Chapter 4: Early training

Dream~

"Mummy!" A little boys voice could be heard.

A woman with white hair in a piggy tail and white opal eyes wearing a blue dress came out after hearing the boy's cry. "What's wrong Dan- oh my god! Jakob get out here!"

A man with a torn brown robe and messy black hair came out of an old cottage and went wide eyed. There stood little Daniel with paper coming off his hands and more paper floating around him.

No..." The man mumbled. He began slowly going towards the boy "Daniel look at me."

Little Daniel looked at his father and stepped back everytime his father took a step forward "Stay back! I don't want to hurt you!" He said.

"You won't." Jakob got closer trying his best to ignore the pain of the paper around Daniel cutting into his flesh. He saw an opening and rolled towards Daniel and hugged Daniel. Daniel froze up "Breath in and out slowly my son." Daniel slowly lowered his hands and took a few deep breaths, The paper around them started to slowly go down before finally dispersing "good boy." Jakob said before touching Daniel on the forehead causinghis hand to glow blue and make Daniel sleepy. Before he started to drift off, he heard his parents mension something about 'D.U.P' and 'conduits'.

He saw his Dad look at him and shake his head "they won't take him too." He heard his father say before everything went black.

Reality~

Daniel opened his eyes a little. He saw nothing but a blur indicating he's barley still awake. He blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes and yawned. Once his vision was more clearer he saw a little light from the door. He squinted his eyes and saw the door slightly left open. Daniel scanned the room for any signs of trespassers. He saw nothing except for Ruby's bed empty, oh no. Did she get kidnapped? He thought. Daniel slowly got up making sure not to make any sound to wake the others up but was stopped when he felt something pull his arm down. He looked and saw the cuffs. He looked at Weiss and "psst. Weiss...Weiss!" He whispered. Weiss let out a little sound and turned her body around facing the wall. Danile sighed and looked at his hand that was handcuffed man. Welp. Guess there goes one way to prove they can trust me. Suddenly Daniel's hand fell off and turned into scraps of paper. He moved the cuffs away and put his arm at the scraps of paper which attatched itself back to Daniel making his hand reform. After moving his fingers around he got up and grabbed his jacket and exited the dorm.

Campus grounds~

Daniel started running around the school looking for Ruby. He checked the cafeteria first, Then the class rooms, the Auditorium, Even the rooftops. He sat over the edge of the roof of the dormitories and started to think. Then something caught his eye. He saw something light up in the gym. He jumped off the roof and started to make his way to the gym.

He opened the gym and looked around. He smelt something burning and found that the source of the smell was from a couple of training bots. They had holes in each of them. One with a hole in its head. Another with a hole in its chest and the last with its legs shot off. He crouched down to see that the holes had burn marks around them. He got up from crouching and thought weird.

Bang!

Daniel froze up as he heard the shot and the bullet pass by him. He looked to his side and saw fire where the bullet hit. He then looked to his other side and saw Ruby looking through her scope then put it down and have a worried face. "Oh my god! I'm sorry Daniel!"

She ran over to him when he held onto his heart "I just saw my life flash before my very eyes!" He said.

"I'm sorry! I thoight you were a bot!" Ruby said.

Daniel looked at her "since when do bots wear hoodies?!"

"Well they could!" Daniel took deep breaths and looked at her "why are you up anyway Daniel?" Ruby asked changing Crescent Rose back into its un-lethal form and cliping it to her back. (A/N: I dunno how she puts it away -_-)

"I could ask you the same thing." Daniel replied.

"Well. Yang normally woke up early to run around for the campus...so I thought I could do the same. Well, not run around the campus but train on my combat and weapon skills."

Daniel smiled. Guess he can see why Ozpin made her the leader "doesn't hurt to improve huh?"

"Yep!" Ruby said enthusiastically. She then remembered something "hey Daniel. How dod you get out of those cuffs?"

Daniel gave her a 'really' look "Ruby. My body is basically made up of paper. Do you really think a simple pair of handcuffs are gonna stop me?"

"Well...I guess not. Weiss will be pretty mad though."

"Yep. But I can deal with Weiss-cream." Daniel looked at Ruby who gave him a 'really' look. "What?"

"Please don't. We don't need another Yang on our team."

"She a punny gal?"

"Yes...just not really good at it." Ruby tapped the tip of her boot on the ground "umm...Also Daniel. About those cuffs."

"Yes?"

"Why...did you have those?"

Daniel froze. oh god. Not this subject again! he thought how do I explain this to her?! "umm..well you see...how old are you?"

"Fifteen."

Even worse! Daniel started to think of a way to word this without scarring her. "Well...you see Ruby. When a boy and...nononono. Well. Lets just say that my ex-girlfriend was into some...you know what? Listen to what Yang said and she'll tell you when your older."

"Oh okay!"

Daniel stared at the bots and went and examined one "these dust infused bullets your using on the bots?" He asked.

Ruby's face lit up "yep! I was testing them out. There's fire, ice, electricity and another one I've yet to try."

"Wanna give it a go?"

"Yes please! Make one of the bots stand up and I'll shoot it."

Daniel nodded and grabbed one of the bots and hoisted it up on his shoulders. He made a paper wall and leaned the bot against it and went beside Ruby. Ruby took aim at the bot. "Ummm...hey Rubes. What kind of bullet is this one?"

Ruby smirked "Gravity!"

Daniel went wide eyed "umm..I'm not sure th-" Daniel was cut off when Ruby fired and was sent flying back.

"Ow." Ruby got up and rubbed her head.

"You okay?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah...did it work?"

Daniel looked and saw the bot floating "umm. Well it worked. However, it may need some work. Via, you getting sent flying back and the bullet not really hurting the bot in anyway possible." He said.

Ruby looked down "aww.."

"Hey it just needs improvement okay. Don't get your hopes down."

Ruby looked up and smiled "yeah! Your right! Thanks Daniel!"

Daniel nodded and smiled. Ruby did the same then looked at her feet, fidgeting a bit "H-Hey Dan...can I call you Dan?"

"Don't see why not."

"Yeah...a-anyway...do you think we could. Y'know spar. I mean we don't have to its just I wanted to see your skills and my skills put to work against each other."

"Hmm...I guess that couldn't hurt."

"Yeah...wait! You don't have an Aura right?"

"Yeah?"

"So what if I hit you or cut you in half?!" Ruby started to tremble at the thought of cutting Daniel in half or shooting him. Especially with the fire bullets. He could burn alive!

"Hmmm...good point...okay lets make a rule. You can't use the fire bullets. Okay?"

Ruby nodded "but what about the blade of Crescent Rose?"

Daniel smirked "who said your going to hit me?"

Ruby pouted then put on a serious face "okay your on!"

Daniel nodded and went to one side of the room and Ruby went to the other. Ruby unclipped Crescent Rose from her back making it transform into its schythe form. She slammed the blade into the ground and smirked. Daniel cracked his neck and knuckles, paper starting to float around him.

Ruby lifted her schythe and brought the front of it behind her and jumped. She pulled the trigger and she was sent flying at Daniel. Using her Semblance to give herself an extra boost towards Daniel Daniel she raised Crescent Rose and brought it down on him but was stopped when the blade got stopped in a paper wall. Daniel smirked, Ruby did the same. Ruby moved her index finger towards the trigger of Crescen rose abd pulled the trigger which gave the schythe enough momentum to cut theough Daniel's wall.

Daniel rooled out of the way just missing the blade. Daniel looked up and saw Ruby transform her schythe into its sniper form and pointed at it. Daniel smiled and pointed down. Ruby tilted her head from the scope to look at him with a confused expression. She looked down and saw the paper from the wall moving under her. Daniel raised his right hand and pointed up. As soon as his finger went up, Ruby was raised to the roof by a paper pillar. Daniel ran up the pillar, Ruby looked down at him and aimed at him and shot.

Daniel disappeared into scraps of paper. Ruby looked around. Suddenly the pillar began to shake and Ruby soon found herself gripped by a big paper hand which slammed her into the ground making her bounce off the ground.

Ruby got up shaking her head and saw the hand had collapsed onto the ground dispersing into scraps of paper.

Ruby looked around and grabbed Crescent Rose turning it into its schythe form.

Daniel raised up from the scraps of paper "peek-a-boo." Daniel calmly said.

Ruby quickly slashed behind her but was met with more scraps of paper. Daniel materialized again abd grabbed a piece of scrap paper and threw it at her. Once Ruby felt the light contact she pointed Crescent Rose in the direction it came from and shot but again saw nothing but more scraps. Ruby started to shake with anger "Okay Stop!"

...

...Daniel materialized and absorbed the paper around him "what's wrong?" He asked.

"Its not fair. You can make stuff with your paper and your just to fast, faster then me!" She shouted.

"Oh...sorry. I was just seeing how good your reflexes were for that last part of our spar."

Ruby pouted and raised her hand "I want a rematch! With handicaps!"

"Handicaps?"

"Yes! Your not aloud to use your Condu-whatever powers ."

Daniel thought about this and looked at her "...get in a stance," Ruby nodded and got into a stance. Daniel looked at her stance and nodded "okay. Deal." Ruby's eyes lit up and she fistbumped the air and got back into her stance. Daniel nodded "ready when you are."

Ruby smirked and ran at him at top speed. The second she was inches away from him, Daniel put his hand out.

Ruby went past Daniel but felt as if someone pulled on her cape which caused her to lose her footing and fall on her back. Ruby groaned and looked up to see Daniel with her scythe in his hands. "Wha? How?!" Ruby gawked.

Daniel helped her up and gave her Crescent Rose "wanna try again?" Daniel asked. Ruby nodded quickly and ran to the same position she was in.

She tried again but all that was achieved was the same result from the last time.

"Again."

Same result.

"Again!"

Same result.

Again!"

Same result.

"AGAIN!"

And the same result.

Ruby was breathing really hard and she was on her knees "I...I don't understand...Uncle Qrow taught me how to use a schythe...what am I doing wrong?" Ruby looked down sadly.

It broke Daniel's heart to see this. He went to her side and put his hand on her shoulder "nothings wrong with what your doing...sorta," Ruby became more gloomy after hearing that "but rwmwmber what I said at the start. There's always room for improvement." Ruby looked at him and nodded slightly "and there is nothing with your combat skill. Its just the way your holding your schythe and your battle stance is what needs help with. So I'm gonna do that." Daniel helped her up and gave her Crescent Rose "okay. Back in your stance."

Ruby nodded and got in her stance. Daniel nodded and went behind her. He started to move the positioning of her hands on her schythe. Little did he know was that Ruby had a red face and was freaking out. She's never been touched by another boy besides her dad and uncle. And Daniel's face was really really close.

Daniel let go of het hands and stepped back. Ruby looked back at him. "D-Daniel. What did you do?" She asked.

"Just ajusted you leg positioning. Okay lets try this again, in that form your in." He walked back to the position he was in before and waited: Ruby nodded and took a deep breathe. She looked at him and charged. When she reached him, Daniel grabbed Crescent Rose again but instead of removing it out of Ruby's grasp he was lifted from the ground and over Ruby and slammed onto the ground. He went to get up but Tuby pointed the tip of Crescent Rose in his face with her finger near the trigger. Daniel smirked "good work," he got up "but remember if I was an enemy then keep your finger on the trigger, don't leave your finger hovering over it."

Ruby nodded "okay!"

Daniel nodded "ready to go again?"

"Sure!" Ruby went back to her position while Daniel stood in the spit he was in.

Timeskip 7:30~

Ruby and Daniel walked back to the dorm, sweating from the morning training "that was really good Ruby. Good work."

Ruby nodded "yeah, thanks. You too Dan."

Daniel smiled and opened the door, only to be met with an angry Weiss dressed in her school uniform "There you two are!" She grabbed Daniel by the ear "how did you get out?! Did you steal the key and put it back?!" Weiss shouted.

"I didn't know where it was!" Daniel shouted back.

"Then how?!"

"Weiss come on, I'm made of paper. I literally could get out of a barred cage."

"Then what was the point of putting them on!"

"Well how else was I gonna prove that I'm trustworthy?!"

"Weiss its okay seriously. Daniel and I were ju-" Ruby was interrupted by Yang who came out of the bathroom with a toothbrush in her mouth and dressed in her school uniform. Yang looked at Ruby and saw her and Daniel and how sweaty "why are you guys swe-...no..."

"Umm...Yang?...you oka-" Daniel froze up when he saw Yang bite down on her toothbrush which snapped in half. She spat the other half out which was on fire.

Ruby was confused "Yang? You okay?"

Yang cracked her knuckles "Weiss. Blake. Please take Ruby outside." Weiss and Blake nodded, not objecting to the blonds request and walked out with Ruby.

"Ummm...hehehe..guys? Where are ya going?" Daniel felt a sudden dark presence behind him and turned around slowly to see Yang's hair standing up with fire radiating off her. "No...Nononono! Yang stop!"

All that all of Beacon could hear that morning was the sound of screams and pleads as well as smoke from the Team RWBY's dorm.

whooo next chapter. Finally right? Sorry. Reason I haven't been updatibg is cause I'm focusing on stories from both this profile and my Wattapad profile.

Anyway. I can't tell when the next chapter so be patient please.

Until next time ;)