DISCLAIMER – I do not own RWBY
Yang sat on her bunk, staring silently at her wall as she tried to understand what exactly had just occurred last night.
The man she had killed was alive, how that was possible, she didn't know.
She had seen him die, watched him bleed out as the life drained from his silver eyes, and yet he came stumbling out of the blue, looking practically no worse for wear!
Well, that was a lie, he still had bullets imbedded in him, but even then, he had somehow survived that with no Aura.
And that was another thing, how had that man managed to turn into a blaze of fire and reappear behind Ruby, yet had no Arua? She had assumed he had a fire-based semblance, but she knew now that couldn't be the case.
After talking to Headmaster Ozpin, she was cleared of any charges that might have come, and wasn't punished due to the circumstances, the rest of her team insisting that they would have done roughly the same should he have threatened one of them.
Regardless, she still felt terrible for what she had done to him. All she had wanted to do was to knock him around for threatening her sister, not kill him.
"Yang?"
She looked up. Ruby was facing her, sympathy in her eyes.
"We're going to go down to Vale, do you wanna come with?"
Looking back down, she mumbled, "Nah, you go ahead."
"Alright..."
The rest of her team filtered out, Ruby taking one last sad look at her, before closing the door.
Yang went back to staring at wall, and sighed.
"Maybe I should say sorry to him, I did kill him after all."
Shaking off how casually morbid that statement sounded, she swung her legs off her bunk and jumped down.
"He's probably woken up by now, it's been a whole day" she thought, opening the door and stepping out into the hallway.
Walking through the school, she wondered what she would say to him.
"How do I even apologize for something like that? Yeah, sorry for killing you, but not really.
Maybe just an "I'm sorry" will do..."
Pausing in front of the infirmary, she knocked on the large wooden doors, and waited.
The door opened and a nurse stood behind them.
"Yes?" said the nurse.
"Hey, I'm here to see Raziel. Is he awake?" Yang responded, trying to peer into the room.
The nurse gave her a firm look. "Raziel is awake, but he still needs rest, it would be best if you came back another time."
"Please? I'll be in and out in a moment."
The nurse pursed her lips. "Five minutes."
Yang beamed. "Thanks Miss!"
She stepped inside and spotted Raziel in the far corner of the room, looking out the window.
As she approached, Raziel turned his head and watched her as she drew nearer.
"Hi." Yang said, sitting down on the bed next to his. "You doing ok?"
"Adequate enough, given the circumstance. Yourself?"
"Same, I guess." she answered, shifting uneasily. "Look, I came to apologize about last night. I, um... am pretty defensive of my sister and, well, I thought you were an Aura user, so I didn't think I would hurt you too much."
Raziel raised his eyebrows. "I see."
Tilting his head slightly, Raziel spoke. "I didn't think you would apologize considering I threatened your sister with bodily harm. Assuming you forgive me, I accept your apology."
"Uh, right." Yang responded awkwardly. "Apology accepted, I guess."
Raziel closed his eyes and hummed again, and Yang redirected her gaze to floor, unsure of what to say next.
"Aura?" he said, breaking the silence.
Yang looked back up at him blankly. "Do you not know what Aura is?"
"Can't say that I do, ufaklık"
"Where are you from? Outside the kingdoms?" Yang inquired.
Raziel hummed noncommittally. "Something like that. A faraway land named Asmoundia"
"Huh. Never heard of it."
She glanced at his forehead. "Are you a Faunus?"
"Faunus?"
Raziel remembered that name from his study of ancient deities. It was the name of a horned nature god, but clearly, she meant something else by it.
Perhaps she meant if he was a follower of the god?
"Yes, I am a Faunus."
"What kind?"
"Beg pardon?"
"What kind of Faunus are you?" she said, motioning to his horns and tail.
Oh. That made more sense.
"Fanaus must mean part-animal in this place."
"Ah, I am a ram Fanaus; my mother was a ram."
She stared at him.
"You're a ram Fanaus with a lizard's tail, red skin, and an actual ram for a mother?"
He blinked. "Erm... yes?"
Thankfully, the nurse came to his aid.
"Five minutes, Ms. Long, let's let Raziel get his rest."
"Saved once by healing, and once by chance."
"It has been a pleasure, Ms. Long. Please do bring your team next time, I would like to apologize to your sister as well."
She nodded. "I'll tell her that. See you around, Raz."
"Raz?" he mused, "A strange girl, indeed."
Her earlier comments about his origins rang in his ears, and reminded him that he had no idea where he was, and no grasp of the culture here.
He grunted; this would not do. His demonic nature would likely land him in prison should they determine it, not to mention he was already on thin ice for the hostage situation.
Raziel decided that his next order of business was to find a library, or any form of reliable information.
Lifting his head, he spied the healer across the room sitting at a desk, bent over some paperwork.
"Miss?"
Her head whipped up. "Yes? What is it?"
"Could I be permitted to acquire some books? It's rather boring being in here, I'm sure you know."
Glaring at him, she muttered. "4 years of medical school to become a book fetcher. Very well, I'll put in a request. What do you want?"
Unabashed by her vicious glare, he replied. "Some history books and reading on the kingdoms wouldn't be amiss."
"Done." tapping something he couldn't see, she muttered a few words, and then went back to her paperwork.
Not willing to push it, he settled back into bed, and with all legal paths of action explored, resumed his exciting day of doing absolutely nothing.
"What fun my week has been..." he thought to himself darkly.
Neo groaned silently as she lolled her head, bored out of her mind.
Cinder and her band of merry idiots had her confined to this academy, filled with rules and restrictions and punishments and blah blah blah.
Beacon was so boring!
She had thought that an academy for Huntsmen would be far more exciting, with a lot more brutal combat training rather than note taking and paper writing.
Worst of all, she couldn't do anything illegal, lest she reveal herself to the Beacon authorities.
The door to the dorms opened, and light footsteps drew closer to the couch.
"Neo."
Oh great, busywork.
"According to Mercury's report, there's a dead man housed in the infirmary."
Neo raised her eyebrows as if to say "So?"
"It appears that said man has somehow come back to life," said Cinder.
"...Wait, what?"
"I want you to investigate the stranger, find out what you can about him, and determine if he is a threat." said Cinder, pausing for a moment, "Mercury described him as tall, red-skinned man, with bony horns and a scaly tail."
Neo's lips quirked upwards. Finally, something interesting.
Honestly, she wasn't that worried about it, but she found herself intrigued nonetheless.
She nodded her affirmation, and jumped off the couch.
Landing on the floor, she reached towards the door handle.
"And Neo?"
Her hand stilled.
"If he is a threat, I expect him to be disposed of."
She nodded again, and throwing open the door, stepped into the hallway and disappeared with the sound of shattering glass.