Agony POV
I was standing in front of the headmaster with my captors. His black and green suit stood out with his grey hair. His accomplice was standing beside him, light blonde hair tied in a bun and glasses were fixed up to her face. His desk had 2 mugs, both containing coffee and a canister for beer.
"Mr. Agony, I trust you know me already and why you're here" he looked at me sternly, waiting for an answer.
"Well, I'm hoping it's because you wanted to tell me I'm doing a great job so you'll give me a reward or something" I joked around at him.
Suddenly his assistant slams her horse whip down the table and gets my attention. "You're here because you have acquired money from numerous targets. You're a bounty hunter" she said.
"Yes but what's peculiar are your chosen targets" Prof. Ozpin continued "All of them are criminals and all of them are brought back alive"
"Well, bounty is higher that way" I told my excuse.
"Say what you want, but I know the real reason why. No need to be ashamed of it, I see it to be quite noble" he said as he took a sip in his mug.
"One thing I'd like to know is how you were able to know where and when I'd be. It's not a coincidence that you were at the right time and place to capture me right?" I told him seriously. Before that night, I had many hard pressed targets, I was very tired that night and when I fought the bull faunus, that was my last drop of energy. All of a sudden 4 girls were able to capture me.
"You're not the only one able to hear whispers Agony, a friend fed me information on your activities" He sipped unto his mug and continued "Then I saw the right moment so I took it, now here we are. Please, honestly, I'd rather be more easy going on this matters but I can't just make you come here just by easily asking now would I?"
Suddenly the Schnee raises her voice "Wait! You're saying you had us sent over on a mission to take a weakened person?"
"Well yes, if he wasn't then you might've had a harder time, maybe the mission might've even failed but still, it's the results that matter tonight" Ozpin replied calmly, looking back at me after he finished his sentence "Now I do believe you still have classes tomorrow, I'll allow you to be late for 30 minutes, no more no less. Glynda give them a slip"
Instantly his assistant, Glynda, began writing on a yellow slip and gave one to each girl.
"Now go back to bed, it's been a long night. Thank you team RWBY" he says as each girl left. The three of us were now alone on the room, both Glynda and Ozpin looked at me intently.
"So, when will those guys come out?" I said with a smirk as I release myself from my handcuffs, my weapons were now being kept by Ozpin. I need to think fast if I were to escape.
"So you noticed us huh?" a rough voice spoke behind me. Out came 2 people, one was wearing an atlesian military uniform, black and white hair were swept back to make him look formal. The other was somewhat opposite to him, grey hair was slightly unkempt which matched with his grey suit. "Impressive I guess" he said with a slow clap as they walked towards the table of Ozpin.
"Agony, these are James Ironwood and Qrow Branwen" Ozpin introduces them, pointing towards each of them respectively.
"I know the two of you!" I said excitingly "I've heard whispers, a fellow informant and the general! So you're the friend who feeds him info huh?" I continued "An old crow and a terminator" I said mockingly. James seemed to be shocked about this.
"How'd you-!?"
"It's my job to know people" I cut him off "As to how I knew there were people hiding was pretty simple. 2 mugs of coffee on the table, one for Ozpin and assuming one is for Glynda would be wrong. She is wearing slight lipstick so that should've left a mark and also she hasn't even touched it for the duration of our talk so far meaning that the mug was for someone else. Someone who was at the room, the mug's still kind of full so a person has barely drunk from it and no way will someone leave a cup of coffee like that so he or she must still be near and knew he or she will come back. Last was that Ozpin is not drunk and there's a canister for beer there" I finished, yawning and breathing deeply.
"Hehe, guess the kid isn't all talk after all" Qrow said as he took gulps of alcohol from the canister "An, A+ kid" he compliments me.
Ozpin laughs silently and nods to everyone in the room except for me. "Now that that's out of the way, Agony Adris, I have an offer we'd like you to consider…"
Ruby POV
We were all pretty tired and beat from the fight. Trying to get a clean hit from him was tough, sneaking into the building was also quite rough but we managed. We all entered the dorm room and went to our beds as we got out of our clothes and into our pajamas.
"That was pretty rough, different kind of difficult I guess" Blake said as she sank down her bed, letting the soft comfort of the pillows to embrace her.
"I guess, but it's still a mission accomplished. GOOD JOB TEAM RWBY!" I yelled with fist in the air. Slowly I felt the embarrassment crawl on me as no one replied. "yeah?"
Yang yawned then laughed a little "Sorry sis, but momma's gonna hit the hay".
"Arrrgghh! But I don't want to fight him like that! Honestly, who here is satisfied with that battle?" Weiss asked, seemingly furious. Everyone raised their hands. "Really? He wasn't at full strength and Professor Ozpin even said we probably couldn't take him on if he were at full strength. That doesn't bother you? Yang?"
Blake looks at her with amber eyes "Well, what's done is done. We beat him fair and square, his fault for not running away. Instead he lost, plus it was a strategic win if you will" she said with a smirk.
"Now that you did mention it, who is he anyway? All we know is his name. Agony Adris, weird name huh?" I said as I looked at the ceiling of our room, remembering the battle. His style was fluid, each swing of his blade was strong but there were times when it suddenly became sloppy or too weak. "I can't be the only one interested on the guy".
"Oooohhhh… does my little sister have a crush on one of our mission targets?" Yang teased as she giggled.
"N-No I don't!" I defended myself.
"Awwww… No need to be defensive. Hehe, even I'm interested in him. You two probably didn't see him fight that bull faunus but we did. He was so quick and awesome! If that fight didn't happen we might've had a harder time than that" she said with a goofy smile as she rolled to look at us. "Plus, he's… kinda cute right?"
"Flirting with the enemy…" Blake rolled her eyes still with a smirk in her lips. "Well, the one we fought was Agony Adris, a bounty hunter" she said as she opened her scroll to read the info Professor Ozpin gave us before sending us out. This made the whole team to open their scrolls and check up on him.
"Weird" Weiss said "There's not much info here really. It'd be better if we were just given his picture really" she said as she tried to see if that was all there is to it.
"Agony Adris. Born outside the kingdoms and current bounty hunter. Main weapons are dual Khophesh which are swords with a crescent curve in its blade instead of the straight design. It's actually pretty cool, specially with the way he uses it" I said in deep thought from the lack of information. "Huh, nicknamed as 'Spider' weird" I said as all info on him was read.
"Well, he was born outside the kingdoms so maybe that's why he had a different name" Weiss continued "But why is he call 'Spider'?"
"He doesn't seem to be a bad guy though, Professor did say he only targeted criminals and didn't kill them" I said as I looked at Weiss. Weiss nodded to me as she yawned, deciding she should now go to sleep I turned to Yang. "What do you think? You've been quiet"
"He has more pics here…"
"Yang, please stop"
"Kidding! But I think he isn't so bad. Being born outside the kingdoms must've been rough, he had to do what he needs to survive. Rubes, I think we should just let this mystery out for another day. Don't worry, he even got my attention" she said as she rolled on her bed letting sleep take her. "Goodnight"
"G'night…" I yawned, feeling drowsy as well. I lay there, looking into the ceiling, letting sleep take me.