"We should let him sleep." Ruby told her teammates as they gazed at Crue, lying under Weiss' bed.
"Is this because of what he told you yesterday?" Yang asked her sister. Ruby nodded in confirmation. "Are you gonna tell us?" She shook her head.
"Nope. It's something Crue can tell you on his own time." With that, she skipped out of the room, happy that the new semester was beginning. The other three glanced at each other, before following after their leader.
The door closed, leaving Crue sleeping soundly without a care in the wor-"OW!" Crue rubbed his head where he had hit it off the bottom of Weiss' bed. "That's gonna hurt." He rolled out from under the bed, sitting up and resting his back against the frame.
"I still hate you." He said to no one. He stood and went to his dresser, which was installed only recently due to his new residence in the dorm room. It was bare, save for a few things lying on top. His scroll, his weapon, and a pair of dark blue headphones.
He opened his drawers and pulled out a random shirt. It didn't really matter what one he grabbed seeing as they were all the same. After slipping on the shirt he put on his tie and checked his scroll for the timetable for the day.
He saw that he had nothing on for the whole day. "Probably cause today is the start of the new semester." He yawned and threw on his school blazer. He wasn't exactly fond of it, but it was better than Goodwitch constantly berating him for not wearing it.
Crue grabbed his scroll, idly flicking onto his music. "As much as I hate you, I'm glad you let me keep my music. Even if you changed it." He mused as he passed by a song labelled 'Atlesian Idiot'. He stopped at a song called 'Wolverine OST'.
"Forgot I downloaded this." He pressed play, allowing the music to pass through his headphones and into his ears. Crue sighed in relief to have something familiar, even if it was just sound. "You may have fucked up Deadpool, but everything else was pretty good."
As he sat in the room, leaning against a desk, he realised something. "I've got a mask. I need a weapon. And seeing as I told Tucson 'I am the Wolf'…" He trailed off as he went into his gallery, ignoring the photos and clicking on his videos.
"Please be here, please be here…" Crue silently begged as he scrolled through the videos. "Yes!" He exclaimed as he found what he was looking for, a video with the title, 'Colin Furze – Wolverine Claws'.
"Well, guess I know what I'll be using." Crue muttered as he grabbed his belongings, minus his hurley, and exited the room, heading to Beacon's workshop, ready to use another person's knowledge and skills to help him in his quest.
He walked for a short while before entering the room. It reminded him of a blacksmiths, but with more hi tech contraptions. Crue cracked his fingers in a spread out motion and started the video. "All right. Let's do this."
…
"Man, you better have shown me doing that. It was a pain in the ass to make." Crue sat down on a stool, resting his legs from standing and working all morning. His creation lay on the table next to him. It was almost a complete replica of the one in the video, save for some special additions.
There was a dark blue metal covering the blades, hiding them from view, making them seem like a pair of gauntlets. The other was the bag, 'generously' provided by Beacon. The bag itself held the compressed air required for the claws to extend, but like the claws themselves, Crue covered it in a thin, navy metal.
He grabbed the weapon and slipped them on, putting on his blazer afterwards. The blazer completely hid the weapon, as well as the tubes that connected them with the bag. Crue tested the extension while wearing the blazer.
'SNKT'
The blades shot out rapidly, the noise echoing in the empty room. Crue could only smile in what appeared to be childish glee. "He was always my favourite X-man." Crue commented as he grabbed a small piece of wood.
Crue tossed the wood up in the air, and brought the claws down on them. The wood split into three pieces, the blades cleanly cutting through them. Of course, Crue had to make them a lot sharper than they were in the video, partially because they would actually be used, but mostly because Crue went a bit overboard in the 'danger' factor.
"Well, they'll definitely help against Grimm." Crue said as he retracted the claws. "As for someone with aura…" Crue didn't exactly know how he'd test that out without someone finding out that he had the claws.
"Well, I'll figure that out the hard way." Crue exited the room, putting on his headphones and making his way to the cafeteria. He was so focused on the music, that he did not see the hoard of people stampeding towards him until the last second.
Crue yelled in shock, and jumped onto a nearby wall, using his semblance to stay there out of harms way. He watched them all run, trying to figure out exactly why they were sprinting for their lives. Crue looked to where they had come from, and saw that they were running from the direction of the cafeteria.
Crue saw a body flying past the windows, and remembered something important. Crue leaped from his position on the wall and dashed towards the cafeteria. He stopped outside the door and raised his foot.
*WHABAM*
The door to the cafeteria flew open, causing all those inside it to look for the source of the noise. What they saw was a raised foot, and a rather annoyed looking Crue. Ren and Yang had frozen mid fight, surprised by the sudden intrusion.
Crue saw two extra people that did not belong to either team. A blonde haired monkey Faunus, and a blue haired boy with goggles. Crue marched forward, the doors closing behind him. "YOU GUYS ARE HAVING A FOOD FIGHT!?"
He slammed his fists down on two nearby tables, causing two loaves of bread to fly through the air towards him. Crue caught both of them and spun them in a circle, a wide smirk appearing on his face.
"Without me?" His smirk became infectious, each of the members of RWBY and JNPR smiling at the new addition to their fight. Crue jumped into the fray, causing Yang and Ren to leap back, their own food weapons ready for conflict.
The ninja and the dragon attacked at the same time. Crue brought his loaves up, crossing them over his shoulders in order to block both attacks. "Man how stale is this bread." Crue contemplated as he knocked back both attackers, Ren flying much further than Yang did.
Crue turned back to the blonde, and only barely dodged a turkey being flung at his face. Crue tossed one of the loaves up in the air and grabbed the other with both his hands. He reeled the bread back as Yang threw her final flightless bird.
Crue brought the loaf down, connecting with the turkey and sending it flying back to Yang. The turkey smacked Yang right in the stomach, sending her flying back to where Ruby was holding a possibly unconscious Weiss.
Crue let his hand raise, and caught the loaf he had previously thrown skyward. He turned back to the JNPR side and saw Nora holding her Melon-hild. "Valkyrie!" Crue shouted, causing the ginger to look at him strangely.
Crue took a stance, both pieces of bread ready for the obvious onslaught that was to come. "I think you have a score to settle with me." He made a small 'bring it' motion with his hands, which only widened Nora's grin even more.
Nora yelled and swung her melon staff, ready to bring it down on Crue's head. Crue leaped back, only just avoiding the weapon of mass digestion. He brought the two of his loaves down on the metal pole of the weapon, and found out that as stale as the food weapons he was currently using may be, they were not enough to withstand being whacked against something made of metal.
The loaves snapped, leaving Crue weaponless. Nora smiled as she hit Crue to the other side of the dining hall. He hit the wall with an audible 'crack', leaving broken debris in his wake. Crue fell from the wall, landing on the ground on all fours. When he opened his eyes, he saw two things that made him grin widely, and somewhat ominously.
Crue grabbed the can of 'People Like Grapes' soda and shook it rapidly. Crue grabbed the other item, a small yellow package labelled 'Poppin'-Rox', and tore open the top of it. Crue covered the can with the small bag, and stood back up, just in time to see Yang crashing through the ceiling of the room, leaving a wide hole.
Crue jumped onto a nearby pillar and ran up it, using his semblance to run onto the ceiling. "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" Crue called as he hurled the makeshift candy bomb downwards to where Blake and Nora were currently fighting.
Everyone watched as the can seemed to fall in slow motion as Crue ran away from the soon to be explosion. He was aiming for the hole made by Yang, planning to jump through it and land on the roof. Unfortunately, Crue forgot something very important.
Gravity.
And gravity, is a bitch. Crue leaped towards the hole while running on the ceiling, but only realised his mistake when he did not become closer to the hole, instead continuing to fall toward the ground.
"I hate gravity." Crue muttered as he crashed into a table, just as the soda bomb exploded, sending Nora and Blake flying back to their respective teams. Crue sat up and noticed Ruby getting ready to sprint. Crue flipped the table over and hid behind it, knowing what was coming.
Half a second later, Ruby activated her semblance and sped towards team JNPR, bringing food and cutlery and cans of all kinds with her. Ruby reached the end of the hall, after picking up the whole of team JNPR in her whirlwind. She skid to a halt, causing the wall before her to crack from the pressure she exerted.
The team hit the wall, sticking there and only being able to turn their heads away from oncoming food storm. They were painted every colour of the rainbow with stains from the food and drink. Ruby landed a small distance away from her new Jackson Pollock painting, leaving the members of the team covered head to toe in condiments.
They fell from the wall, leaving four human shaped clean spaces on the cracked concrete. "Glad I wasn't caught up in that." Crue said, hopping over the table he had used as a shield. He approached the two teams, laughing along with them. However, before they could fully discuss the fight, the doors to the cafeteria were thrown open, revealing a very angered Glynda Goodwitch.
Weiss, only now realising that she just took part in a food fight, was so startled that she leaned back and accidentally slipped on a suspiciously placed banana peel. Weiss fell back and landed on one end of a bench, causing the other end to raise rapidly, inadvertently tossing the salad that was resting on it, and sending it directly to the blonde witch.
Glynda stopped the offending vegetables with a wave of her riding crop. She made several intricate motions, and the entirety of the hall seemed to come alive as tables righted themselves and walls and pillars alike were repaired.
"Children. Please, do not play with your food." While this was happening Crue was staring at the ceiling, silently counting in his head. He reached a hand out and placed it on the person's closest to him's shoulder. It turned out to be Nora, who looked at the offending hand oddly. Crue pushed her a pace or two away, and then waited.
"Three, two…" A blonde blur fell from the ceiling, landing with a 'thud' between Nora and Crue, both parties looking down to see Yang with a smile on her face. Crue lifted his head back up to Nora and met her eyes beneath his glasses.
"We cool?" He asked, hesitantly raising a fist. Nora smirked and copied the gesture.
"Frosty." They bumped fists and helped up Yang. They all smiled and laughed at each other's appearance, trying to get as many stains as they could off their uniform. Crue watched as Yang threw a thumbs up to Goodwitch, and also Ozpin, who had appeared at some point.
Using his advanced hearing, he could make out the conversation that Ozpin and Glynda were having. He just caught the tail end of it, fists clenching slightly as Ozpin said: "It's not a part they'll get to play forever."
The headmaster exited through the door, leaving the two teams and Crue to themselves. "We need a shower." Everyone said simultaneously, before bursting out laughing. The group exited through a backdoor, giving them a quicker route to the dorms where they could shower.
The teams separated into their respective dorms, Crue of course joining RWBY. As soon as he closed the door behind them, he turned to the girls informed them, "I'm going last." There was no argument, between Crue and the others that is.
Weiss and Yang started arguing about who should go first, Crue didn't pay attention, instead putting on his headphones and drowning out the argument. Unfortunately, as he had two sets of ears it didn't prove that effective.
Eventually, they got everything sorted with Weiss going first, then Yang, Blake and finally, Ruby. Ruby deciding she should go last because as a team leader she needs to make sacrifices. Crue was lost in his music, idly flicking through the names, and snickering at the name changes.
"Dust Punk. My Chemical Semblance. Imagine Dragons. Wait that's the same." Crue was brought out of his inner thoughts by Ruby, who had tapped him on the shoulder. Turning, Crue saw Ruby looking at him while holding a deep red towel over her body. "She's 15." He tried to remind 'The Author'. "Not happening."
"Showers free." She told him, walking past him as he got up. Crue took off his sunglasses and set them down by his scroll. He took off everything that wasn't covering something important, such as his shirt and trousers.
He grabbed his own dark blue towel and headed into the bathroom, planning on not stinking like gone off sword fish. Once Crue had entered, Yang instantly went to where he had been sitting and grabbed his scroll, which Crue had incidentally left unlocked.
"Yang! What are you doing?" Ruby called out to her sister, not wanting an invasion of Crue's privacy. The shout caught the attention of both Weiss and Blake, the latter was still drying off her hair.
"Relax Rubes. I'm just checking his internet history." It took a moment for what she meant to sink in. When the words finally hit their mark, each girl screamed and tried to take the scroll off Yang.
"I don't want to know what he's been doing with that scroll!" Weiss cried out. "Haven't you ever heard of ignorance is bliss." She said as she tried to wrestle the device from the blondes hands.
"Yang what if it's something disgusting!" Blake cried, only to be rebutted by Yang.
"Then you'd probably be into it." She had finally accessed the internet history, only for the screen of it to be covered by Ruby.
"Yang how would you like it if we did the same to you!" The brunette gripped the scroll, trying to rip it from her sisters grasp.
"There's nothing on mine!" Yang told her as she removed the reapers hand. She finally laid her eyes on what Crue had been searching, and groaned audibly. "Awww, there's nothing good." She tossed the scroll in the air and walked off.
Ruby managed to catch it before it shattered onto the ground, electing a sigh of relief from the three who tried to stop Yang. Because Yang had said there was 'nothing good', Ruby saw it as a sign that it would be safe for her to read.
Her eyes scanned the sites and searches, and felt her silver eyes widen. "Woah. Why was Crue looking up advanced sharpening techniques?" Weiss and Blake peered over their leaders shoulders to join her in reading.
"Metal polishing. Dust infusion. Pressurised Air Transferal?" The other two seemed like something Crue would have actually looked up, but the last one caught Weiss by surprise. "Perhaps he's trying to upgrade, what did you say his weapon was called again?" She turned to her partner.
"Setanta." Ruby responded. "And the others all make sense, but I can't think of how pressurised air would help it." They decided they would ask Crue about it when he came back. Ruby exited the internet tab, and saw the Music app.
She clicked on it, to the surprise of the two on her shoulder. "I thought you wanted to protect his privacy." Blake said from her place above Ruby's head. The Faunus' words caused Yang to shoot back over to Ruby, resting her chin on her younger sisters head.
"What are we spying on him with?" Yang asked. Ruby sighed lightly.
"We're not spying on him. I was checking his music." Ruby responded as she scrolled through the list of songs. "I think I've heard of some of these." She muttered as she stared at the names and artists.
"Oh!" Yang suddenly exclaimed, to the dismay of the others whose ears were in close proximity to her mouth. "Go back up a sec!" Ruby did as instructed, waiting for Yang to tell her when to stop. "There!"
Yang's hand reached over Ruby and pointed at a song. "Blake and Yellow." She pressed the song, the music taking a moment to load.
"I think it said 'Black and Yellow'." Blake commented, realising that Yang's decision for stopping on that song was a pun. The rest of them said nothing as the song started, Yang growing a large smile as the song continued playing.
The blonde grabbed her raven haired partner and began swinging her around the room to the beat of the music. Blake couldn't help but smile slightly and join in the dance. The other half of the team watched the duo with amused expressions.
"I don't suppose there's something called 'Red and White' is there?" Weiss said, flicking through Crue's music. Ruby joined her in the search, trying to find something that may suit Weiss' tastes.
"I don't see one. Ohh, but this sounds like one you'd like." Ruby said, tapping on the song that she had found called 'Crystallize'. The song began playing immediately, much to the dismay of the other two who were still dancing.
"Hey!" Yang complained. "It was getting good." The bruiser and the Faunus approached the other two, listening to the music that was now playing. It sounded like a mix between violin and techno. Weiss' face lit up brightly, and fell into a small ballerina routine, dancing in time with the music.
Unlike the duo before them, Weiss' dance was much more graceful, full of pirouettes and kicked legs. The other three watched in fascination, before Ruby returned to the song list, hoping to find a song suiting her tastes.
"This one sounds cool." Ruby muttered as she tapped on the song title. The music changed instantly, bringing Weiss' show to an abrupt end. Weiss was visibly annoyed at the change, but said nothing as she had changed Yang and Blake's song.
There was series of tech-y notes, before a robotic voice began singing. "Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.~" Ruby began jumping around the room, making stiff motions with her arms and legs. The others watched in amusement as Ruby danced along to the beat.
"I love robots!" Ruby cried as she continued dancing. Yang took possession of Crue's scroll, checking the music.
…
Crue was finding it very difficult to wash his ears and not slip in the shower from how rapidly his foot was tapping on the slippery base. "It. Feels. Good-Bad." Crue was certain that if he had a tail, it would be wagging wildly.
"Fuck. Ing. Species. Changing." Crue eventually decided that he had cleaned his ears enough, and ducked his head under the warm running water to wash away the suds. "Do I need to use separate ear cleaners." Crue wondered as he exited the shower, drying his body before bringing the towel up to his face, and pausing.
"Ah, the age old question asked by every man." Crue said aloud as he stared at the towel. "Did I just use this same piece of towel that I'm about to dry my face with to dry my balls." Crue flipped the towel over for good measure and continued drying off.
Once satisfied, he tied it round his waist and exited the bathroom. Only to stop with his hand on the doorknob to stare in confusion at the sight before him. Every member of team RWBY was dancing to a song being played on Crue's scroll.
Crue backed into the bathroom and closed the door. "That, is real, right?" Crue opened the door once more, and saw that they were still dancing to 'Uptown Funk'. "Well. I know who gave them the dance moves." Crue thought, feeling a tad melancholy from seeing them dance.
As Crue sidled along out of the way to his dresser, he felt a hand grab onto his arm, and drag him into the dance. "Come on Crue!" Yang exclaimed, swinging him around. "Dance with us!" Crue was desperately holding onto his towel with the other hand, trying to preserve Ruby's innocence.
"Yang! Towel! Ruby!" Crue tried to free himself from the blondes grasp, but found that it was nigh impossible. Eventually, after some help from the others, Crue managed to break out of Yang's hold. He rubbed his wrist slightly and made his way to where his dresser was, opening it and getting out his underwear and trousers. He re-entered the bathroom, and exited a short while later, holding the towel in his hand with his legs now covered.
He dressed himself properly and grabbed his scroll, stopping the music, causing groans from the girls. "Hey my music, my battery, my rules." Crue joked as he pocketed the device. Ruby and Yang stuck out their tongues, while Weiss and Blake shook their heads slightly.
The team dispersed, Yang taking out her own scroll and leaning back on her chair, playing some game or other. Weiss went to a desk and began scribbling away, whereas Blake took out a black notebook, and flipped through the contents.
Crue saw her face contort into a scowl as she turned a page. He was about to comment on it, when Ruby pipped up. "Hey! Team JNPR is in the library. Let's go hang out with them." The leader said as she rummaged through her drawers for something.
She took out a large cardboard box with a picture of the map of Remnant printed on it. The box looked rather worn, but the title could still be made out. "Remnant: The Game."Crue muttered softly, before smacking his forehead.
This action took the others by surprise. "Crue? What's wrong?" Ruby said, lowering the box she holding.
Crue sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I lost the game."
"DAMNIT!" Yang shouted, hands clutching her hair in anger. The other three all looked at her oddly, except for Crue, who wore a sheepish smile. "CRUE! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG I'VE GONE WITHOUT LOSING!" Yang shouted at the wolf.
"Uhhhh." Crue let out, before rapidly throwing the door to the dorm open and sprinting to the library.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Yang called after him, skidding around the frame and running in the same direction. The remainder of team RWBY all turned to each other.
"Do you think Crue will still be alive when we get to the library?" Ruby asked. Weiss shrugged, a strange gesture for the heiress to be making. Blake said nothing, mind far away from the walls of her dorm room.
"Let's go make sure Yang hasn't broken anything. Bones or property." Weiss stated, exiting the room. Ruby followed after her, but popper her head back into the room for a moment.
"Blake." She called, rousing the Faunus from her thoughts. "You coming?"
"Yes. Sorry." She followed after her leader, trying to leave her thoughts in the room. It didn't work.
…
They found Yang sitting alone at a table with a scowl on her face, fingers drumming out a rhythm and Crue nowhere to be seen, which raised a few flags. "Yang…" Ruby began, watching her lilac eyed sister warily. Yang said nothing, instead pointing a finger to the top of a bookshelf, where an arm clad in a white dress shirt could be seen hanging off the top, soft breathing coming from close by.
"He ran up there and told us to tell her regrets nothing." Jaune called to the group from JNPR's table. Jaune had a comic book hidden inside a school book, Nora was resting on Ren's book, tome would be a better word for it though, Ren and Pyrrha appearing to be the only ones actually studying.
With no further questions, Ruby set up her board game and began playing with her team. For a while, the only sounds that could be heard were the game being played and Nora's occasional snoring. Then, a new sound made it's way onto the scene.
"Sup losers." A blonde monkey Faunus with an open shirt greeted the group, holding up a peace sign.
"Hey Sun." Ruby greeted amiably.
"Ruby. Yang. Blake. Ice Queen." Sun greeted the team in turn, ignoring Weiss' complaints about the name. "I never got the chance to formally introduce you to my old friend." Sun explained, although judging from his appearance, 'formal' was not in his vocabulary.
"Uh, aren't libraries for reading?" The blue haired boy asked hesitantly.
"THANK YOU!" Ren exclaimed, followed by two voices. One of them being an awakened Nora who shouted "PANCAKES!", and the other being a much less pleasant word.
"SHIT!" Crue exclaimed as he fell from the top of bookshelf, landing with a belly flop onto the hardwood floor. Everyone winced audibly as Crue struggled to get onto all fours. "That's gonna hurt in the morning." He muttered, coughing up spit.
He grasped the shelving to help him stand properly, before turning around and seeing the two new additions to the group. "I'm sure you guys are real cool, but I just fell like twenty feet, so I'm going to go lie down now."
Crue hobbled away from the two teams, occasionally muttering the words 'ow', 'ouch', and 'shitbiscuit'. "Uhh. Who was that?" Sun asked the team.
"Crue." Yang told him. "New guy. He's alright. If not a pain in the ass." She muttered the last part.
"So he's a Faunus too." Sun mused, eyebrows momentarily forming a small frown. "Oh." He elbowed the boy next to him. "Introduce yourself dude."
"Right, right, sorry." He excused. "I'm Neptune."
…
Crue felt as he hadn't slept for less than a minute when he was rudely awoken again, this time by Weiss shouting: "WHAT IS WRONG!?".
Crue groaned quietly and tried to go back to sleep, but the noise continued on, not allowing him that privilege. "I just…" Crue recognised the voice of Blake. "I don't understand how everyone can be so calm."
"You're still thinking about Torchwick?" Ruby asked.
"Torchwick, the White Fang, all of it." Blake exasperated. "Something big is happening and nobody is doing anything about it."
"Ozpin told us not to worry." Yang tried to comfort her. "Between the police and the Huntsman, I'm sure they can handle it."
"Well I'm not!" Blake rebuttled, causing Crue to groan a little louder, still hazy from just waking up. "They don't know the White Fang like I do." Crue's eyes widened immensely under his sunglasses, his mind being in such a drowsy state that he forgot he already knew this information.
"WAIT WHAT!?" Crue shouted, head appearing from underneath Weiss' bed, causing all other occupants of the room to scream, Weiss having such a shock she leaped into Ruby's arms. Once Crue got a look at the, look, on Blake's face, everything came back to him.
Crue slowly extracted himself from under the bed and stared at Blake. "Blake." Crue began, hearing the raven haired girl gulp audibly. "Were you a part of the White Fang?" He asked. The rest of the team glanced between the two Faunus rapidly.
Blake closed her eyes, and nodded. "'Were' as in, you're not a part anymore?" Blake hesitantly opened her eyes, and nodded once more. "Then it doesn't matter." Then, Crue did something that surprised everyone. He hugged Blake. What was even more surprising was that Blake hugged back.
Crue broke the hug and stepped away from Blake, before clapping his hands together. "Alright! So! Evil organisation based on overthrowing humanity, criminal mastermind, anything else I'm missing?" He noticed them all looking at each other apprehensively. "Look, I'm helping you. Alright? No questions. Let's kick some terrorist butt."
Weiss seemed to have the answer ready for him. "Alright, look. Between blowing up night clubs, stopping thieves, fighting for freedom and slaughtering Grimm, I'm sure the four of you think you're more than ready to take down these Ne'er-do-wells."
"Uh, who?" Ruby asked.
"Bad guys." Crue whispered into her ears, causing her to nod appreciatively.
"But let me once again be the voice of reason." Weiss continued. "We're students. We're not ready to handle this sort of situation." Ruby tried to argue the point, Weiss was making, only for her to repeat what she had just said at a louder volume. "We're not ready!"
"And we may never be ready!" Blake countered. "Our enemies aren't just gonna sit around and wait for graduation day. They're out there, somewhere, planning their next move, and none of us know what it is."
Crue's fist clenched tightly at that, his nails digging into his palm. "But it's coming. Whether we're ready, or not."
"Ok." Ruby started, raising both her hands. She took a deep breath and began speaking. "Allinfavourofbecomingtheyoungesthuntresses" "Eh-hem" "andhuntsman" "Thank you." "TosinglehandedlybringdownacorruptorganisationconspiringagainstthekingdomofVale." Ruby took a breath. "Say aye."
"Yes!" Yang cried, bringing her fist down in a show of joy. "I love it when you're feisty." She pointed to Blake. Crue slapped his hand against his face and sighed.
"Well, I suppose it could be fun." Weiss decided.
"None of you said 'aye'." Ruby complained.
"Aye." Crue said, smirking at Ruby who smiled widely.
"Alright then, we're in this together." Blake said, smiling at the friends that surrounded her.
"Let's hatch a plan!" Ruby exclaimed, followed by an agreement by her sister, before her eyes shrunk. "Guuuh. I left my board game in the library."
"We're doomed." Weiss said, resting her knuckles against her forehead. Before Ruby could rush out the door and retrieve her game, Crue grabbed the back of her cloak.
"I'll get it. Don't worry. You guys stay here and figure out what to do." Crue instructed the girls as he set Ruby back down and made for the door. "I'll be back before you know it." He smiled at them as he closed the door.
The moment he turned around, he felt something bump against him and fall backwards. "Ah! Careful where you're…" He trailed off as he saw who he had knocked down. Blood red eyes stared back up at him, unable to see his own due to his glasses.
"Oh, I recognise you." Crue said as he extended a hand. "You were at the bookstore." The dark skinned girls face morphed into a scowl for half a second, before turning back into a forced smile. The girl took Crue's hand, obviously displeased at having to require help.
"Yeah. You flew through the window. Hard to not remember that." She lightly dusted her black chequered skirt. "I never actually got your name now that I think about it."
"Name's Crue." He said shortly, lightly nodding his head towards Emerald. "You guys new or what?"
"Visiting from Haven, actually." A voice came from behind her. For a short moment, Crue's mind was filled with confusion. "The fuck is Jessica Nigri doing here?"
The voice was given a source, as Emerald stepped to side, revealing someone with raven hair, and amber eyes. Crue's mind went from one of confusion, to rage. "Her. It's her fault Penny's dead. It's her fault Pyrrha's dead. It's. Her. Fault."
"Oh." Crue said, his cold tone surprising the trio that stood before him. "You're here for the festival then. But I believe, that exchange students have their own dorms."
"I guess we just got turned around." A somewhat cocky voice said. Crue's instantly turned to face Mercury, who looked taken aback at the sudden movement.
"I guess." Crue replied, voice full of disbelief. "Your building is just east of here." Crue explained as Emerald and Mercury walked past him, leaving only him and Cinder having a silent staring contest. Crue would not falter under her gaze, as far as he was concerned she was just an animated body.
Cinder could tell that Crue was meeting her eyes under those glasses. And she didn't like that one bit. He stared back as Cinder tried to get him to falter. "Why thank you." Cinder said, voicing the statement in such a way that showed obvious signs of attempted seduction. "Maybe we'll see each other around."
"I'm certain of it, bitch." Crue thought, making sure not to voice that particular sentence. "Maybe." Crue said as Cinder made to walk past him. Before she could completely, Crue brought a hand up and rested it on her shoulder, halting her movement.
Cinder looked appalled that someone would even dare to lay a finger on her, let alone a hand. "Try to stay out of trouble now, won't you Cinder?" Crue released Cinder's shoulder and marched forward, not turning around to see the look on Cinder's face, which was a mix of anger, horror, and curiosity.
"Oh. And by the way." Crue stopped halfway down the hall, and turned his head back so that he could see Cinder. He lowered his glasses ever so slightly, just so Cinder could see the barest hint of steely blue eyes.
"Welcome to Beacon."
Ooh, doesn't that last line just send jitters down your spine. As for the whole claws thing, he needed a weapon that no one knew he had, with his hurely being too recognisable. Maybe he'll meet up with one of the twins and something could happen. Who knows. I do. But I ain't saying anything.
So yeah, sorry about not uploading last week. This story is one I write when I have time, and as I have exams this week and next, won't exactly be able to do that very much. I'll still try to write when I can, but don't expect anything that huge. I will make up for the lack of content with the next chapter though. Promise.
So, now that I'm done here, I'll just leave you with my usual words. Let me know what you thought, and as always,
Until next time.
-Friday