All right! Chapter 2 is here. Time to see which character bites the Dust today! (spins wheel)This is gonna be-

(wheel stops)

Oh. It's gonna be one of THOSE stories.

Chapter 2

When Heroes Die

The next morning, the ten of us who agreed to hunt down the missing Nosferatu were given a rude awakening. Fox threw my team's door open with a panicked look on his face.

"Guys," he said, "I woke up this morning earlier than the rest of my team. I decided to wake them up... but Yatsu wouldn't budge." A tear rolled down from his eye. "His aura, his pulse... It was all at zero."

Ruby and I exchanged glances. The vampire had struck again.

The room of Team CFVY was quickly established as the scene of the murder of Yatsuhashi Daichi. The samurai's body was removed from the room so that the biology team could study this nonsense. After a few hours, they reported what I'd feared from the beginning.

"There were puncture marks on the boy's neck," Professor Port announced. "I'm afraid that such a method of murder is the preferred method of the Nosferatu."

Coco and Fox both looked solemn, while Velvet was in tears. "Yatsuhashi," she cried. "Why..."

"Come on, easter bunny," Cardin said, having arrived at the scene himself. "It could be worse. It could've been you."

"It should have been," she moaned. "He swore he'd protect me, and now..."

"Get up," Winchester growled, grabbing her ear and pulling her off the floor. "All of this crying is making me angry."

"Hey, grow a heart, Cardin!" Jaune shouted. "It's your fault she was hiding behind him. You always picked on her anyway. It's, frankly, really unfair." He turned to face me and Fox, remembering that we'd formed an alliance with CRDL's leader the day before. "And if you really wanted to kill the Nosferatu, you'd stop stirring up so much negativity. It IS still a Grimm."

"You didn't let me finish!" Cardin added. "I was telling her that her crying was making me angry, but it's moreso that she's letting it all out! People. Die. You need to understand that, if there's a murderer in our ranks, that anyone can die, and that we need to suck it up and take it." He paused, looking at Yatsuhashi's bed. "The victim and I... We weren't exactly enemies."

"What?" I asked, dumbfounded. "Impossible. The two of you fought every other second."

"We were less enemies, more rivals," Cardin replied. "We both agreed that Velvet needed to get stronger, but we had clashing ideals on how to do it. Sad thing is..." He looked at the brunette bunny. "I'm only now starting to see how RIGHT he was. Getting stronger through force was my method. If you were weak, I would push you around until you got strong enough to fight back. He thought differently. He thought that if one wasn't strong... that teaching them how to defend themselves through gentler training was a better way."

"What's all the commotion?" asked a transfer student, coming down the hall. She had dark hair and golden eyes. She looked a bit older than the rest of us, but she WAS wearing a Haven uniform, so...

"Yatsuhashi was killed," replied Jaune. "We've been doing what we can, but Velvet's totally broken."

"Oh?" the girl asked. "Then perhaps I can help..." She approached Velvet calmly. "There, there..." she said. "It's okay. We'll find who did this."

She stood up, looking back to us. "That should ne good."

"Thanks, uh..." I paused. "I never got your name."

"Oh, how rude of me," she replied. "Cinder Fall, leader of Team CMSN."

"CMSN..." Jaune muttered... "Hey, wasn't that Mercury and Emerald's team?"

"Yeah!" Cardin replied. "We met your teammates. One of 'em even agreed to help take down that vampire!"

"Huh. Nice." Her reply was slow and thoughtful.

"Wait, hold on..." Jaune realized. "Cinder... You're the C in your team... Mercury is the M... You have Emerald's last name for your S... Who's the N?"

"Better question," Cardin added. "Why use Em's last name instead of her first?"

"Put the four letters together," Cinder replied, "and ask me that again. Also... Our teammate's name is Neo. She's nice, even if she IS quiet."

Neo? That was the name of one of Torchwick's goons. She WAS rather young, though, maybe even young enough to be a Haven student. It made too much sense. But I wasn't about to tell a girl I'd just met that her teammate might a psychopathic criminal.

"Neo?" I asked politely. "You'll have to introduce us sometime. I don't believe we've ever been acquainted".

"I would do it now," Cinder replied. "If there weren't more pressing matters to attend to. I will see upu shortly."

As she walked away, Professor Port looked serious. "I fear that won't be the case," he replied. "I'm afraid that until this monster is caught, the school must be placed on lockdown. No one comes in or out. And classes will be placed on hold until then."

It was official. Beacon was screwed.

(A.N.: That's done. A bit shorter than C1, but Yatsu dying helped flesh out Velvet and Cardin, both of whom have a history with him. Also, Port and Cinder make their debuts. So we have that.)

Bartholomew Oobleck - Living

Blake Belladonna - Living

Cardin Winchester - Living

Cinder Fall - Living

Coco Adel - Living

Dove Bronzewing - Living

Emerald Sustrai - Living

Emmi Wynn - Living

Fox Alistair - Living

Jaune Arc - Living

Liam Pryce - Converted, Slain (C1)

Lie Ren - Living

Mercury Black - Living

Neptune Vasalias - Living

Nora Valkyrie - Living

Orson Drew - Living

Penny Polendina - Living

Peter Port - Living

Pyrrha Nikos - Living

Ruby Rose - Living

Russel Thrush - Living

Sage Ayano - Living

Scarlet David - Living

Sky Lark - Living

Sun Wukong - Living

Velvet Scarlatina - Living

Weiss Schnee - Living

Yang Xiao Long - Living

Yatsuhashi Daichi - Murdered (C2)

Yin Kasumi - Living

P.S.: I named Cinder's team "CMSN" (pronounced "crimson" because it's better than the alternative. Also, I already rolled the next chapter up. I'm scared now.