Hyperion - 01
-RWBY VERSE, THE KINGDOM OF VALE-
Being an assassin was a well-paying job, especially for someone of Ryutensei's caliber. Everyone wanted to hire him to take out enemies, rivals, all that jazz.
Ryutensei, or as he preffered it, Ryuuto, didn't care for any of that. He'd take out anyone… with limits of course. He wouldn't kill someone if he learned they were innocent of the "crimes" he was told about, and he also wouldn't kill children. He had a strict moral code, he wasn't heartless after all.
Ryuuto currently was hiding near the front of a large building, supposedly belonging to a criminal mob boss or something akin to that. He pulled out his Scroll and looked at it once more, trying to confirm his hit before he went through with it. "Mob Boss, Cherry Crims, 28, Female; supposedly an ally of Roman Torchwick and has faint connections to the White Fang, huh?" Ryuuto sighed, putting his scroll back into his jacket pocket. He slicked back his white and red hair slightly, before pulling out his "Broken Brother" Mask . People knew of the "Broken Brother", the deadly assassin that came for criminals, well-known or otherwise. Some feared him, some praised him, some called him a reckless fool who'll get himself killed one day.
But no one knew who was under the Mask except for employers he forced into silence, and that's how Ryuuto liked it. He looked at the building again, seeing a few guards in front of it holding firearms. Now here was another thing that made Ryuuto different from other assassins, he refused to kill random grunts. They weren't his targets for one, and secondly, they had families. And they were mostly innocent too.
Standing up straight and hiding behind a brick wall, Ryuuto looked through a hole he placed in said wall a day ago. Quickly crouching, he pointed his finger through the hole like a gun and charged up his Semblance. Aura Manipulation, or as he would have called it a few years ago, "Mana-pulation". Purple energy bubbled at the tip of his index finger, before being jetted out like a lightspeed bullet. As planned, the guards were distracted by the explosion, and rushed over.
Using this small timeframe, he snuck past them and got into the building. Still hiding within the shadows, he saw the security cameras were active. He knew their blind spots though, and to those blind spots he stayed. He then fired more energy beam at them, these ones thinner and unable to cause explosions. The cameras instantly shut down, allowing Ryuuto to continue.
He instantly found himself near a lobby, where more guards were on break, but still armed. Ryuuto's left eye twitched, knowing he'd have to sacrifice a lot of Aura to get past them with a "Time Jump". He sighed, at least that way he'd have the least amount of unnecessary death on his hands. He forced his power out, freezing time within the lobby, before he dashed through it. Once time resumed a few seconds later, Ryuuto was far away from there, but a little tired.
He got to Cherry's main room, walking through casually, as the mob boss looked at him without fear. Now that he had a good look at her, Cherry wasn't what Ryuuto expected at all. She had long, straight brown hair and cherry red eyes, probably where she got her name from. She also had a healthy white skin tone and was wearing a high-class business suit. Her figure wasn't bad either, but he didn't care for that too much. He didn't romance his targets, especially if they were right there in front of him to kill.
"Who're you?" Cherry asked suddenly, grabbing Ryuuto's attention again. He pointed at his mask instead of responding, and after some time her red eyes widened with fear. She rushed over to him, putting Ryuuto on guard, before she got on the floor and started to grovel at the assassin's feet. "Please, oh mighty Broken Brother! P-please spare me!"
Ryuuto stared passively at her after some time, his now glowing blue eyes narrowing behind his white mask. "Why should I."
"I can give you information on Roman Torchwick and the Fang! I-I can be useful to you! I have connections! I'll turn over a new leaf, I swear!" Cherry begged, with Ryuuto looking over the pros and cons of letting Cherry live. After he looked at her pleading face again, his eyes softened slightly. If he wanted to be better that the ones who made him go down this path, then this was a good place to start he supposed. Ryuuto then went back to speaking somewhat coldly.
"If you give me that information and sign a contract with me to ensure you're telling the truth, then I suppose I can spare you. But to nullify my old contract, my original employer has to die…" Ryuuto smirked behind his mask, his voice somewhat suggestive. Cherry's face went through a plethora of different emotions and expressions. Fear and joy were most prominent for a while, before she smiled.
"I think I can arrange that. How much is your old employer paying you for this hit?" Cherry asked, as Ryuuto's smirk widened.
"900 thousand Lien." Cherry seemed a bit put off slightly, but then nodded. She thought to herself for some time before getting up and walking over to her desk.
"I think I can manage to pay you double." Ryuuto was somewhat surprised, before he nodded. 1.8 million Lien was a lot, much more than he could get from a few normal hits.
"In that case, Miss Crims, I think I can manage to work with you." Ryuuto smiled darkly, as he then left once his new employer told her guards to let him pass by. Ryuuto normally wouldn't have left his original boss behind, but this benifited him in more ways than one. Oh well, time to take down Employer #1. He didn't even bother to remember his name, since he would be dead soon.
-RWBY VERSE, THE KINGDOM OF VALE, DARK ROOM 20 MINUTES LATER-
...Ryuuto might have made some critical mistakes within the last 20 minutes. One of which being stupid enough to forget that unlike Cherry, his original employer had actual trained Hunstmen and Huntresses guarding him.
Currently, the assassin sat at a table in a dark room, handcuffed and waiting boredly. He was caught by the aforementioned Hunters after a few minutes. He could have handled them, if his energy supplies weren't already low enough as they were. It was… an embarrassing fight he would love to forget.
After a few minutes, two adults walked in. He recognized them immediately, it was hard not to when your job was to know people's faces to take them out. "Proffessors Goodwitch and Ozpin of Beacon Academy. To what do I owe the pleasure?" Ryuuto managed to smile, even though he despised his current situation, his weakness, and the lack of his Mask. Without it, his green and red eyes were clearly visible, and showing frustration mixed with anger.
"Don't speak so casually to us, young man! You have caused a lot of trouble throughout the Kingdoms, killing and maiming people left and right-" Ryuuto glared at Goodwitch, his eyes cold and hateful.
"I have my reasons, Goodwitch." He slowly said, interrupting her as he then looked at Ozpin. "So, what now? Gonna send me to prison for taking down the criminals that your Hunters fail to or look away from?"
Ozpin took a seat opposite to Ryuuto, leaning in as his brown eyes looked into the assassin's own. "Not necessarily…" Those words suprised Ryuuto, as he looked at Ozpin with more interest. "We've noticed while you have have commited some… questionable acts; you have skills that are undeniably useful to Remnant. Letting you rot in jail would be a waste."
"So what then, am I supposed to join Beacon or something?" Ryuuto scoffed slightly, before he realized Ozpin was suggesting just that with a look. "Ah, damnit… What's keeping me from saying no?"
"Jail." Was Ozpin's quick, but short response. Ryuuto took a deep breath and sighed.
"Yep, fine, you got me there. I'll join Beacon." Ozpin seemed to take that as a victory, nodding before leaving. Glynda uncuffed him, and Ryuuto begrudgingly followed the two.
It looks like he was gonna be a Huntsman after all.
