(Well after what I did in the pervious chapter, time for some...cool down chapters. Because that took a LOT out of me. Just sending out a few chapters before I get into Volume 2 stuff. But anyways! On with the story)

High VOLTage

So how long has it been since the little 'our friends are terrorists' deal? Five days? I honestly can't keep track of time at times. It would be nice to have something to tell time...why not get a watch you ask? Too expensive.

But right now, there needs to be a bit of down time.

"So what's something we could do today?" I mutter to myself, while everyone else is asleep I'm trying to wrap my mind around something to do. I sigh and flop to the floor, "Why can't I think of something?" I mumble closing my eyes a bit.

"A penny for your thoughts, my boy?"

I open an eye to see Cheshire with a wide, toothy smiles. His red eyes glowing ever so slightly

"Hey Chesh." I mumble before opening up my other eye, he flicks his tail and climbs up to lay down on my chest. "Hello Axel. Still angry with me?" He asks sounding a bit sad

I frown at him, "You should have told us about Blake and Silas you know buddy."

Cheshire turns his head, "I did not know Ms. Belladonna was a member that's for sure...but I did know Silas was." He says truthfully

"Why's that?" I ask

"He has a White Fang mask on him, I presumed he has had some correlation to it."

I shrug a bit, "Hey. Even though they're a group of near-genoicdal terrorists with a raging hate-boner for humanity: they have cool masks."

Cheshire gives a frown at me, "What? Not my fault that they look kick ass Cesh. And it's not like they're actually made from Grimm you know."

"I'd rather not be dealing with them." He sighs, "Want me to show you the mask?"

"Of course."

"One moment." Cheshire climbs off me and strolls off, coming back with a tan-white mask in his mouth that looked like a demon: horns curling from the forehead, red markings around the eyes, and something else added...painted on in fact, a demonic grin of sharp teeth.

Creepy.

"Yeesh. I thought Silas was just a calm and collected guy." I mutter to myself, Silas said he didn't kill for the White Fang in his days but...I wonder. Cheshire strolls back and puts away the mask.

"I suspect that there's something...odd with him."

"Really?" Why's that?"

"I...I should show you." He says shuddering, he strolls off again. I can only fear for what Chesh is about to show me, he comes back and in his book this time is a book. The back possibly due to it being blank save a sticker on it.

What?

I take the book out of Chesh's mouth and look to the front art showing figures of two ladies in kimonos watching a sunset, "'Geishas of Passion'...might as well give it a read." I mumble to myself. And I open up to the first page.

One Hour Later

I was trembling in the corner of the room, rocking back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I was only stuttering out one word in a mad chant:

"L-L-Lewd."

I felt like I was burning alive right now, fire wrapped around me like a security blanket. And I had thoughts of plenty of things that made fires: matches, lighters, flint, lightning. Fires seem so pretty right now. The heat, the orange glow, don't get close now! You'll burn yourself!

I hear a knock on the door, who could that be? Pyrrha?

I get up from my corner and open the door, not Pyrrha.

The girl has baggy hazel colored eyes and ratty light brown hair reaching her shoulders and brushing over a beaded necklace with a yin-yang symbol on it, she's dressed in a scarlet long-sleeve shirt and shorts with a beanie on her head, oddly enough she's wearing sandals. Another odd thing about her is little whisker-like marks on her smiling face.

"'Sup." She says in a polite, friendly tone of voice. I squint at her and tilt my head to the side.

"Who're you?" I ask a bit bluntly, her smile widens a bit shaking her head. "That's a bit rude don't you think?"

"Like knocking on someone's door near six in the morning?" I ask her, she shrugs slightly. "Six o'clock has been gone for thirty minutes now."

Again! It happened again!

I sigh and shake my head, "Sorry. Staying up messes around with my internal clock and all."

She grins and crosses her arms, "Partying all night?" She asks plainly. I snort and shake my head, "I wish. Last week for me was an utter shitstorm, but I'm planning on doing something fun today."

"Of course. Gotta take a break at some point eh?"

"Yep...what's your name? I kinda like you already, in a friend way of course."

"Don't worry, I know: name's Ahri Vermilion. How 'bout you?"

"Axel Lind."

The two of us shake hands, solid grip on the girl. "So how's Beacon treating you?" I ask a bit tired still, she simply shrugs. "Could be better, could be worse. Though I am still a bit new here along with my team...mind telling us about the place? Show us where the class rooms are and such?" She asks with a glint of mischievousness in her eyes.

I sigh and nod, "You better not trick me or some shit."

"Nahhhh, I'm not a bitch like that. No worries." She says truthfully, well well looks like I have someone to show around. Hmmm...the beanie is throwing me off, is this girl pulling a Blake? Time to find out.

"Hey uh, before we do that I need to throw on some clothes...a jacket at least."

"Alright so-"

"And I need you to take off your beanie."

She frowns and raises an eyebrow, "Whyyyy?..." She asks sounding a bit suspicious. "Hey, just checking something."

She sighs and pulls the beanie off of her head, revealing two fox ears on her head. She was pulling a Blake, huh. Thanks paranoia!

"There. Happy?" She asks a bit annoyed

"Very actually." I say truthfully, "But I'm a bit annoyed you tried hiding it."

"I wasn't actually hiding it but...how'd you know?"

"It's...it's a long story." I say rubbing the back of my neck, "Now one moment." I say closing the door. I put on my longcoat and pop a few joints before sighing and meeting back with Ahri who is idly tossing her beanie in hand.

"Alright. Ready for me to show you around this place?" I ask, she shrugs. "Are you ready?"

"Not really. No..."

She gives a grin and pats my shoulder, "Tough luck." She says happily, I frown at her and cross my arms. "I can tell already you're a pain in the ass."

"I was thinking the exact same thing."

I laugh a bit and shake my head before heading out the door, "They're right around the corner here. C'mon." Ahri says race-walking down the hallway. Odd girl, but interesting none the less. I follow her and around the corner she's standing with three different people, a guy and two girls:

The guy has a grin on his face, he has spiky baby blue hair and hazy grey eyes with a headband around his forehead, he's dressed in a...jarring to say the least get-up. As it's a short-sleeved shirt with a high-colad that is pink and black along with sweat pants and sneakers that are the same color pattern. I feel like I need to vomit from seeing it.

The first girl is fully dressed like a knight, shining white armor with red and details. She has a neutral expression on her face, aquamarine hair that's tied into pigtails with blue eyes. And I mean a bright blue, I'm talking about nearly white. Still more color in her eyes than Fox.

And the other girl seems more...timid, looking down at her feet. Shy from the looks of it, she has gray colored hair worn in braids covered by a hood and lime green eyes, she's wearing a yellow vest and cargo pants with a bulky orange jacket over it zipped up to the point it's covering her neck. Note to self: girl probably is great at camouflage in fires.

Fires...ohhhh yessss.

"Well! Looks like we now have a tour guide!" The guy with spiky blue hair says enthusiastically

"You're welcome for that." Ahri says a bit plainly, "Everyone. Meet Axel Nolastname, our guide for taking us around the school."

I frown at her, "It's Lind...Axel Lind. You forget already?" I shoot her back, she merely looks at me and shrugs.

"Nice to meet you guy." The blue-haired guy speaks again, "Name's Oreno Orchid." He says proudly with his thumb pointing at his chest. Orchid?

I snigger a bit which gets me a sour look from flower-boy. "What's funny eh? Is it a joke?"

"You're name." I say between laughs

"What about it?"

"Oreno Orchid?"

"I smell nice don't I?!" He snaps

I sigh and shake my head, "Whatever floats your boat friend. Nice to meet you." I say a bit more friendly this time. He shrugs and gives a smile, "You too man." His face then turns dark again for a moment, "But never laugh about my name. Alright?" He warns

I hold my hands up and nod.

"Aaaaaanyways." The girl in armor says stepping in, "Nice to meet you. Name's Leah Lilliana, but just call me Lily or Lil." She says casually

"You got it." I say with a salute, looking to the other girl she's just fidgeting there. "You...you wanna tell me your name?" I ask her, she looks up

"Huh?" Her face then lights up and nods, "S-Sorry, I was just thinking. I'm Tulip...Tulip Talulah." She says quietly.

"Hmmm..." I cup my chin and point in order: Ahri, Oreno, Lily and Tulip.

"Team VOLT?" I ask

Ahri gives a smirk and nods, "Yup. That's us."

"Alright." I say clapping my hands together, "Time for me to show you all around."

I lead the four down the hallway and reach the main area where some of the class rooms are at.

"Alright, first two doors are History and Grimm Study classes." I say pointing to the doors on either side, "History teacher's name is Oobleck...call him Doctor Oobleck, also he's speedier than a jet hopped up on adrenaline and every drug your feeble minds can comprehend that can make someone go faster. I can only guess Oobleck is able to move at light-speed if given adrenaline."

"Uh-huh..." I get from the group

"Grimm studies class is where you study Grimm, teacher's name is Port. Like his name says he's kind of fat...I pray that you don't say it around him though, also ladies keep to the back because he thinks he can woo ladies even though he may end up having a heart-attack at any second. Also has an ego that if it was made into a building, it may very well be his face made of gold and tears then made to ten times the scale of the whole world."

I move up and VOLT follows behind, "Next two classes are my personal favorites: Huntsman Survival Tactics, and Weapons class." I say a bit happily, I get to talk about the Gentleman and the Survivalist

"Soooooo who're the teachers for those?" Ahri pipes in curiously

"Survival tactics is Peach who will go into a rant that may or may not cause you to break down into tears or give you PTSD. Your millage may vary. Cool lady all in all actually. Possibly a tad insane. And swears more than a drunken sailor"

"And for weapons is Scale, gentlemanly of gentlemen with an umbrella. Also don't piss him off or else he will either cause a storm of cursing that makes the aforementioned Peach seem like the most innocent of babies."

I look to them and smile, "Now! Any questions?" I ask

They all look to be grimacing a bit, "Yeah uh...why are the teachers descriptions you gave are like that?" Lily asks squinting her eyes

I smile and wrap an arm around her neck with a hand stretched out, "Because I am great at descriptions." I whisper

"But-"

"Great, at descriptions." I cut her off with a grin on my face.

Looking to the others they all have different expressions: Ahri looks a bit amused, Oreno is squinting his eyes at me like he's trying to figure me out, and Tulip looks a bit nervous. Looking back to Lily...she's out of my grip.

And she's standing next to me frowning and with arms crossed.

"Well that's my way of guiding you guy and gals through the school. Have a good one." I say walking off, "Hold on."

"Hm?"

I look back to see the four of them smiling a bit, even Tulip. Ahri steps forward with a clenched fist

"Tell us about some of the teams too."

I sigh and shrug, "Fine. I'll give a quick run down, there's Team R-W-B-Y, Team J-N-P-R, Team C-F-V-Y, Team C-R-D-L, and my own team: Team A-S-U-R. Figure out the pronunciations." I quickly say

"Ruby, Juniper, Coffee? Cardinal? And Azure? Is that the pronunciation there?" Lily asks curiously, I grin and give a thumbs up. "Nice job."

"Mind if you and us spar?" Ahri asks confidently.

I raise an eyebrow, "Me and you four? That's hardly fair is it?" I dryly ask

"Nuh-uh, I mean your team and ours." She explains

"Riiiiiight." I drawl with a laugh, "We can do it in Scale's classroom, gonna have to ask my team. So, catch you all later."

And in order of their team they share goodbyes.

"See you soon."

"Keep safe!"

"Come back now alright?"

"F-Farewell."

I wave and head on back to the dorm. When I arrive and open up the door, everyone is wide awake. Roy playing around with what looks like a top, Blake reading a book, Silas and Uriah playing cards, and Ruby sitting on her bunk idly swinging her legs back and forth, no Yang...huh.

"There you are." Weiss says, "Where've you been?"

"I gave a tour to a team that's apparently new here. VOLT." I say

"Oh? What're they like Axel?" Ruby asks curiously

"They're..." Odd? "People." I say holding my hands up in surrender, "They actually want to spar with us. So guys wanna do it?"

"I'm up for it." Uriah says waving a hand

"Count me in!" Roy pipes in

"Yeah why not." Silas says with a shrug

"Perfect!" I cheer out, "Also I want to say Silas: you're a degenerate."

He looks at me a bit curious, "Why are you saying that?"

"I found one of your books." I gravely say, I crumble to the ground and clutch my head. "It was so...so lewd." I shakily breath out

"What are you doing going through my stuff?" He asks sounding shocked

"C-C-C-Chesh showed me." I stutter out

"Wasn't me!" He says in defense, "Well...maaaaybe it was? Don'tskinmeplease."

I sigh and shake my head before standing up and throwing off my jacket onto a chair, "Well to get rid of the thoughts of lewdness, I'm taking a shower." I say walking to the bathroom door.

"Uhhhh, I wouldn't go in there Y-"

I end up blocking out Ruby's advice and opening the door and see Yang toweling off...her hair, not her body. She looks dumbstruck and her face is beet red, mine probably is too what with seeing her naked and all.

I slowly close the door and turn around: Weiss is clutching the bridge of her nose, Ruby looks with a fake smile on her face saying 'You're ok, I won't cause horrible injuries due to you seeing my big sister naked', Silas has a small and smug grin on his face, Blake is still reading, Roy looks at me with a blank expression and wide eyes, and Uriah covering his mouth.

"I tried to tell ya." Ruby says with a shrug, "Yang was taking a shower."

"Yep...I know now..."

"Wanna call me the degenerate now?" Silas asks with his grin wide

"Oh bite me, you color-blind mutt." I spit back at him

I can hear Cthugha snicker in my mind,

You too, you gigantic fart of flames

(I just remembered that I forgot to mention the joke for Trial By Fire, Joan of Arc getting burned at the stake. Also while I'm at it, Ahri is in reference to 'Reynard the Fox'. Well that be all! Keep on reading and the like.)