Weiss slowly woke up the next morning, yawning softly as she sat up and looked around. The boy from the day before was standing by the window that they'd hopped out of the night before. He seemed calm as he looked up at the sky with his hood down, a small smile on his face.
Weiss slowly walked over to him and tapped his shoulder, making the boy turn around almost instantly. He looked a lot like her friend from years ago, but he had his arm and eye.
"What's up?" He asked her.
"I was just wanting to see what you were doing." Weiss stated.
The boy softly laughed before shrugging his shoulders. "Just lookin' up at the sky. It's nice to see the sunrise in the morning too, but I didn't wake up early enough for that." He said.
"I didn't take you for a boy who'd like to watch sunrises." Weiss said, cracking a small smile.
"There's a lot of things you don't know about me." The boy said, putting a glove on his right hand.
Weiss looked around to see that others were starting to wake up, including Ruby, Blake, and Yang. She then looked back to the boy, only to see that he was gone once again. She hated when people just left without a trace.
Weiss sighed before walking over to her things and taking her clothes from the bag and walking over to the bathroom to change.
After Meeting Pyrrha, Jaune, and Going to the Cliff...
Weiss stood on the platform, looking at the forest below. Personally, she'd be fine with having anyone but Ruby on her team. Especially that boy that she'd been talking to. He reminded her so much of her friend, Carter.
Suddenly, the boy stood on the platform to her right, smiling softly at her. She smiled back before the first person was launched. The boy then looked forwards before putting his hood down, sighing softly as he looked to the sky.
"This isn't gonna go well, is it?" He asked, turning to Weiss.
"Well, I think it will. Besides, if we get together when we land, then we'll be fine." Weiss said, her arms crossing.
"Catch you on the other side, Weiss." The boy said before looking to the forest, getting ready to launch.
"Wait, how do you know my—" Weiss was cut off as she was launched. She had just realized she'd never told him her name.
Weiss sighed in midair before using her glyphs to slow her fall. As she got onto the ground, she looked up, seeing a bolt of lightning strike the ground about a mile away. She started walking towards it, only to find herself face-to-face with a certain red-clad girl.
Later...
Weiss held onto the Nevermore and groaned loudly in disappointment. She then felt her grip loosen, before she started to fall. After falling for a few seconds, she felt arms wrap around her. She looked up to see the boy from before, his cloak tattered and even a little bloody. He held her close as he slid to a stop on the grass beneath them.
He then set her down and looked up to the nevermore. "This is gonna suck." He said, Weiss, nodding in agreement.
"Great, the gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang exclaimed with unnatural enthusiasm considering the situation.
The boy sighed before he looked to the Deathstalker and the Nevermore. He then looked at Weiss and smiled softly before lightning started cracking around him, a determined look on his face as he launched himself towards the Nevermore.
The Nevermore shot some feathers from its wings, one piercing the boy's cloak. The boy then sighed to himself before taking off the cloak, it falling to the ground with the feather. His full body was in view as he bicycle kicked the Nevermore in the jaw. He then manipulated his body once again and launched himself from the creature's neck, making a small crater in the ground upon impact.
The Nevermore cawed and flew back a little before regaining its balance. The boy stood up and looked at Weiss.
"That's what I wanted to tell you." He said to her, assuming she knew what he meant by it.
Weiss then started tearing up, her eyes glossy and her hands pressed against her mouth as she smiled softly.
"I-Is that really you, C-Carter?" She asked, tears falling down her face faster than the first time they had spoken the day earlier.
The boy then nodded, smiling at her as his left eye started to water as well. "Yeah, it's me, Weiss." He said to her.
Weiss then ran to him and they both shared a huge hug as they cried in joy.
"I knew you'd come back! I never lost faith!" Weiss exclaimed as she cried into his chest.
The boy— now Carter— nodded and laughed softly. "I'm glad you thought that way. I'd always hoped that I'd be able to escape and see you again." He said before kissing the top of her head.
Right after, someone tapped Carter's shoulder and he looked to his right, seeing Ruby pointing to the two Grimm. Carter then sighed and nodded to Ruby before letting go of Weiss.
"We'll continue this later." He said before kissing the white-haired girl's forehead.
Weiss nodded and then turned towards the Nevermore, wiping her eyes with a smile. "You ready for this?" Weiss asked Carter with a smile, looking over to him once more.
"Hey, don't let me and my metal limbs slowly you down." Carter said, laughing a little afterward.
The two then ran towards the Nevermore, the rest of the unformed team RWBY following their lead. The unformed team JNPR ran towards the Deathstalker and the fight began.
They all ran towards their respective Grimm opponents and pulled out their weapons, Carter not having one though. He looked to the Nevermore with his left eye and sighed as he then looked at everyone else.
'It would be nice to have a weapon. Oh well, guess it is time for me to invest in one.' Carter thought as he looked back to the giant bird creature, jumping up to it as lightning crackled around his body.
Weiss followed his lead and launched herself and the other girls with her glyphs. Weiss, Ruby, and Blake stabbed the bird-like creature with their weapons while Yang and Carter punched it.
They all landed on their feet, Carter grabbing his wrist softly as he groaned softly as well.
"I'll never get used to that." He said to himself, yet audible to Weiss.
Weiss looked over to him as he took his glove off and throw it to the side. He touched his eyepatch softly and looked to Weiss before putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Weiss, don't freak out when I do this." He said to her, a saddened look on his face.
"What're you talking about?" She asked him, confused beyond belief.
"I'm taking the patch off, and when I do that.. it usually doesn't turn out well for the people and things around me." He said to her as he looked to the ground slightly, fearful for what might happen.
"Carter, I'll be fine." Weiss told him, smiling warmly.
Carter looked at her, stunned. Those were the last words that he'd said to her all of those years ago, and he still felt an extreme attachment to them since those were the words he had to live by for the past seven years. He nodded at her, a smile now on his face. As he turned to the Nevermore, he started laughing a little.
"Feel free to attack whenever there's an opening." He said to the four girls, smirking.
He then grabbed the patch softly and slowly took it off, putting it in his pocket as red and black aura swirled around him. He then slowly opened his right eye, it being mechanical as well. The colors of it were different from his normal eye, with the sclera being black and the iris being red. Red and black lightning slowly replaced the aura and he started laughing maniacally.
"Let's get this started!" Carter exclaimed, his voice now distorted.
He jumped to the Nevermore, cracks in the ground forming from the force of the jump. He then appeared above the bird-like creature and kicked its eye, the Grimm crying in pain. Weiss looked at the other three girls and nodded, the others nodding back. They all ran towards the ruins as the unformed team JNPR followed suit with the Deathstalker on their tails.
Weiss was stunned at the sudden power boost, but he seemed different as he fought like that. He had a sadistic grin on his face, almost the same as the ones from the night he went missing. As she thought that, her body locked up and she started tearing up. Just looking at him now brought back so many memories.
The Nevermore shot some feathers at the ground, Weiss almost getting impaled by one, until Carter rushed towards the feather and obliterated it. He sighed as he looked at her and put the eyepatch back on.
'I thought that'd happen.' He thought to himself before hugging her. "Hey, we gotta fight. C'mon I know that this hard for you to see, but I had to do it." He said to her.
Weiss then looked up to him and slowly started to calm down.
"Weiss, are you alright?" Ruby asked as she turned to the two of them.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." Weiss said before looking up to Carter. "What was that?" She asked him.
"Chaos. A personality that appears whenever I use that part of my semblance." Carter explained to her.
Weiss then nodded in understanding. "Ok, just please refrain from using it too much." She asked of him.
"Oh, I intend to do that no matter what." He said to her with a small laugh to hopefully cheer her up.
Weiss then smiled before turning to the Nevermore as it cawed. Carter looked at it as well, letting go of Weiss and cracking the knuckles in his left hand.
"Now, how do we wanna take care of this thing?" He asked the four girls.
Ruby perked up and smiled. "I have a plan!" She exclaimed.
After setting everything up, Ruby was stationed on Crescent Rose in a makeshift slingshot.
"Can you make it?" She asked Weiss.
"Can I?" Weiss rhetorically asked with a smirk.
After a moment, Ruby looked to Weiss quizzically. "Can you?" The red-clad girl asked.
"Of course I can!" Weiss exclaimed, a little annoyed.
"Good. I'll stun it a little more and then y'all make the shot." Carter stated before throwing another bolt of lightning before Weiss shot Ruby like a rocket towards the Nevermore.
As Ruby ran up the cliff, Weiss and Carter looked at the scene with smiles. They didn't know why, but it was nice to see a giant bird creature being decapitated by a girl that was two years younger than them. After doing so, Carter looked to Weiss and vice versa.
They then hugged, their arms tight around one another. After a little bit, they separated and sighed in happiness.
"Well, I think I'm on my own for now." Carter stated.
"What do you mean?" Weiss asked.
"Well, Beacon has four people teams. There's already eight here. I'm left out since the teams are basically formed." He said.
"You'll find people. That or the headmaster suddenly makes an exception." Weiss stated with a small laugh.
Carter laughed a little as well before looking up at the sky, the bottom of his jacket swaying in the wind.
'This year's gonna be cool, isn't it?' He thought.
