Mist curled around Beacon like a giant grey snake, the powerful rays of the rising sun shining though it. It was an early morning, and still a great day for team RWBY.
Sure, Yang had been disqualified from the Vytal Festival from "attacking" and "breaking" the leg of another contestant, Mercury Black, a grey haired, robot legged evil dude.
Mercury had been working with Cinder Fall and Emerald Sustrai ( bet you, you didn't know that was her last name. ) two other villains of the RWBY series. Of course, no one knew this yet. Not even Jeff McLoser, who had disguised himself as a student of the school. Today was the start of when the final contestants of the Vytal Festival, a ceremony where all the kingdoms in the area gathered their best students from their best schools to battle it out, would usually fight dirty, the heat of the battle and the hunger for the first prize consumed mostly everybody. Jeff didn't know anything about this world, and he didn't care. All he wanted to do was to cause pain and annoyance to everyone, unaware of the events that will follow, events that will send the world of this American anime tumbling into chaos.
The morning was tingling with excitement. Everyone was more than anticipating a dirty battle, involving cheats, swear words, and even maybe some Star Wars style limb chopping off. But no one was more excited than our protagonist, who had been up all night, planning his devious pranks. Striding along the highly polished and shining tiles of the canteen floor with a spring in his step and a grin on his face, McLoser's long ( but strong ) fingers twisted and moved about in the pockets of his tight jeans as he reached the first table infested his yammering characters he dimly recognised from first seeing them on the screen of an old laptop of his one of his old friends. This was the table of team JNPR, Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren. Sliding happily into the seat next to a stuttering Jaune, Jeff introduced himself with a flourish.
"Hello!"
Each right eyebrow except Jeff's arched and flew up into the clump of hair above.
Ren stabbed at the brownish potato on his plate, before turning to his full attention to the newcomer
"Hello, i haven't seen you around. Are you new?"
Jeff gave him a slight, but smug smile.
"Indeed i am. Just joined last night. Who are you?"
"I'm Ren. She's Pyrrha…"
He waved his hand across the table, indicating the red haired, spear using warrior, to gave a awkward smile.
"This is Nora.."
Nora energetically waved back.
"And this is our team leader, Jaune…"
Jaune opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something funny, but thought better of it and shut his mouth.
Jeff stood up and got ready to move on to another table.
"Nice to meet you. Nice eyes Ren."
The purple eyes of Ren narrowed.
Team JNPR just watched him leave, dumbstruck at this strange character. Not knowing what to think, their thoughts strayed back to whatever was on their plates as Jeff peered around the hall, eventually finding the table of team RWBY.
Striding to the bench with a calm smile, his outstretched hand waved it's way to their attention.
Yang glared at the flapping limb above her with her deep lilac eyes.
"Yes?"
Jeff's smile widened, pulling at his smooth skin.
"Hi. I'm Alpha. New here."
A soft "hello" escaped from Ruby's lips, fading rapidly into the air that had the angry glares of the rest of her team, streaking across it, aiming at the intruder's smug face.
An awkward silence between them lengthened.
RWBY stared at Alpha,( who was bouncing on his heels, smiling. ) waiting for him to leave, or say something of importance.
Finally, Weiss smashed the ice with an impatient huff, folding her arms and shaking her head, waving her silky, white hair about.
"Anything else to say, or are you just going to stand there?"
His hand was on his right chest immediately in a passable imitation of shock and anger.
"I wanted to say that big fan of your group, stopping Wicktorch and all, but now that you're so rude…"
His voice trailed off, hinting his disappointment. But the blonde member of the team growled, apparently unsatisfied with his response.
"You didn't even get his name right. It's Torchwick, not Wicktorch…so what is the real reason you're here, huh?"
Jeff stood still as a statue for a few seconds, before..
"I'm pretty sure it was Wicktorch."
Weiss sighed in frustration, Blake whirled around to face him, but Yang took this one. Shooting up and growling louder, much to the fear of her younger sister( Ruby was pretty frightened of her sister when she was mad), Yang stood a few inches from a slightly taller Jeff.
Being a teenager with an incredible, albeit questionably dangerous, power of her eyes going red when she was angry, sparking fire all around her wave of yellow hair streaming from her scalp, the growl emitted from her mouth made the hair on Jeff's neck stand up, and for the first time, scared of a RWBY character.
Yang hissed her words slowly, trying to control her anger
"If you have nothing to say, LEAVE."
Alpha shivered, there was just something freaky and scary to him about this girl. He grit his teeth, ready to let loose a real biting remark. Clenched fists, sweaty palms, he could literally feel heat radiating from the person in front of him. Out of the corner of his eyes, he could see the little girl in red slap her hands over her ears, the one in white roll her eyes as if she's seen this a thousand times, and the one in black look upon the situation in mild interest. He had hundreds of vulgar and rude insults to throw at this girl's way speeding around his pounding brain, but he waited. Was it fear that froze his body, or some disease? 10 seconds ticked by, but it felt like an agonising hour of staring into the flaming, rich purple pupils of Yang Xiao Long for Jeff. When another 5 seconds crawled by, Jeff threw in the towel and turned slowly away, feeling ashamed, hurt and intimidated.
Most of the hall had not taken much notice of the incident, but Jeff felt like all of their eyes was burning onto his skin as he slowly trudged away in defeat.
Tears stung the edges of his eyes. Sadness flooded his heart. A sick feeling had crept into his gut.
But then something stronger erupted inside of him like a defence mechanism. Jeff just got intimidated, something that had so rarely happened to him in his entire life, and this time it wasn't even from a real person.
Quickly, all other emotions were turned into a boiling wave of anger, causing him to wheel around at Yang, who gave him a surprised expression.
"Finally remembered what you were going to say?"
McLoser balled his wet fists and stomped right up to her.
"Yeah, i remembered. That outfit makes you look fat."
That insult had just popped into his mind, and, unable to think of anything else, was spurted out. Later on in his life, Jeff cringed at this insult, but it seemed to offend the blonde brawler immensely anyway, so it served it's purpose.
Ruby's hands were now ruby red from pressing on the sides of her head so hard, and the air seemed to be filled with Yang's unmistakable anger.
But Jeff didn't back down. He'd had enough. All his life he was the bully, and everyone cowered in his presence. He was like a monster to them.
But neither did Yang. She was strong. Strong enough to take on anyone who faced her. Even Jeff McLoser.
They both weren't standing down anytime soon, glaring at each other with absolute hate, such strong hate that oozed out of their clenched teeth, and grabbed the attention of everyone in the hall, who were drawn away from their food to the stare down in the middle of the canteen…