Chapter 3: Initiation
I said I would do this last chapter...so here it is.
name: Crystal Palacio
Gender: Female.
Age: 11
Race: Faunas (Wolf)
Hair length: shoulder length with pony tails
Hair colour: Blue.
Skin colour: Fair light skin.
Clothes: A white sundress with a red jacket over the top.
Eye colour: Yellow.
Height: 50.5"
Daniel stared at the grimm, getting in his fighting stance he looked up at Ozpin and nodded. Ozpin saw this and nodded back, Crystal looked at Daniel with worry in her eyes, Daniel saw her and smiled giving her a thumbs up making her smile again.
"Alright Daniel, your initiation starts..." Daniel closed his eyes and inhaled...and exhaled "...Now!" Ozpin shouted thus the cages opened up letting the grimm out.
The grimm had their sights trained on Daniel who was reaching for something in his jacket. Ruby stood up "He's going to use his weapon!" She yelled in excitement with sparkly eyes.
"Ruby! He needs to concentrate." Weiss yelled at her leader, but that didn't stop Ruby from getting excited about seeing this newcomer's weapon.
Daniel however smiled and pulled out not a weapon...but a book. Ruby's excited face turned into a face of confusion then disappointment as she crossed her arms and huffed "man, I was excited too."
Daniel sighed and opened the book showing it was filled with blank pages, he then turned around and ripped the book in half making the pages go flying in the air. Everyone was confused by this action. Daniel directed the paper behind him and he looked at the Grimm and smiled, he raised his hand and motioned for them to come at him.
A Beowolf let out a howl and ran at him, that's it closer...closer... Daniel thought, the Beowolf lunged at the boy and Daniel's smile turned into a smirk and he disappeared leaving scraps where he stood, then the paper that was behind him formed into a giant spike and impaled the Beowolf when it reached where tohe boy was.
Everyone looked in awe except professor Ozpin. Daniel then reappeared on the tip of the spike keeping himself balanced and looked at the grimm and jumped off the spike making it disperse back int normal paper. Alright the secret is out, lets do this.
The Ursa Major started to make an approach on the boy, Daniel walked calmly up to it with paper following behind him, when they met in the middle the Ursa Major raised its claws and swiped at the boy, however Daniel blocked its claw with a paper wall making its hand ricochet back. Daniel used this to his advantage, using the paper he used to create the small wall, the paper gathered around his right hand and punched the Ursa in the face making it stumble back and hold its head. He saw the Deathstalker making its approach, so he jumped on the Ursa's back and pushed off making the Ursa face plant into the ground. Daniel landed in front of the Deathstalker and looked up at it, the Deathstalker's tail started to come down on Daniel but Daniel's whole body turned into paper and he was now behind the Deathstaker as it's tail came down.
Daniel noticed the Beowolf, Ursa and King Taijitu started making their approach, Daniel started to gather paper at his feet and then he rose up on top of a pillar made of paper and he looked down at the Grimm.
"Who is this guy?" Blake said staring at the boy.
"I don't know but he's pretty cool!" Yang said shouted with excitement.
"Go Daniel!" Velvet yelled gathering a few stares directed at her.
"You know him Velvet?" Weiss said.
"Yeah, he helped me with team CRDL before the initiation."
"Really? Huh, I guess he's an okay guy then." Blake said with a small smile.
"I wouldn't count on it him yet, he still has to defeat those grimm." Weiss said rather coldly
"Yeah...but his semblance seems to be helping with that."
"That is if it is his semblance, I mean have any of you heard of a semblance that allows you to control paper?"
"Actually its not a semblance." Velvet cut in.
"What? Then what is it?"
"Daniel said it was a sort of power...a conduit power I think."
"Conduit? Never heard of such a thing." Blake said.
"We have now." Ruby said.
Back with Daniel, 2 Beowolf climbing the pillar. Daniel knelt down and touched the pillar and two paper spikes came out of the pillar and impaled the Beowolf making their bodies fall to the ground and disappear into a black mist. Then Daniel felt something hit the pillar making him stumble a bit, he looked down and saw the Ursa Major back up and it and the Deathstalker were hitting the pillar. He then saw something just scratch his cheek an looked down to see the Beowolf throwing the spikes on their backs at him. The Pillar started to collapse and Daniel jumped off, but the King Taijitu got underneath him with its mouth open, however Daniel turned his whole body into paper and rode the wind currents out of the way and landed safely on the ground. He then turned back to the grimm and quickly made a paper wall blocking the incoming projectiles from the Beowolf, he let out a deep breath and smirked "alright...two can play at game." He said as paper started to surround his hands.
He came out of cover and started shooting paper at the Beowolf which to everyone's surprise, went straight through the Beowolf's heart and/or head killing them instantly. Daniel smiled, that takes care of the Beowolf, now all that's left is the Ursa, Deathstalker and...wait, wheres the King Taiji-, Daniel's thoughts were interrupted when he heard a hiss and turned around and looked up at the snake grimm behind him.
Daniel jumped out of the way when the King Taijitu tried to swallow him whole. The Ursa Major was then behind him and tried to slash him but Daniel back flipped and landed on the Major's back and grabbed onto the biggest spike on its back and started pulling on it earning some growls and slashes from the Ursa as it tried to get Daniel off. Then there was a crack and then the spike came out of the Major's back making it let out a pained roar, then Daniel got the spike and stabbed the Ursa Major in the head, killing it.
Daniel then felt himself get hit in the back making him let go oof the Ursa's spike and go flying into the Deathstaker which then hit Daniel into the floor with its pincer. Daniel tried to get up to recover but fell back down immediately, then the King Taijitu slammed its whole body down on Daniel making the floor crack and dust go up in the air.
"Ozpin! Please stop this, hes going to die!" Glynda yelled.
Crystal got up from her seat and looked for any signs of Daniel in the dust, unfortunately the only thing that ascended from the dust was the King Taijitu looking down into the smoke. At least this was a sign that the snake grimm hasn't devoured Daniel yet, however the grimm started to close in on Daniel blocking any exit he can make if he tries to exit from the smoke. The something happened that made Crystal smile, paper birds started to ascend out of the dust making the King Taijitu at them, suddenly more paper birds rose out of the dust and pushed the grimm back. Then when the dust cleared it showed Daniel standing up with a smile on his face surrounded by a cyclone of paper, he then started to ascend from the ground onto another pillar the King Taijitu went at him first but when it made contact with the paper cyclone, its head got shredded to pieces.
Everyone was shocked at what was transpiring right now, Ozpin just simply smiled. Daniel then looked up and with a smirk he bent his knees and jumped into the air turning into paper with the paper cyclone following him. The when he was in the air he turned back to normal and looked down at the grimm smiling. The paper in the cyclone of paper then started to form into big paper spikes, Daniel's whole body turned back into paper and he went towards the ground at a rapid pace, the paper spikes followed behind him. When Daniel hit the ground the spikes impaled all the grimm leaving none surviving.
...The initiation was over
When the Grimm disappeared, the paper spikes fell apart leaving just scraps of paper all over the floor. Everyone searched the arena for Daniel but he was nowhere to be found, Crystal however got up from her seat, grabbed Daniel's backpack and went down into the arena. She reached the middle of the arena and looked down into this pile of paper, then the pile of paper started to spin around in a mini tornado and when it dispersed, Daniel stood in front of her smiling.
Crystal just sighed "Show off." She hand signed.
Daniel chuckled and grabbed his backpack off her "You think so?" Crystal nodded.
The Amphitheatre was quiet, everyone had looks of awe, fear and astonishment. Velvet was one of the people that looked at Daniel with awe, wow...hes strong. he thought.
Ruby and Nora had sparkles in her eyes "That. was. AWESOME!" They yelled in unison.
Well at least there's two people who thought my performance was cool. Daniel thought.
Ozpin started making his way to the middle of arena "Well done Mr Reis, you passed the initiation." He said.
"Thank you professor Ozpin." Daniel responded.
Ozpin turned to everyone in the bleachers "please welcome our new student Daniel," there were a few claps from the students but not enough to get the other students to clap "Yes...well thank you for your time. You are dismissed," with that said, everyone started to merge from their seats and out the door "Sorry about that Daniel."
"Nah its alright, I'm used to it." Daniel gave a small smile
Ozpin saw Glynda approach them "Ah yes, Daniel this is Professor Goodwitch, you will have her for one of your classes."
Glynda put out her hand which Daniel grabbed and shook "Pleasure to meet you." Daniel said.
"The pleasure is all mine. You have a unique gift Daniel," she responded and retracted her hand and began to shake it "and quite a grip might I add."
Daniel rubbed his nose "Heh...Thanks."
"Oh and please, next time don't leave such a mess." She looked around to see the whole arena covered in paper.
"Yeah..sorry, I'll clean that up."
"No need." She then stepped into a clear spot where here was no paper and began to use her telekinesis to move the paper into piles in the corner. Janitors would probably come collect it later.
Daniel managed to absorb a little paper before it got put into the pile, ahhh~ much better. He thought as he began to move his neck around making a crack sound.
"Daniel, would you be kind enough to follow me?" Ozpin said making his way to the door.
"Sure." With that they left the Amphitheatre with Crystal.
Timeskip~
Ozpin and Daniel, with Crystal having a piggyback, walked through the hallways in the dormitory. A couple of hours had passed since Daniel's initiation, Ozpin brought Daniel to his office discussing what will happen with him...the Decision was that he would be put onto a team thus becoming the fifth member of one. A they walked through the Hall, Daniel spoke up "So Ozpin, I have a question."
"Ask away." Ozpin said.
"What year group team am I going to be put on?" Daniel asked.
"You'll be put onto a 1st year team." Ozpin simply said.
"Cool...which team?"
Meanwhile with team RWBY
"Augh, Oobleck is the worst!" Yang said reaching their dorm room and holding the door open.
"Yeah, but not as bad as professor peach." Blake said entering the dorm.
"I like her." Weiss said following behind Blake.
"Yeah, but she's not around very often," Ruby said coming in last, once everyone entered Yang shut the door, unfortunately Ruby's cloak got stuck in the door making her yelp and fall flat on her butt. "Guy's a little help." she said.
Yang opened the door and Ruby got up and checked her cloak seeing if it got damaged but to her relief it wasn't.
Weiss sat on her bed opening a book from her previous class and began studying, Ruby climbed up to her bed and began reading her Camp Camp comic book, Blake sat on her bed and read one of her books and as for Yang she climbed up to her bed and laid back on it looking up at the ceiling. Then a thought crossed her mind "Hey guys, what was that at the amphitheatre?"
"You mean that guy who did his initiation? I don't know...and frankly, I don't care." Weiss said coldly.
"And you wonder why they call you ice queen." Ruby said.
"Still, I am curious myself about that guy...what was his name? Daniel?" Blake asked taking her eyes away from her book.
"Yeah, maybe tomorrow we'll see him and ask him about i-" Yang was cut off when she and her team heard a knock on the door.
Ruby jumped down and went to the door, when she opened it she saw professor Ozpin standing there with his coffee mug "Professor Ozpin? What are you doing here?"
"Afternoon Ms Rose." Ozpin said.
"What brings you here?"
"Well I've come to introduce you to your new teammate."
When he said that Yang, Weiss and Blake stopped what they were doing and looked at the door. Ruby just blinked at him "n-new teammate?" She said.
"Yes."
Ruby shook her head and smiled "Cool!...where is she...or he?"
Ozpin smiled and moved to the side revealing Daniel with Crystal on his shoulders. The Girl's mouths dropped and Daniel gave a slight wave with one hand "Hi." was all he said. Crystal gave a wave as well.
"Okay I will leave you four to get acquainted with him." Ozpin said and started walking away.
"What?! Professor, your just going to leave me here?!"
"Well yes I have to get your profile set up don't I? Now good luck, oh and you'll need this." Ozpin threw Daniel a scroll and continued to walk back to his office.
There was an awkward silence followed by a light chuckle from Daniel and Ruby. Ruby then decided to speak up "Do you want to come in?"
"Yes, thank you." Daniel entered and the girls watched him.
Ruby then went in the middle of the room "Guys, this is Daniel...our new teammate."
Daniel bowed his head a bit still holding onto Crystal.
"Hey~ I'm Yang" Yang said.
"Nice to meet you Daniel. I'm Blake" Blake said.
"..." Weiss stayed quiet narrowing her eyes at him.
This sent chills down Daniel's spine "That's Weiss, I'm Ruby by the way."
"Nice to meet you all." Daniel said. He put Crystal down and sat down on the floor as Crystal stretched her arms.
"Who's this?" Ruby asked kneeling down to the little wolf Faunas.
"That's Crystal." Daniel replied.
"Is she your sister?" Blake asked.
"Nah...I saved her from being killed by a mugger in an alleyway, she would be all alone if it wasn't for me."
"You saved her? but isn't she just a Faunas?" Blake asked with an eyebrow raised.
"So? Big deal, shes still a person, I risked all my life to keep her safe up to this point." This made Blake smile.
"You seem to take kindly to Faunas' Daniel." Yang said.
"What makes you say that?"
"Velvet told us what you did for her when you protected her from Cardin and his goons."
"Yeah! She's really thankful, she thinks you as some sort of knight in shining armour...or paper." Ruby said.
"Yeah, that reminds me, she said it wasn't a semblance? So I'm curious on what it is cause I've never seen something quite like it." Blake said now paying full attention.
Ruby nodded "Yeah...what did she say it was called? Co-Coconut power?"
Daniel chuckled How did she get coconut out of Conduit? He thought and sat up straight "Conduit power actually." He corrected her as paper started revolving around his hand.
"Okay, what is a Conduit?" Yang asked.
Daniel then began to explain to the girls what a conduit is.
Weiss then stood up "What?! Your telling us your a bio-terrorist?!" She yelled.
"I didn't say that Weiss, I just said that most people call conduits bio-terrorists because some of them use their powers for evil instead of good." Daniel corrected her.
"So we've possibly got a bio-terrorist on our team?! What was Ozpin thinking?!"
Her teammates gave her a cold glare "Weiss! He didn't say he was!" Ruby yelled.
"Yeah! Besides, he doesn't seem that bad." Yang stated.
"Thanks guys...but its kind of what I expected." Daniel said with his head down.
"What do you mean?" Blake asked.
"Conduits are called Bio-terrorists whether they're the same or not."
This made Blake and the other girls except Weiss frown and look at Daniel with sorrowful eyes. Ruby then spoke up "Don't worry Daniel, we think you're a good guy…well except for Weiss."
Blake and Yang gave him a smile and a thumbs up while Weiss just gave a "Hmph."
Daniel looked at Ruby and smiled "Thanks Ruby." He said.
Timeskip~
Everyone was getting ready for bed, Ruby wore a black tank top with a heart-shaped Beowolf design on the chest and white long pants with pink roses as decoration.
Weiss wore a faded bluish sleeping gown with short sleeves and white trimmings
Yang wore an orange tank top with a flame emblem on the front, and black boy shorts.
Blake wore a black yukata, with gray and white as a secondary color setup.
As for Daniel, he wore black tracksuit pants with a white t-shirt and Crystal wore a pink sleeping gown and had red shorts.
When they all got into bed there was one question that the girls asked themselves…Where was Daniel and Crystal going to sleep?.
"Be right back!" Ruby said as she dashed out the door.
A minute later she came back with 2 pillows and a doona "Thanks again Ruby." Daniel said taking the pillows and blankets from her.
"No worries!" She said cheerfully.
Daniel spotted the carpet between the bunk beds and put the two pillows down.
"Wait!" Weiss yelled.
"What?" Daniel looked at her.
"I still don't trust you, so how do we know you won't do anything funny while we're asleep?"
Daniel sighed and pulled his bag up to him and dug through it. He pulled out a pair of handcuffs and put them on one hand then the other part on the desk "There."
"Why do you have handcuffs?" Blake asked.
"Lets just say my Ex-Girlfriend was into some…..crazy stuff…"
Ruby tilted her head "What kind of stuff?" She asked.
"I'll tell you when your older." Yang said.
"Yeah….but she dumped me after she found out about *paper revolves around hand* left these handcuffs here tho so I decided to keep them."
"So your single?" Yang asked with a smirk.
"Yeah,"
"Do you have a way to get them off?" Blake asked.
"Yeah," Daniel held up a key to show them then laid down, but Weiss still stood there, tapping her foot "What is it this time?"
"I still don't trust you, how do we know you won't unlock yourself later?"
Daniel sighed and held up the key to her "Want to keep hold of the key?"
Weiss narrowed her eyes at him and took the key and laid down on her bed. Daniel looked at Crystal who gave him a 'really' look, Daniel just shrugged and laid down. "Goodnight!" Ruby said.
"Goodnight!" Everyone but Crystal said in unison.
Meanwhile with Ozpin~
Ozpin was done setting up Daniel's profile and sat back in his chair. Goodwitch entered his office "All students are asleep." She said.
"Very good," Ozpin said as he let out a sigh and picked up his coffee mug in one hand and Daniel's file in the other, as he looked through his file, one part caught his eye "oh?"
"What is it?" Goodwitch raised a brow.
"I missed this part somehow." He pointed at a certain point of the file with his pinkie still holding his coffee mug.
Goodwitch went beside him and looked at the file and her eyes widened "His mother was a-"
"That's very odd, He hasn't shown any traits unless its well hidden."
"Should we ask him about this tomorrow?"
"...No, there will be no need for that...although I am curious why he didn't tell me about this."
"Hmmm...well if your done for the night we should head to bed ourselves."
"agreed." and with that they entered the elevator and descended from the tower going to bed, ready for what ever may happen tomorrow.
...and that's all folks for this Chapter
Its funny, I was writing the end when suddenly I got a review on this story saying "will there be a next time I'm enjoying it so far and plz update it." and I was like "Funny you should say that." XD
...Until next time ;)