Yo Kiddo! It's me Qrow The coolest hottest most badass hunter around!
So the Manager is struck down with a Cold this week and can't write the next part of his story so far! Kinda sucks for him but as some dumb old guy called Shankspeare-
"Shakespeare"
Yeah what the sick kid said, Shakespeare (know it all). Anyway what that guy said the show must go on!
"That wasn't Shakespeare."
"Whatever!"
Anyway I'm going to write the next entry. This will be awesome and you will all come to love me as much as Just Kidding Rowling!
"Lame!"
"Aren't you sick? Drink noodle soup or something!"
Anyway back to the story that he was telling last week.
So there we were this kid just learned that he was going to get his aura unlocked and get to hang out with Hunters and what was his expression? Well honestly I was pretty drunk, but I think it was sorta like me getting a new assignment, kid looked like someone just took a piss on him. Hell in his shoes even I admit it was too much too fast, I think I woulda decked Ozpin if I were in his shoes. This kid was way too polite, just like some young kid in junior high.
"I was twenty-two Qrow."
"My story time! You go do what sick people do."
Anyway this kid had gotten his apartment broken into, I drank all his alcohol, Ozpin and Glynda played battlefront on his Xbox and Salem did creepy stuff. Needless to say this kid looked sad. Later we would tell him he was gonna spend a week in Remnant, kid almost cried. Glynda said she would smooth over any problems he had with work. Kid calmed down and said "really?" he looked a lot like Ruby staring at a weapon. If he was a girl it woulda been kinda cute.
First things first, Ozpin walked him into the headmasters office. Ozpin sat in his weird Dick shaped chair.
"Now I know this might come as a shock but…"
"I'm not sure much could come as a shock anymore." The kid deadpanned
"What is your name again?" Ozpin asked tilting his head. For a minute there was absolute silence. The kid just stared. Pretty stunned that Ozpin had broken into his apartment, played his video games, drank his coffee and hadn't even gotten his name. In fact I think the kid was still trying to compute that on top of everything else that had happened in the last hour. Needless to say he was not responsive.
"Hello? Anybody there?" Ozpin asked, drinking from his regular coffee mug.
"Raye." The kid said. "Call me Raye."
(of course I changed the kid's name)
"I think Manager is better." I said as a joke. I was wasted and hadn't said anything funny for a while. I have a reputation to maintain after all.
"That settles it. We will call him Mr. Manager." Ozpin said.
"Professor Ozpin! That is beyond cruel! You-"
"Glynda Goodwitch has a reservation for the first day." Ozpin quickly interrupted. Glynda froze before turning to the Raye. "Mr. Manager I request a warm bath at 5 A.M. every day of my break."
Manager, who until then viewed Glynda as the one sane person in our trio had that hope crushed then eaten by an Ursa. He was not good at figuring out who was sane.
"She was nice to me!"
"She also demanded baths at 5 A.M. nothing more villainous than making someone get up early!"
Anyway back to the story, Manager slowly nodded, yielding to the infallible troll logic of Ozpin, king of screwing with people. I walked up and patted the kid on his head. His ginger-brown hair ruffled quietly.
"Well kiddo time to wake up your aura." I said kindly, flashing a winning smile. "Should we drag him to Port or do it here?"
"I might as well do it." Ozpin said getting up and grabbing his cane.
"You awaken aura's?" I asked incredulously.
"Indeed I do." Ozpin said. He placed one hand on Liam's head. "We stand at the precipice, shadow and light combined, each vying for dominance where there was shadow shall now be light." Ozpin whispered.
Nothing happened.
I buckled over and laughed "What the hell was that Ozpin? Please tell me your joking!" I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself at least until I noticed a bright aura glowing nearby. I looked up. Raye's aura was glowing. Somehow, Ozpin's truly lame chant had awakened this kids aura. It was looking like it probably above average but not by much way below what a Hunters actually needed to be. Good for him that was not his job.
He looked at his hands they glowed a slight orange, sorta the color of a sunrise on the horizon, a deep reddish-orange. He looked at it and smiled. Suddenly Liam was awake again. There was a fire in his eyes that wasn't there before.
"hey looks like the kid is awake." Qrow said.
"I feel awesome!" Raye said excitedly
"Manager, can you hear me?" Ozpin asked. Raye looked at him.
"Can you please stop calling me that it is annoying." Raye said
Ozpin smiled "Finally a response! Good!" Taking another sip. "but no mr. manager I will not call you anything else." Then he took another rlong sip as if to just say fuck you to this kid.
Ozpin and his coffee is a weird thing, I half imagine his semblance had something to do with coffee before I saw it. Then when I did I realized why he drank so much coffee; every time he used his semblance he needed to spend a few days wide awake to resolve the mess he caused. There was one time he almost wrecked Beacon in his second year. Glynda had just turned him down again. It was funny until he had to help repair the cafeteria and my team had to help.
Anyway back on track. Ozpin looked at Raye smiling
"I'd like to note we shouldn't use his real name. It could cause problems in case of another incident."
" What incident?" Manager asked before shaking his head "on second thought, I don't want to know."
Ozpin nodded trying to act sage like. That is for the best, that was a dark time. Glynda sighed yet again. "Can we come up with a reasonable name for him to use with others. One that does not have a word as a name?"
"Red"
That was used in Pokemon! And not used on Earth.
"Sapphire"
"Rock. And doesn't make sense in my world."
"How about Raye? As in rays of the sun?" Glynda asked.
(now you know why I'm using Raye)
"That works." Ozpin said looking at Raye
Raye nodded in defeat He was inexplicably bored.
"That's a last name I guess." Raye said.
"Good enough for now." Ozpin said. "Better than manager" He quickly added, pre-empting any attempt to argue.
Raye now slumped down in his chair exhausted from trying to think up a name that would almost certainly be attached to him for years to come. And like that, he went from being Manager to Raye in less than twenty minutes. The twists and turns of life, they really can be a shocker or in this case an annoyance.
Needless to say. Raye did not get long to rest. There was a hammering on the door. Ozpin sighed. "Back to work." He muttered. "Come in," he said. The door opened to reveal Yang Xiao-long, My niece. I immediately knew things were not going well.
"Miss Xiao-long, good of you to join us." Ozpin said as he returned to his desk and placing his hands on his desk.
"Hey Professor Ozpin, Professor Goodwitch, Uncle Qrow." She said cheerfully.
"Do you know why you are here?" Ozpin asked. Yang shook her head. At this Ozpin sighed and looked at Glynda. Glynda looked back and shrugged. Ozpin's eyes widened.
Why had they called her here? As if to answer my question, Glynda groaned and rubbed the bridge of her nose. Yang just looked confused.
"Is she here to train me?" Raye asked. At this Ozpin perked up.
"Yes! Exactly!" he exclaimed leaning forward and pointing at Yang, his eyes wild and glimmering with hope.
Yang slumped forward, "Do I have to?" She asked.
"Yes you do Yang! I said, exasperated. I went to take a drag of alcohol from my flask only to realize it was empty. I groaned and hung my head. I would have the mother of all hangovers in a few hours.
"You totally deserved it."
"You hurt my heart! How could you be so cruel?"
"I have a migraine, a stomach ache, your niece just knocked me into next week. I think I have some latitude."
"No, go back to next week. You probably deserved to be punched there"
"it's a figure of speech."
"Yang punching you is a figure of speech? Yeah right, shove it up your ass."
"Stop talking and writing at the same time then."
"No."
Raye moaned.
Qrow glanced him, Lightweight he thought.
Yang Looked at Raye. Then turned to me,
"how old is scrawny over here? He looks in worse shape than vomi- Jaune." She emphasized the last point and it came out awkwardly.
"Yang and her nicknames, they never end." I thought. At least she hadn't called him that in front of Ozpin and Glynda. That could've caused trouble.
"Raye here, is the manager of a new and highly exclusive vacationing area. Unfortunately he has to deal with potential dangers and for that needs training." Glynda explained, pushing her glasses up the bridge of her nose.
"Where is it?" Yang asked quickly, a sparkle in her eye making me shudder.
'you and the rest of team RWBY will find out soon enough. You will be on the first trip there." Ozpin said.
Yang spun around "Really?!" She exclaimed grinning widely. Glynda groaned and put a hand up to her face.
"There goes my vacation." She muttered
"On the condition that you train Raye, yes." Ozpin confirmed.
"Define train." Yang said, rubbing her chin and grinning.
"You will teach him how to fight like an actual hunter." Ozpin replied calmly.
"Hmm… Deal." Yang said. Snapping her fingers and pointing.
"Ms. Xiao-long, We mean actual training, that is at minimum aura use and fighting, not video games. And no dumping him on Ms. Rose and Ms. Schnee"
Glynda said glowering. "If you do, you will pay the bill for your stay."
Yang scowled. "But he looks so weak!" She exclaimed "No offense, but it's true." She said turning to Raye. Glynda glared at her.
"Ms. Xiao long, this is not up for negotiation." She growled.
"but-"
Glynda snapped her riding crop causing Yang to instinctively shrink back. Glynda clearly was not in an understanding mood.
Yang slumped a little.
"OK" She muttered. Clearly not happy with how this was going. She walked over to Raye and grabbed him by the back of the collar. She yanked and Raye fell to the ground, the chair he was previously sitting in tumbling.
"Let's go. I'm not taking it easy on you!" She said fiercely.
I shook my head, feeling pity for the poor guy as Yang dragged him away. I knew what Yang would do to him, she would in effect, take out her frustration at Glynda on him by beating him to a pulp. He would get a hell of a lot stronger in two weeks, but he would probably be on crutches, eating out of a tube if he wasn't careful.
"The strength of youth." Ozpin said wistfully. Glynda looked at him with utter horror.
"If I don't get my vacation time it's your fault." She said.
"She would not have said that"
"Sorry Raye but she did, she doesn't care about you at all."
Raye slumped forward on the couch. He looked a little green.
"I told you to knock back a few more drinks last night."
"And get a worse hangover? No thanks Qrow."
Qrow pulled a bottle of whiskey out of his pocket "Drink this." He said.
Raye moaned as a response.
"is that a yes?"
"no Qrow, it is what the hell happened to my life." Raye snarked back.
Your funeral Qrow responded as he knocked back half the bottle.
"Don't get drunk again, I can't afford the property damages" Raye said curling in his blankets and shuddering at the thought.
Qrow smiled, he was going to get extra drunk today.