Chapter 3: Nightfall

Victor dragged Grey by the back of her shirt until they were in a secluded part of the school where no one would see them. Victor yanked Grey in front of him and sighed "That was way too close. You're lucky I noticed the cat before you did." Grey's eyes were still red as she snarled "Why did you drag me away? I could have taken her!" Victor dragged his hand down his mask and groaned "You don't have to attack every cat you see, they aren't all bullies." Grey turned around and crossed her arms, grumbling "Not taking that chance again."

Victor rolled his eyes and replied "You know why we came here. We have a job to do." Grey sighed "I know. Join the school and establish Human-Faunus relations for the better."

"Attacking other Faunus doesn't exactly help with that job."

Grey frowned and replied "Attacking people who annoy you doesn't help either." Victor scowled and grumbled "That bastard had it coming to him." Grey walked over to Victor and flicked his nose again, causing him to recoil back. "Stop flicking my nose!" Victor snarled as he leaned down to Grey's level. She raised her hand and set it down on top of his head, pushing his hair down and revealing a pair of brown wolf ears.

"Then you can't forget why we're here either. Remember, the more friends you make, the better off our two races will be."

Victor stood up straight and sighed "I know, you don't need to remind me." Grey crossed her arms and exclaimed "Also, whatever you have against Dev, drop it."

"Don't get your hopes up. The mere sight of that jackass pisses me off."

"Well, get over it. He's pretty cute though."

Victor raised an eyebrow at Grey's comment and questioned "Are you being serious right now?" Grey shrugged and replied "Establish Human-Faunus relations, what better way than to do that than to have a little fun?" Victor shook his head and instantly replied "No."

"You can't tell me what to do… little brother."

"Just because you were born 30 seconds before doesn't make me your little brother."

"Yes it does. We better get moving so we don't miss orientation."

Victor nodded and the two siblings headed into the main hall of the school.

Alexi, Nigel and Ruby entered the massive hall to the school to see a large group of students gathered by the stage at the back. "Ruby!" They all heard someone call. All of their eyes fell to a tall blonde girl waving her arm at Ruby. Nigel and Alexi both noticed one detail about the blonde that was calling to Ruby; she had very big boobs. Alexi and Nigel joined Ruby and the blonde, who were both in conversation about the altercation this morning.

"Hey there Ruby. Who are your new friends?" The blonde questioned. Alexi was the first to introduce "Alexi Muratov." Nigel introduced "Nigel Holland. What may your name be?" The blonde held out her hand and introduced "Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's older sister." Alexi exclaimed "Nice to meet you Yang."

Yang then turned to Ruby and questioned "So why were you taking so long to get in here?" Ruby exclaimed "Because I ran into this really mean girl who yelled at me and then I exploded…"

"Are you being sarcastic?"

"No, she's serious." Alexi exclaimed. "She sneezed and caused a small elemental explosion." Yang raised an eyebrow and looked over to Ruby, proclaiming "Oh my god you really exploded." Alexi and Nigel chuckled as Ruby barked "It wasn't funny! There was this mean girl who kept yelling at me!" All of them heard a familiar voice scold "You!" Ruby jumped into Yang's arms and cried "It's happening again!"

"You nearly blew us off the side of the school!"

Nigel stepped up and exclaimed "Lady Schnee, can't we put the past in the past? No need to hold grudges!" Weiss turned and shot Nigel a glare that would have set him ablaze and exclaimed "I can't disregard blatant irresponsibility, Lord Holland." Weiss pulled out a pamphlet and handed it to Ruby, reciting "The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any…" Weiss proceeded to drone on with the legal mumbo jumbo, which no one was paying any attention to. Nigel sighed and walked over to Weiss, snatching the pamphlet from her hand and crumpling it up.

"Nice going Nigel." Yang laughed as Weiss grew flustered. "If you didn't do that, I would have done it myself." Weiss didn't seem any happier with that comment, while Ruby seemed like she was trying to hide behind Alexi. Weiss seemed like she was about to say something when a tapping echoed through the halls. Everyone looked to the stage to see Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch standing on it. "I'll… keep this brief." Ozpin started. "You have come here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished you plan to dedicate your lives to the protection to the people." Ozpin paused for a moment and then continued "But I look amongst you… and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but the time at this school will prove that knowledge will only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

Ozpin walked away from the mic and Yang questioned "What was all that about?" Ruby replied "I don't know… he seemed a little off." Nigel shrugged and exclaimed "Well, we'd better get ourselves ready for a good night's rest!" Alexi yawned "I have to agree with you there Nigel." All of the students started heading to the hall where they were going to crash for the night when someone ran directly into the back of Nigel.

Everyone turned to see Nigel hit the ground with a girl that had back hair. "Whoopsie! My bad!" The girl apologized as she stood up. She immediately grabbed Nigel and picked him back up, setting on his feet. "I was staring at all the massive buildings! They're so big and cool! I still can't believe I made it into Beacon!" The girl was as tall as Yang and long black hair with red streaks in it.

Her eyes were a crystal blue and her skin was almost as pale as Ruby's. She wore a white jacket with red spiral patterns on it with a red shirt underneath. Her pants and boots were as white as her jacket, her belt being the only different color; black. Nigel smiled at the girl and replied "Not a problem my dear. What might your name be, dear white beauty?" The white haired girl smiled and replied "Nobunka Shirakami, but you can call me Nabuya. You're so fancy! You're like a knight!"

"I wish I had the honor of being a knight, but I am merely a huntsman in training."

"Oh well, you're still fancy!"

The other three stared at the two in conversation with raised eyebrows as Nabuya jumped around talking to Nigel. "That girl has too much energy." Alexi chuckled as the two rejoined the group. "Ladies and gentleman, I introduce Nobunka Shirakami." Nigel introduced. Nabuya smiled and waved enthusiastically, cheering "Helloooooo new friends!" Everyone introduced themselves to the girl who seemed to be on a permanent sugar rush and headed into the hall.

Victor and Grey left the hall and followed the rest of the group to the place they would be staying the night. They were about halfway when Victor noticed something out of the corner of his eye in the shadow of one of the buildings. Victor stopped and looked into the shadow, seeing the outline of girl his age. "Victor!" Grey called as Victor headed over to the building's shadow to confirm what he was seeing. Upon closer inspection, Victor could see that it was a girl as tall as Grey.

Her long hair practically blended into the shadows and so did her clothes. What really stood out was the paleness of her skin, which was almost as white as snow. She was wearing a black jacket, black shirt, black shoes and black pants, nearly invisible in the shadow of the building. As Victor walked closer, the girl looked at him, revealing a pair of blood red eyes. "What do you want?" She questioned, not moving from the shadows.

"Everyone is heading to the hall to get ready for bed. Why are you sitting in the shadows?" Victor questioned, standing at the edge of the shadow. "I'll get there in my own time… I just want to be alone." The girl responded. Victor took a seat and crossed his legs, still not crossing into the shadow. "It's no fun being alone, so I'll sit here with you." Victor proclaimed with a smile beneath his mask. The girl continued to sit in the shadow, but pulled her knees up to her face, completely immersing her in shadow.

"It's better for me to be alone… better for everyone that I'm alone."

Victor raised an eyebrow at the girl's comment, thinking that it was little strange. Grey walked up behind Victor and questioned "Are you coming or not?" Victor looked over his shoulder and replied "I'll catch up, you go on ahead." Grey shrugged and continued with the crowd to the hall while Victor stayed sitting with his shadowed friend. Once Grey was a good distance away, the shadow girl exclaimed "You should have gone with her."

"She's fine on her own, besides, I'm sitting here having a nice conversation with a new friend."

"We aren't friends. You don't even know my name."

"Well we can change that. My name is Victor Roman, what's your name?"

The girl sighed "Kira… Kira Taseter." Victor smiled and exclaimed "Nice to meet you Kira. Would you like to head into the hall now?" Kira shook her head and exclaimed "Not yet." Victor stood up and stretched as he replied "Alright, I'll just wait here with you." Victor crossed the shadow threshold and took a seat next to Kira, who seemed surprised that he got so close to her, even though he was still an arm's length away.

Victor laid down and put his hands behind his head, questioning "So what brings you to Beacon?" Kira slowly brought her knees away from her face and she replied "Knowledge… maybe I can find some answers."

"What are the questions?"

Kira remained silent until Victor sighed "You really should stand in the light some more… you might get a little color that way." Kira couldn't help but smile, causing Victor to say "You should also smile more often, you have a beautiful smile." Kira giggled "Thanks Victor, that's really sweet."

"Not a problem. Ready to head inside yet?"

"Yeah, I think I am."

Kira stood up with Victor and the two headed for the hall everyone was filing into.

After hearing the speech from Ozpin, he looked around to try to find Blake with no luck. "Isn't she supposed to be a ninja? No wonder I can't find her." He thought as he stopped at a nearby bench to catch his breath. He looked around at the students that met up to greet one another. "Well, it seems as if everyone looks friendly around here." He said a as he tilted his head backwards to look back up into the sky. But as he did he noticed a girl with brown hair was looking back down at him. She had wolf ears and one of her eyes were green, the other yellow.

"We sure are friendly, I'm sure you haven't forgotten about me right?" She questioned as she smiled. He quickly raised his head and turned back to noticed a face he would never forget. "Kristine? Holy crap it's been too long!" He stood up and hugged her tightly.

"It's only been a year." She said as she wrapped her arms around Dev. "Yeah, but I missed doing this," He reached up and scratched behind one of her wolf ears. "H-hey stop!" She giggled out and smacked him lightly. "So you enrolled into beacon?" Dev questioned as he sat back down on the bench.

"Mhmm," She nodded. "I wanted to become a huntress so I could protect people, isn't that why you are here too?" She grinned, knowing that was exactly was he was there.

"Oooh, you got me, as if you didn't hear that from me like a thousand times. Pfft, I could be here just to train to become stronger." He replied. "Suuure, knowing you, I'm sure you already made enemies with some people who already wants to bash your head in, you cocky little prick."

She flicked his nose as he heard his laughter from the not-insult she threw at him. "Still calling me names, huh BEE-ouch?" Kristine gasped in a playful way and stood up. "Heheh, good to see you are your normal self." She smiled and noticed a lot of people were headed into the main hall.

"We should get going. Looks like everyone is getting ready for tomorrow." Dev stood off the bench and stretched. "Yeahhh, I was getting tired of listening to only your voice, I wonder if those people I meet earlier." He grinned as the thought of the tall guy from earlier.

"Wonder if that asshole would have the balls to fight me in the hall." And with that thought, he followed Kris into the hall.

Everyone was getting settled down in the main hall for the night, even though no one was really prepared to call it a night. Ruby, Yang, Nigel, Nobunka, and Alexi sat in a group and chatted through the night, although Ruby mainly kept to herself and wrote in a book. "Come on Ruby!" Yang laughed. "Be social! It's like a big sleep over!" Ruby looked up from her book and commented "I'm not sure Dad would approve with all the boys around."

"I know I do."

Ruby then tossed her pillow at Yang, nailing her in the face. "Your father has no need to worry Ruby!" Nigel confidently declared. "I am a proper gentleman and will act as such, and I'm sure that Alexi here will do the same." Alexi simply laid across his bed roll, reading from a book and replied "Sure thing." Nigel rolled his eyes and continued to chat with Nobunka, who listened intently on his story until a massive monstrosity of a human being was walking towards them. "Whoa! Look at the size of that guy!" Nobunka pointed out.

All of them looked to see Victor with Grey walking towards them, bags and bedrolls in hand. "Hey everybody." Victor greeted. "And hello new people. Name's Victor Roman, and this is Sel-OOF!" Victor faltered as Grey delivered a swift elbow to his side. "My name is Grey, Vic's sister." Grey interrupted. Alexi noticed something when Victor faltered; there was someone hiding behind Victor. "Hey Vic." Alexi called. "Who is the person behind you?"

Victor raised an eyebrow and looked to his sides, like he was expecting someone to be there. He sighed and took a large step to the left, revealing Kira, who was attempting to hide. "Quit hiding and be social." Victor chuckled as he patted Kira's shoulder. Alexi looked away from his book and looked at the dark haired girl with red eyes wearing a large black shirt and probably shorts underneath. She clung to her bag and stammered "H-h-h-hi…my name is Kira."

Nabuya shot up and held out her hand to the girl, introducing "Hi Kira! My name is Nobunka Shirayuki! But you can call me Nabuya." Kira's eyes darted from Nabuya's hand to her face, slowly bringing her bag higher up to cover her face. Kira was a little uncomfortable with the white haired girl's happiness, it was a little too much for her. Alexi got up and chuckled "I think you're freaking the poor girl out. Give her a lighter introduction. Hi Kira, my name is Alexi Muratov." Kira slowly brought her bag down and extended her hand, quietly replying "Hi Alexi."

Alexi smiled and the new additions to the group took a seat with the rest of the group. They sat and talked for a while until Grey saw Deveraux talking with another wolf Faunus and the cat girl. She took a deep breath and stood up, making her way over to Dev. She walked over and Dev exclaimed "Hey Grey! Good to see you! Kris, this is my new friend Grey. Grey, this is my old friend Kristine Lykos." Kristine smiled and replied "Nice to meet you Grey! How did you meet Dev?"

Grey responded "I stopped my brother from knocking Dev's face in." Kris smirked and looked to Dev, who was looking off in another direction. "I knew you already made enemies!" Kris laughed. Dev responded "He started it!" Victor shouted from half way across the main hall "Bullshit! You started that fight!"

"You wanna end it here and now?!"

"Gladly!"

Victor stood up, his bone armor replaced with a dark long sleeve shirt that seemed way too close to tearing from his sheer size. Dev jumped up in his dark pajama pants but no shirt and started making their way towards each other. All of the guys were cheering them on, chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" while all the girls just started at the two contenders with looks of disapproval and slowly shaking heads. A small ring developed around the two as they were about to square off and Grey jumped in between the two, hands held out to her sides. "Alright! If you two seriously want to do this, then let us lay some ground rules!" Grey declared. "Nothing below the belt, no eye gouging, and if smack talk occurs then leave mothers out of it… both clear on the rules?"

Victor and Dev nodded, then Grey proclaimed "Good! Ready… begin!" Grey jumped out of the way as the two lunged at each other, ready to exchange blows. Victor threw the first punch, but Dev quickly jumped out of the way. "From this asshole's size, I really don't want to get hit." Dev thought as he put a few blows to Victor's side. Victor didn't even seemed phase by the punches straight to his ribs and swung again, swinging wide.

Dev just barely dodged the swing, ducking underneath it and delivering an upper cut straight to Victor's jaw. The brute definitely felt that blow, but recovered quicker than Dev thought and brought his fists down, slamming Dev into the ground. Dev tried to get up, but Victor grabbed him by his right arm and right leg and then was about to throw him, when Dev grabbed Victor's shirt. Victor didn't even notice Dev grab him and proceeded to throw him as hard as he could, hearing a tearing sound follow. Dev flew across the main hall, but landed on his feet with something in his hand.

Victor raised an eyebrow at the dark cloth in Dev's hand until he heard the dead silence from the group and noticed that it got a little colder. Dev's eye widened as he saw what was beneath Victor's shirt, a massacre of scars all across Victor's body. There were four slash scars from his left shoulder down to his right hip. Another four went from the top of his shoulder and down to the top of his stomach with one connecting to another set that went straight across his stomach. Another set went from the center right of his chest and across to about mid stomach on his left.

Everyone in the group saw the mess of vertical scars going down his back like a clawed monster used him as a scratching post. Victor looked down to see his scars revealed, then looked back up at Dev with anger in his eyes. Dev tossed the shirt down and held up his arms in a defensive position as Victor basically charged him. Victor took a swing at Dev, but he ducked under it and delivered a power shot straight to Victor's chest, putting some of his aura into it. Victor took the shot without a wince and immediately grabbed Dev's right arm as it impacted his chest.

Victor then pulled up on Dev and delivered a punch straight to Dev's face, feeling something pull off of Dev's arm. Dev flew back, but landed on his feet, dragging his right arm along the ground and seeing what happened to his arm. The entire hall was silent like a morgue as Victor looked down at the wrap in his hand and then looked up to see Dev's right arm, which was blue. The blue went from his elbow and covered his entire arm, the skin appearing as though it was burned in texture. There was a break starting from the center of the back of his hand that glowed bright blue with a trail going to his elbow, which pointed at the end.

There were three breaks on each side that also glowed a bright blue that went to the inside of his arm. The two stared at each other, eyes attempting to burn holes in the other's head. Dev and Victor started to close the gap on each other, rage fueling their auras until they were completely visible. The auras looked like the two were cloaked in fire, Victor's a furious red while Dev's was a brilliant blue. That was where the fight ended as multiple people jumped in between the two.

Alexi stood between the two, using his aura to bring the two down to a manageable level while people started to hold them back. Kira stood in front of Victor, placing her hands on his chest and pushing back, actually keeping him where he was. Grey and Nigel pulled on Victor's arms while Ruby hung uselessly from Victor's neck. Yang held Dev back by pushing on his chest while Nobunka and Kristine held back his arms. Alexi shouted "You two need to CALM…DOWN… got it?"

The two seemed to relax on their charge, but not by much. Dev's eyes were focused on Victor, while he had his teeth barred and was practically snarling at the punk. Victor growled "Cross me again Mercer… and it will be your last mistake." Victor then turned and proceeded to his bedroll, laying down on it and ignoring everything around him. Dev relaxed and growled "Noted… asshole."

Dev walked towards his bed, completely ignoring Victor, and going to his own bed roll. Everyone was quiet from the nearly bloody confrontation, feeling horribly uncomfortable about what just happened. Everyone in the hall decided to call it a night and ignore the two that absolutely wanted each other dead. Victor and Dev only shared one thought that entire night… "I'm going to kill that asshole the first chance I get."

That's what I got for chapter 3, do what you will and give the thoughts.

As'/N: Well that was something, let see what happens next chapter! :D