Notes:
-After this chapter I think I might need to get rid of the Weiss tag for this story
-When you see an asterisk go to the bottom of the page.


The one thing he liked about this new world were the airships. So amazing, to fly in the sky like how one takes a cruise through the Atlantic. He had seen demons at work, he had seen Rasputin commit deeds that defied human imagination. Yet this simple ride in the sky had taken his breath away.

The trip to get here however was other thing. He didn't want to waste any time so he decided to cut a shortcut. A shortcut that involved lots of Grimm. Although he did enjoy his first battle with them fighting Ursas and Beowulf's over and over starting getting boring, but at least he got to Vale on time.

"N-Nice view eh?" Kroenen turned his head, he looked to his right. A nervous looking girl with short hair and a shaky deposition had asked that question and it looked like red was her favorite color judging from her clothing.

"Excuse me?" He said* numbly without any hint of emotion to betray.

"I-I okayi'mreallysorrymysis-"Kroenen raised his hand.

"Slowly." The girl took a long breath of air.

"My sister wanted me to talk to you and I refused but she said if I didn't she would do it and I didn't want her to say anything weird… but I guess now I'm being weird and so I - "Kroenen raised his hand again. He saw beyond her a smiling busty blonde who looked away in a panic when she realized Kroenen was looking at her.

"What's your name?" He said simply, hoping it would put a stop to this farce.

"Ah uhm Ruby Rose." She said with a bit of surprise and anxiety.

"Silber Totenkopf." Kroenen replied simply, after that there was a minute of silence.

"Uhm, where you from?" Ruby said in an effort to salvage this conversation.

"Atlas." He continued with his one word answers.

"Cool! How's Atlas like?" She said unmindful of how monotone he was.

"Big; lots of robots milling about, airships just moving across the skies just to look cool, cities designed by architects who think anything other than white is atrocious. You know Atlesian things." He was quickly approaching the quota he had for sentences today.

"Have you ever seen an Atlesian Knight-130 up close? I hear they're pretty good at what they do!" The girls excitable countenance was getting quite grating on his nerves.

"They're not that deadly." Kroenen decided that since he was going back to school he might as well sharpen his social skills.

"I bet even the weakest person in this ship could beat one on their own. The only thing that's going for them is numbers." Ruby perked up as Kroenen began being conversational.

"You sound like you've fought some! Although if you don't mind me asking why aren't you going to the Atlas Academy?"

"If you don't mind me asking? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the first thing you say when you begin a conversation?" Ruby's face fell, she looked down at the floor, her index fingers touching each other.

"S-Sorry about that." Kroenen couldn't help but smirk. He didn't know if it was because he liked seeing her uncomfortable or because she might actually be growing on him.

"Your apology sucks but I'll take it." Ruby puffed her cheeks at his rude response.

"To answer your question my father didn't want me to go to Atlas Academy. He wanted me to 'broaden' my experiences or something like that." Kroenen repeated word for word the background story given to him by Mister Schnee.

"Oh your dad would love my dad. My dad is all about broadening experiences." Kroenen raised an eyebrow at that.

"You want our fathers to meet? I'm sorry but you're not my type. I don't see myself committing to such a long term relationship with a girl who gets too personal so quickly." Ruby reddened like a tomato, a shade of red almost deeper than her clothes.

"I-Ididn'tmeanthati'mnotsayingwe-"Kroenen raised his hand.

"That was a joke." He said in a monotone.

"O-Oh! I-I'm sorry I just don't understand sarcasm that much so excuse me if look like a dork." She rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment.

"But you are a dork." Ruby puffed out her cheeks again.

"And you're mean." She muttered out.

"Better mean than a- hold on. How old are you?" Kroenen chastised himself for not noticing sooner. This Ruby seemed way younger than the rest.

"I-I uhm I'm 15." At that Kroenen straightened in surprise.

"Wait how? I thought you needed to be 17 to enter Beacon?" Kroenen was getting confused now.

"I-I'm a special case and got moved ahead." She sheepishly said in embarrassment.

'She might be competent.' Kroenen made a mental note to himself.

"How special are you?" Ruby was dumbfounded for a bit.

"W-What do you mean?"

"Why are you special?" Kroenen said with a bit more energy than normal.

"Well I meant I managed to beat a few bad guys with this baby." She took out her weapon a red scythe that seemed to incorporate a sniper rifle.

"Impressive." Kroenen said with genuine emotion.

"Yeah her name's Crescent Rose. I made her myself."

"Even more impressive. I made my own arms as well." The conversation had an awkward stop there. The girls excited expression meant only one thing.

"Want to see them?" Ruby's enthusiastic nodding spurred him to show them.

When Ruby laid her eyes on them she absolutely lost it.

"OHMYMAIDENSTHATS-"Kroenen took out his scythe-tonfas and sliced the air with them, flipping them like a composer before striking a pose*.

At this Ruby froze in utter awe.

"Awesome." She said in reverent glee.

"Thank you." Kroenen said a bit arrogantly.

"T-They're like mini-Crescent Roses! Like if she made cute babies!" She started sputtering out.

"They're called Blitz and Krieg. Blitz the one on my right has an incorporated taser, while Krieg has an incorporated shotgun. "The twin scytche-tonfa hybrids were works of beauty, all silver with clockwork gears in motion within the shaft. The handles were designed as to allow free movement and fancy tricks.

"Y-You made them by yourself?" Kroenen nodded.

"C-Can you maybe sometime … hang out and trade weapon ideas?" Ruby said with a slight blush, her right leg twirling in place.

"Are you asking me out on a date?" Ruby immediately went to full damage control, crossing her arms rapidly.

"NOIDIDNOTSAYTHATWORDCANYOUPLEASESTOPITWITHTHOSEKINDOFJOK- "The busty blonde from earlier came in, wrapping her arm around Ruby's neck.

"Hey there! You mind if I interrupt this conversation? "She said cheerfully.

"Well at least someone asks If I mind in the right context." Ruby puffed out her reddened cheeks, it seems he wasn't going to let that one die.

"I'm sorry if this questions seems a bit forward but are you flirting with my sister? "Ruby struggled even further at the mention of flirting.

"What if I was?" Both the blonde and Ruby stared at him. The blonde seemed to grow serious while Ruby just broke the laws of physics by being more red than red.

"Well as her older sister I have to tell you that I wouldn't allow my little sis to be swayed by a guy like you, besides she's too young to fall for pickup lines." She let go of Ruby, who was just now muttering under her breath.

"Try me." The blonde's eyes shone with an electric quality at Kroenen's defiant answer.

"Oh? Okay then try your pickup lines. Use your best one." The blonde's face was a centimeter away from his gasmask's lenses.

"I need to know the name of my opponent when a wager is made." She grinned.

"Yang Xiao Long."

"Alright Yang Xiao Long would you like to meet General Ironwood?" Kroenen whispered.

"Isn't he like the head of Atlas' military? How's that a pick up line." Kroenen raised his hand.

"No not James Ironwood. I'm asking you if you want to meet MY General Ironwood." Kroenen whispered.

Five seconds passed for them to process what he meant.

Ruby placed both her hands on her face, no doubt what innocence she had was all gone now.

Yang was clutching her sides. Her face contorted into one both of pain and mirth.

"I-I can't. T-That was the best line I-I've ever heard in my life. O-Oh I can't feel my lungs. I'm dying, I'm legitimately physically dying right now. You win." She said as she collapsed on the floor unable to contain her laughter.

"I aim to please." Kroenen said without any change in his tone.


"She left me." Ruby stated simply as Yang darted off to tend with her friends.

"Wells looks like it. It was nice knowing you Ruby." Kroenen said as well after the ship finished disembarking, Ruby however was going to have none of that.

"DON'T LEAAAAAVEEE MEEEE!" She called out in a dramatic fashion. Kroenen stopped in his tracks, completely annoyed at the attention they were getting.

"Fine." Ruby jumped and yelped out a small yay.

They were now walking towards what looked to be the main building of Beacon Academy, a large tower jutting into the sky. Ruby mouthed a wow whilst Kroenen shook his head at how childish she was.

Both of them were too distracted to see where they were going and bumped into someone.

"MY DUST!" A girl with silvery-snow hair grabbed her baggage and held onto it like dear life. She turned her attention towards Ruby.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA JUST WHAT YOU ALMOST DID!?YOU COULD MADE ME WASTE ALMOST A WEEKS WORTH OF DUST!" She started admonishing a very distressed Ruby.

"And- "She stopped and raised a finger to her chin.

"Do I know you?"

'Oh no.' For the first time in 47 years of his existence, Kroenen was in a slight panic. He was supposed to observe Weiss Schnee from afar. Not to bump into her within 10 minutes of exiting the airship. Ruby Rose had just jeopardized a mission of his more than the Allies did during Project Ragna Rok.

"You're from Atlas aren't you? Do you happen to know my sister?" Weiss said totally forgetting her anger at Ruby. The aforementioned 15-year-old breathe sighs of relief as the spotlight left her for Kroenen.

"Yes. I do." Kroenen was about to regret this.

"I'm your sister's secret admirer." Weiss reddened at his answer while Ruby looked alarmed.

"YOU'RE HIM! THE STALKER WITH THE GRIMM MASK! WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU HERE YOU WEIRDO!?" Weiss Schnee sputtered out.

"Ruby remember when I said I didn't go to Atlas because of my dad? I lied, I'm actually here for her." He thumbed towards Schnee.

"M-Me?!"

Kroenen knelt, prostrating himself before Weiss Schnee.

The one thing Kroenen had learned as an assassin that he felt was most important was that if subtly didn't work, then audacity did.

And he was being really audacious now.

He was technically correct when he said he was Winter's secret admirer. When Mister Schnee didn't send him off to be his personal one-man death squad he would often hire him to do trivial domestic things like pretending to be a fictional stalker to edge his daughter to get married. In Kroenen's professional opinion Mister Schnee's reading material for parenting shouldn't things that Himmler himself would use as advice for running the SS, but he was getting paid for it so he couldn't complain.

"I humbly ask you as sister of my goddess and reason for existence to please put forth my case towards her. I know that the last time we met she had threatened to feed me to a Beowulf but I believe if given the chance I can make her fall in love with me." Kroenen's completely serious delivery of those lines just confused Weiss and Ruby even more.

"As if anyone from the Schnee family would give you the time of day!"

Okay, ouch.

"Huh, nice to see that Schnee arrogance runs in the blood." A girl with raven black hair said, diverting Scene's attention.

"And you are?" Schnee said impatiently.

"Oh no one important, just a girl with strong opinions." The girl was sitting on the fountain that was the centerpiece of the courtyard, more focused on her book than Weiss.

"A girl with wrong opinions don't you mean? Don't act as if you know anything about the Schnee name." Kroenen rose up from his groveling position, offended that Weiss was not paying witness to his greatest acting yet.

"A family of greedy moguls with scandals and slave labor allegations up the wazoo. It really is that simple. " The girl finally focused her gaze on Weiss and by extension Kroenen.

She froze, her eyes widening in fear as she saw the mask he wore.

Kroenen rose as well, recognizing the girl for what she is.

'Faunus.'

The girl flew like shadow during the midst of Weiss' attempt to argue back.

"HEY DON'T YOU RUN OFF WHEN I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU OFF!" Weiss Schnee went after her with luggage in tow, she wasn't going to let the girl have the last word.

Weiss Schnee went past a bespectacled woman with what looked to be a horsewhip who was now quickly approaching Kroenen.

"Silber Totenkopf?" She asked.

"That is him speaking." Kroenen was getting annoyed, he had probably wasted an entire years' worth of words.

"The Headmaster wishes to speak with you." Kroenen nodded simply at this, turning his head towards Ruby.

"Hey dork looks like I'm not going be accompanying you from now on. You fine on your own?" Ruby puffed out her cheeks.

"I am not a dork and I can take care of myself thank you very much." Kroenen tipped his cap.

"See you then." He followed the tall woman, leaving Ruby to her own devices.

"Now who am I going to befriend now?" She said sadly as a young blonde boy next to her was looking around, obviously lost.


"Silber Totenkopf, I'm honored that Atlas' most deadliest assassin is attending my fine intuition of learning." A silver haired man with Himmler glasses passed by, a cup of coffee in his left hand and a cane on the other. He took a seat, bringing up screens from a scroll.

"I see my client has neglected to inform me you already know of my presence." Kroenen said annoyingly.

"Your client said nothing. I have my own independent resources. I regret to inform you that there might be several problems with your tutelage here." He said while resting his chin on his hands.

"Those problems are?"

"We can't find a team open for you." He brought forth a roster of names.

"You see in Beacon students form their own teams and it seems after a recount of the roster for the initiation there's going to be one person extra. " Kroenen shifted in his seat.

"If I recall correctly, aren't teams dependents on the students themselves?" Ozpin took a sip from his cup.

"You are a special case. The one and only reason you are here is because the Schnee Dust Company forced our hand. By definition you are an unwelcome guest, not a student." Ozpin said with a deadly edge in his tone.

"Ah I understand. I've worked with Schnee for years, I know how stubborn and irritating he is to deal with. I assume my little visit here serves a purpose? Maybe a little compromise?" Ozpin nodded in agreement.

"You will officially be your own team, it's highly irregular and completely against school protocol; however, seeing your records I doubt that would be much of a problem for you Faunus Hunter. In exchange for my little rule breaking I need you to do one thing for me." Ozipn bent forward.

"Do not make my students uncomfortable, that includes the Faunus." The way he said it almost make it sound like a threat.

"Is that all?"

"No that was not the favor, that was a warning. The favor is that I want you to watch over this student, you're basically doing what Schnee is already asking of you but for me." The screen changed to the picture of a very redheaded girl.

"Pyrrha Nikos, The Champion of Mistral. " Kroenen said without a hint of surprise.

"Will that be all?" Ozpin asked.

Kroenen crossed his arms.

"You know this is usually the part where I annoy you with questions about why I'm doing this and why her but thankfully for you I am a professional so I'm just going to leave now."

Before he left for the elevator Ozpin gave some parting advice.

"Don't involve yourself too much into my student's affairs. I want you to watch over her and not get her suspicious unlike your little show in the courtyard." Kroenen turned pointing his finger at him.

"I could have sworn that I heard that before. "He said simply before heading back out.

Ozpin stood up, walking until he stood before the glass that separated from the outside world.

"My Knight is watching over my Queen. I wonder what your pieces are doing my dear." Ozpin said to no one in particular, enjoying his cup of coffee.


1st asterisk: Kroenen's voice is Gideon Emery with a Bavarian accent.
2nd asterisk: Kroenen's pose is the image beside the title.