Alright we back. This chapter is two days late and I'm sorry, I had work. The next chapter will be out.. honestly I'm not sure, but I promise to get into a weekly upload schedule that actually works. Probably.
As the four of them walked through the forest Falcon started to hear the sounds of a fight. He glanced at the others and they didn't seem to be bothered by it. Then again, Hayate never seems bothered by anything. Falcon thought to himself. Or maybe they just couldn't hear it? Before Falcon could say anything, Iskandar spoke up.
"Do you hear that?"
"Yeah," Hayate replied. "Sounds like someone's in trouble." He rolled his shoulders and rested his hand on his sheath yet again. "About time we got a bit more excitement" he added. Falcon regarded this with mild curiosity. If Hayate was ready for a fight, wouldn't he have a hand on his handle ready to draw his sword, instead of just the sheath? He internally shook his head, snapping himself out of this analytical state.
"Come on then" Falcon said as he ran towards the noise, with Hayate, Syrian and Iskandar following close behind.
As the four reached a clearing, they saw eight other huntsmen. Falcon recognized Ruby and Yang and could make out one of them as the girl they were hassling last night. "We should help them." Hayate said, pulling Falcon out of his trance.
"There's a bridge over there," replied Iskandar, pointing past Falcon.
"Let's head over there then," started Hayate. He was cut off by a nevermove screeching overhead. The four of them stood on the cliff face and watched as a series of glyphs were created and a flash of red flew over them before tearing the nevermores head off. As the dust and roses settled, a familiar hooded figure stood in front of the four. Hayate regarded them with interest, slowly taking his hand off of his sheath as it was clear that this stranger wasn't a threat.
"Woah. That was pretty impressive." Hayate complimented, eyes slightly widened by the feat he had just witnessed. "You're Ruby, right?"
"Yup, that's me." she giggled. "Falcon! Why didn't I see you this morning?"
"I left early." Falcon replied, adjusting his beret. He failed to notice Hayate's curious glance at his adjusting, but the swordsman said nothing.
Before long, the five students had made their way down the cliff face and had regrouped with the other seven. The four were introduced to Blake and Wiess, then Hayate was properly introduced to Ruby and Yang.
A tall redhead stepped forward. "I'm Pyrrha Nikos" she said, introducing herself. Falcon glanced over at Hayate who was regarding her with new interest.
"Pyrrha Nikos? Champion fighter, right?" he asked, offering his hand to her. "I'm Hayate, good to meet you". Pyrrha smiled his way before accepting his offered handshake.
"It certainly is a pleasure Hayate" she said.
"Somebody is fanboying." came from the shorter redhead. She seemed overly energetic and carried a grenade launcher on her back.
"You'll have to excuse Nora." stated the taller black haired boy next to her. "I'm Ren."
"Jaune Arc." Falcon was once again snapped out of his state of studying others by a hand being extended to him. Jaune was taller than Falcon, and had long blonde hair. A sword rested in a sheath on his hip.
"Falcon Hood." Falcon shook Jaune's hand. He saw Hayate glance over.
"You've got a sword as well huh?" he commented at Jaune. "Keeping it simple, I like it." he elaborated. Jaune rubbed the back of his head with his hand.
"Uh, thanks Hayate" he said, not too sure what to think of the guy.
"We believe we know where to find what we're looking for" stated Pyrrha.
"So do we" replied Iskandar, sounding almost competitive.
"So then what are we waiting for?!" Nora was bouncing up and down on the spot where she stood. "Let's go already!"
As the twelve of them walked through the forest, it became apparent to Falcon that there was a Schnee present. Everything will be fine, he thought to himself as he adjusted his beret yet again. There's other people here. Just don't get left alone with her.
"Hey," Falcon jumped and looked over at Hayate. "You alright? You seem out of it" he asked, mild concern in his tone.
"I'm fine. Thank you Hayate" Falcon replied, then adjusted his beret again. This time, Falcon noticed Hayate's curious glance but thought nothing of it.
After a while, the twelve huntsmen in training came to a sort of temple, with huge chess pieces on podiums.
"I guess we just take one?" Hayate wondered out loud. Yang was already eyeing a knight piece. "Ohh yeah, this one's mine." she exclaimed. Falcon looked over at Hayate, who was watching Syrian lose a tug of war over a bishop with Iskandar in amusement. Hayate then looked at Falcon and shrugged.
"Take your pick." Falcon said. He then watched Hayate walk over and grab a Knight, similar to Yangs.
The twelve regrouped again, with each pair holding a chess piece.
"I guess we should head back?" asked Ruby.
"Not that I don't love this forest of imminent death, but I'm about ready to leave" Hayate agreed sarcastically, causing an eye-roll from Falcon and a snigger from Yang.
Her sense of humour was always below average. Falcon thought with fond irritation.
Falcon stood off stage, waiting nervously. Professor Ozpin was calling upon four students at a time and assigning them to a team. Falcon wouldn't mind being on a team with Yang and Ruby, or even just one of them. Hayate wasn't happy that Pyrrha was on a team without him and that Jaune Arc of all people had gotten team leader.
"Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long." started Ozpin. "You four will be known as team RWBY."
Well damn it. Thought Falcon. There goes my chances of having good teammates. Well, there is still one other". Despite his disappointment, which he noticed was somewhat shared by his partner, Falcon turned his attention back to Ozpin.
"Falcon Hood, Hayate Blacksteel, Syrian Lique, Iskandar Pharanx." The four of them walked up on stage. "The four of you will be known as team FHSI." stated Ozpin. [A/N: it's pronounced fuchsia for those wondering, looks like this.]
Team FHSI walked towards the dorm they had been given with one thing on each of their minds. What next? The four of us hardly know each other, thought Falcon There has to be exercises to build our team strength that we can do. As they walked into the dorm, Hayate spoke up.
"Right, first order of business, whose bed is whose?"
"Perhaps going in our team order is a good idea?" Answered Falcon, receiving quizzical looks from his teammates. Falcon sighed.
"Me, Hayate, Syrian, Iskandar." He said, pointed to each bed, left to right, as he said each name.
"Sure" said Hayate, shrugging as he did. Iskandar and Syrian exchanged approving looks with each other, but said nothing. As the four of them unpacked, there was a knock on the door. Iskandar opened it and Falcon heard a familiar voice start to speak, "Hi, we're from just down the hall so we thought we'd come say hello to our neighb-" then a flash of red flew across the room before knocking over Falcon and Hayate both. As Falcon's world stopped spinning he saw Ruby sitting on top of him speaking, but he wasn't sure what she was saying because of the ringing in his ears.
"-so good to see you again! And we're both team leaders! That's so cool!" Falcon's hearing had come back and he managed a "good to see you to Rubes" before pushing the smaller girl off his abdomen. While this was happening, Hayate noticed Ruby hadn't come alone. There was an older, black haired girl standing in the doorway, who Hayate remembered was Blake.
"It's Blake, right?" Hayate asked. She looked up at him and nodded her head. "I'm Hayate." He said, extending an arm. Blake shook it before finally speaking up.
"We should get going Ruby, we all have a big day tomorrow." Ruby had already been properly introduced to Iskandar and Syrian and had taken to wrestling Falcon, who was still on the ground.
"Aww really?" She whined.
"I'll see you tomorrow Ruby, don't forget." Falcon reminded her. Ruby stood up, said goodbye to everyone and then left to her own dorm with Blake.
"They're an interesting group." commented Iskandar, Syrian nodding in agreement beside him.
"Wouldn't mind running into them again. They're cool" added Hayate, seeming a bit more interested than usual. Now it was Falcons turn to nod in agreement.
"I call the first use of the shower!" Falcon exclaimed, but was cut short by Syrian racing past him into the bathroom and locking the door behind him.
A/N:Thank you everyone who's read the story so far, I'm glad you're liking it.
I want to just shoutout DestructorBolt, another writer on the site and a friend of mine for helping me with editing some parts of this story. Also, "Hayate Blacksteel" belongs to him too. So if you see any of his work with him in it, don't worry.