This came together a lot quicker than I thought it would.

Chapter 2

"Who were these guys?" Ruby asked Soap.

"To put it simply, they were a team that had been exiled from society more than 30 years ago because of a crime that they committed. Something that, for now, I don't want to tell you about."

"A team?" Weiss said questioningly. "A team of what?"

"Huntsmen and Huntresses. Though you won't be able to find any record of them even if I gave you their names."

"Why's that?" Yang asked.

"That's because any and all records of them were erased when their incident happened."

"What school were they from?"

"They were a team that was comprised of a member from each of the schools; one from every kingdom. Each member specialized in stealth and recon; something they found to be rather useful once they were exiled."

"Didn't you say earlier that they were from Beacon though?" Blake asked.

"I did, but that was just to get this story started."

They sat in silence for a while before Ruby asked the question on everyone's minds. "Why are these guys so important Soapie?"

"Because, they... How about I start from where I met these guys? Once this story is over we will be going to retrieve any last data from their hideout and to give them a proper burial; during that mission, you can decide for yourself why they are so important."

"God I miss hot food." The giant of a man said next to me.

"There he goes again. Talking about food while all of us are starving." The male faunus said next to me.

"Why do you guys have to be so loud when we move from base to base?" I heard a female voice behind me say.

"Shhh. We're getting close to where we need to be. Also quite talking about food." I said, peering through the bushes.

The three behind me shut up and quietly fell into line.

"Hey Daliah?" The female voice behind me asked.

"Yeah Rachel?" I said.

"Where exactly are we going again?" She asked.

"Some place safe, hopefully." I said.

"Are we going to another one of those old military bases?" The giant man beside me asked disapprovingly.

"Hey, watch your mouth Andy! Those military bases you speak of are a part of history. They have been around for hundreds of years. Be happy that we ran into one 15 years ago." The faunus said to Andy.

"Dude, chill out would ya? I get that you're from the Atlas Military School, but you aren't Military anymore Kevin. You haven't been for 20 years." Andy said to the faunus.

"Thanks to the fact that the power was still somehow on in the Lima base that we found, we have a map of places to stay for as long as we have to." I said. "We're headed to the Delta base now."

We continued to travel till we came to a small clearing in the woods. "Let's rest here for a little bit before we continue." I said. "Rachel, you take watch."

"Roger." The other female of the group responded.

We rested for 20 minutes before my faunus senses picked up on the sounds of Grimm closing in on us, but they were still a little ways out. "Five minutes." I said.

Before the others even had a chance to respond, a multitude of gunshots could be heard along with the sounds of Grimm fighting back.

Instantly everybody was on their feet with their weapons in hand.

"Heavily modified Fifty cal. desert eagle." Kevin said. " Sounds really close."

After a minute passed, I looked over the blade of my broadsword turned rifle then back to the woods around us.

"Think they're gone?" Kevin asked.

As soon as he finished asking, a group of mercenaries ran out of the woods and into the clearing.

Each one had their weapons drawn and all of their eyes were completely white.

"Dammit! The curse has them!" I yelled as I lunged forward, thrusting my blade into the nearest mercenary.

In the blink of an eye, the mercenaries were dead.

As I sat down against a tree a new figure walked into the clearing.

What the hell? I didn't sense him until he walked into the clearing.

"Well you guys sure made a mess of things." The newcomer said leaning over one of the mercenaries. "This is why I said to stay back and let me investigate the area. But no, you guys just wanted to take all the glory for yourselves."

Instantly, I was back on my feet and pointed my weapon at him.

He was about 5'7", had pure white hair with a black and red streak in it, and a very scared face. At his waist were two sheathed katannas and an empty gun holster; after a quick look, I found the missing gun in his hand. He looked no older than 18.

As he turned his attention to us, I could see that he didn't have any sign of the curse. I relaxed when I saw this.

"For whatever reason, you aren't being affected by the curse." I said, putting away my weapon. "Why?"

The man shrugged. "Since I was little, a lot of weird, unexplained things have happened to me."

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Call me Soap." He said. "You don't happen to be the ones causing all the trouble around my base are you?"

"More than likely." I said. "Grimm tend to be attracted to us without us even trying."

"Then that makes you the exiled team from 30 years ago." Soap said.

"How do you know who we are?"

"As the most infamous bounty hunter in Vale, I have access to a lot of classified information." He said.

"Are you here to take us away?" Rachel asked.

"Well, yes. That's what I supposed to be doing." He said.

Slowly, everybody's heads lowered in shame. "I guess it's about time we turn ourselves in."

"I have a better idea."

We all looked up at him quizzically.

"Instead of me turning you in, why don't you come work for me? I offer warm food, a warm bed, and access to tools and information you wouldn't otherwise have." He said.

"You know who we are, right?" Kevin asked.

"You are team DARK. A team put together by the four kingdoms to carry out a top secret mission. A team led by Daliah Black." He said, pointing at me.

"If you know who we are then why even bother asking? We can't come near normal people because of our curse." Kevin responded.

"Because what I have in mind is anything but a normal contract."

After a few minutes of explaining the why, he had me convinced.

"So you need someone to look after high priority contracts while you are busy elsewhere in the world?"

"That's a very simple way of putting it, but that sounds about right."

"I'm ok with this if you guys are." I said to my team.

They all nodded their heads.

He walked up to me and stretched out his gloved hand.

I just looked at him confused.

"I know it's been 30 years, but you should remember how to seal a contract."

When he said that, a bell rung in my head. I got up and reached to grab his hand.

"Oh, one more thing. Once you accept this contract, you will be bound to it till the day you die." He said as his hand started to glow red and orange with flames.

I shook my head. "That's fine." I said as I took his hand flaring my own semblance as I did.

Each of us shook his hand, flaring our semblances as we did.

"Alright then. Let's start by getting out of this forest. I'll let my team know to stay on the upper floors of the base." He said, loading a fresh clip of ice bullets into his gun.

A/N: Am I doing this right? Is this how you are normally supposed to start a story?

(I know what I'm doing, I've just never tried doing a story like this, in this style)

Oh, one more thing that I forget to mention in the first chapter. There will be no character sheet for this one, you are going to have to figure out the character's appearances as we go.

Have fun.