Grey Ghost
Onyx gets on his motorcycle.
"Wait here, I'll see where we can start looking for Night." Onyx orders.
"Night?" Ruby asks.
"You can drop the act, I know you were listening in." Onyx says.
Onyx drives off.
The team goes inside the garage and opens a door to the warehouse. Inside the warehouse is a bed, couch, desk, bookcase with three books, another chess, and a few crates filled with dust. Ruby and Yang sit on the bed the rest sit on the couch. Weiss begins coughing.
"How can you stand being here, it's so dusty?" Weiss asks as she fans the dust away.
"Stop moving, your only making it worse." Yang complains.
"It's as if no ones been here in years." Ruby says after she sneezes.
"I think we should go outside." Weiss says
"Or clean the place." Ruby suggests.
"Why should we do that?" Weiss asks.
"We don't know how long Onyx will be gone, it could be hours." Ruby states.
Team RWBY starts to clean up the place.
Onyx stops his motorcycle in front of a Junior's club. He walks towards the door. Onyx sits at the counter next to a girl wearing a black hoodie, with the hood up, black pants with gloves and boots. Onyx passes the girl ten thousand lien.
"What do have for me?" Onyx asks.
"Your target hasn't been seen in fifteen years." The girl says.
"That's hardly news." Onyx comments.
"The person he was last seen with was spotted in Vale two days ago." The girl states.
"Where?" Onyx asks.
"That'll cost you extra." The girl says.
Onyx passes her ten thousands more lien.
"This address. He's been seen there multiple times this week." The girl says as she passes Onyx a paper with an address printed on it.
Onyx gets up and walks away.
"If you're willing to spend twenty thousand lien on an address, your target must be important." The girl says.
Onyx walks outside, ignoring the girl. He gets on his motorcycle and drives back to his warehouse.
Onyx opens the garage door and drives his motorcycle inside. He gets off and looks around. The warehouse is almost completely spotless. Onyx walks into the other room where the girls were sleeping due to exhaustion. He kicks Weiss' feet.
"Wake up your friends." Onyx orders when Weiss opens her eyes.
"Ow." Weiss says sarcastically.
Weiss wakes up Blake and Yang. Yang wakes up Ruby before she gets out the bed.
"I have a lead." Onyx says.
"What is it?" Ruby asks.
"You don't need to know. What you need to do is grab your weapons and get set!" Onyx growls.
"Hey! If you want our help, you better start treating us with respect." Weiss states.
"Weiss, stop it" Ruby says.
"Why do you defend him? All he's done is disrespect us." Weiss reponds.
"Fine. The last person Night was ever seen with, Davy Jet, was last seen two days ago." Onyx explains.
The group leaves the warehouse and start walking towards Davy's last known location.
Midway through the trip the group is walking through a long alley. Ruby walks up next to Onyx.
"Who is Davy?" Ruby asks.
"All you need to know is he's our key to finding Night." Onyx says.
"Onyx!" Weiss yells.
Onyx turns towards Weiss. She's walking with a furrowed brow and arms crossed. Onyx faces forward.
"He was Team NWOR's informant. Back when we did missions, we'd always do the ones that were stealth oriented, required getting intel, or both. When we needed an outside source we called Davy, he has connections all over Vale. Night has been using my ability to create portals to the Chaos Zone to travel unnoticed for the past fifteen years." Onyx explains.
"You knew who opened that portal. Why did you lie?" Ruby asks.
"I had full intentions to handle this matter alone." Onyx states.
"How can Night use your...?" Ruby begins.
Onyx stops and puts his arm in front of Ruby to stop her. The rest stop seconds after.
"What's wrong?" Yang asks.
"We're being followed." Onyx states, "Let me handle this."
He walks forward.
"We didn't come here for trouble, just passing through." Onyx says.
Ten people wearing black jump suits and black biker helmets, with a mirrored visor, walk out from buildings, windows, and dumpsters. Each one armed with a pipe.
"Well, you passed into our turf." One said.
His jumpsuit had a red shoulder pauldron to indicate that he was the leader. He is the only one armed with a rifle.
"And we don't tolerate trespassing." The leader says.
The surrounded group draws their weapons. Onyx draws Dark Sympathy in a slashing motion. Suddenly, one of the thugs is cut in half. Onyx charges in cutting down each one with a single swing. When the leader is left, he fires his rifle at Onyx. Onyx blocks by using a Chaos Zone portal as a shield. Onyx then sheaths Dark Sympathy and draws it in another slashing motion, cutting off the leader's arm without touching him. Team RWBY watches as Onyx mercilessly killed all ten, but Weiss and Blake paid more attention to the fact that every swing seem to cut things that the blade didn't touch.
"We should continue." Onyx states.
The building is a three story warehouse.
"Pair off into teams of two and search the building, one per floor. I'll take the third." Onyx says.
Onyx opens a portal to the Chaos Zone and the group enters. He jumps onto a window sill and begins climbing up to a window on the third floor. Onyx sticks his blade under the window and pries it open. Inside are lots of crates. Onyx walks up to a crate and looks at the writing on it, "Dust". Onyx walks into the next room where on a chair is man,with short grey hair and wearing one of the black jump suits with a grey shoulder pauldron, is sleeping. Onyx exits the Chaos Zone and slaps the man awake.
"Davy." Onyx says.
"What is it?" Davy says before opening his eyes.
Davy sees Onyx and pushes the chair back causing it to fall. Davy tries to run away but Onyx is faster. He catches up to Davy and presses him against a wall.
"No, it's not possible. I watch you die." Davy states.
"You watched me die? When this is over, I'll watch you did." Onyx responds.
Onyx throws Davy to the floor into the Chaos Zone. Onyx enters and sticks Dark Sympathy into Davy's arm.
"Your going to tell me everything I want to know about Night." Onyx declares.
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Random Trivia:
The Creation of Onyx Rider
Onyx Rider, the protagonist of the Rider Trilogy, started out as a Beacon graduate with an unnamed, older mentor who betrayed him. That mentor eventually grew into the character of Desmond Night. Eventually I decided to make Onyx and Night the same age and instead Beacon drop outs due to Night's betrayal. I then realized that Ozpin would most likely have a contingency should one student in a team die during their time at Beacon. Due to the parallels between Onyx and Raven, I decided to make them attend Beacon during the same years. That decision also allowed me to come up with a reason why Onyx cares so much about Ruby dispite his complete disregard for anyone else's safety, including his own.
The villains that Onyx faces are designed to parallel Onyx in many ways. Night was an Umbra Agency test subject, was part of the same team, could copy Onyx's semblance, possessed Chaos Aura, and possessed a portion of Umbra's soul. Umbra was one of the first Riders, possessed Chaos Aura, and watched his home fall. Prodromus was a warrior for the Riders who relied on logic to dictate its actions. Each opponent was designed as a person that Onyx could have become if he had taken a different path.
Onyx Rider wasn't built as the character who starts with a flaw that he works to overcome. Onyx Rider was built as a character trying to find himself.