PHENOMENON DETECTED

Place an order to exterminate. We can't have any interruptions at this point.

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT S, A IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PLACE SUCH ORDERS

Before we do anything, we must know what this phenomenon is. K, analyze.

ANALYZING...COMPLETE/ PHENOMENON IDENTIFIED AS HUMAN, IDENTITY: AZURE SCHNEE/ AGE: 17/ HEIGHT: 5'7/ HAIR: BLOND/ EYE COLOR: GREEN-AMBER/ PHENOMENON CLASS 'S'/ SUBJECT IS IN POSSESSION OF TWO CLASS 'A' PHENOMENON

Two?

This is why we must move to destroy!

No, we're not fully aware of his abilities. What are these phenomenon, K?

ANALYZING...COMPLETE/ SUBJECT'S BODY IS CO-INHABITED BY AN UNKNOWN VARIABLE/ THIS VARIABLE HAS BEEN UNACCOUNTED FOR SINCE THE COLLAPSE NINE YEARS AGO/ VARIABLE IDENTIFIED AS: THE KING OF AGONY/ SUBJECT IS ALSO IN POSSESSION OF ONE OF OUR MISSING MODERATORS/ MODERATOR IDENTIFIED AS: TAKE-MIKAZUCHI

So T is alive.

It would appear so.

Do you still wish to intervene, S?

I do. However, I suggest we exercise caution in approaching The King of Agony's vessel.

I would not disagree. K, what is the current state of the subject?

ANALYZING...COMPLETE/ AZURE SCHNEE IS ACTING INDEPENDENTLY OF THE KING OF AGONY, AND VICE-VERSA/ THE PRESENCE OF TAKE-MIKAZUCHI IS SEEMINGLY PLACING A BARRIER BETWEEN THE KING OF AGONY AND AZURE SCHNEE'S SOUL/ IT IS MY ASSUMPTION THAT TAKE-MIKAZUCHI IS USING IT'S POWER TO PROTECT AZURE SCHNEE FROM BEING COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER

It is as I suspected. T warned us of a disturbance in the timeline before he went missing in the collapse. There is no doubt in my mind that The King of Agony has a plan, and he plans to use Azure Schnee to reach this goal. T is working against him.

It would have been nice if he'd let us know before acting.

If he had told us, the council would act against him and everything would have no doubt played in The King of Agony's favor. T is buying us some time to find a solution to the problem at hand; The King of Agony. A threat we've been trying to identify for nine years, and now we have the knowledge necessary to devise a counter-offensive. K, the subject's location?

ANALYZING...COMPLETE/ AZURE SCHNEE IS CURRENTLY SETTING DOWN IN A TRANSPORT AT BEACON ACADEMY

Three of our allies are currently there. Two observers and a knight.

We'll leave it in their hands for now. While the knight and one observer are inexperienced, the third observer is possibly our most trusted asset at the moment.

Very well. I hope you know what you're doing, A.

Only time will tell. K, end and delete.

AFFIRMATIVE. ENDING PROCESS ' '/ SHUTTING DOWN

…

'So, they know a fair amount already. Ah, shucks. They're no fun.'

Weiss stepped off the transport and took in the structure before her. Beacon Academy, the most renowned and prestigious hunter academy in Remnant stood as elegant as it's praises.

Seeing as she'd grown up in the very essence of elegance, though, she was hardly impressed. Although, it didn't take her imagination to know that Azure would be beaming at the campus the second he stepped foot off the transport.

Speaking of which, she hadn't seen him. Now that she thought about it, she hadn't even heard him speak since she'd woken up from her nap halfway through the flight.

Oh no. Did they actually leave him behind?

Her question was answered as a storage compartment on the bottom opened, accompanied by some tumbling and snores.

Weiss swore she was going to have an aneurysm.

There, laying across from her feet, was Azure, fast asleep. Well, he was fast asleep, as the tumble caused him to slowly come to and look drowsily at the irritated heiress before him. He only really came to his senses when her hand made contact with his face and left a mark on his pale skin.

Now he was awake.

"Hey Weiss, mornin'. Uh, what was that for?"

He glanced up at his sister. She was wearing her usual combat attire, a white bolero jacket that faded to blue at the sleeves, on top of a white "combat skirt" as she liked to call it, all completed with her high heel boots.

"Did you seriously just spend the whole ride in the storage compartment?"

"Yeah, of course. I'm not spending an entire trip in the transport's seats. It's too cramped in that damn thing."

"And less cramped in storage."

"If I can lay down, I win."

Weiss let out an exasperated sigh before turning and walking away. Azure chuckled, and picked up his only bag while servants bustled around to get all of Weiss' luggage together.

Azure headed off in Weiss' direction. He was sporting his typical attire today, the dark blue jacket with fur around the hood that his Schnee mother (and Weiss, to some extent.) had made for him over a black v-neck that showed off his slim, yet defined figure. His outfit was finished off with some red pants that hugged his figure and simple black boots. As always, his biological mother's necklace that bore his crest, a hexagonal arrangement of beams intercepting a flower in the middle, hung from his neck. His katana, Take-Mikazuchi, was held by a sling on his back.

He walked down the stone walkway, head turning to and fro to take in and admire the castle that was Beacon.

'Damn, that tower's huge! I guess the headmaster's office is up there. Woah, nice statue! That ursa's screwed! Or is that a beowolf?'

His thoughts were rudely interrupted by a human wall.

Azure and the other student ran square into each other, both falling on their bottoms as they rubbed their throbbing foreheads.

As Azure regained his bearings, he immediately felt bad that his carelessness had caused him such a clumsy collision. "Hey man, you alright? Sorry I wasn't-"

Azure's apology was cut short when the other boy shot quickly to his feet, almost hitting heads again. "No worries man, I'm cool! Super cool! I mean, it's not every day you get to run into a guy like me!"

"Uh...what do you mean?" Azure asked, confused.

Now analyzing the boy in front of him, he noticed that his hair was an unnatural yellow, like it had been dyed. Physically, the kid was no taller than Azure and had oddly colored yellow eyes, matching his hair. He wore a simple white hoodie with black pants and light brown shoes.

"What do you mean, what do I mean? Obviously you're in luck, my friend! You've run into the top dog, the head honcho, the number one hottie in all of Vale! And now that he's been accepted into Beacon, no woman will cross his path without swooning over him!"

Now the kid hopped onto a nearby bench and shouted, "Kida Ishimura, at your service!"

Azure gave Kida a funny look. This kid wasn't for real, right? He would soon find his answer as Kida hopped off the bench and stood in front of him.

"Now, as apology for our untimely collision, what can I do for you, friend? Maybe I can take you under my wing, and you can be just as much of a lady killer as me! What do you say?"

Before Azure could politely decline, a hand placed itself firmly on Kida's head and picked him up off the ground. Azure was too fixated on the hulking figure before him to notice that Kida's stupid grin hadn't left him for a second.

"Oh, hey Byakuya! Give up on meeting new people so soon?"

The new human tower that was now known as Byakuya grunted. "Yeah, sure, if by meeting new people, you mean getting ditched by you."

"Come on, you know I was doing you some good!"

"Like hell! You left me to clean up that mess all by myself!"

"Well, that's what you get for losing your temper!"

"Dammit, Kida!"

Azure could tell these two had been in an uneasy friendship for a long time. Byakuya, the brute before him, had spiky black hair and yellow eyes, slightly lighter than Kida's shade. He stood at a good, Azure guessed, six-foot-five and had toned, tan skin. Attire, he wore a black muscle shirt with a white denim vest over the top, black pants and black boots. The one thing that added to his already intimidating height was that he was absolutely ripped.

While fixated on the argument these two "friends" were locked in, Azure noticed something out of the corner of his eye and moved away to investigate.

"You know, Byakuya, you could've just given me some of your cake and we'd be even! Eh?"

"Screw you! We were ten when that happened!"

"Hate to interrupt, but you're kinda ignoring my new protege...wha?"

Where Kida's chance encounter had been standing moments before was now empty.

"Oh yeah, that blond kid? Looked kinda like a pansy?"

"That's the one!"

Byakuya caught a glimpse of the blonde as he was approaching Kida, but disregarded him since he wasn't the one he needed to pummel. Not that any pummeling was happening.

It was in this confusion that they both heard an explosion.

"Wh-what the hell?" Byakuya stuttered.

"What was that? It sounded like it came from over…"

In the direction of the explosion, all they'd seen was Azure, looking ready to double over in laughter.

"...there."

Azure had seen the whole thing. Some girl in a red hood had the misfortune of stumbling across Weiss in a mood. From what he assumed was dizziness, the girl fell over backwards and landed in Weiss' bags that she was carrying her dust in. As multiple bags fell open, Weiss proceeded to scold the girl for her irresponsibility all while waving a broken vial of dust in her face.

Azure could see that she was about to sneeze from the dust that was leaking out. He could have run to her rescue, plugging her nose and saving her some of his sister's rage…

...but, that wasn't any fun.

So, he just sat and watched as the red girl sneezed a storm of fire, lightning, ice? Maybe some ice.

While he was snickering now, he would hardly be able to contain himself in a minute. As the smoke from the dust cleared, the two girls seemed to be jumping right into an argument until another girl with a black bow came up. The newcomer informed red on Weiss' status as heiress of the SDC, something Weiss was glad to hear.

What she wasn't glad to hear was the girl in black to mention their father's company's questionable moral decisions.

Flabbergasted, Weiss stormed off towards the main building as some servants came and got her luggage together. Red turned to talk to the girl in black, but she was already walking away. It was then that red stood alone in the courtyard, and fell flat on her back.

Seeing that last bit, Azure felt like he should patch things up, for Weiss' sake if no one else's.

Jumping out from his hiding place behind a tree, Azure called out to his not-too-distant sister, "Catch you later, Weiss!"

Moving up to the girl collapsed on her back, he held out a hand.

"Yo."

"Hey." Was her reply, accepting his helping hand. "What's your name?"

"Azure. Azure Schnee."

"Wha-you're related to-"

"Sorta. Adopted into the family. Sorry about Weiss, by the way. I know she can be a handful."

"Huh, you're telling me."

At that last remark, the two shared a laugh.

"Oh, sorry, introductions! Uh,I-uh...Ruby. R-Ruby Rose. A, uh, a pleasure."

Azure gave a warm smile. "The pleasure is all mine, miss Rose." He said as he gave a bow.

Ruby chuckled at her new friend. "You're definitely more sociable than your sister."

Azure smiled sheepishly. "Yeah...again, sorry about her. She means well, really, she's just…"

Ruby giggled again. "It's fine, really! It's not your fault she's so...you know."

"Heh, yeah, I guess, but still. That explosion's on her."

"Agreed."

The two then fell into an awkward silence, not sure what to talk about next.

"Uh, hi. I'm Jaune."

Azure glanced up to see a newcomer, a fellow blond with blue eyes, white skin, and a nervous stance. And a build that made him able to bear that armor he had, although his dress of a black hoodie and ripped jeans covered that up to the untrained eye. Azure always had a knack for picking up on covered up details.

"Azure."

"Ruby."

After a moment of silence, Ruby snickered. "Weren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"

A girl looked on quietly to the three teenagers in the courtyard. She just couldn't believe what she was seeing; the one boy, the first blond that helped that red girl up. He looked so...grown up. She hardly even recognized him when he hopped out, but she could never mistake that necklace.

Azure. He was here, at Beacon.

She wanted nothing more than to walk up and hold him. She wanted to throw herself at him and apologize and hold him some more and let all these feelings she had out for once…

But her body wouldn't move. She couldn't will herself to go over to him.

"Yo, Rach."

Rachel silently turned to her friend. He was seeing the same thing she was.

"Micah...Micah, he's-"

"I know, I saw him fall out of that Schnee transport. Funny, we actually just got orders concerning him."

Azure found himself walking silently behind his first acquaintances at Beacon, Ruby Rose and Jaune...what's his name. If the blond had given his surname before, Azure sure as hell hadn't been listening.

"All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" Jaune argued.

"Sorry, Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind."

"Well, the name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue-"

"Ladies love it." Azure muttered, a little louder than he'd expected.

Ruby and Jaune glanced back at their quiet acquaintance, who wasn't expecting to impulsively finish Jaune's sentence. He just predicted it and, well, it kinda came out.

"How did you…"

"Uh. Lucky guess? Listen, the real question is, do they love it?" Azure rebutted in an attempt to throw the attention off him.

"A-uh-yeah, they do-I mean, they will-at least I hope they will-my mom always said-ugh, nevermind…"

Azure and Ruby giggled at the strange behavior of their acquaintance.

"So, uh, I got this."

In an instant, Ruby pulled a giant scythe that looked like it doubled as a sniper rifle, if Azure could guess, out from it's place on her back. Azure and Jaune wondered how they hadn't noticed before.

"Woah, is that a scythe?!" Jaune exclaimed.

"It's also a fully-customizable, high-impact sniper rifle." Lucky guess number two for Azure.

"A what?"

Ruby cocked the gun for emphasis. "It's also a gun."

"Oh."

Ruby eyed the scabbard at Jaune's belt. "What about you?"

"Well, I got a sword! And, it comes with a shield-ah!" The scabbard of Jaune's sword transformed into a shield, and the sudden action caused Jaune to fumble with it.

Again, Ruby and Azure chuckled at his awkward clumsiness.

"Nice. So, what do they do?" Ruby asked innocently.

Jaune smiled sheepishly. "Well, the shield gets smaller! So, when I get tired of carrying it, I can just...put it away…" He explained as the shield reverted to scabbard form.

"But...doesn't it still weigh the same?"

"Yeah...it does…"

Ruby chuckled a bit. "Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons. I guess I did go a little overboard in designing it…"

"Wait, you made that?" Azure and Jaune said in unison.

"Well, of course! All students at Signal forge their own weapons. Didn't you guys make yours?"

Jaune and Azure looked away shyly. Jaune was the first to speak up. "It's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war."

"Sounds more like a family heirloom, to me." Ruby said. "Well, I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics."

"Yeah, the classics…" was Jaune's only response.

Almost as if she remembered something, Ruby quickly turned to Azure, wide-eyed. "So, what about you?"

Azure only smirked and pulled his sword out, doing some twirls with it before resting it on his shoulder. "This is Take-Mikazuchi. Nothing really special, I can channel my aura through it, my semblance works well with it, and, like Jaune's, is not a gun."

Ruby just stood and stared at the katana for a minute before saying, "Another classic. Cool."

'The hell? She disappointed or something? Come on, Take's cool as hell!'

"So, uh, guys...where are we going?"

All eyes turned to Ruby, who'd just posed an important question.

"Huh? I dunno, I was following you."

The walk to one of Beacon's many ballrooms proved to be just as boring for Azure as the previous walk had been; he walked silently behind Ruby and Jaune, the two having engaged in some other conversation that he had no contribution to. In few instances where he wasn't looking at his scroll, Azure picked up bits about a video game. Blazblue, was it?

Their conversation, however, came to a close at the ballroom where the first-years had gathered.

"Oh! Hey, guys, gotta go! I'll see you after the ceremony!" was Ruby's farewell as she left to join another girl in the crowd.

"Ah-hey, wait! Ah, great. Where am I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?"

Obviously distraught, Jaune walked away, leaving Azure alone. "Nice talking to you guys, too." was his silent farewell to his now absent acquaintances.

Deciding the privacy was good for the moment, Azure moved towards the back of the ballroom and set himself against the wall. Just as he was about to finally have some peace, an arm snaked it's way around his neck.

"Hey buddy! Missed ya back at the courtyard, Byakuya and I were getting' kinda lonely without ya!"

Damn, Kida found him.

"Kida, off the kid. You just kinda invaded his privacy." was Byakuya's entrance, surprisingly more calm than his appearance an hour or so ago had been.

"Fine, fine...by the way, man, if I'm gonna make you the second-best lady killer in all of Beacon, I need a name! So, what is it?" Kida asked with his usual cockiness.

"Name's Azure, and I'm not gonna be a lady killer."

"Well, how am I gonna repay you for running into you?"

"Listen, it's cool, just, please-"

"Oh, I'm not letting this slide, Azure, my friend! I gotta do something!"

"If you wanna do something, maybe you could scra-"

The sound of speakers turning on and feedback caught the room's attention. On the stage at the front stood a man with gray hair holding a cane, dressed sophisticated-like in green, accompanied by a blond woman with glasses, wearing a white blouse with a black skirt and a purple cape.

"I'll...keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you're finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people."

The man's speech was breathing noticeable eagerness into the students gathered in the ballroom. Even Kida was glancing between Azure and Byakuya with a look of pride.

"But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy. In need of purpose, direction."

If not everyone was listening before, they sure as hell were now.

"You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

With that, the man in green stepped away and the blond woman stepped up to the microphone.

"You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

The ceremony at a close, many moody, disappointed students made their way out of the room. Azure, Kida and Byakuya kept their places at the back.

Kida was the first to speak, obviously irritated at the man's speech. "The hell's his problem? A-hole if I've ever seen one, amirite?"

"It just looks like everyone's missed the point. Ah well, suit themselves." Azure responded.

Kida looked a little offended that Azure didn't share his feelings.

"Whatever. What about you, Byakuya?"

...

But the tall, muscular teenager only looked ahead at the stage in contemplation.

…

"I don't care about knowledge, or any of that bull. I'm here to put my strength to good use, for once. That's all."

…

Azure smirked. So much for wasted energy.

Azure had moved to the restrooms to change into his sleeping attire, which consisted of a simple red tank top with black around the sleeves and bottom, and some black sweatpants with red lines going down the legs. After finishing, he glanced at his reflection in the mirror to see the large scar that sat across his torso, spanning from the bottom of his right side to his left shoulder.

He stood, and stared at it for a minute before sighing.

"Sure was a peaceful childhood, wasn't it?" Azure said to himself, remembering his father by blood, the man who'd given him that scar.

Stepping out of the restroom, he caught sight of the girl with the black bow he'd seen talking to Weiss and Ruby earlier that day.

He couldn't quite place his finger on it, but she looked familiar, somehow.

As she passed, Azure quickly caught up and fell into step beside her.

"So...what's up?"

No response.

"Uh...nice night?"

"Yeah, nice, like the silence was before you showed up."

Azure shrugged and looked away. "I just wanted to say sorry."

Now he had the girl's attention. "Sorry?"

"Yeah...about Weiss. She can be a handful, so I just wanted to apologize for her attitude-"

"No need. Goodbye."

The girl in black picked up her pace. Azure kept up.

"You...don't really talk much, do you?"

"Nope. Goodbye again."

Now she was walking a little too fast for Azure, and he lost her.

Well, to hell with her. He didn't wanna talk to her, anyways.

Azure found Weiss' mat and threw his down next to her.

"I was wondering where you'd run off to." was her only greeting.

Azure lied back on his sleeping mat. "Yeah, well I had some...encounters, after your little episode in the courtyard. That explosion was totally your fault, by the way."

Weiss rebutted, "Was not! That imbecile should have known what she was dealing with!"

Azure frowned a little. He'd expected her enlightenment on the matter to be easy, but now she'd just described Ruby as an 'imbecile'. Azure had lived with Weiss long enough to learn her vocabulary, finding that words she used with him, such as 'idiot', were much more light hearted and were almost terms of endearment, in a way. More sophisticated insults, such as 'imbecile' or 'dunce' were indications that Weiss saw the people whom she directed the words at to be truly below her.

So, to hear her say that meant that she either had no idea what she'd done, or was far too convinced she was right.

Regardless, it was an argument that Azure just didn't have the energy to invest himself in at this time of night.

"Okay, okay, I'll leave it alone. Let's just get some sleep."

Hearing a ruckus, the siblings looked up to find Ruby and her blond friend, having a playful tussle in front of the girl in black.

Weiss scowled and shot up. "Not with their...their sheer...gall!" With that, she was off and ready to tear them a new one.

Azure sighed and pulled out his scroll. There was at least one thing he could do before sleeping…

A/N: Not porn. Definitely not porn. Azure and porn don't mix.

And hey, references! If you guys don't know anything about Blazblue, I highly suggest you check it out. Probably one of the best fighting games I've played, to date. Oh, and DRRR! fans might've picked up the cameo of everyone's favorite playboy, Masaomi Kida! I was actually debating using his actual name, but decided not to, for whatever reason. Don't expect him to be a big part of the story, I only threw him in there to make some interactions with Byakuya happen, and he'll probably pop in here or there as comic relief. Still though, cameos and references and such don't stop here! I'll gladly poke fun at stuff/throw fun interactions in at random spots for the helluvit, so there.

A Devil's Offspring: Thank you. I had to replace my keyboard. But seriously, I hear what you're saying. I got a little more descriptive in this chapter, partly due to your suggestion but also because I felt some more apt descriptions were in order. I ended up staying away from describing actual RWBY characters with the same detail I used for a couple of the other characters, my thinking being, you're reading a RWBY fanfic, you know what they look like. And, the compliment about Azure is appreciated, I agree, a lot of OC fics I've read for RWBY have definitely sported some dark characters.

Anyways, quick disclaimer: I don't own Blazblue, the title belongs to Arc System Works and Aksys Games.

Next chapter, Emerald Forest and junk! Azure finds his friends and is all like "wat" and stuff like that and things are just action-y in general.

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