a/n well we now have an official cover image for the story drawn by Ren Lyles, it does sorta spoil the main romance of this story but oh well. I hope you all will enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter five: An Unlikely Ally
One thing that someone with my lifestyle can not and will not be able to get used to is waking up to someone in the bed with you, so waking up to a rose-scented body next to my own was a surprise. Just as it had been the few times it happened while staying at the girl's home. Opening my eyes to look around the first thing to catch my eye was the body of Ruby laying next to my own, the second thing to notice was the way her arms curled around my own arm. With a small chuckle to myself, I shake her to gently wake her up.
"Ruby hey Ruby wake up. It's time to get up." a soft groan and what sounded like a few harsh words were the only thing that I got in response to my prodding. "Well fine then, you asked for this to happen so don't blame me for what is about to happen next"
With a small squeak, Ruby is thrown onto the soft carpet floor. Groaning loudly she opens her eyes to look at me "oh hey Tyler...wait why am I on the floor?" she yawns before standing up stretching herself which caused her shirt to ride up some, revealing some of her small yet tight stomach as she does so. Averting my eyes from her, I go to stand up before she squeaks again.
"What is it?" as I turn around I see her face redder than her namesake. "Hey, are you okay? Are you feeling sick or something."
She shakes her head before pointing at me "y-you have not shirt on a-and I-I was…" her words end up becoming a bumbling mess while she pieces together what she was doing during her sleepwalking escapades.
"Oh don't worry, I'm sure all you did was cuddle me. At least that is all I can remember you doing" I allow my tone to take on an almost husky tone at the last sentence just to tease her. The result being a rush of rose petals where Ruby was as she attempted to hide somewhere.
With a laugh, I pull my shirt on finding it where I left it last night before settling into bed. Making my way to the living room I call out for the little reaper "hey where did you set my box you got for me?"
"I put it in the hall closet next to your room" her voice comes from down the hall into the guest bedroom. The sound of her semblance going off comes next as she rushes into the living room to stand in front of me. She holds her hands behind her and stands up on her tiptoes as she looks up at me "soooo what are we doing today?"
Flicking her head softly causing her to scrunch up her nose before she pouts softly "well remember the girl I told you about, the one I am training?" at her nod I continue. "We are going to train today as well, that is if Cindy is done modifying her weapon."
"Oh my gosh, do you think she would let me see her weapon and let me see what makes it tick!?" she jumps up and down childishly before jumping up to latch onto my arm. With a wide grin, she repeats her question over and over until I answer her.
"Well that will be up for her to decide, she also was going to see if her team members could come to watch her train."
At the thought of meeting hunters and huntresses, her eyes widen before she jumps up and down with all the fervor of a fangirl. "Ohmygoshohmygosh that will be amazing" she looks up at me with a sparkle in her eye. "Let's go let's go let us gooooo"
"Well let me see if she's even up and ready first, and as I said earlier, she will need to see if her weapon is ready. By the way, how was meeting Cindy? She can be a lot to handle I know." shaking her head Ruby grins widely before going into how she and Cindy became quick friends due to their shared interest as well as them being short stacks.
While she was talking I message Velvet to see if she was up and ready to train, after a few seconds she responds
Oh yes, I am ready and my weapon is now fully up to spec with your suggestions. And where do you want to meet up at? I asked headmaster Ozpin if I could schedule one of the training rooms and he told me it was fine if you want to meet there. If not I'm fine with anywhere really
Reading her text I responded letting her know I would meet her there and that Ruby would come along with me.
Walking out the door I pull up a map of the school on the black scroll and plot our way to the training room while trying to keep the little fangirl of a reaper in check. "Okay calm down Ruby, if you are going to be a student here you'll need to get used to seeing all of the weapons."
Pouting softly she punched me as hard as she could which truth being told felt like a small puppy lightly putting its paw on me. "Ugh fiiinnneeee, I guess I'll try and keep myself in check some."
"Well I could always just give you detention when the year starts up if you act up like this" allowing a teasing tone to enter my voice as I talk I push her away softly
With a loud playful gasp, she burst in front of me with her semblance and gets on her knees looking up at me with her hands in front of her face "oh please no Mr. Wolfy teacher man, I promise I'll be good and all that good stuff."
"Oh c'mon get up and stop that, we are almost there" another burst has her beside me once again as we turn down one hall and walk by a group of students.
As we walk past them one of the students steps infront of me shyly "u-um excuse me, sir. Would you happen to be the new teacher we are getting for the year?" looking at the student I see he is an elk faunus.
"Yes I am, can I ask why you need to know this, considering it seems many know more about me than I would have liked."
The student's eyes widen before smiling a somewhat sad smile "I'm glad then, maybe now we won't be treated as badly…" with this I raise one eyebrow and look at the other students, to my surprise they were all faunus as well.
"Well that was not my intention but...I'll be glad to help with anything, I have heard Beacon would rather its students settle matters on their own but my room will be open to any faunus in need. Or rather any student in need for that matter" at the light that appeared in the student's eyes I smile softly before walking off with Ruby in tow.
"Are all faunus like that?... I mean having that sad look in their eyes" looking down I see that Ruby has a solemn look while her voice has a saddened tone to it. Reaching down I rub her shoulder softly before seeing that we arrived at the training room Velvet told me to meet her at.
"Enough of this depressing subject, let us focus on something else now." with a nod she looks around the room in awe.
"Ohh wow this is amazing, will I get to train in here as well?"
Looking at the room it would be clear to anyone exactly what the purpose of the room was. Scorch marks adorned the walls in places as well as some metal parts that looked like they belonged to some atlesian knights. A sound from behind us causes my ears to perk up as I turn around in time to see Velvet crashing into the room.
"I'm here I'm here I'm here" she bends over holding her hands onto her knees as she pants softly. "Oh please tell me I'm not too late- oh hello there T-Tyler j-just give me a second to catch my breath.
After a few moments of Velvet catching her breath, I introduce Ruby to her. "Velvet meet Ruby, she will be coming to Beacon this year. In fact, she impressed Ozpin enough to let her skip the last two years of Signal academy."
Velvet holds her hand out for Ruby to shake, who looked as if she was two seconds away from exploding due to her inner fangirl "hello there Ruby, my name is Velvet scarlatina is nice to meet you."
"I'm Ruby rose! How long have you been a huntress? What's your team name? What is your weapon and what is its name?" the little redhead shakes Velvet's hand quickly with each question."
Pulling her away from Velvet I laugh at Ruby's enthusiasm "you two can get to know each other later, for now, me and her need to train. Speaking of that, what about your team? Are they coming to watch or did something come up"
Shaking her head the rabbit smiles softly before pointing to the door behind us "no they will be coming soon enough, at least Coco should be. Fox and Yatsu said if they can get away from their job they would come by. Oh also Ozpin said we would have this room completely to ourselves today since he knows I want to keep my weapon a secret for now." she pulls out the gold and brown box from her side before grinning softly.
"Ooooh it's much more compact than mine..I'm kind of jealous actually. Did you use some space expanding tech inside of it?" Ruby creeps closer to the weapon with sparkles in her eye.
"Actually no my weapon is just this small, its other form is really just a camera that I use to take pictures of other weapons which my weapon then uses to create hard light constructs of said weapons." with this Ruby gasp and attempts to grab her weapon before I pull her away by her hood.
"Now now Ruby, how about you see her weapon in action since it might answer some of your questions." she pouts cutely but proceeds to walk to one side of the room where some bleachers were at.
Velvet and I walk into the middle of the room before she looks down at my hands "so what weapon are you going to fight with?"
With a low smirk, I activate my semblance causing shadows to form around my right hand as they fade away my gauntlet appears to have formed on it. "Well, it'll be a surprise. Now come at me little rabbit."
Holding both of her hands out, bluish-white lines shoot from her weapon and form around her hands. As the lines fade away twin daggers are in their place. Holding them both in a reverse grip she rushes at me at a speed that her faunus heritage would be proud of. When she reaches me shadows explode out from me, causing her to be pushed back to where she started. "Wait what?..." she tilts her head in confusion as I chuckle softly
"That was a good attempt, but now it's my turn." forming a short spear in one hand and a longer one in the other I throw the long one at her causing her to parry it so it falls behind her. As she is parrying I rush in and thrust the short spear at her legs to which she jumps back to dodge. As she lands I step forward to press into her space. This causes her to stumble back and fall over the longer spear she parried. "Seems you need to keep aware of your surroundings."
With a soft almost cute growl, the daggers fade away before she forms bladed gauntlets on each hand. She runs into me going for a punch to my jaw before switching up to duck under my guard and getting a solid punch at my back only to receive a kick into her gut from me. She grunts before the weapons fade away once more in her hands. " I thought I had you there…" she looks down as her ears droop softly.
With her being distracted I let the spears fade away before forming a small ball of dense shadows into my right hand which shoots out quickly and into the center of her chest. Her aura flickers as she falls to the ground. "Ouch that kinda hurt you know." she rolls onto her stomach then stands up to turn to me. As she turns I rush into her, her eyes growing wide as she sees how close I am. While she attempts to form another weapon but my hands gripping her wrist down to her side stops it.
"Well now now I do believe that this match belongs to me." stepping back I smirk softly at her pouting face but tilt my head as she returns the smirk.
"Nope" was all I got before she jumps off of the ground to kick my jaw with her left leg. Seeing what her plan was I step to her right and grab her right leg throwing her to the side.
"Gave up using your weapon I-" my words are cut short as she twists midair throwing a hard light construct dagger at me. I manage to grab it with my gauntlet just in time for her to lunge forward with another small dagger. She stops just as the dagger is about to hit my throat. A soft smile graces my face as I see the proud look on her face.
"I'll give that one to you, little rabbit." quickly grabbing her wrist I twist the dagger out of her hand and continue twisting her wrist as I pull her arm behind her back placing the dagger onto her temple. "But not this one" as the dagger fades away I step back and laugh at the embarrassed blush that formed on her face.
She falls to the floor on her knees with a small growl of frustration before pointing at me "no! Let's do one more." with a small chuckle I flex the fingers on my gauntlet before getting into a boxing style stance.
"If the student wants to be beaten again by her teacher then, by all means, come at me" flexing my hand in a come at me motion I'm caught off guard as she leans back using her hands to spring her back up to her feet and at the same time I see her legs covered in the blue-white lines of her weapon forming another construct weapon onto her feet. With an almost shit-eating grin, she does a roundhouse kick sending a ball of energy from the now formed dust casters on her feet.
As the energy balls hit me they form a shell of ice at my feet, trapping me. "I have a few tricks up my sleeve" the now smug sounding bunny states as she pulls out a blue dust crystal from the weapon at her side.
"I can see that, but there is something you didn't account for." I smash my gauntlet into the ice at my feet to free myself before starting to slowly walk over to her. "I have a few of my own" I hold my arms out to the side with my palms facing down. Shadows begin to fall from them and pool at my feet before forming into a pair of wolf familiars. With a snap of my fingers, the wolves rush at her.
As the wolves get closer it's clear that she was caught off guard by the summons, her reaction simply a small squeak and closing her eyes as the wolves lunge at her. After a second she opens her eyes to realize that she wasn't dead but the wolves were simply looking up at her with their tongues out. "W-what?..."
A slow clapping cuts her off and causes both her and my own ears to perk up some as two people enter the room. "Well, my little bun bun I would say that you really got your ass handed to you in that fight." As we look over we see Coco coming closer to us, followed by a dark-skinned boy with dark orange hair as well as eyes that were whiter than an Atleasian snow day.
"Oh hush Coco...I was gonna have him!...at least on the next round anyway." she puffs out her cheeks in an attempt to pout her way out of the teasing that was coming her way by Coco.
A sudden rush of roses appear beside Coco and the dark-skinned boy as Ruby jumps up and down in front of her. "Oh, my gods! I thought I recognized you. You all are team CFVY, right? The winners of last year's vytal festival!" at the nod from Coco, Ruby rushes over to me with her eyes wide. "And your training THE Velvet scarlatina?! The huntress who fought with only her hands during the tournament and won the singles round thus resulting in the victory of her entire team!" With a squeal, she runs over to Velvet and begins to talk to her about how sorry she was for not realizing it was her earlier.
Raising her eyebrow the beret-wearing woman looks at me "is she a friend of yours? She's cute. I like her." the boy to her side sighs softly and facepalms before shaking his head. "Oh, this is Fox, by the way, the resident smartass of our team and an all-around bastard at times if he doesn't like ya" pushing him in my direction she walks over to try and save Velvet from the rabid fangirl.
The dark-skinned boy I now know as Fox gives me an appraising look before nodding "so you are the one she would not shut up about the other day. I'm surprised to say I approve of her choice of a teacher. Like my oh so kind leader stated, my name is Fox."
I go to speak before I feel a pull on the back of my shirt, turning around I am greeted by the sight of Ruby grinning up at me with a bright smile. "What?" as I ask her her grin turns shit-eating before she looks back at Coco who smirks softly and it was at this moment I realized I fell into a trap.
With all the innocence she could muster she asks me "why didn't you tell me you were dating a celebrity like Velvet?"
Feeling some heat rise to my cheeks I facepalm when Coco starts to laugh loudly as Ruby gives her a high five before she too laughs at me. Wiping the tears out of her eyes from under her shades Coco looks over at Velvet and laughs even harder "oh I really like this girl now."
After introductions were out of the way, the three members of team CFVY had to go on their way and Ruby needed to go find Yang. This led to me in the office of Ozpin where he was showing a replay of me training Velvet. Just as it finishes playing he leans forward on steepled hands "so it seems as if you already have a connection to this team, am I correct in saying this?"
With a nod from me, Ozpin smirks for a split second before allowing his face to return to the normal stoic look he's known for. This causes suspicion to begin to rise in me and being one to follow my gut I decide to ask him about it. "Is there something wrong with that? I did agree to train her before this" I motion my hand around the room "became a deal."
After a moment to take a sip of his coffee, he looks me up and down appraisingly before the smirk makes a comeback "well it is not a problem in the slightest, in fact, it cuts down on some work for me. This year we were implementing a new procedure regarding our teachers picking one team to train personally" at my curious look he lets his voice take on a teasing tone. "If you had read through the documents on your scroll then you would have known this already."
"About that, some things came up regarding another job of mine that I am...waiting to hear back from, i'll give you an update on that when I am told more."
"Ah yes about that, so how did it go with you meeting Roman. The fact you weren't followed back would lead one to believe that it went well."
With a sigh I shake my head, this man was beginning to get on my nerves with just how much he knows but the pay is much greater than any other job I've had before so I guess I'll stick with it for now. "Yes I and Roman came to a deal and I am currently waiting for a message from Neo to tell me what my first job will be for him." another thought enters my mind as I spoke. "Now just to reassure myself, since I'm paranoid, none of these crimes will be held against me right."
"Yes that is right, if you are caught I will handle the police personally, I have...connections as you would say" the playful glint that appears in his eyes just reassures the fact to me that Ozpin lives up to the rumor of him being a major troll to everyone. "Now let us get back on track as to why I called you here since you already are training one of the members of team CFVY how about you become their personal trainer."
"So you want me to train them and what, escort them on missions?" a nod from him is my answer. "I will do it on one condition, I get extra pay."
"You have a deal" he holds his hand out to shake mine, as he shakes my hand his aura pulses for a split second causing my own to flash up. As the mint green and dark purple lights fade away he simply chuckles softly to himself "hm it is as I thought"
My eyes narrow as I step back some "what did you do?"
With a dismissive wave of his hand, he laughs softly "oh nothing I only wanted to test for myself this so-called 'dark aura' I've heard about.
With a cautious glance at the headmaster, I turn to leave the room. "Alright then...is there anything else you need of me sir?" as he shakes his head I leave the office through the elevator and run right into a short rather portly man with a head of grey hair and a large grey mustache.
With a loud booming voice that causes my wolf ears to flatten he steps back before speaking "oh! Excuse me, young sir, I did not see you there, what with me being distracted and all. Oh good heavens you must be the new teacher we were told of, well jolly good that I ran into you now have a nice day" and just as quickly as he came, he left trying to run after a woman whose skirt was rather short for the business attire she had on.
"I can already tell, that man will cause me some heavy migraines in the future" I sigh to myself before attempting to make my way to my room. But it seemed interruptions would be normal for the day as a blonde woman steps in front of me to block my way. Looking down into the eyes of Glynda I step back as I notice some fury into her eyes. "May I help you?"
With a small scoff, she regards me with some disgust before simply stepping closer to me "Ozpin has directed me to show you the way to your classroom as well as give you a more informative guide to what your class will be… it's just like him to shove this all on me" mumbling the last bit she turns and motions for me to follow her. "Now your class will be set after the normal school hours given nature as being non-mandatory to graduate. And more so" she continued speaking almost non stop as we walked to the room that would serve as my classroom and honestly all I got out of her words is the fact that she needs to be laid. Her stress must be out of the roof for her to be this uptight and callous. After what felt like hours due to her talking we walk into a classroom.
Looking around it was clear that the room was for combat, the doorway and hall into the room being between two sets of bleachers that led to an arena in the center of the room. Behind the arena were locker rooms which seemed to not be separated into male or female, guess that the co-ed part of Beacon was true, wonder what this says about Ozpin if he set his school up this way. "Now do you have any questions?"
Just now realizing that Glynda had been speaking this entire time we were in the room I look at her and shake my head "not at the moment no if I think of any I'll be sure to let you know."
Looking at me with a glare she sighs before pulling out a rolled-up piece of paper to hand to me. "This is your...official...teaching license to keep displayed in case any inspectors come by to try and snoop around. As for how Ozpin got this made, I would like to know. But that is all I need to do, now good day to you" with one last glare she turns to leave but my next words stop her.
"So I take it you are not too keen on a criminal like me teaching here?"
"Yes as a matter of fact I do, in fact, if you step so much as an inch out of line I have been appointed to be the one to take care of the problem." turning to face me with rage in her eyes, she pulls out a riding crop from a magnetic sheath at her back and points it at me. "Do I make myself clear? Mr. Morgan.
Not wanting to seem weak as well as my own pride I allow my semblance to activate causing shadows to wrap around me "crystal clear" with a scoff she turns and exits the room stepping with fury no doubt going to rant to the headmaster. "Well that could have gone better but" I shrug while speaking aloud "it could have gone worse as well." As I start to make my way back to my room the interruptions continue as I feel a vibration from the pocket with my normal scroll, pulling it out I see a message from Neo.
While Roman may have accepted you, he wants to test you as well. We have a job upcoming. I will let you know when it is time ;3 :)
Pocketing the scroll I start to think about what the job could be as I make my way through the halls. After a few minutes of walking through the halls, I reach my room. After opening the door to the room a set of voices cause my ears to point straight up, listening in I sigh softly to myself as I realize who the voices belong to.
"Oh wow sis maybe the dorm rooms we get into will be this big. At least I hope they will. I'm still surprised that you were allowed in two years early. Huh, think it has anything to do with uncle Qrow and dad always doing missions for the headmaster?" the voice of Yang echos through loudly as she speaks to her sister.
"It doesn't matter to me! I'm just happy that I'm in here, and guess what Tyler said his class was available to anyone! Oh and and this morning when he was fighting Velvet. Yes, the Velvet from the team who won the tournament last year. He was just so cool and he-" her words cut off as I walk into the living room and clear my throat. With a nervous chuckle, she gets behind her sister in a rush of rose petals and peeks out from behind her "o-oh hey there Tyler fancy meeting you here in...your...room...yeahhh…"
Yang starts to laugh at her sister's expense "oh gods Rubes we need to work on your social skills if you're going to be a part of a team with three other strangers for the next four years."
"But I was hoping we would end up on a team or something" comes Ruby's mumbled response as she steps out from behind her sister.
"You know she is right little rose if you want to be a successful huntress you'll need to learn how to negotiate the terms of missions and your pay on said mission. Another important thing will be learning how to deal with the red tape if you are sent outside the kingdom to another kingdom" noticing a dull blank look on the little roses face I stop talking.
Yang pushes her on the side of her head, causing her to fall over and twitch softly on the floor "uh wolfy I think you broke her, good job" she squats down and begins to poke Ruby softly on the cheek "hello c'mon sis wake up it won't be that bad...I think"
"Well while she's down for the count mind telling me what you two are doing here?" I make my way to the chair that has quickly become my spot in the living room. Leaving her sister on the floor Yang sits on the couch before looking at me.
"Well, Ruby just could not stop being a little fangirl over the fact that your teaching here and how you beat one of the members of team CFVY oh and the fact and I quote 'his semblance is just the coolest I've ever seen'" the sound of an embarrassed groan coming from the floor catches our attention as Ruby hides her face. "Well that got her up, hey sis didn't you also say you're very curious about his-" roses fly into her face cutting her off as the little reaper appears covering Yang's mouth.
"Eheh that's enough sis, we do NOT need to tell everything now do we?" The pleading look in her eyes causes me to raise my eyebrow before I shrug and pull out my normal scroll to answer a text from it.
"Well, girls it seems as if your uncle is looking for you, he wants you two back in Patch before nightfall apparently" at the sister's groans I laugh softly to myself as I stand up and begin to make my way to the master bathroom. "I'll see you two another time"
A few hours later I find myself at the same warehouse from my first meeting with Roman and as I enter I find myself starting at Neopolitan who simply grins some as she starts to walk up to me. When she gets close to me her grin turns into a smirk before she shatters into glass causing me to look around for where she teleported off to. The sound of soft footsteps start coming from behind me, the sound was so soft that only a faunus with hearing like mine could hear it. Right before the footsteps reach me I turn and face the ice cream themed woman as she aims her parasol at me, a blade starting to come from the tip. With a smirk hidden behind the wolf mask, I reach out and slowly move the point of the blade down to the ground "if that was your test, then it was a weak one."
Puffing her cheeks out Neo starts to walk closer to me before smirking and kicking out to uppercut me with her foot which I catch right as it reaches my chest. "A little slow there aren't you?" truth be told if I did not activate my semblance to quicken my reflexes by having the shadows move my arm then I would not have caught her foot. The look of anger and surprisingly arousal she has catches me off guard enough for her to jump up with her other foot and kick me across the jaw making me drop the foot I held.
"Well well well my little psychotic midget, it seems you found someone who could potentially keep up the pace with you. And speaking of that person hello there my wolf masked associate." Roman comes into view from a darker part of the warehouse.
The girl beside me grins as she starts to skip over to Roman who starts to light a cigar as he motions for me to follow him. "Come on my fellow member of the criminal underground, you passed the test and now we need to take this party somewhere else."
Following the ginger outside the warehouse we get into a black limo that looked to be as expensive as a bullhead with all the modifications I could see on it. " where are we heading to?" I ask him with a tone of suspicion in my voice.
"Oh don't be so paranoid, we are going to the job site that is all. You and little Neo here are going to rob the joint and attempt to find something while you're at it. But enough spoilers wait until we are there to ask more." winking at me he laughs to himself before turning to look out the window.
After about an hour of driving in silence as well as constantly swatting Neo's hand away from my mask, we arrive outside what seemed to be an office building of sorts. From the looks of it, the place did not seem to be heavily guarded and could easily be robbed by even grunts. "What is this place?" I ask Roman as we get out of the limo.
"This right here looks like a normal office building right? Well, this is actually the headquarters of a rival gang of mine. I want you to go in there and steal something from the leader's office while Neo here keeps an eye on you. If you fail this you'll either be killed by the gang members or by Neo if she feels like it. Buuuut given your track record I am willing to bet this shall be easy" turning to me he hands me his scroll to look at.
"So that's all? Just this lighter." a flash of irritation crosses the man's face as he takes his scroll back.
"Not just any lighter. A lighter that was wrongfully stolen from me in a rigged poker match" at this the shortest of us doubles over in silent laughter before Roman thumps her hard on the back of the head. "Don't you laugh at me, you know I've had that lighter since I was just a lowly grunt."
Neo stands back up wiping a tear from her eye as she walks over to me and links her arm in mine before looking up with a playful and innocent look as if to say take good care of me.
With a sigh and a slap to his, forehead Roman shakes his head "so what is your plan of action? This gang isn't really the toughest so feel free to rough them up a bit to teach them a lesson.
I tilt my head before looking down at Neo "how about we just go in through the front door and see what happens?" The look of glee and anticipation proves I chose the right action to please the little psycho. "Alright then let's start this party"
"You're going in without a weapon?" Roman asks as he looks me up and down.
"Well I always have a weapon" reaching in my trench coat I activate my semblance and form a short dagger as I pull my hand out of the coat "my semblance is more versatile than just enhancing the dust"
"Well, I'll be damned, out of all the guesses as to what your semblance could do besides the dust enhancing thing I would never have guessed summoning...is that even summoning? Well carry on then I'll be here waiting on you two to return then"
With a nod from me, Neo and I walk down to the entrance of the faux office building and are quickly stopped by two guards who stop when they notice who exactly we are.
"W-wait that mask...that hair oh by the gods sound the ala-" the first guard's words are cut off as I pull my hand back with the dagger and throw it into his throat using the no-spin style of knife throwing. The second guard did not have time to scream as Neo's parasol blade poked through his chest. She turns to me with a wicked gleam in her eyes as she skips back over to me to link arms again as we walk inside the building.
As we walk inside we are quickly surrounded by a number of guards who all aim their weapons at us. I pull my arm from the little psycho and hold both arms up to which she follows suit. "Now now now take it easy, boys and girls, we aren't here to cause trouble… too much" the sound of glass shattering and the sensation of being teleported follow my words as Neo activates her semblance, putting us behind the group. Within a few seconds, the group was disposed of in various states. Some being unconscious and others forfeiting their life at the hands of Neo.
"Well that did not take any effort at all, also I thought you were supposed to stand back and let me do all the work?"
Swaying her hips as she walks over to me, she grins softly before shrugging as if to say I don't care this is fun.
"Well let us get this over with, the quicker the better huh?" With a small puff of her cheeks, Neo starts to follow me as we make our way up to the top of the office building looking for the gang leaders' office. After no less than thirty minutes we find the office with the leader inside it.
"W-why are you coming after me?!" the leader managed to get out when he wasn't stuttering from fear due to Neo's grin. Looking at the man it was clear he had used money to make his way up the criminal ladder to be able to run his own gang the only notable feature of him being the beginning of three red lines poking out from his right shirt sleeve as well as the elk horns on his head.
"Well my good faunus, you have something of our leaders. One lighter belonging to Roman torchwick that you so wrongfully cheated him out of in a game of poker." the leader's eyes light up with even more fear as Neo pulls on the handle of her parasol slowly revealing the stiletto style blade she kept hidden.
"W-wait this lighter you mean?!" he flicks out a lighter to me which I catch and look at. Noting the emblem of the face of s jack-o-lantern on it I nod before looking back at the faunus leader. "Yes this is the one, you're free to go" the man's eyes widen in surprise as he begins to run past us. Neo looks at me pouting as she slides her blade back into the parasol, slight anger on her face. "Oh don't worry it's not over" turning around I face the man and throw the dagger into his leg, the power causing it to sink in a few inches.
With a scream, the man falls to the ground writhing and throwing out every curse he could at me as I walk closer. "Oh, by the way, Roman sends his regards" pulling out the dagger from his leg slowly I kick him in the head to knock him out. "Now let's get out of here" I turn to Neo and am shocked to see the blush creeping onto her face as well as the look of lust on her face while she licks her lips at me. Well, it seems another of the rumors about her were true. As she starts to run towards me I start to run out of the building, using my semblance to increase my speed.
As we make it to where we left Roman he gets out of the limo in time to grab Neo right before she catches me "okay that's enough of your weird kink" he laughs softly as Neo attempts to break free of his grasp. "If you managed to get her this excited then I take it you succeded" his eyes light up with glee as I toss the lighter to him.
"So the rumors about her kink are true then, she gets off to the pain of others huh?" with a nod Roman lets Neo go who pants softly before attempting to get her normal composure back.
"Oh yeah she is a weird one, but I wouldn't have it any other way considering how much success she brings me." he pats Neo on the head before motioning for us to get into the limo. "Well my masked fellow, I do believe this will be the start of something beautiful don't you?" with a large grin he pulls out a small stack of lien credits before handing them to me.
Counting the amount I pocket the credits before nodding at Roman "if you pay this much for such an easy job then I will agree with you"
The rest of the ride was spent in silence before we got back to the warehouse where we first left. After parting ways I aim to make my way back to Beacon when the sound of a crow stops me, turning to the sound I see Qrow coming out from a side alley. For some reason, it seemed crows would follow him everywhere he went to the point I have begun to associate the sound with the arrival of the old drunkard. "So you got in good with the most wanted man in all of Remnant and you managed to take out a gang in the same night" he begins to clap slowly before taking a sip from his flask.
With a shrug, I look at the flask in his hand as he turns it upside down to see if any drops come out of it. "Well considering the purpose of this job is to do exactly as such, I figured I would get a head start on that. Plus the fact that Roman's pet psycho has taken a liking to me should show that even more."
Qrow laughs before pocketing his flask "I do not envy you on that one, rumor has it that psycho has some weird kinks and is more than willing to get what she wants from the one shes set her sights on." he walks over to me and hands me a stack of lien "Oz sends his thanks for clearing out that building by the way. It saves him from having to send some hunters there."
Nodding I slid the lien into my pocket before nodding at the man "so I take it you were watching as well and have already given a report to Ozpin?"
"Yup. I'll be keeping an eye on you for a week or so just to be sure you won't betray us. Nothing personal it's just business" at my shrug he walks closer to lean in and whisper softly "if you do betray us then he's given me full reign to do as I see fit, and between you and me I don't want to make me nieces sad at the death of their new friend."
Laughing softly I back up a step to look him in the eyes "the resident wannabee dominatrix Mrs. Glynda goodwitch has already made that threat today. Honestly, that woman needs someone in her pants to destress some" this causes the old drunk to bend over laughing loudly before he stands and puts a hand on my shoulder.
"I like this new you, less cold and brooding and more jovial. That little accident you had must have had an impact on you after all huh. Speaking of that, have you had a chance to look at the documents I gave you."
With a shake of my head and a soft sigh, I look up at the night sky "not yet, I was planning on doing it earlier but it was one interruption after the other, and well now we are here. So I will look over it when I get to my room. Is that all you came here for?"
"Yep that's all, go have fun with your bunny girlfriend" at the glare I give him he chuckles and shrugs "little Ruby has a massive imagination is all I'll say on that" with a small wave he turns to walk away as I make my way into Beacon thinking over his words, or rather the words he said were Ruby's. First Coco said it to tease Velvet and now others are attempting to tease me with it, this sudden change in my attitude could cause some problems.
LISTEN TO THE OTHERS AND MAKE THE PREY YOURS TO DO WITH AS YOU WISH
As usual, the voice of the shadows chimes in at the worst possible time, shaking its voice out of my head I make for my room. Entering the room I listened to see if anyone else was in the room. With a relieved sigh I make my way to the kitchen and look through the fridge. Noticing the bottle Ruby had shown me the other day I realize it was a bottle of Vacuoan whiskey "hm seems Ozpin treats his associates well if he's willing to spend this kind of lien on top-shelf whiskey" pouring myself a glass I walk into the master bedroom. Walking over to the bedside table I pull out the folder Qrow had given me to help sway me to accepting his offer or rather Ozpins offer. Taking a swig from the glass I open the folder to look over the contents.
The folder did not have much information on the girl besides a picture of her as well as some sightings of her around the kingdom. Looking at the picture the only noticeable feature of her being the mask she wore. The mask was a simple one that covered her face completely and the design of it being pure silver color with a simple black white line splitting the mask in two vertically. It was a simple design but an effective one at hiding her identity. Looking closer at the picture I see what seems to be blonde hair peeking out from the hood she used to cover the parts that the mask did not. "This narrows the search down greaaaatttllllyy" with a facepalm I drop the folder and finish off the drink before looking at the places she had been seen at. Many of them being places that other gangs would frequent to do business deals.
"Seems that I'll need to make a visit to these places as Pariah and see if I can get some information on this girl..if I'll even be able to with all of these side jobs I'm having to do." a knock at the door catches my attention before I slide the folder back into the table. "Hold on a second I'm on my way" I head to the door and open it just as the person begins to knock again. The sight of Velvet standing in the doorway causes me to raise an eyebrow as she pulls down her raised fist "can I help you?"
"Yes you can" she glares at me before pushing me into the room and closing the door behind us "I want a rematch right now!" she pushes a finger into my chest and looks up at me with irritation in her eyes.
"Right now?"
"Yes right now, I just know I will be able to beat you"
I look down at her and point to the clothes she was wearing, her clothes being a simple light brown nightgown and bunny house shoes "you want to fight wearing that?" her finger slowly pulls away from my chest as she looks down at her clothes.
"U-uh...eeekk" she squeaks and folds her ears over her face as she slowly backs up till her back is on the door. "Why didn't you say anything before you let me talk!"
Laughing I shake my head some as I start to head back into the kitchen and pour another glass of the whiskey before answering her "because someone forced herself into my room and all. I wonder if that is against the rules"
"Nope not at all, in fact, there really are no rules regarding teachers and students now that I think about it?" she tilts her head side to side cutely before she looks down shyly. "D-do you have anything I could wear back to my room? I….uh didn't think this through now did I"
"Well, I do...but" I take a sip of my drink before continuing "if I'm correct, Coco would never let you hear the end of it if you come back wearing my clothes" her eyes widen as pink begins to color her cheeks.
"You are right about that...oh no Velvs you've gotten yourself into something embarrassing again...this happens too much…" she pouts and walks into the living room "what can I do" she sits in the chair I normally sit in as she thinks. "Well she wasn't in the room yet I could get away with sneaking in...but ohhh Fox was asleep when I just up and stormed off"
"I agree you've gotten yourself into quite a hard situation haven't you" her eyes widen as I speak as if she had forgotten that I was there. "Well, you could always just leave in your night clothes and deal with anyone looking at you" my teasing tone causes her cheeks to grow red before she hides her face in her knees, causing her nightgown to ride up some revealing well-toned inner thighs. Quickly looking away I slug down the rest of the alcohol before looking back at her attempting to keep my eyes from wandering.
"Ugh I don't know what to do...can I just hide away here and worry about it tomorrow?" she groans out, her accent coming through thickly as she does.
"Well how about this, you can tell her you went to see Ruby and decided to stay the night or something like that"
She suddenly springs over to me in an almost rabbit-like leap as she wraps her arms around my neck "oh thank you thank you!..." her blush worsens before she backs away shyly.
"No problem little rabbit, c'mon I'll show you to the guest room"
"Oh wait! I forgot to ask you about something. Is it true about you becoming our personal teacher? Coco told us it was something that Ozpin had told her a little earlier today, before me and you trained"
I nod softly before answering "yes that's right, he offered me that position and I accepted it. This means that if you take my class as well combat will take up even more of your day than it already has right?"
She facepalms and groans loudly before I pat her on the back softly as we enter the guest room "well here we go, your room for the night little rabbit."
Still groaning she walks to the bed and plops into it as I close the door and head back into my own room for the night. "Just a few weeks ago I was traveling from kingdom to kingdom on missions. Now I'm a permanent resident at Beacon and am in charge of a team of students. This is going to take some getting used to…" sighing I get into bed and attempt to sleep.
The next morning I wake up to the smell of food being cooked causes me to hold my stomach as it growls "that smells...delicious" walking into the living room I hear a set of voices coming from the kitchen. Listening in I hear Velvet talking to someone, flexing my ears to the kitchen to listen better I realize it was Ruby.
"Thank you again, Ruby, for helping me with this...I don't think I could live down the teasing from Coco if she found out"
"Oh, it's no problem Velvet! I'm glad to help out such an awesome huntress such as you. I'm just surprised some of my clothes fit you as good as they did...although they are a little tight"
With a yawn, I walk into the kitchen scratching my head "what's the point of having a private dorm if everyone keeps on barging in without asking?... I really need to put the scroll lock on it" looking at the girls I see a blush start to form on both of their faces "what?"
Velvet puts her hands over Ruby's eyes and looks away with her blush increasing even more "y-your shirtless…"
"Huh? Is that what made you two blush?" shaking my head I allow shadows to cover me and form a simple black t-shirt
"Well, you can't just show a girl something like that and not expect her to blush!" Ruby pushes herself out from Velvets' hands and pouts as she and the bunny turn around to start cooking again.
I shrug and walk over to see what they are cooking "so were you two planning to wake me up to eat or where yall going to let me starve?" looking over their shoulders, which was easy considering how short they were, I see they were making a simple bacon and egg breakfast.
"Well, we should let him starve after he attempted to sully our pure maiden eyes shouldn't we Velvet?" Ruby turns to Velvet with a teasing smirk before sticking her tongue out at me. It seemed that Yang was rubbing off on her more every day.
With a cute pout on her face, the bunny nods and gives Ruby a high five before going back to cooking
"If this is going to be how the rest of the students are...I'm in for a rough time aren't I?"
The only response I got was a giggle from the two as I made my way to my usual chair. Sitting down I look over at the two and notice just how adorable Velvet looked in the clothes Ruby had brought her. A t-shirt depicting a cartoonish style nevermore clung tightly to her chest revealing some of the curves that she had as well as the tight pair of jeans she had on.
YES LET YOUR DESIRES FLOW FREELY
Telling the voice to shut up I shake my head and feel the heat rising to my cheeks from having stared at Velvet for too long. With a sigh, I look down and pull out my scroll to distract myself some. Reading through the news it seemed the Vale police department took credit for taking down the gang that Neo and I had cleared out last night. "Typical police...taking credit for others work"
Velvets ears twitch as I speak "what was that Tyler?"
"Oh, nothing just the police department being their usual self and taking credit on jobs they obviously did not do."
"Well, dad has said things like that before. Are the police really that useless?" Ruby asked in an innocent voice as she walks over and hands me a plate with Velvet following behind her.
"From even my own experience as just a first-year, I couldn't count how many times the police took credit for a few missions we went on"
Tilting her head Ruby looks at me to seek answers from me "shes right, the police in each kingdom can be like that. They get jealous of the hunters and huntresses which causes them to take credit to try and raise their standings in the eyes of the public. She opens her mouth in an oh shape then proceeds to start eating her breakfast
"Mmm, we did a good job Velvet! Thish ish tasty" Ruby attempts to say through a mouthful of food.
Taking a bite I nod and agree with what she attempted to say as we sit in companionable silence while we finish eating.
As we finish, I gather our plates and take them to the sink to begin washing them as Velvet walks up behind me with Ruby in tow "I and Ruby are going to go and meet up with Coco to help stick with my um..my little white lie" she chuckles nervously as if she was afraid her team leader would not believe her.
"Alright, then I guess I'll see you two later." as I speak my black scroll starts to ring, looking at it I read Ozpin's name "if Ozpin allows me to that is…" with a sigh I wave goodbye to the others as I walk into my bedroom to take the call. "Yes, sir, what is it you need of me?"
In a sly voice, Ozpin answers "if you would come to my office as soon as you can, we have a matter to discuss that requires your...skillset"
"Ah, I see, I'll be up momentarily" hanging up the scroll I sigh to myself before grabbing my gauntlet from the bedside table. Walking out the door I stop to set up the scroll lock on the door and decide to put in Ruby and Velvets scroll numbers into it to allow them to come in when they please. "Guess you're getting soft Tyler aren't you...well let's get to the headmasters' office"
A short walk later the elevator dings as it opens into the office of Ozpin and notice he wasn't alone. Standing in front of Ozpin's desk was a woman with long white hair tied up into a regal looking bun, as she turns to me I see she was wearing the uniform of a high ranking Atlas officer.
"Ah, Mr. Morgan I am glad you could make it so quickly." he gestures to the woman with one hand as he introduces her "this here is special operative Winter Schnee, you and she are to work together on a short mission"
Feeling irritation cause my wolf ears to splay out in an obvious show of my emotions I force them to return to normal before holding my hand out to Winter "it's a...pleasure to meet you" I manage to force myself through grit teeth. Something that caused Ozpins grin to grow even more, obviously knowing what he would cause setting up a faunus like me with a Schnee.
