(On I go! With a new year coming, time for the last chapter for this story of the year...maybe...could be more, or the last chapter could be the last one of the year. OkImramblingletsgetstartedshallwe?)

Ambition and Opportunity

Uriah's POV 5 Months Ago

"Uriah. I believe that it's finally time for me to tell you where we will be stealing from." Huitzilo says, I guess it's finally time for what the great lead up is for.

"Alright, I'm listening." I tell him, he nods and lays out a blueprint to a building. "Alright, where we're going is a Lien storage house for a company called...Stallion from what I can remember of it." He says, he claps his hands together not a moment afterwards

"Now: I spent a lot of time and effort into bribing guards to keep out of the way, however I didn't mention you. So if you manage to get caught if the alarm goes off then you're in for a few problems."

"Wait, why didn't you mention me to them?"

"They won't expect it. Now, we'll be going via a bus that can carry out as much as we can. You open a portal up onto the bus, then once we're inside get another portal out and we'll toss it through and it'll get onto the bus. We get out and we leave."

"Alright, sounds easy enough."

"But I'll be bringing my weapons. Just in case things go south."

"Alright...mind if I go do something before we get this started at night." I tell him, he nods in response. "Go on ahead, best take care a few things before we do it boy."

I nod and take my leave, next stop.

Emerald.

3 Hours Later

Well the streets seem busy: people walking up and down the sidewalks, doing various things, it's also all an illusion. She thinks I'm gonna fall for that old trick, oh Emerald...why you think that is an exercise in futility.

"Come on out Em! I know you're around, gotta say I'm pretty insulted that you think I'm going to fall for your illusions." I call out, and with it the crowd vanishes. And in front of me is my good friend with a hand on her hip, frowning.

She sighs and shakes her head, "Well that cut me out on my fun. Also, gotta say if you're insulted just by that...I should do it more." She says with her frown turning into a wry grin.

I shake my head and give her a grin myself, right before sharing a friendly hug with her. "So what's going on?" She asks

"I have some news I wanted to share, and an offer."

"Oh? What is it?"

"Finally going to do the job that Huitzilo has hyped up."

"Really? Congratulations." She says smiling brightly, I smile back and nod

"So wanna join in? We split our share when it's all done?" I ask, her expression turns into a sad frown. She then looks away

"Something wrong Em?" I ask, she looks back at me and lets out a quiet sigh and her expression changes into a sad smile. "I've got a new boss, you know? I gotta leave Mistral with her."

"Now hold on! It's happening tonight! We could-"

"Uriah I have to leave tonight...I'm sorry."

I felt a pang of sadness hit me then, and I frowned. "Oh...I see."

"Yeah, but hey. I wish you luck." She says patting my shoulder

"Thanks, so what're you going to be doing with the new boss you have?"

She shrugs, "No idea yet, but at least I won't be stealing much anymore. You know?"

"Yep."

"Well I better get going. I wish you luck with life Uriah, you've been a pretty good friend. For someone with paranoia."

I snort and smile at her, "You too, just watch out for mouse traps."

She shakes her head and turns her back, she then starts to walk away. I do the same in the opposite direction.

Goodbye, Emerald Sustrai. And good luck.

4 Hours Later

As me and Huitzilo pull up outside, the bus let's out a hiss to stop. "Well, here we are. Uriah?"

"On it." With a loud clang there's now a black and green portal on the floor of the bus, alright. "Ready on your go."

"Then let's get going." He says opening up the door and going outside, I soon follow afterwards. The building is a bit...off:

It's nearly pitch black with a logo of a horse's head on the side of it, and a phrase underneath it: 'MAKING THE DREAMS OF TOMORROW REALITY, TODAY'. As for the actual building it's one story tall but made from something that isn't concrete, but like...really advanced metal. Something that doesn't come from Remnant

"Come on Uriah." Huitzilo says, I look at him opening up a pair of doors. "Right! I'm coming." I shout out coming through the doors, in contrast to the black outside. The inside is sterile white. With light making the place almost blinding.

There's storage boxes and the like, with even a big vault at the end of a long hallway. Payday has come.

"Alright, I'll work on the vault. You handle the storage boxes." He then pulls out his weapons, twin cobalt blue pistols that are large. And unlike mine which are revolvers well...his has it's ammo in a clip at the bottom of the grip.

"Aye-aye."

Upon saying it, Huitzilo walks over to the vault and I get to work on the strong boxes. They're a pain in the ass to work on, but I eventually get to opening them up. And inside is a good sum of lien

I open up a black and green portal on the bottom of the floor and dump the lien into the thing. Once the dumping is done I head over to Huitzilo

"All done with the strong boxes Huitzilo. About done with the vault."

He gives an...off looking smile, "You're just in time." And with it he opens up the door and inside...lots O money, and some Dust too. I laugh happily, "Portal is ready for tossing in the stuff."

"Excellent. Let's finish up shall we?"

With that the two of us get to tossing in the Lien and Dust through the portal, after some time passes the vault is all cleared out. I clap my hands

"Alright!" I say with the portal vanishing, "Time for us to get out of here."

"Time for me to get out of here." Huitzilo says with a crooked smile on his face, "Wait. Wh-"

I get cut off by the sound of a gun shot and a horrible pain in my leg, I collapse to the ground howling in pain. I can feel my warm blood trickling down my leg, I look at Huitzilo who's merely smiling and heading over to an alarm.

"HUITZILO! WHAT'RE YOU DOING?!" I cry out at him, this is all just a bullshit dream. It's gotta be!

"This was a long time coming! You were great at helping me rake in Lien. But I've come to the conclusion that our partnership should come to an end."

"WHAT ABOUT HONOR AMONG THIEVES?!" I shout at him, I feel betrayed. I thought he was one of the few who cared about me, but I was just a goddamn pawn to him.

He lets out a cruel laugh, "Well, since you've been such a sport. Time I let you in on a secret: There is no honor among thieves! The reason why you ask? You're looking at him!" With that he hits the alarm and runs out

I'm in a transfix, and soon guards wearing helmets colored white come in. With rifles in hand, one of them hits me with the butt of his rifle.

It isn't a dream.

4 Months Later

Prison is pretty fine, trouble with the inmates from time to time, but good food. Right now I'm laying in the bed of my cell...I came to the conclusion that Huitzilo is long gone and hunting after him for revenge would be useless.

"'Ey! Yous awake in there?" A guard's voice asks, I stand up and head over to the cell doors. "Yeah I'm up. What is it?"

"A guy's here to sees yous." He says opening up the door, handcuffs in hand. I raise an eyebrow

"Really? Who'd he say he is?"

He shrugs taking me out the cell and putting the cuffs on me, "Said he's your...uncle or somethin'"

I don't have an uncle, what does this mean? The guy starts to lead me down the hallway until I'm in a room with a table, this isn't the visiting room or else there would be glass splitting physical contact between us.

The guard leaves the room, I take a seat and lay my head down. Maybe I can get in a quick nap

"Wake up." A voice says, I shoot my head back up and see a man: silver hair, round glasses, dressed all nice...he takes a seat opposite of me.

"Pardon me for interrupting your nap. I just wish to speak with you."

I say nothing.

He sighs, "I know who you are Uriah Greene, but you don't know me. I am professor Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy."

"I've heard about that place, school for training Huntsmen right?"

He gives a nod, "Astute of you, I would like to offer you a chance of leaving this place and come to Beacon. You have potential of doing good for the world."

I snort, "Give me a break."

He shakes his head, he looks disappointed. "Your mother would be upset to see you end up here."

"Don't you dare mention her, you shady looking bastard." I growl at him

"But I knew her...she was a good woman." He says quietly, he knew my mom? I end up going from anger to confusion, "I'm sorry that she and whoever your father is were not able to help you on the right path. All I ask is that you come, to make up for past mistakes."

I squint my eyes for a moment and sigh, "Alright...Ozpin. I'll do it."

His expression changes to something warm, relief. "Good. Already have your bail paid for, and your weapons waiting outside."

I nod, "Thanks...should I call you uncle Ozpin or something?"

"Whatever you want to call me."

Beacon Academy, Three Days Later

Here I am. Beacon.

Well at least I'm not rotting in a cell. And with my weapons, the clothes on my back, a bag full of stuff, I'm going to train to be a Huntsman. I take a seat on a bench and pull out the music sheet.

I should probably try and learn piano, so I can actually play the music. Funny...I never actually met my mom but, I miss her.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" A voice shouts, snapping into someone else.

That may not sound to good.

(There we go, Uriah's past all finished. Hope you all had a merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Whatever. And hope you all have a happy new year!)