Authors note: Hey a long chapter for once but all jokes aside i'm glad you're reading this my friend Derek and I planed this out for a while and now that we have put it up we are proud of ourselves


After the most exciting lunch break ever, Team MAD had roughly 2 hours to prepare for Sparring at 3:00. Miguel was ensuring that he had enough hollow points for Div and Aquila was preparing his bow for long range encounters, all while Dusty was being lazy and sleeping, mostly because he carried everything he needed with him at all times. It was 2:15 when Miguel woke up Dusty and told him it was time to go, Dusty had all his stuff gathered up in 5 minutes. When they left, they were walking at a fairly quick pace in order to maintain a swift arrival so they got first pick at seats, likely so they could try to dodge Team RWBY, and the ironic part was that it actually worked. "So then, Dusty, can I ask a question?" Miguel asked. "I dunno can you ask a question?" Dusty said. "Fine, fucker how in the hell did that work?" "Because I used my Semblance." "Oh that, well then who do you think will go first out of the three of us?" "That's the fun part. It could be me or it could be Aquila, might even be you Miguel, the question I wanna know is who are we gonna be fighting, if I had to take a shot, I'd want to fight a fairly serious opponent." "You always wanna fight a serious opponent, Dusty." "Yeah, it makes the fight feel more complete, y'know." "Yeah… I know, I just hope I don't have to fight that Yang girl, she might still distrust me and I don't wanna lose in the first thirty seconds." *Professor Goodwitch walks onto the combat stage* "Welcome to class, do we have any volunteers to start with?" *Ruby's hand shot up* "I would like to go first." She said energetically. "Alright then, Miss Rose allow me to find you a sparring partner." *She flicks through her scroll to find a sparring partner for Ruby* "How about Mr Ifrit of Team MAD?" "That sounds great!" Before Miguel had a chance to move Dusty told him, "Good luck soldier, just a tip, don't get eviscerated, that scythe looks awfully sharp ." "Thank you, but remember praise the ancient Grimm Cthulhu." Miguel was in the locker room changing from his uniform into his combat clothes, when he had a thought. -Thank Cthulhu I'm fighting Ruby and not Yang, maybe those other two wouldn't have been so bad, but still at least it isn't Yang.- As Miguel took to the arena hope filling his every inch as he approached the center where Ruby and Professor Goodwitch, she spoke "Are you prepared now Mr Ifrit?" "Yes ma'am." "Alright the match will begin shortly," as she said this Ruby and Miguel took to position as he repeated in his head -I got this-. The fight had begun as Miguel sprinted forward, he heard a gunshot not expecting the little girl in the hood already at his throat ready to strike. "Fuck!" Miguel muttered as Ruby struck him with the back of the scythe blade Miguel colliding with the arena wall. "Fuck me that hurt, gotta keep my distance." As he took note she was already close enough to strike "Too late on that Miguel!" as Ruby struck him down, Miguel, as fast as he could, recovered he went in "Not gonna lose!" Miguel roared as he drew Div to slash at Ruby, but she quickly fired a round at him knocking him back as he thought. -Fuck, my aura, if I continue I'll be injured for sure.- "One last chance!" Miguel taking aim with the Remington 700 vtr part of Div. He fires but misses due to her being too fast, she ended up behind him "Not today!" Ruby yelled as she struck him down ending the match, Professor Goodwitch's voice boomed. "The match is now over with Ruby as the victor and Miguel defeated." at that moment Miguel got up and left heading back to the locker room to change back into his uniform thinking to himself -I need to fucking train harder- After he changed he went to sit back up in the stands. "Ok then, who is going to volunteer for the next match?" "I will Professor." Dusty answered. "Ah yes, Mr Quintessence let's find you a sparring partner." While he was waiting he was leaning on the railing hoping he had changed his fate by volunteering before Yang, then Professor Goodwitch spoke, "How about Miss Xiao Long from Team RWBY?" Dusty tensed up and turned his head to see his opponent who was smiling, appearing to enjoy the opportunity to fight. As he walked down to the locker room, he felt as if he was walking a death march, once he made it to the locker room after what felt like an eternity of walking down the steps. he started to change into his combat attire, a black jacket with his symbol, The Serpent, stitched over the heart covering his black long sleeve shirt with blue highlights on the sleeve designed to replicate a the way a serpent moves, he thought to himself. -Why me, I knew that this would happen if Yang volunteered so I volunteered to hope that I wouldn't fight her, guess fate can't change all the time.- He walked out onto the combat stage ready to face his opponent, Yang Xiao Long, and was completely okay with the fight so long as both took the fight seriously. " Are you both ready?" Professor Goodwitch asked, they both replied with a simple yes, but Dusty felt that he was gonna regret this, "Very well, you may now begin the match." Yang threw the first blow hitting Dusty on the chest and staggering him, but he was ready for the next hit although he ran into a small problem, his dagger was designed to parry blades not gauntlets so he quickly realized he was at a disadvantage. He was about 5 minutes into the fight when he switched to the longsword form and he briefly had the advantage before realizing that he needed to play defensively, so he went to the third stage of Ocular Deception and blocked with the great sword and it worked for a little bit, he was capable of stopping several of Yang's punches before he dislocated a joint in his right arm causing him to have to switch back to the parrying dagger in order to use one hand as he required two to block and use the longsword, and then he noticed Yang wasn't quite taking things as seriously as he hoped, which greatly displeased him, then she made a sarcastic remark that sent him out of control, "Well well well, looks like you fall short a few inches compared to me." In a rage Dusty lunged forward saying screw it to his parrying dagger, he would use it offensively for the rest of the fight. He still wanted her to take this fight seriously, so he hatched a plan that he was hoping would work, he hid Ocular Deception in his sleeve and jumped towards Yang hoping he would be fast enough to dodge her punch and he succeeded in dodging her while still midair he quickly pulled out the dagger and cut one single strand of Yang's hair, holding onto it and managing to land, once he landed he stood up straight and smiled holding out his clenched fist and opening it to let that one strand fall to the ground, and then the entire room went dead silent, no one even moved a muscle, Yang had a shocked expression on her face while Dusty maintained his sadistic smile before Yang's shocked expression turned to anger. "You're a monster." She shouted as flames erupted from her hair and she dashed towards him with incredible speed proceeding to land several hits before sending him backwards with a straight to his jaw not that unlike Miguels hit earlier that day except with much more force. When he had got back up from that hit he quickly put his hand to where she hit him and discovered blood below his lower lip, blood, at first he was shocked but mere moments later his shocked expression turned to joy as he thought to himself -finally she is taking this seriously all it took was one strand of hair to set her off- He quickly set himself back to serious as he prepared Ocular switching it to its last stage, the Gun lance, he loaded a clip of 6 incendiary rounds into it before preparing to fire, taking sight of his target and firing hoping to impede her progress, but to no avail she kept walking even while being hit by flaming bullets, upon realizing that she did have fire on her hair likely meaning he made a bad choice, he fired the last round, before loading the 6 Cryo rounds from his second clip as he realized that maybe she just needed to cool off. The Cryo managed to impede her progress but only for mere seconds before she either melted the ice or broke it with sheer force. realizing he was outclassed he switched back to the parrying dagger for his last stand, he was going to try and use the dagger to absorb the hits he would be taking, however only having one hand put him at a disadvantage yet again as she was more than capable of throwing two punches at a time and with only one dagger to block with he couldn't stop the first volley before staggering and having to take volley after volley, he just wished that the punches he was taking would stop, but he kept going before Professor Goodwitch called that it was game and that Yang had defeated Dusty. "The fight was 30 minutes long please do try to wrap up the fights quicker next time." Professor Goodwitch didn't seem too glad to have wasted that much time, but Dusty was shocked -Thirty Minutes!? That felt like an eternity though- After he walked back to the locker room and changed back into his uniform and walked back up to where his team was sitting, he made note that Yang glared at him as if he were a wanted criminal. -Why is she looking at me like that? Did cutting off that one strand cause that bad of a reaction? Why didn't my vision warn me of that instead of me having to fight Yang?- After sitting back down with Miguel and Aquila, Professor Goodwitch made note that class still had time for one more match even after the lengthy fight between Yang and Dusty. Blake was the last person to volunteer likely because both Yang and Ruby wanted her to because they had fought opponents today and Weiss had participated yesterday. Blake unlike the others decided that she wouldn't leave her fight up to luck as to who she fought and decided to fight Aquila. "Are you sure you would like to fight Mr Oculus, Miss Belladonna? The previous fights between the other members of his team had unsatisfactory results." "Yes Professor Goodwitch I am sure I wish to fight him." Aquila only saw that this was his time to shine, his chance to redeem his teams honour and finally his chance had come to prove he was ready for Beacon Academy and its challenges. As he was changing into his outfit a purple hoodie with matching pants and bracers along with purple boots all of which had gold trimmings. He was prepared by the time he had walked to the center of the stage both Blake and Aquila had said they were ready and started the fight. Aquila rushed forward and made the first strike, something neither of his teammates did. Blake retaliated with a quick slash before the two split away only for them to switch to their ranged options, Aquila's bow was no match for Blake's semi automatic pistol due to its inferior velocity and ease of use, which forced Aquila to use his trump card, his hidden blades, He launched one of them forward which barely missed Blake, while he pulled the blade back Blake noticed something, there was a steel cable pulling it back, this gave Blake an idea, she quickly used the pistol to buy her some time to prepare, Aquila was sidetracked by the bullets long enough for Blake to activate her semblance, Aquila upon realizing that Blake wasn't moving took another shot with the hidden blade only for when the blade made contact for it to be a clone created by Blake's Semblance and not only was he mentally shocked but also physically shocked as the clone was created with yellow dust, which had strong electric properties allowing the electricity to travel down the steel cable ending the fight with quite a shocking finale. "And the winner is unsurprisingly Blake Belladonna." Professor Goodwitch said nonchalantly. Disappointed, Aquila walked back into the locker room and got back into his uniform and walked back up the steps to meet up with his team, while Team RWBY was celebrating having won all three matches that day. Team MAD was walking back to their dorm while having a discussion over each match. "My match was over the quickest." Miguel said but Dusty replied with, "Yeah, but Ruby also had the speed advantage and you couldn't land a hit, My match definitely took the longest but only because Yang didn't take it seriously." Aquila countered, "You also made her take the fight too seriously by cutting off a strand of her hair." Miguel casually asked Dusty "Did you happen to keep that strand of hair?" "No, why?" "Just curious about it." "I doubt it would help at all to know how it looks." "Still though should've grabbed it after the match." "Sorry I don't want to hold on to stuff." "Is that why you smiled when you dropped that single strand?" "No, I smiled because something went right in that particular fight." The three made it to their dorm and were just relaxing after the day's job, Dusty laying down looking at the ceiling wishing he knew of anything he could do, Miguel looking through messages on his scroll, Aquila making sure his hidden blades weren't scuffed by the electricity, they weren't, but he did get another nasty shock after touching the blades. They did however hear talking outside their door that kept persisting, Miguel yelled at Dusty to open the door and check what was causing that noise. "Alright, I'm going." However Dusty just got up when he heard a familiar voice. "On second thought, Aquila, please go open the door." "Why me?" "Because I don't want to get punched in the face. Again." "Why wouldn't you like to get punched again you seemed to enjoy it before." "That was because I finally realized she was taking it seriously, besides no one holds a grudge against you, except me if you don't open that door." "Fine." Aquila got up to open the door and upon opening the door a fist stopped inches away from his face. "See Aquila, I told you, you weren't hit." "Yeah barely" "Hey if I opened that door, that fist wouldn't have stopped." Aquila quickly noticed two members of Team RWBY standing there, Yang and Weiss, just kind of standing there with Yang's fist still mere inches away from Aquila's face. "Sorry," Yang said pulling her fist back to her side, "thought someone else was gonna answer the door." "Miguel was too lazy to and Dusty was going to, but he heard your voice and decided not to." "So he was scared?" "I wasn't scared! I just don't enjoy the thought of getting punched again." "Yep, scared." "Whatever just see what they want." "Okay, what do you people want?" "I just wanted to punch the pervert and the criminal." At this remark Miguel stated "I am not a pedophile, it was the red gradient." "You did not take the fight seriously!" Dusty replied angrily, Aquila continuing "So what did you want Ice Queen?" Weiss glaring at him "I was gonna offer some help with training for you dolts, but I retract my offer." "Ignore Aquila he can be a pain to deal with at times, besides he was fairly even with Blake, so I doubt he needs a lot of training, but you could always re-extend your offer to me or to Mi-" Dusty was cut off by Miguel, "Please train me to become a stronger fighter!" at that point Miguel dropped to his knees bowing. "Please oh great Angel of Snow, train me!" as Dusty looks at him "Desperate for power, what are you Atlas?" "Least I'm not from there!" Miguel quickly got up to get his scroll "First I need to save a few things." "And what's that?" Weiss looking at him as if he just kicked a puppy. "Don't worry about just some photos I got from a really nice guy." Dusty now wondering what they were and if Miguel knew who he was talking to "Who was this guy Miguel?" "Oh, Lie Ren, he gave them to saying that I would like the gradient." Miguel soon realizing what he had done retorts "For home decor I was looking for a good red." Miguel trying his best to sound innocent, wanting to change the subject. "So when do we start training?" "Miguel, just stop talking." "But why?" "Do you even know who you're talking to?" "Nope." "You're talking to the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, Weiss Schnee." Dusty pointed out "And?" "I would expect you to show a bit more respect towards her, that's all." "Okay then, but seriously, when do we start training?" "Tomorrow, after breakfast, it is a saturday tomorrow." "But, that's like 9:00!" "You need to start training early if you don't want to lose next time you're in a fight." Dusty chuckled at the discussion only to realize that it was nearly time for dinner. "I'm sure this discussion can be continued at the dinner table, considering there are only 30 minutes until dinner, correct?" "Ok then, since it's gonna be a walk, would you like to discuss training on the way to the dinner hall?" Weiss Offered Team MAD. Miguel accepted quickly, Aquila was a bit more hesitant, but still agreed, Dusty was going to say fine, but he noticed Yang looked like she was going to punch him if he got up, so he made an excuse to stay behind. "I don't really have an appetite today, I think I'll sit this one out." "Dusty, are you okay?" "I received a punch to the gut about a dozen times about an hour ago, I don't exactly trust my ability to keep my food down." "Good point, let's go!" With Miguel being the last person to leave the room, Dusty laid back down onto his bed and looked at the ceiling wondering why he had to be so unlucky. He sighed, grateful that he at least had some peace and quiet for once in this dorm, as he was considering his odds he was actually kinda grateful that he didn't have to suffer under Yang Xiao Long's intense glare for the rest of the night.

Miguel had just closed the door on Dusty and turned around only to feel a large force smash him against the door. He looked up to see Yang staring down at him with some clear distaste, but not as bad as when she looked at Dusty not even five minutes ago. "That was for the head-petting." Yang spoke clearly and loudly, Miguel however replied, "I said I was fucking sorry about that, no need to get so aggressive." "Whatever, you two can settle this later, right now we should be walking to the dining hall." Weiss basically commanding them to start walking. "Alright but still too aggressive, thought you would have that out of your system." Miguel still on a tangent about getting hit. "I didn't hit you that hard." Yang protesting against his acquisition. "Whatever least one of the sisters are nice to me." "Oh I'm nice, Miguel, but not to perverts." Miguel getting slightly annoyed by the title he was given "Oh well, moving on Weiss how did you find our dorm?" "It was awfully quiet and then we knocked and heard you yell at Dusty." "Oh I'm kinda surprised that you can recognize our voices" Miguel slightly embarrassed thinking to himself. -She probably hears my yelling and insults towards Dusty in classes.- "Alright, so how are you gonna train us Weiss?" Asked Miguel, ready for training. "That's not information that's readily available." "Ok, what are you the A.S.A." "No, I'm a huntress in training!" Weiss annoyed at Miguels remark "Okay well we're here so I'm gonna get me something to eat so see ya." Miguel raced off to get some food Aquila following behind but before they could get in line, they notice a team of four approaching them but they were focused on Miguel; little did he know of the teams intentions. "Look what the cat dragged in." the leader of the now opposing team had spoken, Miguel simply replied "I didn't drag myself in I just merely came here, but that is probably not the right answer you wanted?" Miguel thinking to himself. -Been awhile since I met someone who disliked faunus, but I wouldn't blame them with how the white fang or whatever they are called are acting towards humans.- "Miguel lets just go get dinner." Aquila trying to get Miguel to come with him. "You know what let's go get something to eat." As they were about to walk away but felt someone grab his tail as he turned to see that his tail was in the hands of the leader of the group that walked up to Aquila and him. "What do you think you're doing?" looking at this bastard who is holding his pride and joy as if it was a piece of rope. "Why, you are not going anywhere besides I know you can't hold your own in a fight so don't even try you vermin." feeling angry but did not want to since his tail was in the bastards hands, so couldn't do much. "Aquila what time is it?" "Why would you ask that now?" "Just wanted to know now tell me." Aquila pulling out his scroll, Miguel whispered "Do you have any of the members of team RWBY as contacts?" "One, why?" "Contact them, get their attention." "Why?" "Can't do much when I have a bastard holding on too my tail." "Oh okay." as Aquila quickly messages ruby since that's his only other contact besides his teammates. "Thank you Aquila." "You're welcome but how come you can't do anything don't you know some hand to hand combat?" "Yeah but he has a good grip on my tail plus it helps keep me in balance sometimes." As the two notice team RWBY approach them but there was another team with them "Let go of his tail, Cardin." the blonde boy of the other team "Why should I?" Cardin speaking up. Miguel thinking -this is my chance now how am I gonna do this without hurting my tail oh got it.- Miguel taking the chance swung his foot back pivoting on his left for a kick to make contact with Cardins jaw. "Take this bastard!" Miguels foot making contact with Cardin's jaw, making him let go of Miguels tail. "Wow that worked better than I had expected." Aquila surprised by what happened questions "How did you know how to do that?" "You learn a lot when you are a kid in Vacuo, I'm actually surprised that had worked, I've only seen my father do that." Miguel looking at the strangers that team RWBY had brought "Nice to meet you four, but who might you be." The blonde boy stepping forward "I am

After the most exciting lunch break ever, Team MAD had roughly 2 hours to prepare for Sparring at 3:00. Miguel was ensuring that he had enough hollow points for Div and Aquila was preparing his bow for long range encounters, all while Dusty was being lazy and sleeping, mostly because he carried everything he needed with him at all times. It was 2:15 when Miguel woke up Dusty and told him it was time to go, Dusty had all his stuff gathered up in 5 minutes. When they left, they were walking at a fairly quick pace in order to maintain a swift arrival so they got first pick at seats, likely so they could try to dodge Team RWBY, and the ironic part was that it actually worked. "So then, Dusty, can I ask a question?" Miguel asked. "I dunno can you ask a question?" Dusty said. "Fine, fucker how in the hell did that work?" "Because I used my Semblance." "Oh that, well then who do you think will go first out of the three of us?" "That's the fun part. It could be me or it could be Aquila, might even be you Miguel, the question I wanna know is who are we gonna be fighting, if I had to take a shot, I'd want to fight a fairly serious opponent." "You always wanna fight a serious opponent, Dusty." "Yeah, it makes the fight feel more complete, y'know." "Yeah… I know, I just hope I don't have to fight that Yang girl, she might still distrust me and I don't wanna lose in the first thirty seconds." *Professor Goodwitch walks onto the combat stage* "Welcome to class, do we have any volunteers to start with?" *Rubys hand shot up* "I would like to go first." She said energetically. "Alright then, Miss Rose allow me to find you a sparring partner." *She flicks through her scroll to find a sparring partner for Ruby* "How about Mr Ifrit of Team MAD?" "That sounds great!" Before Miguel had a chance to move Dusty told him, "Good luck soldier, just a tip, don't get eviscerated, that scythe looks awfully sharp ." "Thank you, but remember praise the ancient Grimm Cthulhu." Miguel was in the locker room changing from his uniform into his combat clothes, when he had a thought. -Thank Cthulhu I'm fighting Ruby and not Yang, maybe those other two wouldn't have been so bad, but still at least it isn't Yang.- As Miguel took to the arena hope filling his every inch as he approached the center where Ruby and Professor Goodwitch, she spoke "Are you prepared now Mr Ifrit?" "Yes ma'am." "Alright the match will begin shortly," as she said this Ruby and Miguel took to position as he repeated in his head -I got this-. The fight had begun as Miguel sprinted forward, he heard a gunshot not expecting the little girl in the hood already at his throat ready to strike. "Fuck!" Miguel muttered as Ruby struck him with the back of the scythe blade Miguel colliding with the arena wall. "Fuck me that hurt, gotta keep my distance." As he took note she was already close enough to strike "Too late on that Miguel!" as Ruby struck him down, Miguel, as fast as he could, recovered he went in "Not gonna lose!" Miguel roared as he drew Div to slash at Ruby, but she quickly fired a round at him knocking him back as he thought. -Fuck, my aura, if I continue I'll be injured for sure.- "One last chance!" Miguel taking aim with the Remington 700 vtr part of Div. He fires but misses due to her being too fast, she ended up behind him "Not today!" Ruby yelled as she struck him down ending the match, Professor Goodwitchs voice boomed. "The match is now over with Ruby as the victor and Miguel defeated." at that moment Miguel got up and left heading back to the locker room to change back into his uniform thinking to himself -I need to fucking train harder- After he changed he went to sit back up in the stands. "Ok then, who is going to volunteer for the next match?" "I will Professor." Dusty answered. "Ah yes, Mr Quintessence let's find you a sparring partner." While he was waiting he was leaning on the railing hoping he had changed his fate by volunteering before Yang, then Professor Goodwitch spoke, "How about Miss Xiao Long from Team RWBY?" Dusty tensed up and turned his head to see his opponent who was smiling, appearing to enjoy the opportunity to fight. As he walked down to the locker room, he felt as if he was walking a death march, once he made it to the locker room after what felt like an eternity of walking down the steps. he started to change into his combat attire, a black jacket with his symbol, The Serpent, stitched over the heart covering his black long sleeve shirt with blue highlights on the sleeve designed to replicate a the way a serpent moves, he thought to himself. -Why me, I knew that this would happen if Yang volunteered so I volunteered to hope that I wouldn't fight her, guess fate can't change all the time.- He walked out onto the combat stage ready to face his opponent, Yang Xiao Long, and was completely okay with the fight so long as both took the fight seriously. " Are you both ready?" Professor Goodwitch asked, they both replied with a simple yes, but Dusty felt that he was gonna regret this, "Very well, you may now begin the match." Yang threw the first blow hitting Dusty on the chest and staggering him, but he was ready for the next hit although he ran into a small problem, his dagger was designed to parry blades not gauntlets so he quickly realized he was at a disadvantage. He was about 5 minutes into the fight when he switched to the longsword form and he briefly had the advantage before realizing that he needed to play defensively, so he went to the third stage of Ocular Deception and blocked with the great sword and it worked for a little bit, he was capable of stopping several of Yang's punches before he dislocated a joint in his right arm causing him to have to switch back to the parrying dagger in order to use one hand as he required two to block and use the longsword, and then he noticed Yang wasn't quite taking things as seriously as he hoped, which greatly displeased him, then she made a sarcastic remark that sent him out of control, "Well well well, looks like you fall short a few inches compared to me." In a rage Dusty lunged forward saying screw it to his parrying dagger, he would use it offensively for the rest of the fight. He still wanted her to take this fight seriously, so he hatched a plan that he was hoping would work, he hid Ocular Deception in his sleeve and jumped towards Yang hoping he would be fast enough to dodge her punch and he succeeded in dodging her while still midair he quickly pulled out the dagger and cut one single strand of Yang's hair, holding onto it and managing to land, once he landed he stood up straight and smiled holding out his clenched fist and opening it to let that one strand fall to the ground, and then the entire room went dead silent, no one even moved a muscle, Yang had a shocked expression on her face while Dusty maintained his sadistic smile before Yang's shocked expression turned to anger. "You're a monster." She shouted as flames erupted from her hair and she dashed towards him with incredible speed proceeding to land several hits before sending him backwards with a straight to his jaw not that unlike Miguels hit earlier that day except with much more force. When he had got back up from that hit he quickly put his hand to where she hit him and discovered blood below his lower lip, blood, at first he was shocked but mere moments later his shocked expression turned to joy as he thought to himself -finally she is taking this seriously all it took was one strand of hair to set her off- He quickly set himself back to serious as he prepared Ocular switching it to its last stage, the Gun lance, he loaded a clip of 6 incendiary rounds into it before preparing to fire, taking sight of his target and firing hoping to impede her progress, but to no avail she kept walking even while being hit by flaming bullets, upon realizing that she did have fire on her hair likely meaning he made a bad choice, he fired the last round, before loading the 6 Cryo rounds from his second clip as he realized that maybe she just needed to cool off. The Cryo managed to impede her progress but only for mere seconds before she either melted the ice or broke it with sheer force. realizing he was outclassed he switched back to the parrying dagger for his last stand, he was going to try and use the dagger to absorb the hits he would be taking, however only having one hand put him at a disadvantage yet again as she was more than capable of throwing two punches at a time and with only one dagger to block with he couldn't stop the first volley before staggering and having to take volley after volley, he just wished that the punches he was taking would stop, but he kept going before Professor Goodwitch called that it was game and that Yang had defeated Dusty. "The fight was 30 minutes long please do try to wrap up the fights quicker next time." Professor Goodwitch didn't seem too glad to have wasted that much time, but Dusty was shocked -Thirty Minutes!? That felt like an eternity though- After he walked back to the locker room and changed back into his uniform and walked back up to where his team was sitting, he made note that Yang glared at him as if he were a wanted criminal. -Why is she looking at me like that? Did cutting off that one strand cause that bad of a reaction? Why didn't my vision warn me of that instead of me having to fight Yang?- After sitting back down with Miguel and Aquila, Professor Goodwitch made note that class still had time for one more match even after the lengthy fight between Yang and Dusty. Blake was the last person to volunteer likely because both Yang and Ruby wanted her to because they had fought opponents today and Weiss had participated yesterday. Blake unlike the others decided that she wouldn't leave her fight up to luck as to who she fought and decided to fight Aquila. "Are you sure you would like to fight Mr Oculus, Miss Belladonna? The previous fights between the other members of his team had unsatisfactory results." "Yes Professor Goodwitch I am sure I wish to fight him." Aquila only saw that this was his time to shine, his chance to redeem his teams honour and finally his chance had come to prove he was ready for Beacon Academy and its challenges. As he was changing into his outfit a purple hoodie with matching pants and bracers along with purple boots all of which had gold trimmings. He was prepared by the time he had walked to the center of the stage both Blake and Aquila had said they were ready and started the fight. Aquila rushed forward and made the first strike, something neither of his teammates did. Blake retaliated with a quick slash before the two split away only for them to switch to their ranged options, Aquila's bow was no match for Blake's semi automatic pistol due to its inferior velocity and ease of use, which forced Aquila to use his trump card, his hidden blades, He launched one of them forward which barely missed Blake, while he pulled the blade back Blake noticed something, there was a steel cable pulling it back, this gave Blake an idea, she quickly used the pistol to buy her some time to prepare, Aquila was sidetracked by the bullets long enough for Blake to activate her semblance, Aquila upon realizing that Blake wasn't moving took another shot with the hidden blade only for when the blade made contact for it to be a clone created by Blakes Semblance and not only was he mentally shocked but also physically shocked as the clone was created with yellow dust, which had strong electric properties allowing the electricity to travel down the steel cable ending the fight with quite a shocking finale. "And the winner is unsurprisingly Blake Belladonna." Professor Goodwitch said nonchalantly. Disappointed, Aquila walked back into the locker room and got back into his uniform and walked back up the steps to meet up with his team, while Team RWBY was celebrating having won all three matches that day. Team MAD was walking back to their dorm while having a discussion over each match. "My match was over the quickest." Miguel said but Dusty replied with, "Yeah, but Ruby also had the speed advantage and you couldn't land a hit, My match definitely took the longest but only because Yang didn't take it seriously." Aquila countered, "You also made her take the fight too seriously by cutting off a strand of her hair." Miguel casually asked Dusty "Did you happen to keep that strand of hair?" "No, why?" "Just curious about it." "I doubt it would help at all to know how it looks." "Still though should've grabbed it after the match." "Sorry I don't want to hold on to stuff." "Is that why you smiled when you dropped that single strand?" "No, I smiled because something went right in that particular fight." The three made it to their dorm and were just relaxing after the day's job, Dusty laying down looking at the ceiling wishing he knew of anything he could do, Miguel looking through messages on his scroll, Aquila making sure his hidden blades weren't scuffed by the electricity, they weren't, but he did get another nasty shock after touching the blades. They did however hear talking outside their door that kept persisting, Miguel yelled at Dusty to open the door and check what was causing that noise. "Alright, I'm going." However Dusty just got up when he heard a familiar voice. "On second thought, Aquila, please go open the door." "Why me?" "Because I don't want to get punched in the face. Again." "Why wouldn't you like to get punched again you seemed to enjoy it before." "That was because I finally realized she was taking it seriously, besides no one holds a grudge against you, except me if you don't open that door." "Fine." Aquila got up to open the door and upon opening the door a fist stopped inches away from his face. "See Aquila, I told you, you weren't hit." "Yeah barely" "Hey if I opened that door, that fist wouldn't have stopped." Aquila quickly noticed two members of Team RWBY standing there, Yang and Weiss, just kind of standing there with Yang's fist still mere inches away from Aquila's face. "Sorry," Yang said pulling her fist back to her side, "thought someone else was gonna answer the door." "Miguel was too lazy to and Dusty was going to, but he heard your voice and decided not to." "So he was scared?" "I wasn't scared! I just don't enjoy the thought of getting punched again." "Yep, scared." "Whatever just see what they want." "Okay, what do you people want?" "I just wanted to punch the pervert and the criminal." At this remark Miguel stated "I am not a pedophile, it was the red gradient." "You did not take the fight seriously!" Dusty replied angrily, Aquila continuing "So what did you want Ice Queen?" Weiss glaring at him "I was gonna offer some help with training for you dolts, but I retract my offer." "Ignore Aquila he can be a pain to deal with at times, besides he was fairly even with Blake, so I doubt he needs a lot of training, but you could always re-extend your offer to me or to Mi-" Dusty was cut off by Miguel, "Please train me to become a stronger fighter!" at that point Miguel dropped to his knees bowing. "Please oh great Angel of Snow, train me!" as Dusty looks at him "Desperate for power, what are you Atlas?" "Least I'm not from there!" Miguel quickly got up to get his scroll "First I need to save a few things." "And what's that?" Weiss looking at him as if he just kicked a puppy. "Don't worry about just some photos I got from a really nice guy." Dusty now wondering what they were and if Miguel knew who he was talking to "Who was this guy Miguel?" "Oh, Lie Ren, he gave them to saying that I would like the gradient." Miguel soon realizing what he had done retorts "For home decor I was looking for a good red." Miguel trying his best to sound innocent, wanting to change the subject. "So when do we start training?" "Miguel, just stop talking." "But why?" "Do you even know who you're talking to?" "Nope." "You're talking to the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, Weiss Schnee." Dusty pointed out "And?" "I would expect you to show a bit more respect towards her, that's all." "Okay then, but seriously, when do we start training?" "Tomorrow, after breakfast, it is a saturday tomorrow." "But, that's like 9:00!" "You need to start training early if you don't want to lose next time you're in a fight." Dusty chuckled at the discussion only to realize that it was nearly time for dinner. "I'm sure this discussion can be continued at the dinner table, considering there are only 30 minutes until dinner, correct?" "Ok then, since it's gonna be a walk, would you like to discuss training on the way to the dinner hall?" Weiss Offered Team MAD. Miguel accepted quickly, Aquila was a bit more hesitant, but still agreed, Dusty was going to say fine, but he noticed Yang looked like she was going to punch him if he got up, so he made an excuse to stay behind. "I don't really have an appetite today, I think I'll sit this one out." "Dusty, are you okay?" "I received a punch to the gut about a dozen times about an hour ago, I don't exactly trust my ability to keep my food down." "Good point, let's go!" With Miguel being the last person to leave the room, Dusty laid back down onto his bed and looked at the ceiling wondering why he had to be so unlucky. He sighed, grateful that he at least had some peace and quiet for once in this dorm, as he was considering his odds he was actually kinda grateful that he didn't have to suffer under Yang Xiao Long's intense glare for the rest of the night. Miguel had just closed the door on Dusty and turned around only to feel a large force smash him against the door. He looked up to see Yang staring down at him with some clear distaste, but not as bad as when she looked at Dusty not even five minutes ago. "That was for the head-petting." Yang spoke clearly and loudly, Miguel however replied, "I said I was fucking sorry about that, no need to get so aggressive." "Whatever, you two can settle this later, right now we should be walking to the dining hall." Weiss basically commanding them to start walking. "Alright but still too aggressive, thought you would have that out of your system." Miguel still on a tangent about getting hit. "I didn't hit you that hard." Yang protesting against his acquisition. "Whatever least one of the sisters are nice to me." "Oh I'm nice, Miguel, but not to perverts." Miguel getting slightly annoyed by the title he was given "Oh well, moving on Weiss how did you find our dorm?" "It was awfully quiet and then we knocked and heard you yell at Dusty." "Oh I'm kinda surprised that you can recognize our voices" Miguel slightly embarrassed thinking to himself. -She probably hears my yelling and insults towards Dusty in classes.- "Alright, so how are you gonna train us Weiss?" Asked Miguel, ready for training. "That's not information that's readily available." "Ok, what are you the A.S.A." "No, I'm a huntress in training!" Weiss annoyed at Miguels remark "Okay well we're here so I'm gonna get me something to eat so see ya." Miguel raced off to get some food Aquila following behind but before they could get in line, they notice a team of four approaching them but they were focused on Miguel; little did he know of the teams intentions. "Look what the cat dragged in." the leader of the now opposing team had spoken, Miguel simply replied "I didn't drag myself in I just merely came here, but that is probably not the right answer you wanted?" Miguel thinking to himself. -Been awhile since I met someone who disliked faunus, but I wouldn't blame them with how the white fang or whatever they are called are acting towards humans.- "Miguel lets just go get dinner." Aquila trying to get Miguel to come with him. "You know what let's go get something to eat." As they were about to walk away but felt someone grab his tail as he turned to see that his tail was in the hands of the leader of the group that walked up to Aquila and him. "What do you think you're doing?" looking at this bastard who is holding his pride and joy as if it was a piece of rope. "Why, you are not going anywhere besides I know you can't hold your own in a fight so don't even try you vermin." feeling angry but did not want to since his tail was in the bastards hands, so couldn't do much. "Aquila what time is it?" "Why would you ask that now?" "Just wanted to know now tell me." Aquila pulling out his scroll, Miguel whispered "Do you have any of the members of team RWBY as contacts?" "One, why?" "Contact them, get their attention." "Why?" "Can't do much when I have a bastard holding on too my tail." "Oh okay." as Aquila quickly messages ruby since that's his only other contact besides his teammates. "Thank you Aquila." "You're welcome but how come you can't do anything don't you know some hand to hand combat?" "Yeah but he has a good grip on my tail plus it helps keep me in balance sometimes." As the two notice team RWBY approach them but there was another team with them "Let go of his tail, Cardin." the blonde boy of the other team "Why should I?" Cardin speaking up. Miguel thinking -this is my chance now how am I gonna do this without hurting my tail oh got it.- Miguel taking the chance swung his foot back pivoting on his left for a kick to make contact with Cardin's jaw. "Take this bastard!" Miguels foot making contact with Cardin's jaw, making him let go of Miguels tail. "Wow that worked better than I had expected." Aquila surprised by what happened questions "How did you know how to do that?" "You learn a lot when you are a kid in Vacuo, I'm actually surprised that had worked, I've only seen my father do that." Miguel looking at the strangers that team RWBY had brought "Nice to meet you four, but who might you be." The blonde boy stepping forward "I am Jaune leader of team JNPR and these are my teammates." Jaune stepping aside gesturing to a girl with red hair first "I'm Pyrrha Nikos" Miguel speaking up "You're that one girl on the box of Pumpkin Pete's marshmallow flakes." "Indeed I am." Jaune now gesturing towards the other male of their team "I am Lie Ren, then again we have already met." "Yes we have now, I got pictures of it." Miguel looking at his scroll real quickly. "Aaand I'm Nora Valkyrie." Jaune now speaking on the behalf of his team "That's everybody." "Good Jaune, my name Miguel and this guy next to me is Aquila now say hi Aquila." "I am not a kid besides you did that for me." "Fine now lets go get food." as they quickly gotten food they sat down with team RWBY and JNPR "Hey Miguel where's that other guy?" "Oh Dusty he's back at the dorm; doesn't feel too well, I know why too." Miguel smiling at the fact that his friend has a fear of the sleeping dragon that is Yang "Why is he back at the dorm then Miguel?" before Miguel could respond Aquila interrupts "Cause he is scared of Yang." Miguel wanting to not reveal his friends new found fear "No he just needs to rest his stomach it's probably shaken up from the ride here to Beacon, Jaune." "Ok Miguel, so how was your first sparring match." Miguel thinking back to the match. "It was a very quick fight, one I did not expect, after the fight while I was changing back into my uniform I thought to myself that I need to train and I now know to expect anything to happen." "Interesting Miguel, but then again at least you didn't get tricked by a clone that ended up shocking you." "You're right Aquila, oh well actually what time is it?" "5:30." "Oh well it's time we should head back so we can do our work for class so I guess we'll talk to you guys later." Aquila and Miguel leave the dining hall, Aquila messaging Jaune since they exchanged contacts leaving Miguel to think to himself -take note an average person drops 80 strands a day unlike what Dusty did to Yang, I can find one so I can figure out what type of shampoo she uses to keep hair so nice. I also need to head to the library sometime.- They had gotten back to their dorm when Miguel had looked to notice Dusty was already asleep. "Well Aquila, I think we should go to sleep right now, I'd rather not wake up Dusty." "Why? You never cared about Dustys feelings before?" "Just shut the fuck up and go to sleep Aquila." "Fine." In the middle of the night, Miguel was still awake and made sure that Aquila was asleep, he was, Miguel thought to himself -Wow, now then I just gotta locate Dusty's combat outfit and look for a strand of Yang's hair- Miguel had located Dustys combat clothes and started investigating the fabric, hunting for one strand of Yangs hair, just to discover what brand of shampoo she uses. He found two, and he discovered that she uses the Schnee Brand Shampoo. Miguel thought to himself -Now that I've discovered that, I can rest-
leader of team JNPR and these are my teammates." Jaune stepping aside gesturing to a girl with red hair first "I'm Pyrrha Nikos" Miguel speaking up "You're that one girl on the box of Pumpkin Pete's marshmallow flakes." "Indeed I am." Jaune now gesturing towards the other male of their team "I am Lie Ren, then again we have already met." "Yes we have now, I got pictures of it." Miguel looking at his scroll real quickly. "Aaand I'm Nora Valkyrie." Jaune now speaking on the behalf of his team "That's everybody." "Good Jaune, my name Miguel and this guy next to me is Aquila now say hi Aquila." "I am not a kid besides you did that for me." "Fine now lets go get food." as they quickly gotten food they sat down with team RWBY and JNPR "Hey Miguel where's that other guy?" "Oh Dusty he's back at the dorm; doesn't feel too well, I know why too." Miguel smiling at the fact that his friend has a fear of the sleeping dragon that is Yang "Why is he back at the dorm then Miguel?" before Miguel could respond Aquila interrupts "Cause he is scared of Yang." Miguel wanting to not reveal his friends new found fear "No he just needs to rest his stomach it's probably shaken up from the ride here to Beacon, Jaune." "Ok Miguel, so how was your first sparring match." Miguel thinking back to the match. "It was a very quick fight, one I did not expect, after the fight while I was changing back into my uniform I thought to myself that I need to train and I now know to expect anything to happen." "Interesting Miguel, but then again at least you didn't get tricked by a clone that ended up shocking you." "You're right Aquila, oh well actually what time is it?" "5:30." "Oh well it's time we should head back so we can do our work for class so I guess we'll talk to you guys later." Aquila and Miguel leave the dining hall, Aquila messaging Jaune since they exchanged contacts leaving Miguel to think to himself -take note an average person drops 80 strands a day unlike what Dusty did to Yang, I can find one so I can figure out what type of shampoo she uses to keep hair so nice. I also need to head to the library sometime.- They had gotten back to their dorm when Miguel had looked to notice Dusty was already asleep. "Well Aquila, I think we should go to sleep right now, I'd rather not wake up Dusty." "Why? You never cared about Dustys feelings before?" "Just shut the fuck up and go to sleep Aquila." "Fine." In the middle of the night, Miguel was still awake and made sure that Aquila was asleep, he was, Miguel thought to himself -Wow, now then I just gotta locate Dustys combat outfit and look for a strand of Yang's hair- Miguel had located Dustys combat clothes and started investigating the fabric, hunting for one strand of Yangs hair, just to discover what brand of shampoo she uses. He found two, and he discovered that she uses the Schnee Brand Shampoo. Miguel thought to himself -Now that I've discovered that, I can rest-