Lance walked quickly through the halls of Beacon. The afternoon sun's rays shined through the few windows that he passed. He found it strange not having his jacket on. Lance passed many doors and dorms, but he stopped at the one of his desire, team RWBY's dorm. He lent forward to knock on the door, but heard the girls discussing something. Lance just shrugged and knocked on the door anyway.
Lance was able to hear the girls shush each other. Slowly the sound of footsteps grew louder as one of RWBY's members approached the door. Lance heard the sound of a hand being placed on the handle and it began to turn. Suddenly the door flew open, revealing Yang, who was looking around cautiously. She slowly looked down at Lance and lost her cautious attitude.
"Sup short stuff?" Yang casually asked, leaning against the door frame.
"Who you calling short!" Lance shouted, leaping at Yang. She laughed and pushed him down with her amazing strength.
"Glad to see you haven't changed much since the last we talked." Yang allowed the door to open up more, revealing the rest of team RWBY, along with two males. One was a monkey faunas whom Lance had never met before and the other had blue hair. "You always seem to be away, where do you go anyways?"
"Well I-"
"Poor Ruby misses you half the time," Yang said, giggling.
Ruby looked at Yang with a red face. "Y-Yang shut up!"
She turned away and pouted, trying to hide her blush. Ever since she had Lance over, her teammates had been teasing her about talking with a boy. Lance, however, was unphased by the comment.
"I need to speak with Weiss," He said.
Weiss tilted her head. "What do you want you dolt?"
"I need a favor!"
Weiss sighed and reluctantly walked to the door. Yang stepped past her back into their dorm as Weiss exited. Yang shut the door and turned to Ruby with a grin.
"What?" Ruby questioned.
"Jealous of Weiss' attention from Lance?" Yang jokingly asked.
"I told you, I DON'T LIKE HIM!" Ruby roared punching her sister in the arm.
Yang simply laughed at Ruby's anger. She soon looked at the door. "It got quiet, what do you think they are talking about?"
"WHY WOULD I EVER DO THAT?!" Weiss suddenly shouted on the other side of the door.
"Come on please?"
"YOU WANT HOW MUCH?"
"A couple of shards," Lance meekly said.
Suddenly the door flew open and Weiss stormed in. She walked over to her bag and pulled out a few shards of white, brown and red dust. She stomped back over to the door, shoved them into Lance's arms and slammed the door in his face. Weiss turned back around to her teammates and the two males. They all gave her an odd expression.
"What?" She snapped.
"Nothing, just proving your nickname," Yang mumbled.
"Alright, does everyone remember their roles?" Ruby cheerfully said. The five others nodded. "Then let's do this!"
"What are we doing?" A voice happily called from the window.
Everyone turned to the window and saw a man sitting with his legs crossed on the edge. His long, flowing black hair was tied in a ponytail and swayed in the window. A sword was strapped to his back and a smile on his face.
He waved at the six. "Greetings friends!"
"Um who are you?" Ruby asked.
"My name's Takeshi!" He cheerfully answered.
"Why are you sitting in our window?" Yang questioned.
Takeshi looked around and shrugged, he giddly leapt from the window ledge and into the dorm. He walked around the dorm with his hands behind his neck.
"So what are we doing?" He asked, still pacing around.
"We are going into town, as a group," Blake said, gesturing around to the individuals.
"Oh? do tell," Takeshi said, gaining a more serious tone.
Ruby proudly stepped forward. "Yup, I organized everyone into teams of two!"
Takeshi nodded and smiled again. "Sounds like fun!"
Takeshi grabbed Ruby by the hood and began dragging her out of the room. Ruby tried to protest, but Takeshi kept an iron hold on her hood.
"That wasn't an invitation!" She protested.
"Hehehe," Takeshi chuckled.
The rest of the six were left stunned by the series of events that had just happened. Finally Weiss sighed and ran after Ruby and Takeshi.
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Lance sat around his dorm, his teammates were all gone, they had all gone into town to shop and bond as a team. Bronze had asked Lance if he wanted to join them, but Lance knew he had to finish his new dust apparel. Lance was at one of the desks, he had a new jacket on the desk and a needle in his hand. Scorch marks and small stones littered the desk from his previous attempts.
"Time to attempt this one more time," he muttered to himself. Lance slowly stuck the needle into the cloth and began sewing, no explosion occurred and he continued cautiously.
Lance looked at the book he kept open and next to him, he sewed the pattern onto one sleeve that the book displayed. It was two triangles combined with one pointing upwards and the other pointing downwards. The triangle that pointed downwards had a line going through the top. Soon Lance had finished, he had sewn fire dust into the right sleeve.
Now he began on the other sleeve, sewing the same pattern, but with earth dust. Once finished Lance held up the sage green jacket, the brown and crimson red markings on each sleeve stood out against the sage green. Something was missing though, he flipped the jacket around and grabbed a white dust shard.
Lance began to crush up the white shard and attach it to his thread. Soon he began sewing it too onto the jacket. Soon he had a trianlge with a horizontal line through the top point. Lance smirked at the jacket and slid it on.
"Let's take this for a test run," He said. Lance stood up and walked towards the door. He knew the perfect training grounds to practice his new weapon.
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Takeshi, Ruby and Weiss walked through Vale. Weiss and Ruby walked ahead of Takeshi and would occasionally give each other odd glances. Their entire trip up until this point had been that of silence, but finally, Takeshi couldn't keep his mouth shut any longer.
He leaned forward in between the two girls. "I do speak english you know."
"Unfortunately," Weiss sneered.
Ruby gave Weiss a disapproving look and smiled back at Takeshi, she pulled him forward. "I don't think we ever got each other's names, I'm-"
"Ruby Rose," Takeshi said, interrupting Ruby. He gestured to Weiss. "And that beautiful ice flower is Weiss Schnee. I was sitting outside the window longer than you think."
"I-ice flower?!" Weiss looked at Takeshi in shock, her face growing redder than a tomato. She had been called a lot by Jaune, but this name was new. Weiss quickly glanced away to hide her blush.
"Looks like blue hair isn't the only thing you look for in a man," Takeshi said with a smirk, causing Weiss to grow redder.
She cleared her throat and lost her blush. Sticking her nose in the air, Weiss snapped back, "An immature boy like you isn't fit for the heiress to the Schnee dust company."
"I'm sorry to ask, but who are they?" Takeshi asked, giggling.
The Weiss' mouth fell open in shock, she turned to Takeshi. "Only the primary supplier of dust in the world!"
"Oh right dust, that's the magic stuff you huntresses use right?" Takeshi asked, still keeping his smile.
"Wait, Takeshi, where are you from?" Ruby asked.
"Well from a kingdom of course," He said.
"Which one you dolt?!" Weiss shouted, face palming.
"Well Osten of course!" Takeshi giddly answered.
Weiss tilted her head. "I've never of that kingdom."
"Makes sense, Osten is a country from the east, we're still growing, not big like some of these ones, like Atlas."
"What were you doing at Beacon then?" Ruby questioned, puzzled.
"I wanted to get away from some people, but I think they'll find out where I've run off to."
"Well what we are doing is dangerous, so make sure not to get in our way if fighting starts," Weiss barked.
"You have my word, I will not be burden," Takeshi said, smiling even wider.
"Here, let me add you to our team's communication link," Ruby said, holding out her hand.
Takeshi drew his scroll and placed it into Ruby's hand. She pressed the screen a couple times and team RWBY's faces appeared on his scroll. Ruby handed the scroll back to Takeshi and they continued. Finally the three arrived at the CTT tower. Weiss and Ruby stopped, they turned to Takeshi.
"Wait here," They both ordered.
Takeshi saluated them and grinned. "Sure!"
He watched the two give him a suspicious look and walk away. Once both of them were out of sight, Takeshi felt his stomach growl. He grabbed his gut.
"Man I'm starved. Wonder if there's any good places to get a meal," Takeshi mutter, spinning around on his heel.
Takeshi suddenly bumped into a girl, knocking him off balance. The girl staggered back and Takeshi toppled over. Silver stood over Takeshi, she was annoyed that her coffee had spill when Takeshi had bumped into her. Bronze and Iron stood at her side and stared down at takeshi.
"Agh, watch where you're going jerk!" She shouted, looking down at Takeshi. She tilted her head. "Are you okay?"
Takeshi nodded. "Just a tad hungry."
"Hey, how about joining us for lunch?" Bronze cheerfully said.
"Hold on, wha-" Silver tried to protest.
"Sure!" Takeshi quickly said.
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"YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY?!" Silver shouted.
Takeshi smiled back at her from across the table. The team and Takeshi had visited a local noodle restaurant run by an old man. The bill had come and Takeshi had admitted he had no money.
Takeshi laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his neck. "I guess I must've forgot my wallet back in the east."
"I'll cover your tab," Bronze said, smiling at Takeshi.
"I appreciate it," Takeshi said, clapping his hands together and bowing slightly. He looked around and admired the night sky. "It sure got dark fast."
Suddenly a voice started shouting from his scroll. "Everyone, if you can hear me, we need back-"
Suddenly another voice cut her off. "HELP!"
Silver and Bronze looked at each other. Iron simply stood up and cracked his knuckles. Takeshi laughed and leapt onto his feet.
"Welp, thanks for the food, but I should really get goi-"
Silver cut Takeshi off. "You are coming too!"
She grabbed Takeshi by the collar and dragged him away. Silver also swiped his scroll and used it to follow team RWBY's location. The four quickly bolted, leaving what little money they had for the old man.
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Soon BSIT arrived at the battle. It was under a bridge of a highway. A few opponents stood in team RWBY's path, a massive robot, a short woman with pink, brown and white hair, and a woman with long red hair tied in a pony tail.
Instantly Bronze, Silver, and Iron leapt into the battle. These three immediately caused chaos and confused the enemy. Each of the three picked an enemy to pursue. Silver chose the short woman, Bronze chose the woman with red hair and Iron chose to help RWBY with the robot.
"Neo," A voice shouted from the robot. "Take care of them as quickly as possible! And Ms Lulu-"
"Let me stop you right there Roman," The woman with red hair said. "I have my orders and you do not give me any, is that clear?"
"I-uh, yes ma'am," Roman said.
"Good," She said, drawing two knives. She leapt towards Ruby. "You're first on my list!"
Ruby yelped as Lulu slashed at her. Ruby was able to block the attack with her scythe, but she was sent flying away in the direction of Takeshi. Ruby landed just a few yards in front of Takeshi. She looked behind her and saw him, her eyes widened and her face displayed her new found determination.
"Takeshi, get back!" She shouted, worried for the young man.
Lulu suddenly bolted towards her with immense speed. She quickly slashed at Ruby, knocking crescent rose from her hands. Lulu slashed Ruby a few times in the chest and sent her flying backwards with a knee to the gut. Ruby landed at Takeshi's feet, her crimson aura shimmered around her body, signalling it had weakened.
Takeshi looked down at the young girl and helped her onto her feet. He then began walking towards Lulu. Ruby shouted after him.
"No, wait!" Ruby called after him.
Takeshi turned around with a massive smile on his face and a thumbs up. "I told you Ruby, I'm from Osten. I know that you don't know much about that country, which means I'm setting the standards of my people here… and I want those standards to be good."
"B-but, you're not a fighter!"
Takeshi ignored her and walked towards Lulu. "Hey, how are you? That's one interesting aura you got there, just where is that dark presence coming from?"
Lulu sighed. "Who are you? Bah, you aren't on my kill list, I'll deal with you another time."
As Lulu finished her words, she bolted towards Takeshi and leapt over him, knives trained on Ruby. Lulu came down hard onto Ruby, who was able to step back at the last second. She began a flurry of attacks onto the girl. Ruby leapt backwards and readied her rifle. Lulu quickly leapt after her.
Suddenly, however, Lulu felt a sharp pain across her chest, in a line. She was sent hurtling forward, blood spewing from the large gash on her back. Lulu hit the ground and skipped across it, flying past Ruby into a pillar that supported the bridge above them. Ruby watched her fly by in shock, she slowly turned her head back and saw Takeshi. He was holding a sword and had his arm straight out, like he had just slashed something.
"I told you," He said, dropping his arm and walking towards Lulu, who laid still on the ground in a growing puddle of blood. "I am a warrior of Osten, I understand it means very little to you, but… I WILL CHANGE THAT!"
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