UDATE(1/3/16): Edited the description of the characters introduced in this chapter.

-Chapter 5-

Who Is That Partner?

Two days have passed and my life has been great at Beacon. The classes were going smoothly, especially the fighting class and the new music class. Although, I wish Ruby's singing could...improve a little. Other than that, she has been practicing on her own in fighting, that is. Probably because so that she could improve herself the next time we fight again. She seemed to be hype what that battle simulation that Prof. Goodwitch mentioned on the first day of the fighting class, and whenever that will be available. It sounds interesting to me, too. Today was Wednesday; Professor Goodwitch gathered us and some of the freshman teams to the amphitheater.

My teammates, Team JNPR, Team SSSN, and Team CRDL, were in the amphitheater with the freshman teams, such as Kuro's team, KALR, Team RGAL, Team MSNC, and Team ROUF. They were pronounced regal, music, and rough respectfully.

"I wonder what we are going to do today." Ruby thought out loud.

"Well, whatever we are doing, it looks like we will be doing something with the first-year students." Blake stated before he looked at them and noticed Kuro glancing at her. She glanced back.

"Uuuh, you know." Yang said. "There are quite of cute guys in the first year. Hey, Ruby, what do you think about that guy Rudy?"

"Huh?" Ruby asked, titling her head a bit to show how confused she is. "What do you mean, Yang?"

"You know what I am talking about." She nudged to her young sister. "I saw you blushing at him when he winked at you. I think he has an eye on you."

"What!?" She shouted, which caused everyone to look at her. She turned away from everyone as she grabbed Yang to her face.

"Yang!" She whispered. "There is nothing like weird going on with me and him! I don't even know him!"

"Then, you can get along with now. Go talk with him!" Yang suggested.

"Speaking of the devil…" I said.

"Hi there!"

The two sisters turned around, noticing Rudy standing by. Ruby gasped and then she quickly hid behind her sister.

"What's up?" Yang waved at him.

"Hello. You guys are Team RWBYE, right? My name is Rudy Jade Clover, the leader of my team, Team RGAL." Ruby introduced with a bow as he held his hat off. He putted it back on his head after bowing to us.

"It is pleasure to meet you." Weiss curtsied. "I am Weiss Schnee, the exquisite member of this team and the heiress of the Schnee Company as you may have guessed."

"Really? I thought you were just a normal young girl." Rudy said blankly as his words caused Weiss to stare in plain white, drooping down in disbelief and disappointment before she rose back up with furious eyes.

"What!? Have you got any idea who I am!?" Weiss shouted, but Rudy just ignored her.

"And your name is?" He asked to Blake.

"I am Blake Belladonna." Blake said.

"Nice to meet you, Blake. And you are Ellix Knight, right?" He turned to me.

"That's right." I answered.

"Nice to meet you. I will definitely remember you." He smiled. I felt little bit strange when he said that way, but I ignored that thought and just grinned back.

Then, he turned his attention to Yang and Ruby. "And you are?"

"I'm Yang Xia Long, and this girl behind me is my sister, Ruby. Say hi to him, sis!" Yang said, turning behind her as she pushed her sister.

She tried to resist, but her older sister's strength overcome her and before she knew, she was facing against the boy.

"OH, um! Hi! How are you doing!?" Ruby said nervously.

Rudy just chuckled to himself. "Hello, Ruby. So, I've been wondering..."

"Ye—yes!?" She asked nervously.

"How old are you? You don't look like you're in the age for being a second-year student here at this school." Rudy said.

"Oh! That! Well, I actually started Beacon when I was 15 last year." She answered honestly.

"Woah! 15 you say!? That's so young, but that mean you must be very strong!" Rudy said before he laughed. "You know what, Ruby? I think I am going to like you!"

"Wait, what!?" She flustered as her face showed a tint of redness.

"I think this is working really great." Yang whispered to me.

"You're sure about this?" I asked silently.

"Of course!" Yang replied with a cheeky smile as Ruby looked slightly to her shoulder with a glare of suspicion at Yang.

"HEY! Are you seriously ignoring me, Mister!?" Weiss shouted.

Rudy finally noticed her. "Huh? I was?"

Weiss looked passivly at him for a moment until she just clenched her hands, pouted, and crossed her arms, looking away from him. Rudy looked at her with confused face, but shrugged the thought away and just grinned.

We were then interrupted by Professor Goodwitch alongside with another new professor that I never seen before. He was tall with a quite a build for the body. He was bold with a scar that curved from over his right eye and then to the side of his head. He had rugged white beard all over his mouth and chin. His eye color was very reddish-orange like the color, like magma or lava. He wore this gray armor with spiky shoulder pad. To me, he looked like some kind of MMORPG video game warrior-type character.

"Students, line up!" The man ordered. Suddenly, we just lined up in our proper team. I was at the back behind Yang. Somehow, his own voice just made our brain to follow him without any resistance.

"My students, you may have seen my fellow teacher here around campus, but please allow me to introduce to him. This is Professor Magmar Mantle. Just like the freshmen, he is also new here, but has an experience in teaching at Atlas Academy and he's also a veteran, but decided to join here at Beacon Academy." Prof. Goodwitch explained. "Prof. Mantle, do you have anything else to say?"

He nodded, which Prof. Goodwitch walked back to allow him to move closer in front of us. He zoomed at us, one by one with a very serious facial expression.

"Unlike the whiny freshman I supervise, you second-year looks more experienced, but most of you are un-pure to me!" He said very strictly.

"Un-pure?" Ruby repeated.

He glanced quickly at Ruby, which caused her to squeal and shut her mouth instantly.

"Anyway, I will be looking forward to you maggots on how you will do well in the mission we will assign you all momentarily."

Mission? So that is the reason why we are here.

"Thank you, Professor Mantle." Professor Goodwitch said, although looked little bit distaste at him, but shrugged that and turned to us. "Today, the second-year students and first year students will be in the Masters to Students program. Of course, as you know, my class, you were all put in this program last year with your supervisor, but this year, each of you will be in the role of the master while the new freshman will be put in the role of the students."

"Oh yeah! Now, we can be the boss." Nora exclaimed quietly as she fist pawned.

"However, unlike last year, we will do it differently." She added. "This year, we will be assigning each member of the team to their own respective partner chosen out of the first-year class. And I have the list here to state each pair. So, let's begin."

Our professor took out her Scroll and began reading the list. "First up, we will begin with Team JNPR."

Jaune gulped when he heard his team's name. "We begin with Mr. Jaune Arc. Your 'student' will be partner with Mr. Biv."

Jaune slowly turned to his left, looking at the silent grayish-white haired boy. The boy glanced at him shortly, which Jaune waved at him little nervously, but he just ignored him when he turned back facing forward.

"Miss Pyrrha Nikos you will be partner with…Mr. Kuro Power."

"Say WHHHHAAAAAAATTT!?" Kuro burst out. "I have to be with the SPARTA GIRL!?"

Everyone stared at him, especially Pyrrha who raised her eyebrows at him.

"Yes soldier! You will be partner with her, whether you like it or not. Deal with it!" Prof. Mantle exclaimed. Kuro crossed his arm, much to his disbelief. Sun smirked at that.

I know who he wanted to be partner with…very badly.

As Professor Goodwitch said everyone else' name, it was our turn. "Now, at last with the two remaining Team plus one more person left without partner in Team KALR.

"Miss Ruby Rose, you will be partner with Mr. Clover, the leader of Team RGAL."

Ruby looked little shock as Rudy smiled to that idea. She turned to her side, looking at him as he looked back and he grinned, causing her to look away from him quickly, hiding her little red face.

"Miss Schnee, you will be with Mr. Giovanny Onyx." Weiss looked at her partner across from her. He was a tall (and handsome) boy with short black hair with top black hat. He wore dark shade monocle over his left eye, black dress jacket over dress white shirt, black pant, and black shoes. His jacket had the end that extended beyond his belt with each tip to be spiky. He also held a hooked cane. He looked very gentleman-like.

Weiss looked at the boy with passive look, and then scowled at the boy's leader, which he noticed and just smiled cheekily at her.

"Miss Belladonna, you will be with Mr. Aron Silver." Blake looked at her partner. He had a silver hair, hence to his last name, straight down to the backside of his neck, but spiky at the tip of each strand. His skin was light-colored and his eyes were silver like Ruby's. He wore light gray jacket with a white boomerang on his back. His white belt tied around his waist to his dark pant and his shoes were white with black-checkerboard design. He also wore yellow bracelet for each wrist, and earpieces which were shape of a diamond. The most significant features about him were the two white tiger ears over his head and tiger tail, showing off above his buttock.

"Miss Long, your partner will be Luke Amethyst." The last guy was the tallest guy in Team RGAL, taller than Giovanny who is the second tallest. His hair was shade of purple with the tip of the hair to become lighter purple as you looked upward. His hair was spiky and his eye color was also violet. He wore dark purple vest with ripped sleeves and black gloves. His body looked more muscular than his three teammates. His skin was darker. He also wore dark blue jean with chains dangling on both side, and purple shoes. He also had a huge axe on his back. He looked kind of intimidating.

"And finally, Mr. Knight, since you are the odd-numbered in the entire group, you may go along with Miss Momoi and Ren." Prof. Goodwitch declared.

Alice grinned happily, liking to that idea as Kuro just glared at her.

"Lucky for you." He growled quietly.

"Now to the explanation of the mission, each of you with your respective partner will retrieve an artifact at the ruins in the location known as the Ender Woodland. Each of you with your partner will be docked at different location to start off the mission. If any of you lucky, you may end up in the nearest location to the relic, but even so, you will be in a territory where the kingdom will not care of your safety. You must work together in order to complete this mission with success." Prof. Goodwitch explained.

"And with your life intact." Prof. Mantle added, spooking some of us, especially Jaune and Alice.

"In any case, this mission will take some days to complete, so don't waste time. The ships will be ready in ten minutes, so use this time to prepare. We wish you all good luck." Prof. Goodwitch said.

After the two professors left, Alice and Ren walked up to me.

"This is great! You will be partner with me, Ellix! I mean, with us!" Alice corrected herself.

"It looks like so." Ren nodded.

"Um-hm." I nodded, too.

"Lucky for you, Pinkie!" Kuro moaned.

"For the last time, it is NOT Pinkie!" Alice argued.

"Whatever! You have two partners, and of all the people I get stuck with is the Sparta Girl!"

"Hey!" Jaune exclaimed. "Don't be rude to my teammate!"

Kuro looked at Jaune with a growling, distaste expression.

"Um, please don't be rude." Jaune squeaked as he back away from him.

"Don't worry, Jaune. I will be fine even as a bad mouther he is." Pyrrha reassured.

"Hmph!" Kuro crossed his arm, looking away from everyone else.

"So Jaune, why don't you say hi to your partner?" Pyrrha suggested.

"Oh right." Jaune said. Before he knew it, his partner was already standing right behind him. When he noticed him, he jumped in surprise.

"Woah!"

"Roy, don't scare him like that." Alice said.

"….."

"Um!" Jaune got up. "It's nice to meet you, Roy. Let's, uh, do our best together, OK?" He offered him a handshake, but the only thing he did was just stare at him.

"Ooookay." Jaune said, feeling uncomfortable about him.

"Don't worry about him. He does not speak a lot with people he does not know except for me." Laura spoke up, joining us.

"Oh, I see…" Jaune scratched the side of his head.

"You be good, OK, Roy." She said to her partner.

"Mmm." Roy hummed.

"Hey!" Nora spoke up. "My name is Nora Valkyrie! Let's do our best and win this mission with success, and win over everyone else!"

She thumbed up to her partner, Laura Tangerine as she just looked at her with a very concerned face.

"Nora, this is not a competition. It is an important mission." Ren said.

Jaune sweat dropped at his silent partner as Ren scolded his silly childhood friend. I looked at each of them, already feeling that they will get along just fine…probably.

"I can't believe it!" I looked to my whining teammate, Weiss. "That boy, Rudy, does not even know who I am! What kind of person is he!? Does he live under a rock or what!?"

"Oh come on, Weiss. It is not like everyone in the world who knows you are the great heiress of the Schnee Company. Maybe he just not has heard about you before." Ruby said.

"Oh, you're just saying that because he is your partner and possible love interest!" Weiss argued.

"Hey! There is nothing going on between him and me!" Ruby complained.

"Going on between whom?" His voice spook Ruby, causing her to squeal as she jumped into her sister's arm like how Scooby Doo does it with Shaggy.

"Oh! Um, there's nothing going between, uh, cabbage!" Ruby said randomly, making us looked at her with confused expression. Weiss just face-palmed to herself, feeling another embarrassment caused by her dimwit partner. Blake giggled a little while Yang smiled cheekily.

Rudy just laughed. "You're funny, Ruby! Now I'm really looking forward to our mission together!"

His three teammates approached us. "Oh yeah, your teammates should meet up with mine! Please meet Giovanny, Aron, and Luke, even though our professors said our name just a moment ago! Hah ha ha!"

"You are such a naïve man, Rudy and you are supposed to be our leader. Be more proper gentleman!" Giovanny ordered as he wiped the lens of his monocle before he went up to Weiss, taking his top hat off and her hand.

"It is honorable to meet you, Miss Weiss Schnee. My name is Giovanny Onyx the 3rd, heir of the Onyx Corporation, but you may refer to me just by my first name." He introduced properly as he kissed her hand. Neptune noticed this as his jaw dropped.

My teammates and I were surprised, too. "Well, my! How very…gentleman of you! At least someone knows who I am." Weiss exclaimed, feeling very honorable as she had a tint of pinkness on her cheek.

"Hey!" Neptune yelled. He goes up to us in front of Weiss, cutting Giovanny off from her. "Who do you think you are!?"

"Me? Well, sir, I am only doing what a gentleman would do when he meets an exquisite, important young lady like Miss Schnee here." He explained.

"She's my girlfriend! Don't get too close to her even though she is your partner for this mission!" Neptune said madly.

"Oh, I see. Well, it is pleasure to meet you, Mr. Neptune Vasilias, correct? I see your clothes look…quite tacky."

"Hey! You have a problem with how I wear!?" Neptune felt offended.

"Not that I do. Your clothes are fine as it is. Just not my style, although." Giovanny said snootily.

"Why you!?" Neptune began to heat up as I sensed it emanating from him. He was about to jump on Giovanny until he was stopped by Sage and Scarlet, grabbing him on either side of his arm as they took him away.

"Let me go, guys! I want to get him! Wait! Argh!" Neptune cried.

I laughed nervously as I sweat dropped at Neptune. Weiss facepalmed as she looked very sorry. "I am very sorry for him to act the way he just did."

"No, no. It is fine, Miss Schnee. How about we continue our conversation somewhere else? We should also make preparation for this mission." Giovanny suggested.

"Yeah…I mean, yes! We should." She said decisively as she and Giovanny walked away together.

"Well, I see those two get along well." Yang said.

"It looks like so." Blake nodded before she turned to talk with her partner, and then they left the scene, too.

"So, Ruby…are you going to get off from my arm or what?" Yang asked.

"Oh, sorry!" She soon got off from her sister's arms, and fixed her clothes. "Soooo…"

"Come on, Ruby! How about let's go to the docking bay before anyone else? I will race there! Three, two, one, go!" Rudy exclaimed as he just ran off.

"Huh? Hey, wait up!" Ruby called as she chased after her.

Yang closely held her hand together. "My sweet little sister, she is growing up so fast!"

"I think she will be fine with that guy, Rudy, but you're sure about her, you know, being with him and trying to like make him be her boyfriend? You shouldn't like force her." I said.

"Don't worry about Ruby! She will be fine! She will eventually get to find her special someone, and I think he is perfect for her." Yang said joyfully. "Just like us."

Yang hugged me on my right arm as she leaned close to me. I blushed in response. "Well, she is strong, so she should be fine I guess." I said.

Alice watched over me and Yang getting along well with a sad, envious face. "Ellix…"

Ren noticed her expression as he pondered.

About 7 minutes later, everyone including myself came to the docking bay as we rode on our own airship for each team.

"Ellix!" Yang yelled at me as she approached me. Ren and Alice went on the airship before me as they waited for me.

"What is it, Yang?" I asked.

"I just want to say good luck and be careful, alright." She smiled.

I smiled back. "Don't worry. I will be fine. You be alright, too, OK?"

"Of course I will be fine! Also, before I forget." She said before she gave me a big, quick smooch on my cheek. Alice gasped as Ren glanced at her with suspicion.

"There will be more of that when we see again." She winked at me before she meets up with her partner, Luke.

I touched where I was kissed and felt genuinely warmed as I flushed in red.

"Hey Ellix, get on!" Ren shouted, snapping me out of my thought. I ran up and got on the airship before the pilot closed the hatch and flew up in the air, heading to our destination.

Author's Note: Hello, everyone. Another day, another new chapter! I've been really working on this fanfiction for awhile now. I have up to 11 chapters written (still working on the latest one, though), and I have one special chapter that I will be working. You will see what that will be in the future...

As for the QOTC, please look back few chapters back because I still want an answer for song for Ellix's theme. I have only one answer, but I would like to see more, so I will give more time for anyone or everyone to answer it.

Next times in Tales of Ellix Knight 2, we will see each member of Team RWBYE (minus Ellix) get along with their respective freshman partner. See you guys in the NEXT CHAPTER!