Chapter 3: Substitute
It was 3 days after the discussion they had in the VPD offices. Auriaco was currently in an airship that was headed for Beacon. Next to him was Ozpin, as well as the chief of detectives. "Remind me again why the hell I'm doing this?" Auriaco would look between the two of them as he crossed his arms and tapped his foot on the cold steel floor of the airship. "Well," Ozpin started to say as he took a sip from his mug, "there have been reports of a crime ring hidden somewhere near Beacon. Normally, we would handle this kind of thing ourselves as only the most foolish would think it a good idea to have a crime ring anywhere near Beacon. But, all our attempts at even locating the stronghold of said crime ring have been futile." He took another sip out of his mug and looked to the chief of detectives. "So, we asked for a little help, and Phillip here suggested you. I agreed as I knew you. Plus, I think having you back here at Beacon may bring you out of that little slump you have been in."
Auriaco had to restrain himself from just beating the living hell out of Ozpin right then and there. In his head, Auriaco was reliving the day he woke up in the Beacon imfirmary. He was a boy of 18 years old at this time. He remembered nothing of how he got there, or why he was at Beacon in the first place. He barely even remembered his name. However, it was Ozpin who came to let him know of what had happened. How Auriaco and his team, AMBR, had been sent on a training exercise to the Forever Fall, where they had come under an ambush by a rather large horde of Ursa.
Before Auriaco could finish this daydream, he was ripped out of it as quickly as he had gone in. Now was not the time to be living in the past, that would just end up getting him killed. "Slump? What slump? I'm perfectly fine." Even he knew he was lying, but he couldn't tell why he was lying. He was perfectly content with his life as it was. He was happy, he had money, he had food, and he had a roof over his head, when he actually went home that is. Only thing he was missing was a social life and romance. But he chose to forgo those. They only got in the way.
Ozpin would look at Auriaco and frown a little. He knew what the poor boy had gone through. Losing his team that way. Especially when he was the leader of the team. But that was all in the past, and Ozpin was not about to dig up old wounds. As they were speaking, the airship was descending down to the landing dock. "Well, this has been a fun talk. But we are about to land, so I suggest you get ready to start teaching." Ozpin would look towards Auriaco and nod a little.