Chapter 7: The Reveal, & Battle At The Docks

Colton was walking around the campus, he was told that exchange students were going to be steadily arriving at Beacon for the Vytal festival.

It has been two weeks since the "incident" at the Forever Fall Forest, Colton has come to terms with what he did, and has moved on with the conviction to stay in control of himself.

Colton was walking near the Bullhead docks, when he spotted a strange sight.

Hanging upside down from a tree was blonde haired monkey fanus.

Colton approached. "Excuse Me." Colton says to the fanus, gaining his attention.

"Yeah, what's up?" The fanus responds with a tone that shows he wasn't concerned about getting in trouble.

"Are you waiting for someone? Or are you thinking of making that tree your dorm?" Colton says with a calm tone.

The boy laughed at that last part. "Naw! I'm just hanging around." He says with a joking tone.

Colton laughed at the joke. "I'm Colton Lux Tenebris. Nice to meet you."

The boy jumps down from the tree, and offers a hand, Colton takes the hand, and they shake hands. "I'm Sun Wukong, and likewise."

Sun then seems to remember something. "Oh, is there any chance a fanus girl with black hair and an equally black bow goes here?"

"Oh right, the fanus can tell when someone else is a fanus, even if they're wearing a disguise.* Yeah there's one who goes here. I'm the only one who knows she's a fanus. Do you know her?"

Sun shakes his head. "No, not personally. I ran by her earlier today at the docks, as you said, I could tell she was a fanus. She seems interesting so I'm going to see what's up with her."*

"Alright... I guess I could lead you to the dorms of the students who aren't exchange students."

The two boys then start walking in the direction of the dorms, when Colton couldn't contain his curiosity.

"What academy do you attend?"

"I used to attend Haven, before transferring to Shade, it's closer to home."

"So you live in Vacuo?" Colton asks.

"Yeah! And I'm proud of it. How 'bout you? Where'd you grow up?"

Colton looks away for a second, all apart of the cover story.* "I grew up here in Vale, an Orphanage to be exact. Going to Beacon was the best option to get out of there, this is my home now."

That last part was true, Beacon is his home, and he plans to keep it that way for at least the next 4 years.

Sun gives a sheepish look. "Sorry for bringing it up man."

Colton looks at him and smiles. "Don't worry. It's the past."

"What's your team?"

"I'm part of team CRNN, the leader actually. What about your team?"

"I'm the leader of team SSSN(Sun), easy to remember that I'm leader since the team is named after me."

Colton chuckles. "Yeah, we have a team like that here, team RWBY, lead by Ruby Rose. Anyway let's get going!"


Colton and Sun where walking towards the fountain, at the center of the campus, when they spotted Blake run towards it from a different direction.

"Well there she is, that was easy." Colton says to Sun.

Sun was about to walk over to her, but Colton stops him. "Wait, something seems wrong."

The two stop, and watch her start to break down into a sob. Reaching for her bow, Blake takes it off, and reveals a pair of cat ears where her bow once was.

'So that's what kind of fanus she is' Colton thought to himself.

Sun decided to speak up while walking over. "I knew you'd look better with the bow."

Blake turns around to see the two boys approaching her.

Colton stopped right in front of her, bending down to her level. "Is everything alright? You can tell me what's wrong." Colton holds out a hand to help her up.

"They found out." Is all she said, she then took the hand.


Under the guise of telling his team that he had to do something for the weekend, Colton accompanied Sun and Blake into Vale. It was Friday when they left, and is currently Sunday, Blake not having said anything the entire time.

Colton was walking over to the table of the cafe they were at, after having paid up front so they could sit around a while longer without getting kicked out.

The two fanus teens noticed him approaching. "Hey. You just missed her first words in over 24 hours." Sun then lowers his voice when Colton got close enough. "She explained that she was a White Fang member, for her whole life. Crazy right?!"

Blake gave him a glare.

Colton looked at Sun and said. "It would be surprising if I didn't already know. I already knew she was a fanus before we met, what made you think I didn't know she's an ex-White Fang member?" Colton says all this with a bland expression and flat tone.

"Anyway..." Sun says changing the topic. "You said you wanted to find out if the Fang was behind the recent robberies or not. So why not go to where they would go if they did. Ya know, to make sure they don't show up, and catch the real perpetrator."

"Where are you thinking?" Blake asks.

Colton spoke up. "I think I know what he's thinking. I heard that there's gonna be a huge shipment of Dust that is going to be unloaded today."

"Yeah, exactly!" Sun agrees.

"How big?" Blake questions.

"Schnee big." Is all Sun replies with.

"Where did the two of you hear this anyway?" Blake asks.

"I heard it from the boat I was in." Replies Sun.

"The SDC isn't exactly subtle." Colton states.

That proved to be a good enough answer for her, the SDC really doesn't seem to know subtlety.

The trio leaves the cafe, to go to their destination: Vale's docks.


A few hours after the sun had set, Blake and Colton were crouching down, on top of a container.

"Thank you."

Colton turns towards Blake, being able to see her thanks to his semblance.* "what for?"

"For being my friend, and helping me through this."

Colton smiles. "No problem, after all that's what friends are for."

Sun then jumps onto the container from behind. "Hey, I stole us some food." Sun held out a bag of apples.

"Do you break the law without thinking all the time?" Blake asks, while Colton started biting into one of the apples.

"Weren't you in a cult?" Sun retorts, only to be met with a glare.

"Too soon dude, too soon." Colton says after finishing the apple unusually fast.

The three start to quiet down when they hear a group of bullheads approach. The bullheads land and people start to pour out.

"Is that them?" Sun asks.

"It's them." Blake confirmed.

True to her words, the people down there were White Fang soldiers.

"You know, I wanted to be wrong, but deep down, I knew it was true."

Colton looks over at Blake, then they hear a voice.

"Alright hurry it up you animals! We aren't the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves."

The teens look in the direction of the voice, and see none other than Roman Torchwick.

"I'm going to get a closer look." Colton then sinks into the ground, moving along the shadows, getting closer to the thief.

A few moments later, Blake already beat him there, even if she didn't know, she draws her weapon, and brings it up to Roman's neck.

"What the-" Roman exclaims in surprise.

Every White Fang member in the vicinity turned their guns towards Blake.

Since everyone's focus was on Blake and Roman, Colton decided to take the chance to spread his shadows out so everyone was standing on them.

"Brothers of the White Fang!" Blake shouts, removing her bow. "Why are you aiding this human scum?!"

The soldiers look around, clearly confused, some of them slowly lower their guns.

On the other hand, Roman started to grin. "Didn't you get the memo? We're doing a partnership."

Roman then shoots behind him at Blake using his cane. Blake flys back, but is caught by an all black figure, a shadow replica of Colton.

More clones start to appear, one shouts. "Sun, now!"

Sun then jumps down and lands next to Blake.

The copy that spoke, spoke again. "I have an idea to get through the soldiers."

The darkness around them started to move a little, then rising from the ground was a sleek shadow-covered dragon, with a large fang right at its chin.*

The dragon charges towards a majority of the soldiers, leaving only some to back up Roman.

Rising from the ground, the real Colton emerges, he holds out his hands and summons his keyblades. "While the shadow dragon deals with the majority of the soldiers, let's deal with the crook."

"Right." The two fanus agree.

The 3 teens charge the criminal, with the 2 boys moving to fight the remaining soldiers, while Blake fought Roman directly.

Dodging and blocking bullets, Colton and Sun quickly defeated the remaining soldiers.

Blake was knocked down by Roman, and was about to be shot, when all of a sudden, a shot hits Roman in the back.

Everyone turns to see Ruby standing on top of a container, with an orange haired girl behind her.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Red, isn't past your bedtime?"

The two girls on top of the container seemed to be talking, then the ginger jumps down before starting to deal with the bullheads that were approaching.

Colton turns to Sun. "Grab Blake and get over to the girl in the red hood, I'm dealing with the crime boss."

Colton runs straight for Roman, noticing this Roman gets ready for a fight.

Colton swings Oathkeeper at him, Roman responds by blocking the attack. "I don't believe I've met you. I'm calling you grey." Roman says.

Colton pulls back, then goes for a swing with Oblivion.

Roman goes to block the swing.

Instead of following through, Colton quickly stops the attack with Oblivion, and by using the momentum, he swings Oathkeeper and gets a solid hit on Roman.

Roman paused for a second. "You actually hit me. Good job, you have skill."

Colton then launches a burst of light at Roman, which was dodged.

Roman swings his cane at Colton in a downwards strike, Colton blocked the attack, but realized hitting him with a melee attack wasn't Roman's intention.

Roman fired a Dust round at Colton, hitting him straight in his face, causing him to fly back.

When Colton got up, Roman already got on a bullhead that was starting to fly away.

"Nice try kids! But next time, stay out of my way!"

With that the bullhead flew off, letting the teens catch their breath.


Later, after getting briefed by the police, the group of 5 were sitting on some boxes.

They turn and see Weiss and Yang approaching.

As the two remaining members of team RWBY got closer, Colton started to space out.

'I heard from Ozpin that Roman was working with what appeared to be the person who attacked the fall maiden. If Roman is working with her, and the White Fang, that could spell a lot of trouble.'

Colton looks down at his hand letting some light and darkness flow around it.

Colton concentrates the light and the darkness to form new keyblades.

With his darkness and his light, he creates two identical looking keyblades, with a basic skeleton key design, one has a silver blade with a gold cross guard, and the other had the same, but the colors were reversed, the Kingdom Key, and Kingdom Key D.*

"New keyblades?" Colton turns to see the speaker, it was Ruby.

"Yeah, I can form any weapon with my semblance, I just choose key shaped swords as a symbolic meaning."

"Everyone else is heading back to Beacon. Don't want to be left behind, do you?"

"Let's get going, I'm sure my team needs an explanation."

The two leaders walk off towards the direction of Beacon.

On a rooftop not too far from the group of students, a figure in a long black overcoat* was watching them walk away. "Soon. Soon you will face annihilation, brother."

The hooded figure pulled back his hood, revealing his face to no one in particular. He had long-spikey black hair, and yellow eyes. "I, Vanitas, will make you repent for betraying our kind and our creator."

The now named Vanitas pulled his hood back up, and walked in the opposite direction, towards a large dark portal, and walked through.


1: Yes, fanus can tell when another is a fanus, like a sixth sense, I'm very sure this is cannon.

2: Honestly that's the best excuse to write for Sun intruding in Blake's business, he's just really nosy.

3: Yes, he has a cover story, Ozpin is smart remember?

4: As a passive ability, he gets night vision.

5: Imagine Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, but completely shadow black.

6: Yes the basic two-sides-of-the-same-coin keyblades. Also here's a little something for you guys, you can imagine any light and dark keyblade combination you want, even if they are fan made, like the fan made Neo Kingdom Key, or the fan made Ultima Weapon Darkness. You can just google fanmade keyblades and find a plethora of cool looking keyblades. My favorite one of the ones I found is called Eternity's End. Also some limitations: when a keyblade is specified like how they were in this chapter, then they're that specified keyblade(s). Also no X-blades, none of them. Those are saved for later.

7: Organization 13 coat.

/well then. That's the end of volume 1.

My update schedule is going to be a lot slower than before, I've got to watch volume 2 after all.

Also yes, I'm including Vanitas. He's a free will Grimm over-charged with darkness. He obeys Salem as much as any regular Grimm, but he still has free will. Looks like our hero is going to have a rival, who is totally not just an excuse to not focus on certain scenes.

Any see you soon.\