Please enjoy, and constructive criticism is appreciated. (I do not own RWBY, but I do own all the OCs except two, Nick and Isabel. Those belong to my friend, although I did design them.)
Blood of Grimm: Chapter 3
Valke is walking away from the ceremony when he hears a familiar voice call after him. "Hey! Wait up!" Signing, he turns around. It was Velvet, the Faunus girl from that morning. "I saw you leaving. Aren't you going to stay? I mean, you don't even know your dorm number yet."
"I don't feel like staying, and I'm not sleeping in the dorm anyways."
"Oh. Well, congratulations on becoming your team's leader. That must be cool, right?"
"This is annoying," Valke thought. Aloud he said: "It's more annoying than anything. They can lead themselves. I work alone." He turns and walks away.
"Hey Velvet! Yatsuhashi saw you leave. What's up? "A girl walks up and asks Velvet, who turns to face her.
"Oh, nothing, Coco." Velvet replies. Coco is wearing a light brown long sleeve shirt with a frilled collar. Around her neck are several black beaded necklaces and a scarf of the same color. She has a black corset-like garment, black gloves, and a brown leather belt inlaid with bullets with a large gold buckle. There is a semi-skirt hanging from her belt, and she wears black pants with gold colored buttons and stitching, with black leather high heel boots. Her eyes are hidden by her sunglasses, and she has brown hair except for a red-orange part at the end of the fringe at the right side of her face, and a black beret sits atop her head.
"Who's that?" Coco asks, noticing Valke's retreating figure.
"That's Valke. He's one of the new team's leader. We met this morning before the first years' trial. He was sleeping on the roof," explains Velvet.
"Oh? And why did you follow him out here? You like him?" Coco teases.
Blushing slightly, Velvet shakes her head. "No, I just feel like we're similar. He reminds me of myself from last year. He seems nice, but he's lonely and distant."
Well, maybe you'll make some progress. I wouldn't count on it though. I've never heard of anybody walking out on the ceremony, especially not if they're made leader of their team."
The next morning, Valke tracks down his team's dorm room. He enters through the window, places his stuff down, and starts preparing for class. Then, he hears rustling and yawns. "I was too loud, huh?"
Hey, when did you get here? Where did you sleep?" Asks Sara.
Ignoring her, Valke stands up and heads for the door. "Class starts in half an hour. The schedule is on the spare bed," he warns them.
Nicholas grabs his shoulder. "Hey, as team leader, you have-" Valke turns around glaring, allowing his eyes to show. The other three are stunned into silence, and Nick drops his hand. Valke turns and leaves. A few minutes after, when everybody calms down, Nick says: "You two saw that, right? His eyes… they're blood red and glowing. And they look like a predator: cold, indifferent, and merciless."
The first class of the day is Professor Port's Grimm Studies class. Professor Port is a portly man with a large belly and white hair. He wears a red suit and is always bragging about something or another. For the most part, Valke is uninterested, already being highly knowledgeable about Grimm. Towards the end of class, he sees the girl in white from the courtyard Dust explosion- Weiss was her name, if he remembered correctly- getting visibly angry. "A true huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise. So, who among you believes to be the embodiment of these traits?"
Weiss' hand shoots up. "I do sir!" She walks to the front of the class, her sword in hand.
Professor Port grabs his weapon, a combination battle-axe and blunderbuss. Striking open a cage, he releases an average Boarbatusk. Valke immediately knows how he would deal with it. He would dive to the side during its first charge, slashing at its legs, then run up and stab it in its unprotected underside.
Weiss has considerably more trouble. She was angry, and she gets distracted during battle, resulting in her disarmament. She eventually manages to kill the beast, pleasing Professor Port, but the battle was a failure to Valke. Class ends, and as Valke walks away, he hears Weiss snap at her leader. "That is why I work alone."
A few minutes later, Professor Ozpin is talking to Ruby, Weiss' leader, who was upset after the Ice Queen's meltdown. "Ruby I've made more mistakes than any man, woman or child on this planet. One of the students is here to remind me of that. But at this moment I would not consider your appointment to leader to be one of them. Do you?" After a few more minutes, Ozpin walks away, having cheered up Ruby.
A few weeks later, in Professor Goodwitch's Combat class, Cardin Winchester and Jaune Arc are sparring. As weak as Cardin is, he's stronger than Jaune, who lacks any real combat prowess. Apparently he's a good tactical leader, which is better than Cardin, who keeps hitting his teammates in battle, and leaves himself exposed to counters. Of course, Cardin creams Jaune, and Goodwitch berates Jaune for not using his Scroll to check his Aura level.
That day, Valke is easting in the cafeteria, a rare occurrence, for the purpose of gathering information. He's mostly focusing on teams RWBY and JNPR, considered the strongest of the first years this year. They're talking about Jaune and his getting bullied by Cardin. Jaune stands up. "It's not like he's only a jerk to me, he's a jerk to everyone."
"Ow, that hurts!" Valke turns to see Team CRDL picking on Velvet for being a Faunus, pulling on her ears. "Please stop."
"See, I told you they were real," says Cardin to his team.
"What a freak," comes the reply.
Enraged to see such discrimination, Valke pulls out a knife and throws it. It lands next to Cardin, embedding in the table. He stands up and stomps over to Cardin. Turning his head to look at Velvet, he tells her "Get back." She walks away quickly behind him. Turning his attention to team CRDL, Valke warns them: "I'll tell you once. Don't discriminate against Faunus anymore."
"Why should I listen to you, cripple!" Cardin spits back. "Get him!" he orders his team.
As team CRDL prepares to attack, Valke jumps back and adopts a fighting stance, legs apart and slightly bent, on the balls of his feet, hand up and outwards, ready to strike and guard. Sky Lark is the first to charge in. Sidestepping under a rather sloppy punch, Valke knees Sky in the chest. As Sky drops to the ground, Dove and Russel are attacking Valke from opposite sides. Grabbing Dove's arm, Valke ducks and pulls, allowing Russel to hit Dove, then spins parallel to the ground to kick Russel in the face. Standing up and turning to Cardin, Valke advances. He dodges a panicked punch, then knees Cardin in the side, then punches him just hard enough to hurt. Slamming Cardin's face on the table, Valke grabs his knife, brandishing it in Cardin's face. "Let's take off your ears, see how much of a freak people call you," Valke threatens, his voice now raspy and demonic as he moves his knife slowly towards Cardin's ear.
Just as he's about to start cutting, Valke hears a powerful voice command him to stop. Turning around, he sees Professor Goodwitch. Sheathing his knife and releasing Cardin, he turns to face her. "Look around, you're causing quite a commotion!"
Looking around the room, Valke sees traumatized faces. Turning to look at Velvet, who is next to team RWBY, he sees fear in their eyes. Sighing, he faces Professor Goodwitch. "Yeah, I suppose you're right. Take me away." He is led away under careful watch.
In a dark room reminding Valke of an interrogation room, Professor Goodwitch is yelling at him. "You're in huge trouble young man! Do you know what you nearly did? We should expel you… but Professor Ozpin has decided on an alternate punishment for you." Surprised, Valke looks at her curiously. "He wants you to go to the city in a week and investigate reports of increased organized crime. You will be there for two weeks, with excused absence from classes. Now go." Valke stands up and walks to the door. "Oh, and young man? Professor Ozpin says to stay safe." Laughing at the irony of the statement, Valke leaves.
A week later, Valke is walking to the airship docks when he sees Velvet with her team. Trying to avoid them, he starts walking away quickly, but a girl in a beret taps Velvet and points to him. As Velvet walks towards him, he curses his luck. She had been avoiding him since the incident, even though they had a few classes together, such as the hyper Professor Oobleck's History class.
"Hey there. Um… thank you for stopping Cardin. I was too shy to stop him myself, and he hasn't bullied me since. You… aren't in too much trouble, right,"
Inwardly, Valke laughs, surprised that she wasn't terrified of him. "Just like that time huh," he thinks, remembering a past event from ten years ago. "No, I'm being sent on a solo mission to investigate crimes in the city. Where are you going?"
"We're being sent to eliminate Grimm to keep a village safe. I'm surprised though, only licensed hunters are given solo missions."
"Well, between us, I have more experience than most hunters." Valke confides.
"Sure." Velvet replies, not believing him.
"Hey, Velvet, come on!" yells one of her teammates.
"Coming Coco!" She looks back to Valke. "See you later?"
He smiles. "Of course." He turns away and walks to his transport.
A week later, Valke is investigating at the city outskirts, where he heard the White Fang, a Faunus extremist group, had a base. He had linked them to the organized crimes, along with an infamous criminal named Roman Torchwick. He spotted several White Fang members and followed them to a building.
Sneaking past the guards, he finds himself in a maze of hallways. The guards are scarce, so a major operation is probably taking place elsewhere. He starts moving quicker, eventually finding several store rooms full of Dust, stolen from various places around town. Marking the locations on his map on his scroll, he continues onward. Suddenly, he finds himself next to several sets of large doors. Entering one, he finds himself in a large warehouse. Inside are several Atlas mechs of an unreleased model and type. "So they have a source inside Atlas; no way they stole these without inside help."
Suddenly, several White Fang soldiers charge in through the door, and drop from the ceiling, surrounding him. "Shoot, I should have paid more attention." Valke flips over the first assailant, kicking him in the back, then ducks under s sword and uppercuts the new attacker. Dodging a fist from behind, he rolls, grabbing a weapon and swinging it around, creating a clearing. "There's quite a lot of you. Let me fight at full potential."
Reaching up with his hand, he undoes a clasp at his neck. Pulling his hood down, he shrugs his right shoulder, undoing half the cloak. Reaching over with his right hand, he pulls the sleeve off his left arm. Rolling his shoulders, he says to the rebels: "Do you know how good it is to use my right arm again."
Under his cloak, he wear a purple shirt with an odd symbol in green at the center, the right sleeve long with armor plates, the left sleeve ends just below the elbow and has a green serpent coiling up to his shoulder. His right hand is covered by a black glove with a circle of metal on the back of the palm. He wears black cargo pants, the left side long, but the right side goes down to just below his knee, and has white curved spikes around the bottom. He has soft leather boots on. His hair is black, long, and split into two tails. His skin is pale and he has sharp, red eyes, and around his neck is a necklace with red polygonal gems inlaid in it. His right hand reaches down for a single-edged, long purple dagger hanging at the back of his hip. Drawing it, he draws a knife, now magazine that he inserts into a sub-machinegun at the top of the dagger. Green lights on the dagger turn stone grey.
Dashing to his right, he fires his gun, encasing several combatants in stone. Those he misses he weaves towards. Flipping over one and tripping him, he slams the Faunus into the ground. Blocking a strike, he jabs with his left hand, spins, and hits the stunned fighter.
The fight continues until the White Fang suddenly stop, making a path down which walks a pale skinned girl with brown, pink, and white hair, carrying an umbrella. She's dressed in various pieces of pinks, white, and brown clothing. She walks up to Valke.
"Your eyes are interesting." Brown and pink, they are cruel and mischievous, but also somewhat soulless. She swings her umbrella, and Valke rolls to the side. She kicks at him, and he dodges, leaning back, then swings with his dagger. Blocking it with her umbrella, she jabs at his stomach. Unfazed, he tries to shoot her, but his arm twitches, throwing his aim wide. "Shoot, my arm still isn't adjusted." Drawing a sword from her umbrella, she unleashes a flurry of attacks. Unable to dodge all the hits, Valke risks a block, and manages to stop the blade before his arm buckles. The girl kicks him in the face. The last thing he sees is a woman with eyes like fire giving orders before he blacks out.