Well, after a long time of rewatching the episode, building the story and developing things I decided to instead make this the episode chapter and just do another main chapter and a side chapter after this one. So expect to see some vigilante justice featuring Pyron and Knives' respective crews next chapter. I also felt that it was time we start to see the results of some people's training as well as some of Knives' backstory finally explained. So without further ado, the new chapter!

RWBY: The Darkness Within

Season 2- Chapter 8

The Start of Something Great

The True Test of Courage, is our ability to Endure

"We're stopping for today." Glynda said as she turned her back on Luxus who once again lay in a pile of rubble, she got ready to reorganize the room, when the objects rose off Luxus through his own power.

He stood there ragged and panting, "I can still go," He wheezed as he forced the weights and tables over to her side of the room, "Again."

She looked at him with her fierce eyes, "You are on the verge of collapse, it's best you just take a break and we'll pick up again in a few days."

"No, I can do it." He said as he straightened up, his whole body shaking under the strain, "Let me go again."

"Hmph, very well." She said as she grabbed everything in the room and hurled it at him at once, hoping to discourage him. Instead, he surprised her, he reached out to the weight and accelerated them towards him and stopped them before hitting him, he then began to spin them around him at high speed venturing out instead to break tables as they flew towards him. She smirked and upped her game, taking control of the tables again as she made them circle him and dive in for attacks only to break away when he lashed out. She saw his violet eyes rapidly tracking the tables and processing where they would go and the velocity they would possess and this time when she faked the attack he had a second weight swoop in and break the table anyway. He kept it up, until all the tables were broken, and she then took control of all the objects, the weights and the shards of all the tables. He looked around in a panic, as she was sure she had him, she brought them in all at once and he extended his hands with a scream as if to block them and instead the weights and table pieces cracked and crumbled. He stood there panting, no doubt at the great exertion it required for him to do that.

"Very well done, Mr. Rayfor." Glynda said with a smile, "We'll be moving up your training."

He chuckled in victory and limped his way back to his room where Caradin was once again doing pushups as Deverou sat in his chair and moved his hands across an imaginary touch screen. He collapsed on his bed and closed his eyes, it would be a good night. Or it would have been if Knives hadn't shot him a message right as he closed his eyes, "Need help, being pursued by assailants, may be more in tow."

He hopped up off his bed and grabbed his gear as he bolted from the door, before Caradin and Deverou could talk. He ran straight for the cliff at the front of the school and leapt off using his semblance to help him glide to the ground as he tried to find his friend.

One can Find what they're Looking For, when they Stop Searching the Wrong Direction

Safe was in the training room battering a dummy, pushing himself further than he'd gone before because he had to get stronger. He felt the presence behind him and wheeled around to see Ora behind him, "Hello." He said.

"Hey, you okay?" She asked stepping closer.

"I'm tired of being the leader and being the weakest one here." He said wheeling on her, "I'm tired of you protecting me, Mason standing up for me, and Lee speaking for me. I'm here to be a Huntsman! I need to prove that I can do it by myself!"

She backed up some, "So you don't think we can help you?"

"I don't want help, it's better if we just do our studies separately and accomplish our own goals." Safe said as he turned back around.

"You're full of shit." Ora said bluntly.

"What!?" He said wheeling on her.

"You've done nothing but stay distanced since day one. After the party you just seemed to fade into the background, and keep to yourself. We're a TEAM Safe, which means we watch out for one another." She said aggressively, "If you won't fight we will, if you won't speak we will, if you won't defend yourself we will. Same goes for us! We need a leader who actually has our backs instead of sneaking around being quiet!" Ora fussed.

"Then what do you want me to do?" Safe commanded.

"That's something to decide for yourself," Ora said, "I'm just here to help you along the way."

He looked at the ground pondering this information as she turned to leave, "Wait!" She turned around and he was in a fighting stance, "One match, winner tells the other the truth about themselves."

She grinned, "You're on."

I shall be Sheltered, as I walk through the Valley of Darkness

"Are you sure about this?" Carlos asked Newt as they proceeded through the streets of Vale.

"Knives said he used to work for a Don Volk, so we're simply going to crack a few eggs until we get that information." Newt said cheerily as Pyron and David lagged behind them.

"Something wrong David?" Pyron asked as his partner seemed lost in thought.

"I'm just listening to the world around me, trying to discover the nature of this city's darkness." David said, pondering what he saw.

"How do you figure?" Pyron asked.

"Well, on the exterior, Vale seems to be a flourishing city of remarkable life and quality, but here in the dead of Night, even with things as they are in this time of peace, this town at night is full of more evil than I have ever seen." David said, "The White Fang plot in the shadows, criminals rob people of their livelihood, and other forces work in the dark slowly tipping this city towards a point I fear we will never return from." He saw the look on Pyron's face, "These aren't cryptic words I spout for fun Pyron, I am seriously concerned that Vale won't remain this strong for much longer."

Pyron nodded to his partner, "Hey man, I may be team leader, but you're my partner. You're the brains of this team and everyone knows it, if you say something's wrong I believe you. No matter what."

"What does that make us then?" Carlos asked with a cocky grin.

"Comedy relief and an unstoppable juggernaut." Pyron replied rather quickly.

"Cool! I'm a juggernaut!" Carlos said as he strutted off with confidence.

Newt opened her mouth to say something, and David put his hand on her shoulder, "Just let him have this."

They approached the bar Newt was leading them to, "Why don't we just go to Hei Xiong's nightclub?" Pyron asked.

"Trust me, this guy can do us one better." Newt said as they entered the bar and all eyes were on them in a second.

"We don't serve no minors here." The barkeep said.

"No problem, I'm just here to see someone. Kronos." She said as about ten people at the bar drew guns and aimed at them. A young boy with grey hair and blue eyes walked up to them. He wore a black vest and a white shirt with some slacks and shoes.

"You're looking for my bro right? He's not here right now." The boy replied.

"Who're you?" Pyron asked.

"Caden Silver, my brother Cyan's out meeting someone right now but I can do my best to answer your questions." He said with a smile leading them to a back room.

"We just want to know what an individual named Alexander Blut did while he worked for a Don Volk, anything that you know would be appreciated." Newt said, as Caden eyed her suspiciously.

"Why do you wanna know about Volk, he's already been taken care of?" Caden said.

"Because we think something happened while Knives was working for him that got him into Beacon, we know the job he was arrested on was arranged by Cyan, but we don't think the Don authorized it, so who did?" Newt demanded.

"My brother didn't like betraying our cousin, but I was trying to get into Signal and he needed the money, so he made a deal with a guy called Cain, that he works for him from now on and Cain wires him money." Caden said looking at the table, "We didn't know that Don Volk was going to die, if we had we never would have made the deal. But now we're in deep and we have to make due." Caden said locking eyes with them. "Multiple factions in this city are stirring so I'd suggest you watch your backs, as for me, you might wanna leave before big bro gets back. He's not a fan of uninvited guests."

"Duly noted," Newt said as they rose from the table, "Let's go guys, not much else to do here."

They left the bar and planned on going back to Beacon, what happened next however prevented them from doing so.

To Grow, one must Try

Knives stared down the barrel of the gun at the man who was probably hired by someone to kill him, Really need to make a list of the people I've pissed off, Knives thought to himself. "Um, you do know that with my aura, that won't kill me, right?" Knives said aloud.

"Yeah," The assailant replied, "But it'll hurt like a bitch." He fired into Knives shoulder and although the aura stopped the bullet from doing serious damage it did in fact sting like a bitch. Knives checked his scroll and his aura had dropped some, but not enough to be too bad a situation until he fire the other five bullets and speed reloaded a new six as he unloaded the new set of bullets into him using Ice rounds to freeze him to the ground. He crouched over Knives, "You know I thought you might be a little harder to catch you, but this was a little too easy." He took Knives' scroll and looked at his aura's status, "Ooh, you're in the red there buddy, guess I'll end this here." He said as he loaded one final clip into his revolver, "These are RIP rounds, which will shred your body into mincemeat once I unload it into you. I'd say it's been a pleasure knowing you, but I'd be lying." He pulled the hammer back until he heard the screech of the cards that flew at him and lodged them into the roof of the building. Luxus hopped down and landed on the roof.

"You took your sweet time." Knives said, trying to get back up.

"I believe that timing is everything." Luxus said as he cracked the ice with his kinesis, "Anything on this guy?"

"He's an asshole." Knives said standing up, "He's got my scroll."

Luxus checked his and saw the red of Knives' aura, "Just stay back there chief, I'll handle him no problem." He watched the man no doubt trying to process this new target, before he drew his sword and holstered his gun, he was ready to fight Luxus so Luxus got his cards ready, but in a flash the man shifted the gun into a sub-machine gun and rained a hail of bullet right at Knives. Luxus leapt in the way and extended his kinesis, keeping the fact that his aura was low away from Knives. It was now or never to prove his worth as his hand shot out and he extended his semblance over all the bullets flying at him. They jerked to a halt, and he smirked as he wheeled them around and fired them on the assassin, he blinked out of existence and appeared before them running towards them at a breakneck pace, zeroed in on Knives, before a coffin was hurled at him at about thirty miles an hour. He blinked back away, and looked as Caradin and Deverou joined their teammates.

Caradin panted, "Really hard, to keep up with you guys."

"You need to go running more." Deverou said as he zeroed in on the assassin, "Romeo Blue."

Romeo saw Deverou removing his eye-patch, "Four on one isn't really in my favor is it? Well later then!" He yelled as he shifted it back into the sword and stabbed the ground unleashing some flash powder and blinding the team as he made his escape.

"Dammit!" Knives said as the team looked at him, "Fucker still has my scroll. Man now I gotta buy a new one."

"I wouldn't be so sure of that," Luxus said raising the scroll from his pocket with a smirk, "Lifted it off him, when I was stopping those bullets. You can all start praising my greatness at your leisure."

Knives grinned at his teammate, "You are a smooth operator my friend, when did you get so good at using your aura?"

"Well, Knives is tenacious in battle and has lots of experience fighting, Caradin is ridiculously strong and also has experience, and Deverou is the fastest and has more experience than any of us." Luxus said as he looked at the ground, "I just wanted to be able to do something."

Just then Caradin looked into the distance, "Is that a giant robot?"

Knives gaped, "An Atlesian Paladin!? On the loose?"

"Guess the night's just getting started." Deverou said as he drew his weapon, "Wanna see if there's anyone around who'd be willing to explain the situation?"

"More than happy to," Luxus said, "But can we stop by A Simple Wok first? I'm kinda hungry."

Well, that was fun, and I can't wait to write the next one, expect it in the next day or so, but I am actually with friends I never get to see, so keep that in mind when anxiously hugging your RWBY plushies and what not, or you knwo if someone wants to make some Team CARD Plushies that'd be cool too. Also news flash, I'm going back through and changing a lot of details in Season 1 so that it makes more sense story wise and RWBYverse wise, so after much consolidation with my man, pyron55 we have come up with a few new teamnames for the crews. Henceforth, Team CARD will be BRCT Burgandy, while Pyron's Team is PFCN Pumpkin. Don't question it, I got the example from CFVY. Later, ma bros!