Outcasts and Outlaws
Volume 3, Chapter 3
New Faces, Old Memories
In a hurry to upload this before work, so I'll be brief. This chapter introduces a couple of new characters that'll be in this volume and the next one. Enjoy!
Opening Music: https/youtu.be/zL6lJ3cP6kw
[The Pet Girl of Sakurasou OP 2]
OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS V3
(Cherry blossoms fly past the screen)
Harewataru sora wa aoku!
(Shows Connors feet running) Chikazuitekuru
(Shows Connor's while he's running)
ashioto!
(Shows Ruby in a cherry blossom tree)
(Ruby jumps down from the tree) Hikaridashita kaze
(She lands in front of Connor)
Ni osa
(Shows Ruby looking at Connor) Reru
(Shows Connor looking back at her)
you ni hora
(Shows them both looking at each other)
Deatteshimatta!
(Zooms on Connor and shows flashbacks of him)
Sorezore no yume!
(Zooms on Ruby and shows flashbacks of her)
Sorezore no mirai!
(Connor and Ruby turn around and see each other)
Makenai
(They walk towards each other) you ni hashiri!
(Shows Mars)
Kizuitara zutto
(Shows flashbacks of Mars)
issho ni itanda!
(Shows a young Connor smiling behind him)
Dare yori mo!
(Shows Jim and Yang eating together)
Nayande
(Shows Jim carrying Yangs shopping)
ochikande
(Shows Yang yelling at Connor) naite
(Yang gets Connor in a headlock) Waratte!
(Shows all of them at a table celebrating)
Kasokushiteku!
(Shows Kane)
Kimi ni todoke!
(Shows Irileth)
Sora wo kakete!
(Irileth tries to hug Kane but he moves)
Massugu na
(She tries again and he moves again)
omoi
(Stephane runs in between both of them)
gyutto dakishime!
(Shows Connor and Ruby together) Kitto
(Zooms on Connor's face when he smiles)
umaretate
(Ruby smiles back)
no tsuyosa
(Ruby runs over to Connor)
wa mune ni!
(Ruby hugs Connor)
Kono kimochi ga tsubasa
(Connor takes Ruby's hand)
ni nari!
(Connor and Ruby run to the Beacon entrance)
Watashi wa watashi wo tameteyuku!
(Connor and Ruby meet up with everyone else at the Beacon entrance)
END
The day after their return to Beacon, just before six o'clock, the members of Team Kalos were gathered in their room, getting ready for the party. Upon returning to their dorm room, they had noticed that the sign on their door had been changed, and now read 'Team Kalos'. In addition, the room had been adjusted to accommodate all four of them, with beds and dresses for everyone. They also found that tuxedos had been laid out for them on each of their beds, just as Ozpin had suggested. The four of them wasted no time changing into the suits, none of them worried about dressing in the same room. Having been travelling around on their mission for months, they'd had to do it before.
As Connor made final adjustments to his black bow tie in the mirror, Jim, dressed only from the waist down, clapped him on the back from behind and grinned into the glass. Much to Connor's surprise, Jim had taken off his hat for the occasion, something Connor had never seen him do. Even when they had slept in the wild together on some nights of their long mission, Jim had never removed his headgear. He kept in on while he rested and even on the occasions that they undressed in front of each other, dubbing privacy a worthless luxury, he had always been wearing buttoned shirts. Because of that, he had never removed his hat in front of Connor before.
"Jim...you're a Faunus?!" Connor exclaimed, seeing the brown furry ears atop his buddies head for the first time.
"Yeah...is that a problem?" Jim replied, wondering if his friend had anything against the Faunus.
"No! Not at all!" Connor frantically assured his friend. "I just had no idea since you never took off your hat before."
Jim chuckled as he walked across the room to grab a bottle of deodorant, and sprayed it over himself whilst telling Connor, "I'm part wolf on my mothers side, she was a wolf Faunus, my father was an ordinary human. The reason for the hat is because I'd heard that Faunus discrimination was a bigger problem at Beacon than the teachers would like to admit."
Connor frowned at that. Even though all the teachers at Beacon discouraged Faunus discrimination, and came down hard on anyone who did so, it was still a prominent problem. People like Cardin Winchester and his group of armoured bullies still messed with for Faunus members of Beacon just for being what they are, as if they could help it. "Then why lose the hat now?" Connor asked him curiously.
"I guess I'm just tired of wearing it all the time, and I want the people close to me to know who, what, I am." Jim answered as he buttoned up his white undershirt. "I trust that none of them will treat me any differently, apart from some playful puns."
"So I'm the first one to know about this?" Connor said, happy that Jim had confided in him.
"No, Yang knows. She's known for a while."
"So you told Yang before you told me?" Connor questioned, turning round to face Jim personally instead of through the mirror as he put on his tuxedo jacket.
"Is that a problem?" Jim responded, looking Connor dead in the eyes.
"...I suppose not..." Connor replied, turning back to the mirror to look at his hair. He knew Jim and Yang had grown close before he'd left for the mission, but he had no idea they were that close, close enough for Jim to tell her of his Faunus blood.
"So...being a Faunus means you can see in the dark right?" Connor asked, remembering one of the teachers having mentioned it during a lecture.
"Yeah," Jim answered, buttoning up his jacket and reaching for his bow tie. "And since I'm a wolf Faunus, I also have a heightened sense of smell."
Connor thought about that while Jim saw to the final pieces of his attire. He had wondered for a while how Jim had been able to work in the pitch black on missions and how he was so good at tracking. He's shown off those skills countless times, and yet Connor hadn't put two and two together.
"Come on on, it's six o'clock. Kane and Mars will be waiting." Jim urged, before leaving through the door and waiting outside for Connor to join him. Mars and Kane had gotten ready quickly, so Mars dragged Kane to the ball hall early, in an attempt to make him mingle with whomever entered first and be sociable. "Good luck with that." Connor had sarcastically said.
After a final brush of his usually messy brown hair, Connor followed Jim out of the room and the two of them set off in the direction of the ball hall. They didn't get far however, before Nora came bursting out of Team JNPR's room in a bright pink dress, and burst into excitement when she saw Connor.
"CONNOR!!!" She yelled at the top of her voice, unable to control her childish excitement. "I knew I heard your voice in the hall!" She yelled again, before launching herself at Connor, trying to rope him into a hug.
Before she could however, an orange metal spear came flying out of Team JNPR's open room, followed by Pyrhaa in an orange dress. The spear caught Nora's dress, pinning her to the wall. "Sorry about that." Pyrhaa apologised. "She's just excited to see you."
Pyrhaa then let Nora down and hastily dragged her down the hall before she could jump on Connor again. Nora waved as she was pulled down the corridor, out of sight.
Connor and Jim sighed, realising the redheads behaviour hadn't changed in the months that they'd been away, she was still just as energetic and childish as ever. A few seconds after that, Jaune and Ren ran out of the room in tuxedos and, ignoring Connor and Jim in their haste, ran after their teammates.
It was after that the door of Team RWBY's room opened, and Yang stepped out, wearing a glistening yellow dress. Connor and Jim both marvelled as the dress appeared to shine, an effect of the bright yellow colour.
"What are you staring at?" Yang snapped at the two of them, crossing her arms to cover up her chest.
"It's a nice dress that's all." Connor replied calmly, making sure to keep the compliment to a low standard. "No need to cover your breasts, I'm not a pervert."
"It isn't you I'm worried about..." Yang muttered, glaring at Jim, who was still dumbstruck over Yang's attire. "What do you want birdbrain?" She snapped at Jim again.
Without saying a word, Jim simply stuck out his hand in front of him, gesturing for Yang to take it. He had the smallest of smiles on his face, as if he was trying very hard not to. Yang blushed profusely, something Connor had never seen her do. She'd usually just brush off any confessions or date requests, as she got them pretty often, but this time she didn't. Likewise Jim would usually use a dirty joke or say something like, "Hey baby!" To lure in a girl, but he wasn't saying a thing, perhaps because he knew it wouldn't work on Yang.
Still blushing bright red, Yang took a hold of Jim's fleshy human hand- his robot hand hung at his side- and let herself be lightly dragged off by him. Connor watched, baffled, as the two of them walked to the ball hall together. As he tried to figure out Jim's motives, Ruby stepped out of the door in a short red skirt and tapped him on the shoulder.
Feeling the tap on his shoulder, Connor looked at Ruby and upon seeing her in her attire, reacted similarly to how Jim had reacted to seeing Yang. "Oh, wow." He said, unintentionally gawping at her. "You look...really good in that."
Ruby blushed at the compliment and replied, "Thanks...so should we go?"
Connor looked down at the long hallway ahead of them. All of the others had probably already made it to the hall, so Connor and Ruby would be the last to arrive. He could live with that, if everyone looked at them when they walked in late, he'd enjoy the attention. He held out his hand to Ruby, which she grabbed, their fingers intertwining.
The ball hall was bustling with students dressed in formal wear chatting in groups all around and some dancing to the music, whilst the teachers were leaning against the walls, keeping an eye on the crowd. As Ruby and Connor walked in hand in hand, they spotted Yang and Jim chatting to each other and strolled over to them.
"Yo." Connor cheerily greeted. "What's up, you two? You left me behind in a hurry."
Yang was about to snap back a remark at Connor in defence, but stopped when she saw the two of them holding hands tightly, and glared at their hands. She calmed down slightly when she felt a hand on her shoulder, Jim's robot hand.
"Wait Jim, you're a Faunus?" Ruby questioned, noticing the furry wolf ears sticking out of his brown hair.
"I'll explain that another time." Jim answered, not eager to go through the whole story a second time. "There sure is a lot of exchange students here huh?" He said, changing the subject as he turned around to look at the students in question. Suddenly his face turned serious, almost angry, and he snarled, "What the flying heck is he doing here?!"
The student Jim was looking at was hard for Connor to spot at first, as he was surrounded by a small gaggle of girls, but he was soon found. The exchange student in question was wearing a tuxedo, just like Jim's and Connor's, but it was somehow flashier than theirs. As he spoke to the girls around him, Connor discerned his accent to be quite a foreign one. His hair was blonde, long on one side, and shorter on the other. His face was a handsome one, even Connor could tell that, which explained the girls swooning around him.
"Bastard!" Jim swore, before heading towards the student whom he apparently knew. Connor let go of Ruby's hand and told her to wait there as he and Yang followed to find out what was going on.
As Jim drew closer, the student saw him and grinned callously at him. "Well if it isn't the dirty Faunus! How are Jim, old buddy, old freak?"
"Stephane..." Jim scowled in return. "Why are you here?"
"I am a student here now, Jimmy boy." Stephane responded, deliberately riling Jim up. He then stepped closer to Jim, looked him in the eye, and taunted, "Get used to it, you dirty freaking Faunus."
In response, Jim raised his robot arm and punched at Stephane. As if barely concerned by it, he blindly caught the metal fist in his hand and held it in place while Jim struggled. "Ooh, automail. That's pretty gnarly equipment, where'd you get it?" Stephane interrogated. "More importantly, how'd you lose your real arm?"
"Screw. You." Jim instantly snapped back, pushing harder with his robot arm.
"Ooh, the dirty Faunus knows some dirty language!" Stephane called out to his girls, who were standing behind him, in support of the better looking man. "Where'd you learn that? Your whore of a Faunus mother teach it to you?"
Before he had even finished the sentence, Jim grabbed Stephane's throat with his other hand and squeezed. Stephane calmly scowled at his attack and sent a wave of aura through his right hand, which rippled up Jim's robot arm and shattered it into many small pieces. Jim stood and stared at his broken arm for a moment, having let go of Stephane's throat as he reeled back. The metal plating connecting to his skin was still partially intact, but the wires that were connected to his nerves hung uselessly out of the severed limb. Jim scowled at Stephane and turned away, quickly walking out of the hall.
"Jim! Wait up!" Connor cried out to his friend, then followed him out of the hall. Meanwhile, Yang kneeled down to inspect the broken pieces of Jim's arm. Screws and gears were scattered all across the floor, among wires and pieces of steel plating. After picking up the biggest pieces of steel, she got up and started after Jim. Kane, seeing the ruckus, abandoned Mars and followed also.
"That son a of bitch! I should ripped out his throat right there and then!" Jim yelled as he stormed down the corridor, Connnor, Yang and Kane right behind him. He was so angry that he didn't see the girl step out of Ozpins office as they passed it and subsequently knocked into her.
Quickly getting up from the floor, the girl yelled at Jim. "Watch where you're going dimwit!" The girl had long dyed purple hair in stripes, so that we hair colour alternated between purple and black. She wore a tight, short sleeved, magenta shirt and very short black shorts. On her neck was a runic tattoo resembling the sun, and a piece of cloth was stuck to the back of her shorts, and extended down to her ankles.
Kane pushed past Jim to get a look at the girl, recognising her voice. When he stepped out, the girl exclaimed, "Kane?!"
"Irileth?!"
Ending Music: https/youtu.be/URQJP9UbjdA
[Nisekoi OP 1]
(Shows tiny Grimm bird flying)
Kioku ga hiraku oto! Kikitai kara! (The tiny Grimm bird flies over young Connor's head)
Kimi ni sashidasou!
OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS V3
(Shows Connor waking up)
Aa, konna ni mo!
(Connor leaves his room and starts running down the corridor) Taisetsu na omoi mo!
(Connor runs past Mars)
Toki no suna
(Connor runs past Kane)
ga ooikakushite!
(Shows Connor run past Team JNPR as they come out of their room)
Aimai ni shite shimau keredo! (Connor stops at the stairs and runs up them)
Unmei nante kotoba
(Shows Connor running to the top of the stairs)
wa chiipu da nante!
(Shows Connor run down the corridor to the other stairs)
Issho ni warai atteru kimi ga! (Connor jumps down the stairs) Sono hito datarri suru no ka na! (Shows Irileth, Stephane and Nora) Kitto!
(Shows Connor on his back and sitting up)
Minna daji na koto!
(Connor looks behind him)
Sokushi zutzu
(Jim, Yang and Ruby are behind him. Ruby seeing if he is okay) wasurete iku kara!
(Connor smiles back at them and stands up)
Kimi to no omoide wa!
(Connor stands with Jim, Yang and Ruby)
Wazuka dake demo
(Jim walks past Connor and pats his shoulder, and then Connor, Ruby and Yang follow him) takusasete yo!
(Shows the Kalos Crystal)
Sorou hazunai pazura!
(Shows Irileth from behind) Kakusheteta
(Shows Stephane from behind) Saigo no kakera!
(Shows Nora walking)
Kioku ga hiraku oto!
(Shows Ruby and Yang)
Kikitai kara! Kimi ni sashidasou! (Connor pops up)
(Jim appears next to him)
(Shows them walking into Beacon) END
