonder why she's friends with my sister; they're both adorable. "So I've noticed. And what are two adorable girls such as yourselves doing at a school designed to train warriors?" my sister and Ruby looked at each other for a minute, then grinned. "We want to be Huntresses," both of them said at the same time. "You want to slay monsters?"Ozpin is giving a curious look on his face about what they would say, and to be honest, I'm also wondering what they might say.
"Yes, I have one more year left at Signal, and I am going to apply to Beacon. Cause you are right Hunters, do slay monsters, but that is not what they only do. Derek once told me that hope is stronger than fear, and it is the job of a Hunter to inspire that hope. I want to do my part to inspire that hope for a better tomorrow." I look at my little sister, who is more mature than I gave her credit for. "Aw, she was actually listening to that Wiley bullshit you spit," shut the fuck up, Drakkon, don't ruin this for me. "As for me, I have 2 years left and apply at Beacon. You see, my sister is starting there this year, and she is trying to be a Huntress, and I am trying to become a Huntress cause I want to help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, 'Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!' I mean, the police are alright, but Huntsman and Huntress are just so much more romantic and exciting and really, gosh, you know!" Wow, such a pure and innocent statement that it made me chuckle.
"Do you know who I am?" Ozpin says with a grin.
"You're Professor Ozpin. You're the headmaster of Beacon," Ruby points out though unnecessary. Still, I guess that his question was probably directed at her, seeing as the first time they met.
"Hello," he greets her. "Nice to meet you," and she greets back. "You want to come to my school," I look at Ruby to see what her answer is, though I can already guess what it is. "More than anything," Yeah, I figured as much. "And what of you, Miss Night, do you want to as well," Now, look over to Izzy. "Yes, I would very much like to," another one that I figured would have an obvious response. Ozpin looks at my Aunt then says, "Well, okay." These two are now beaming with excitement; good for them, I'm happy for them. "You two girls can head outside now. I need to have a word with Mr. Night," fucking, of course, you do, knew it wouldn't be that simple. "Alright, I see you later, Aunt Glynda. Thank you for the opportunity, Professor Ozpin, and Dare. Could you please try to keep it civil," I chuckled at that remark. I can be civil when I feel like it. "Love you too Izzy, I'll see you two in a moment," I waved at them as they walking to the door. "You are a pretty hard man to reach, Mr. Night, or should I call you Battlemaster Night," what can I say? I'm a busy guy. "Well, between hunting down Grimm, taking out a group of bandits, bounty hunting, being trained by Battlemasters and Gramps, clearing out and reclaiming settlements, and dismantling a criminal organization. Yes, you'll find yourself busy as hell, no doubt about it. You can just call me Derek; the Guild decided to give me that title honestly," I can barely go one day without some shit happening. I can take it or leave it with that title.
"So I have heard, and I also heard that you are becoming quite the Monster Hunter," that is probably the only title that I actually like out majority of my titles. "That is what some people say about me, so what I am still doing here, I'm sure you're not just here talking about my extensive exploits and ventures." Ozpin looks at my Aunt then looks at me with a confused look on his face. "Were you not told by Donte about why you are here," Is that what that text was about? I pulled out my scroll to them the message. "Is this was this message was about," I showed them the text message that my Uncle sent me. "*Sigh* Typical Don, I figured that he would do something like," Auntie G sigh at the message. "So this is the reason why my Uncle told me to come here, I'm guessing," Ozpin nods his head. "Alright, I'll bite; what do you wanna talk about," I leaned up against my chair, and I put my hand on the table because I knew that this was going to be something interesting. "Well, how would you like to be a student-teacher at Beacon. "I think I heard something completely bizarre just now. "I'm sorry, I think I misheard something you for a minute there; what did you say," I checked if I had something stuck in my ears. "I said I would like to enroll you as a student-teacher," nope, I didn't hear him wrong that time, so the only question that I can think of is. "Forgive me, but why would I do that?" I tapped my fingers on the table to figure out who thought this was anywhere close to a good idea. "Because the Night Lord said so ya damn brat," hearing a loud booming voice coming from the hallway, that I recognize the voice to be none other than Uncle Donte.
Standing at the height of 7' 5" with a body built for the sole purpose of fighting. He has caramel skin with slick back spiked blood-red hair, a goatee, silver eyes, and a scar from a blade over his right eye. Wearing a blood-red short-sleeve collared shirt with the top two buttons open showing a silver chain around his neck that holds a wedding ring and a pendant that says 'Her Crazy' on it, and another necklace that has Grimm fangs on it. A black vest with red and gold trim and a long black coat with gray fur on the collar with the sleeves rolled up showing off his battle scars and the three bracelets with my cousin names on them 'Ivan, Victor, and Marjolaine.'With the family crest on his left shoulder piece. With black baggy cargo pants that have the legs tucked in into his combat steel toe boots. It looks like he's carrying two people in each arm.
"Oh shit, I was wondering when you were going to be here, and who the fuck are you carrying around like that," I get up from my chair and walking towards my Uncle. "Language Derek *sigh* see that Donte takes after you and your brother in the foul mouth department," Auntie G glares at Uncle D while he looks at his wife and chuckling. "Oh, how I missed you, my beautiful witch of the night; I see that you are wearing the new glasses I bought for you; it really brings out the emerald gem in your eyes," she blushes at that statement while clearing her throat, oh get a room you two, honestly every time that they are around they act like newlyweds even though they have been married for two decades now. They already have three kids. Now that I think about it, the twins are attending the academy as well. I lift up the heads of the people that my Uncle is holding, and I cannot believe who I see.
"Well, well, what are you two doing this far south, Howler and Cyber Wizard," my cousins from Atlas from my mother's side. "Could you tell Uncle Colossus to put us down first?" Ritzel says with a groan and his mask showing eyes half-open on the visor. "*Sigh* Donte could be kind enough to put them down; please," I turn to look at Professor Ozpin, and I almost forgot that he was still here for a moment. My Uncle put Ritzel and Rayland down on their feet, and then they straighten themselves out. Then I looked behind my Uncle to see if Blake was with them, "She said she had to go somewhere, but she will contact you later on tonight." I look at my Uncle for a minute, then a sigh of relief came over me; well, at least she is safe. "Now then, would you be willing to explain what happened this evening with you two," I turned my attention to Ritzel and Rayland, who are still dusting off? I already know why they are here from what Uncle Wolf told me. "Well, where to begin," Ritzel's mask showed an hourglass and a question mark.
Ritzel's POV Vale 7:00 PM Commercial District (West Side)
I am sitting in the hotel suite configuring my backpack to have a jetpack feature listening to music. "Ritz, it is optional to go see the city sites to see how much different things are here than at home," Holly cut the music for a minute so that I would listen to her, which translating to I need to get off my ass, and get out of the room. "Well, I do need some more dust if I want to make this jetpack work anyway, and I getting on food supplies," I grab my hoodie, and I put my boots on. "That's right, this is also a good idea to test out your new body," I want to see if I need to make any adjustments, so I activated the cryo-pod that has her body in it.
Holly came out of the pod, standing at 5' 9" with a busty body and slightly pale skin. She has silky long straight black hair with a crown blade plus a half-up hairstyle with glowing blue highlights, and she has four royal blue hairpins in the side of her hair to keep her hair out of her face. Her eyes are a deep blue in color; they can detect heat signatures, has facial recognition software and X-ray vision. Wearing a black and blue steampunk corset dress, blue frills and skirt with a black gear pattern, black fingerless long gloves, and black stockings with black high knee boots with the blue lining that also has thrusters built into it.
"Okay, how does your new body feel Holly," I watch her as she moves around, stretching her arm from where she is to the other side of the suite, alright fifty feet look the extendo-arms work, and this is going to the first test for her new body. "I feel lighter in this body than my previous body, and even though you made the exoskeleton with indestructible alloys. You made my arms the ability to extend in this body. You also seem to have decreased the reaction time by 0.67 seconds," I keep watching as she retracts her arm. She looks around the room, testing her eyes now, "I detect Rayland in front of a door pacing back-and-forth." He is still doing that, honestly; if he's going to talk to her, just get on with it, I get up from the desk, grabbing my Wonderbag, "The calibrations should be in working order; let's go get Rayman and get something to eat." I start walking to the door, and Holly following behind me. "Hey Ray, if you are going to talk to her, get on with it; if not, come along there'll be more time to talk to her then, and grab your weapon Bedlam (Holly: Here you go.) and let's go," he grabs Bedlam then looks at Holly for a minute like he has no idea who she is. "Oh, you're Holly right," I look at him with question marks on my visors, and then Holly nods at the question. "You look good; I like the hair, especially the literal glowing highlights; it is a good touch too," I look at the door that Rayman was pacing in front of, then I examine the doorbell and press it, and then Rayland gets this shocked look on his face. "What are you doing? I'm not ready to talk to her yet-," the door opens, then Ray immediately clamps up when he sees Weiss Schnee standing, and she has her arms cross.
She has light blue similar to ice and snow-white hair in a ponytail with a silver tiara. She wears a thigh-length strapless dress with a faint color gradation from white to pale blue at the hem. A small piece of black lace sits in the front of her neckline, and the hem of the dress is scalloped and stitched to resemble snowflakes, with layers of white tulle under the skirt. Over this, she wears a bell-sleeved bolero with the same color gradation as her dress from shoulder to wrist, lined in red and with a ruffled collar. On the back of the bolero is the Schnee Crest. She also wears a small apple pendant on a silver chain and thin, rectangular silver earrings. Her boots are white, wedged heeled, and higher at the back than the front. They have a small silver decoration across the top of the foot and are lined in red. A thin white sash is tied around her waist with a pouch attached to the back.
"(Stern Voice) Well, I was wondering who it is, and now I wish I didn't answer, what are you doing here, you mad scientist, and uh-," she notices Rayman just, then she slightly blushes and clears her throat. Then she walks closer to him with a smile. "Hi, Ray, what are you doing here? Not that I'm complaining, I like that you are here," I look at Ray, who has a goofy grin on his face, and then I look at Holly. I'm starting to remember him rambling on about a snow princess; I'm guessing this is the snow princess. However, I still don't remember meeting her before. Now I am starting to why he took this mission in the first place. "I uh wanted to tell you that I'm attending at Beacon too, then I thought that I should do that in person; I wanted to surprise you, but I suppose you don't want me here," Rayland looks away so that she won't see him blushing. Then Weiss reaches out to hold his face in her hands. "Rayland Belmont, I will always want you by my side, and I accept everything about you; remember that okay," Holly and I continue to see this little scene play out. "Always my Snow Princess," then he gave her a kiss on the lips, she wraps her arms around him, and then he wraps her in his arms.
X-Intermission-X
Present Moment
"Wait a minute, Rayland and Weiss were kissing, really," Derek looks at me with disbelief, and then he looks at Ray, whose face is completely red. "Well, I'll be damned here. I thought that would never happen," Derek pulls out his wallet, then he pulls out a hundred lien and hands it to Donte, who has his hand out. "Oh, don't mind that, please continue," alright, then I'm going to pretend that I didn't see that; now where was I?
Back to Ritzel's Story
"(Whispering) I think they forgot about us, Holly," I lean over to Holly to whisper. "(Whispering) So do we just wait till they're done, or just leave them here?" I think about Holly's question for a second, then I gesture that we just leave, and I am pretty sure the writer will have Rayland stop us. "Oh right Weiss since I have you with me, I'm wondering if you want to walk around the city with me, and later we can go get something to eat just the two of us," Rayland, still holding her in his arms. At the same time, she looks at him with a smile on her face. "I think that is a wonderful idea Ray, wait out here for a minute; I'll be right back out," she went back to her room to get something. "Hey, wait, Ritz, I need a favor. Could you not do that again," Ray gave me a stern look. Damn, so close, and the elevator just arrived.
"You were taking forever. If I hadn't done that, you would have still pacing in front of the door," I point out to him while waiting for the elevator, and a thought accord in my mind. "Quick question, it was pretty obvious that you two already know each other, and I get the feeling that she might have already known that you would be here 'Bodyguarding.' So why am I here exactly, because you didn't need me for this you can easily handle this all by yourself," I look at him with question marks on my visor. I notice that Rayland is hesitating on what to say. "Okay, before you get mad, I want you to know I had absolutely nothing to do with this," Oh, this ought to be good. "The General wanted you to *Glass Shattering," that sounds like a window breaking, and look over to Holly. "Scan the area, see what's going on," she nods, then starts the scan, then she went into her attack protocols, and then she looks at Rayland. "Your princess is in danger," barely a second after she said that, Ray charges right through the door. Holly and I follow after, and we see Weiss fight off a few guys in suits with fedoras.
"Get away from my Weiss," Rayland choke slams one of them, then he rushes over to her, and then they are standing back to back to each other. "I got you, and you got me," Weiss says with a smile on her face. "Always, my lady," he smiles, and then he pulls out Bedlam in gun mode. "Holly, you ready for a live test drive," I look at Holly, then she gets all Getty, "Combat Fairy mode activate." Holly's eyes and palms start glowing, then thrusters came out of her back that lit up with a rainbow color flame, and then she fires the suits with pulse beams. "I should send a thank you letter to Stark later," watching Holly flying around blasting the suits. I look over at the aircraft that they came on, and now I start thinking about it. I actually need an aircraft for the project I'm working on. "Dibs," I rush over to the aircraft. I use my robotic arm to extend it to reach inside. Remember everyone, what I did was borderline dangerous, so I don't recommend doing this in real life. Out of the aircraft, I called Dibs," I look at the pilot and copilot who are making a call to someone. I grab the copilot, then I threw them over where the others are, and then the pilot stops me from throwing him out. "I'll let myself out, and you might want to get moving cause the copilot called backup just a heads up," He states as he b-lines it to the door. I wonder who that must have been. Oh shit, he wasn't lying as I look out the window, I spot three more aircraft coming our way. "Guys, we got to go this place is about to be crowded really quick, so move your asses and get in here or get left," not soon after I said that, they rush in the aircraft. "Ritz, you know how to fly, right?" Ray looks at me with a worrisome look. "I took some flying simulations. I'm pretty sure we will be fine," let see, I think it's this switch that stops the hover-, oh shit, oh fuck, we start plummeting as soon as I flip the switch. "Oh, the wrong switch hangs on. I got it," I flip a couple of switches, and then we start flying right before we hit the ground. "See told you that we'll be fine," holy shit, I thought I was going to die for a minute there. "WHERE DID YOU LEARN HOW TO FLY, YOU DUNCE?!" I look up to see Ray's Snow Princess giving me an angry glare. "What, we're still in the air right, and we're still alive," I point out to her as my visor is uploading a GPS map, and then the pursuers are firing at us.
"Holly, can you do something about the fuckers who are chasing us," Holly nods, puts on some sunglasses, and opens the hatch? "I'll be back," she flies out of the aircraft. "She's been looking at the Multiverse TV again; I told her to get me when she turns it on," *Sigh* what is the point of making that if you can't enjoy it with someone. "Wait a minute, you finished the MVTV; why didn't you tell me?" Rayman looks at me. "I thought I did tell you; oh wait, that was when you suddenly got dragged by Rexi and Derek for the Megoliath incident," Ray looks like he has a sudden chill up his spine.
X-Intermission-X
Present Moment
"Speaking of which, what did happen on that day?" I ask Derek, who was examining the mask that is on my face. "A lot of crazy bullshit that I will tell you after we get out of here. Honestly, half of that plan was Wolfie's crazy idea anyway, but it was working at first to give her credit. Hey, the quick question does your mask have facial recognition software on it like with Holly's eyes?" Donte laughs at something that Derek phrase about that whole situation. "Language young man, honestly he's about as you and Ed," Goodwitch pops Donte on the shoulder. "You forget about 'Meralda she's worse," he and Derek chuckle at the statement. "Don't think Mom will like it if you talk about her like that," Derek points out to Donte. "So uh, to answer your question Derek yes, it has facial recognition software on it," he turns his attention back to me again. "That's cool. I might have to ask you about this more in detail later, but please continue with your story. I get the feeling that you lot had something to do with the explosions that I heard earlier today," he heard the explosions, but then again, it was deafening.
Back to Ritzel's Story
"Ray, get up here. I need you for something," he comes to the cockpit. "Yeah, what you need, Doc," he's sitting in the copilot seat. "I need you to take the wheel," I get up and look at Weiss, then facial recognition kicks in, a name comes up, and before I process it, the words came out of my mouth. "Glyphy!" she groans at the name. "I told you not to call me that you cyber dunce," yep, she's the only one who calls me that. "Wait, you're Glyphy, and here I thought you were talking about Winter," A shiver went down my spine as soon as I heard the Ice Warden's name. "You two do realize that we are still under fire right," Weiss points out while missiles are coming right at us. "We'll be fine," I pull out of flare gun that has an anti-missile countermeasure modification to it, and then I fire it to counter the missiles *BOOM*. "See, what did I tell you? We're gonna be just fine. Holly, how's it look out there?" I watch as she shoots out one of the aircraft's thrusters out. "One ship down two more to go, and also I'm detecting a large mass coming your direction 3 o'clock," I scan over at the building, then all of a sudden I hear glass shattering above us, and lands on top of the aircraft. "Oh, this can not be good," hearing footsteps coming to the hatch, and for some reason, my visor is telling me that I'm should not engage.
Then someone jumps through the hatch, "Well, what do I have here, so you're the ones making all of this fucking racket." Facial recognition kicks in, and it says Guildmaster Donte Night, "I swear I had nothing to do with this situation, uh Ray by any chance do you know this guy," Rayland turns to look over at him. He has a look of fear on his face as he starts sweating bullets, and I look at Weiss, and she's as confused as I am. "U-Uncle D-D-Donte w-what are you doing here," Now that I think about Rayland did say something about having a giant Uncle. I notice that Weiss gives me a look that says 'Explain Now,' seeing as she has no idea who he is. "Oh uh, that's Donte Night," not a moment after I said that, she looks around outside of the aircraft, and then she went up to Donte. "Well, what do I have here? Another princess from Atlas has ventured to Vale, and if you're looking for Derek, he is somewhere in the city," she looks surprised as if he knows what she was about to ask. "How did you *BOOM*," she gets cut off by a missile that just missed us. "We'll talk later, kid, but right now, I have a flight to catch," he pulls out a chainsword, and then he jumps out of the aircraft. "And there he goes, and I think he is going to crash into the *BOOM* air-craft holy shit," I watch as the giant man cuts off the wing of the aircraft, then he jumps to the last aircraft. Then his chainsword turns into a heavy machine gun and shoots out the thrusters out. "I have to get out more cause Vale is one hell of a kingdom," I state as I jump to the building top, then I smell something smoking, and then I notice that the thruster is giving out black smoke. "Ray, you might want to land now (Rayland: Why?) mostly since one of our thrusters is about to burst into flames," without further questions, he proceeds to land the aircraft. Thankfully we land safely on the ground.
"What crazy evening, Rayman; out of the seat, I'm going to do a tech thing; Holly, I need you here with me," Holly comes down from the air, and she deactivates combat mode, then enters the aircraft. "What need me to do?" Holly sits in the copilot seat, looking at me. "I need you to do a diagnostics on the Bullhead while I check the communications to see who might be on the other line," that guy earlier mentioned something about the other pilot calling someone. If I can retrace the call, then I might be able to find out who it was that trying to make the kidnapping happen, or at the very least get a general location of the call.
"What are they doing?" Glyphy whispers to Ray. "Hopefully trying to figure out the attempted kidnapping on you," You two suck at whispering; I can hear you two from in here. "Explain to me why I running diagnostics," Holly is still running her scans. "Seeing if there are any abnormalities in it, and also I called dibs on it," she gives out a big sigh to what said. She just finishes her diagnostics of the aircraft. "Well, there's nothing abnormal been detected, but the right thruster has been shot to shit," well, it looks like it's not going to be airborne anytime soon *Beep* looks like the trace is done. "Hmm, this is interesting," I didn't get a name, but I the initials R. T. well, it's a start, and I just realize something as soon as I get out of the aircraft. "Did anyone see where Uncle Colossus went," We all start to look around for a minute? Holly and I scan the surrounding area to see if we can find him, and I found him standing on the roof of the right above us. "Found him, and he's right above us," everyone starts looking up the building that I'm pointing at, and I see another person with him.
"What is he doing up there?" Ray obviously can't see from down here asks me. "Don't know, don't care, Holly helps me scrap the Bullhead; I need the altimeter, radar, and the thrusters," Rayland and Weiss look at my confusion. "Why do you need those items," now Weiss is asking me questions, honestly do I need to explain myself every time I need to do something. "*Sigh* I need them these parts for Trick's flight mode (Holly: I knew it.) what I've been thinking about it for a while, and now I am going to get to it," both Holly and Rayland gave me a big sigh, Weiss is still has confused look on her face. "What trick are you talking about," she looks at Rayland for the answer. Probably since asking me questions will lead to more questions, she's a quick learner. "The super armored vehicle that I told you about, well he made it, and it seized for a while now it's back in his possession and sole custody," she understands it now. I grab the altimeter from the cockpit, and Holly is finishing pulling out the last thruster.
"Alright, I got what I need; let's get back to the hotel, and call it a day it; this is more excitement than I was expecting today," I put the altimeter and the radar in the Wonderbag, and then I help Holly the thrusters. Then I think I use my warp gun to transport the thrusters to the subspace in my Wonderbag. "What did you do just now?" Oh right, Weiss wasn't there for the'MV Trip,' so she would have no idea what I just did. "How to put this in a way you can understand? This is my warp gun; it has the ability to go into my Wonderbag, which has a subspace built in it." That explanation didn't cause now she's looking at Ray for the answer. "In my experience, it's best not to ask too many questions; otherwise, you're going to ask a whole lot more," she gives out a big sigh to his statement. "What about Guildmaster Night? Aren't we going to wait for him," I look at Holly, who is now asking questions; honestly, I don't think that we should wait, but the writer already wrote that Rayland and I were taken to the police station. "I feel like we should wait for a minute *Looks up* or he comes to us now," Rayland says while looks up and sees Uncle Colossus slide down the building, and then he lands right in front of us; holy shit, he's intimidating. "Ray Ray, I need you, and I need you," he grabs Ray and me, then puts us in both arms, and I think I completely terrified of what's about to happen next. "You little ladies get back to the Guildhall, then tell them I sent you they'll keep you safe, and I'm borrowing these two for a bit," he gets into a running position, then literally starts running at 100MPH. Then I start passing out from the speed.
3rd POV Police Conference Room 8:45 PM
"And that is how we got here," Ritzel finishes his story while Derek is examining his robotic arm, and everyone else starts sitting down. "Well, that's an interesting story, and you're sure you saw the initials R. T. right," Derek looks at Ritzel directly in his face. Then thumbs up appear on his visor. "Hmm, alright, I'll look into it when I go to visit my associate tonight. Uncle quick question why did you bring them here again," He looks at Donte, who is currently sitting on his knees on the floor. His wife glares at him after hearing the part about him causing property damage. "Oh right, I brought them here to explain why I'm late to the meeting," he says that while still in the kneeling position. Oh, how times never change, back in their academy days, they were a part of the same team, and Donte would get in trouble, and Glynda punishes him for it. "Did you make sure that they made it to the Guildhall you told them to, and don't forget they're not from here, so naturally, they don't know the location? I would hate for you to deal with my Dad and least of Gramps if the girls didn't make it on top of being a part of a thousand lien property damage," Donte starts sweating bullets at the mere mention of his Father, Donte can handle his brother. Still, his Father is an entirely different story. Then he immediately got a ring on his scroll; it gave him a jolt up to his feet. "Oh, would you look at the Guild is calling me probably to tell that they are there I better take this," he leaves the room to take the call? "Now that I think about it, did either of you two check to see if they are alright," Derek turns to look at Rayland and Ritzel. "I was messaging Holly as soon as I came to, she just messages me saying 'We're fine now we're at the Guildhall,' and sent me the GPS location," Ritzel shows the message to Derek and Rayland. Then Rayland gave a big sigh of relief. "Oh, that's good. I wasn't to call them cause my scroll is broken," he pulls out his scroll, showing that it snapped in half, and exclamation points appear on Ritzel's visor. "Oh, you technology challenged, I swear you break this more times than I bother counting," Ritzel examines the broken scroll to see if anything can be salvage, and Derek shakes his head. "Anyway, you two are free to go and get to the girls, and another thing, keep a watchful eye out that may not be the only attack tonight," Derek points it out to them. They leave promptly to the Guildhall, and then Derek turns his full attention to his Aunt and Headmaster Ozpin.
"Right, where were we? Oh yeah, my Grandfather says that I should be a student-teacher, and you are going along with this right," Derek starts tapping the table with his fingers. "That is correct; I went along with it for a reason," Ozpin manages to pique Derek's curiosity. "And that reason is what exactly," Derek asks, showing Ozpin that he is curious, and Ozpin slightly grins. "Well, your Grandfather and I were discussing doing something of an experiment this year. We thought of making a strike force company of sixteen people. You to be the captain," Derek stops tapping, completely stunned at what he said, mostly because he had a conversation with his Grandfather about how to go about making an immediate tactical response hunting party for the Guild. "So that's how he's going about it through the academy, not a bad way to go about it, you can build a better cohesion if you do it that way, and to top it off, you would have four years to iron out any issues that would likely to occur," Derek hypothesized out loud not really talking anyone. Still, he has one that he has trouble wrapping his mind around. "Why am I being made student-teacher though I'm a bit curious about it," as if on cue, his Uncle came back to answer Derek's question. "Because since you have the title of Battlemaster, you would be considered extremely advanced compared to your classmates to be, so advanced that you would be able to teach some of the classes. Also, you came up with this experiment with the Night Lord, so you have seen the project through the stages. As well as the position will give you more leeway into problems if and when they come up," Donte manage to give Derek an elaborate answer, and it satisfies him for now. "Alright then, I'm content that answer; oh right, while I have you here, Professor Ozpin, I have a question for you," he turns to look at the Headmaster. "Alright, ask away then," he sips his cocoa. "I was wondering if I could bring my Palemute to the Academy with me," Ozpin takes a moment to think about his question.
Palemutes are huge dogs whose height varies depending on the region, but they are still large enough for a fully grown man to ride it. Derek's Palemute is almost at eye level with him on all fours. They are known for being good hunting companions and excellent trackers. It was tested they find someone that would be across the city. They are knowledgeable and can follow complex commands. It goes without saying that they are extremely loyal to their owners. However, Ozpin is hesitant about is their unpredictable temperament, as they are an extremely loving family dog. Still, when it comes to new faces, they are, for a better term, a-loaf.
"Rest assured he will be on his best behavior when he is at the academy as he is well behaved at the guild," Donte and Glynda attest to Derek's statement. "Very well, I will allow this, and we will discuss your position in more detail after the initiation test, and that's all I have to say tonight; everyone has a good night," Ozpin states as he gets up from his seat and then leaves. "Well, I guess I will take my leave as, and I will get some more information about the two incidents," Derek gets up from his seat heads to the door, then he stops right at it, and then he turns to walk to his Aunt and hugs her. "It's good to see you again, Auntie," she smiles and hugs him back. "It's good to see you too, sweetie, and you be careful you hear me, young man," he chuckles at that. "Well, I'll certainly be more careful than someone I know," she starts giggling at his statement. "Hilarious kid," Derek scoffs at his Uncle, and then the both of them let go of each other. "I better get going. I feel like somebody is waiting for me outside," he starts making his to the exit, and then he gets out of the police station. "So Don, you think he'll find," Glynda looks at Donte as she asks the question. "Honestly, Derek doesn't have me worried, it's his other half that has concerned, and whatever idiot decides to piss him off, they probably won't be alive after that," he laughs at the last part he said. "But on a serious note, he'll be fine, and besides, there will help few people there that can stop him before it gets that far," he wraps his arms around her to help her relax. "*Sigh* I suppose you're right about that," he manages to put her mind at ease. "Of course I am; that's why I said it," she pops him in the chest, he laughs at that, and then he gives her a kiss on the lips.
Outside the Police Station
Derek spots Isabella and her friend Ruby sitting at a bench across the street. "Well, you took your time Dare," she gives a grin to her big brother, and he rolls his eyes. "I would have been out sooner if it weren't for Uncle showing up, Izzy," he says while approaching the two. "Looks like you found him alright," Ruby chimes in the conversation now. "He was looking for him," Izzy is curious as to why he was looking for him. "We/They got separated," both Derek and Ruby answer simultaneously. "That was weird anyway; let's get going," he jesters the girls to follow him. "And where are you taking us to Dare," Izzy asks while she and Ruby start following him. "We are going to do a little investigation about the two incidents that happened today," Izzy and Ruby look at each other for a second and look back at Derek. "Wait, two incidents; what happened in the second incident," Derek looks back at Izzy and Ruby. "Well, I suppose it's not going to hurt anything if I tell you. They were an attempted kidnapping tonight as well by the same people wearing a black suit and fedora. I know their boss, so we're going to him for a little talk," Izzy gave a 'Yeah Right' face and was about to say something but got cut off by Ruby. "I feel like it's not going to be a peaceful talk, is it," Izzy giggles at that cause that was similar to what she was about to say. "Oh, I'm hurt that you would say that... It will depend on how cooperative he," the girls start giggling, and even Drakkon bursts out laughing. "She figured out *laughing* she is good," Derek gives a sigh to Drakkon's pestering. "So where are we heading Dare," Derek gives a quick straight answer, "Junior's Club."