Chapter 3: FirstDay

/Welcome to chapter 3.

Some of you may be questioning how our light-dark hero used a powerful wind and ice attack, well to put it simply, Dust responds to aura, and semblances are connected to aura, so the weapons, which are created directly from the semblance, can use Dust just like if they were magic spells. It's pretty much how Weiss does it.

Also speaking of Dust. I'm having our hero have a very creative mind when it comes to using Dust in a fight. For example: by having a keyblade absorb both fire and ice dust, it can use a pressurized water attack. Also with absorbing dust into the weapons, since both are connected to each other, and his semblance, absorbing elemental Dust with one distributes it among both(ex: absorbing fire Dust with Oathkeeper, also allow Oblivion to shoot fire)

That being said, if he was to use light Dust, it would release an incredibly powerful attack.

Alright time for the story to begin\


It was morning when Colton stirred from his sleep. The previous night, team CRNN set up who go what bed, they went for boys on one side and girls on the other, except for Nora, who wanted to be as close to Ren as possible. Compromising, Colton and Pyrrha took the beds closest to the walls, while Ren and Nora took the beds closer to the center of the room.

Colton starts to get up, letting out a silent yawn. He looks at his scroll to see the time. '7:30, got it'

Colton quietly got up from his bed, and grabbed his school uniform from his dresser, which he filled with clothing the night before, with the other members of team CRNN following suit, as three of them didn't have that many belongings to begin with, and Pyrrha didn't bring that much to Beacon.

Colton with his uniform in hand, goes to his dorm's bathroom. 'Thank the gods Ozpin decided that each dorm have their own bathroom. Otherwise privacy would not be a thing here.'

After about 10 minutes of showering, Colton steps out of the bathroom changed into his uniform.

He goes quietly over to Ren, and gives him a gentle shake. Ren slowly wakes up, and when he's fully awake, he looks at Colton.

Colton took this opportunity to speak up with a hushed tone. "It's about 20 to 8, I'd recommend getting a shower in before the other two wake up. I'm going to go get some breakfast, so I'll be right back."

Ren nods, and walks over to his dresser. Colton then grabs his scroll, and uses his semblance to turn into a shadow on the ground, slipping under the door, as to not risk the door creaking and disturbing the two sleeping girls.

Colton then makes his way over to the kitchen after rising from the floor on the other side of the door.


Colton made his way over to the kitchen that belongs to his team and team RWBY.

Colton looked around in the pantry and found some pancake mix. Colton decided to make pancakes for his team, and their quote-unquote "sister team"(team RWBY).

Colton has already been cooking for a few minutes, he took the finished pancakes off of the pan, and put them on a plate, as he was grabbing the bowl full of uncooked pancake mix, he was greeted by an excited Nora that was a few inches away from his face.

Colton gave out a small yelp of surprise upon seeing the energetic ginger suddenly right next to him, falling over as he does so. Miraculously, he doesn't spill anything, so there's no messes to clean up, at least he won't be forced to change out of his uniform.

"Nora! Wha- how- you were fast asleep not even ten minutes ago."

Nora had an almost insane look on her face. "I sensed pancakes!"


After that little incident, it was 8:45, and all of team CRNN was fully dressed for the first day.

Turning to his team, Colton decided that now would be the best time for them to head to class. "Hey guys, I think that we should head to class now. We don't have too much time before it starts anyway."

"I agree." Pyrrha states.

"Same here" Ren adds.

"Okay!" Nora agrees enthusiastically.

The team starts to head out towards class, they were going to tell team RWBY about it being near time for class, but they sounded busy.

Upon arriving in the classroom, the time was 8:55, five minutes before class.

The team decided to take one of the desks near the front of the room, sitting on the right side.

Professor Port have them a nod in acknowledgment for showing up on time.

A few minutes later the 4 members of team RWBY burst through the door.

The 4 girls sit down at the desk across from team CRNN and Professor Port decided to then speak up.

"Hello class, my name is Professor Peter Port, and welcome to Grimm Studies." Port then gave a bow.


"Monster! Demons! Prowlers of the night!" Professor Port spoke dramatically. "Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many name, but I merely refer to them as prey! Ha-ha!"

Port turned towards the students hoping to get a reaction out of them, only to realize that no one reacted in the slightest.

"Uh... And you shall, too, upon graduating from this prestigious academy! Now, as I was saying: Vale, as well as the other three kingdoms, are safe havens in an otherwise treacherous world! Our planet is absolutely teeming with creatures that would love nothing more than to tear you to pieces! And that's where we come in. Huntsmen! Huntresses! Individuals who have sworn to protect those who cannot protect themselves! From what, you ask? Why, the very world!"

/Authors note: I'm copy-pasting certain parts of the story so I don't just gloss over it like a summary.\

A random student started to cheer, only to slump back down in his seat when all of the other students look at him like he grew a second head.

/authors note: imma bout to change this up a little\

Once the students turn their attention back to professor Port, he decided to use the most effective way of getting a student's attention: talking about the Golden Grimm, the Necrozma.

"Now listen up students. Normally I would tell you about one of my many manly stories of my youth. But instead, I'll be discussing about the most popular, yet most mysterious Grimm known to man: the Necrozma!"

This got the class' attention. A majority of the students started to get excited to be talking about the Golden Grimm, even Ruby and Nora stopped goofing off to pay attention to the discussion.

Colton on the other hand, paled. 'He's going to be talking about me!'

Luckily for Colton, the rest of the class were too busy paying attention to Port to notice that Colton got unusually nervous.

"Now the Golden Grimm is known for being the only Grimm to not attack people, but rather it attacks other Grimm. From reports, it seems to be rather young and chipper, despite its size. It reminds me of myself when I was younger-"

At this point, Port stopped talking about the Golden Grimm, and instead went into droning on about his youth.

When Port started his story, Colton visibly relaxed. The class lost its previous enthusiasm, with few falling asleep out of boredom, Nora and Ruby included.

Colton tried his best to not fall asleep, so he was only half conscious. Pyrrha noticed and gave him a small shake on his shoulder.

This woke Colton up, shooting an appreciative look to Pyrrha, he focused back on the story.

"-The moral of this story? A True Huntsman must be honorable! A true Huntsman must be dependable! A true Huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise! So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?"

"I do, sir!" Weiss said instantly, with her hand in the air.

This got the attention of the professor.

"Well, then, let's find out!" Professor Port said, gesturing to a cage in the corner of the room, which was shaking from the struggles of whatever was inside of it. "Step forward, and face your opponent!"

Ah, right, Port was known for somehow being able to place Grimm in captivity, Colton still didn't know if he should be impressed, or scared by that fact, after all he is a Grimm.

Getting up from her seat, Weiss leaves the room to go change and get her weapon.


A few minutes later, Weiss comes back in the room, dressed in her combat skirt with her rapier in hand.

Once she was walking down to the front of the room, her team decided to give some moral support.

"You got this!" Yelled Yang.

"Fight well." Blake calmly says, while waving a flag that said 'RWBY' on it... wait, where did she get that?

"Yeah! Represent team RWBY!" Ruby cheers enthusiastically.

Despite the fact that multiple people were talking to her, she only reacted to Ruby, and not in a nice way. "Ruby! I'm trying to focus!"

Ruby tried to hide in her seat. "Sorry" she says.

'What's her problem? Wait... oh! She's jealous that Ruby's the leader and not her, probably.'

"Alright then!" Port says while holding his weapon. "Let the match begin!" he brought the weapon down, breaking the lock on the cage.

As the cage swung open, out emerged a Boarbatusk. The boar-like Grimm immediately charges Weiss.

Weiss jumps out of the way, while slashing at the Boarbatusk's side. Unfortunately it didn't do anything as she hit the bone armor of the Grimm.

"Ha ha! Wasn't expecting that, were you? Professor Port asks with a hearty chuckle.

"Hang in there, Weiss!" Ruby cheers from the sidelines. This caused Weiss to look over at Ruby for a split second, before returning her attention to the Boarbatusk.

Weiss then charged the Grimm, using a glyph to speed herself up. Unfortunately the Grimm reacted fast enough and got Weiss' weapon stuck in its tusks, causing the Weiss to try and wrestle her weapon out of the Grimm's quote unquote "grip".

"A bold, new approach. I like it!" Port approves.

"You can do it, Weiss!" Ruby called out, trying her best to encourage her teammate.

This causes Weiss to again look in her direction, making her lose focus on the Grimm.

The Boarbatusk took full advantage of that. Twisting its body, it launches Weiss' weapon out of her grip.

"Oh-ho!" the professor said almost tauntingly. "Now what will you do without your weapon?"

After jumping away from the Grimm, Weiss took a glance at the direction of her weapon, before turning back to see the Boarbatusk roll up and perform a spin-dash.

Weiss rolls out of the way, prompting the Grimm to roll past and hit one of the desks, causing it to unfurl on its side, dazed.

Weiss took this opportunity to retrieve her rapier. As she did, Ruby tried another attempt at moral support. "Weiss! Go for its belly!" There's no armor underneath—!"

"Stop telling me what to do!" Weiss shouts at her.

'Rude much?' Colton silently comments.

The Boarbatusk performs another spin-dash, but this time Weiss was ready.

As soon as the Boarbatusk was close enough, Weiss summoned a glyph to block the attack, then she jumped into the air, summoning another glyph and launching herself at the Grimm's unprotected belly, killing it.

Port started clapping. "Bravo! Bravo! It appears that we have a true Huntress in the making! Unfortunately that is all the time we have. Class dismissed."

Upon being dismissed, Weiss storms out of the classroom, with Ruby following her.

Gathering up his things, Colton turns to his teammates. "I have a feeling that Ruby and Weiss are going to get into an argument. I'm going to make sure that it doesn't happen so I'm going to go on ahead."

Colton receives nods from his teammates, then he heads out the door, in the direction he saw Ruby turn towards.


Colton was walking around the corner, when he saw Ozpin talking to a dejected looking Ruby. Colton wanted to step in, learn what's wrong, and help anyway he can, but he trusts Ozpin can do it too.

Colton decided to teleport not too far down the hall. Ozpin notices out of the corner of his eye, but doesn't react.

Colton teleports a few more times until he sees Weiss about to step onto the balcony.

"Weiss. Stop." Weiss, upon hearing Colton's voice close by, stops walking and turns around.

Colton approaches her. "You look like you need to release some steam. Wanna talk about it?"

Weiss decided to oblige as it might help her to vent her frustrations. "It's Ruby! She's a terrible leader!"

Colton turns his head to the side. "What makes you say that?"

"She's so childish, she doesn't take anything seriously, especially as a leader. I've trained so hard, for so long, just to get upstaged by some brat! Ozpin made a mistake, making Ruby the leader, it should've been me!"

'Right on the mark. Kudos to me.' Colton thought.

Colton was silent for a few seconds, before speaking up. "I don't think you'd make a good leader, Weiss."

Weiss made a face that was a mix between shock and anger. "Why not?!"

"First of all, you've been pretty rude since the day before initiation. The image you set up for yourself with that attitude of yours, is that of someone who has everything handed to them on a silver platter, metaphorically of course." Colton explained.

"That's not even remotely true!" Weiss countered.

Colton gave her a look that said: 'is it though?'.

"It's not entirely true." Weiss tried to counter again, but with a weaker conviction.

Colton noticed and knew the conversation is starting to go in the right direction. "Well I don't think that Ozpin made a mistake, at least not yet."

Weiss was confused by that. "What do you mean?"

Colton continued. "It's only the first day, there's still plenty of time before anyone can judge weather Ruby is fit to lead or not. In the meantime, let me ask. Do you think complaining and acting stuck up will convince those in power to change their opinions?"

Weiss took a little bit to answer. "No." She said quietly, but loud enough for Colton to hear.

"Then don't complain, instead you should be valuing what you have, rather than what you don't. Don't try to aim to be the best leader, that's Ruby's job. Instead aim to be the best person, and best teammate you can be." Colton says with a warm smile.

Weiss looks down in though before eventually looking back up, with her own smile. "Thank you for opening my eyes."

Colton gives a thumbs up. "No problem! After all, friends are supposed to help each other right?"

Weiss nods her head. "Yes, I believe that is what friends do."

Colton gave a small laugh. "Yeah. Alright I'm going to get lunch before it ends, see you around. And make sure to keep what I said in mind."

Colton starts to walk away, leaving Weiss to think over the conversation.


Colton rounds a corner, before seeing his team waiting for him.

Pyrrha speaks up. "So, what was wrong and how did it go?"

Colton gives a small smile. "Weiss was jealous that Ruby was made leader instead of her, and I feel like I was able to talk some sense into her."

"Well that's grand!" Pyrrha replies with a cheerful smile."

'Oh my Oum, she's so cute!' Colton tried his hardest to fight off an incoming blush.

Spoiler alert: He lost.

Fortunately, Pyrrha's eyes were closed, and by the time she opened them, Colton calmed down and the blush went away.

Unfortunately, Nora and Ren were right there watching the whole thing, and Nora had a mischievous look on her face, like she wanted to call him out for the blush.

Thankfully, Ren put a hand on her shoulder, shaking his head no at her. Nora lost the mischievous look, and reverted back to her normal cheery look.

'Thank you Ren! I'm saved from embarrassment.'

"Well then, let's go get lunch." Pyrrha spoke up.

Everyone in team CRNN agreed.

As they were leaving, Colton took that time to silently reflect on what just happened with Pyrrha.

He blushed. Does that mean he's going to develop feelings for her? Colton hopes so, just because he is, or as he puts it was, a Grimm doesn't mean that he can have feelings, after all, he's putting so much effort into being human, he can feel love if he wants, he has the ability to feel, to think, to be a real living thing. Plus Pyrrha's amazing, she's cute, and beautiful at the same time... 'is that even possible? I guess with Pyrrha it is.' Colton guesses. She's strong and reliable, and she's really kind. Of course Colton Lux Tenebris, the golden Grimm in human form, likes Pyrrha Nikos for her personality, her looks are just a bonus. After all, he's been taught(by Goodwitch(even though Ozpin argues that he taught him that)) to understand people for what they are on the inside, not what they look like on the outside.

'I'm going to enjoy my life!' Colton thought with a smile on his face.


/And that's another chapter complete!

Sorry that this chapter didn't include any action outside of Weiss' little scuffle with the Boarbatusk, I'm pretty sure that combat class starts on the next day, after all, the show never well showed the introduction of combat class and instead skipped ahead 1 month.

To clear things up, once joining with Ozpin, Colton was taught by those who know of his true identity, ie Ozpin and Goodwitch, of how to be a person, Ozpin mainly teaching him knowledge, and combat, Goodwitch handling things like human/Faunus interaction, and to not discriminate(that part was easy as he is something completely unique in the first place).

And I hinted at what the ship would be, or rather practically shoved the hints down your throat.

Anyway, thanks for reading!\