Okay so lets get to this before my headache gets any worse, also if any of you play Destiny for the Xbox One and have any friends who also play then PM me. I've had the game since day one and for any number of reasons, have never done either the Vault of Glass or the Crota raid. Enjoy.
"Adam, you know me and the stupid shit I do on an hourly basis. So trust me when I say that this is fuckin stupid and will probably end horribly for everyone involved." Fidelis deadpanned sitting in a chair in the command room with his feet up on the table. It had been three days sense he was saved from the Red hand and his wounds were healing up nicely. The only things that hadn't fully healed was his left foot and right hand, thats not including any mental or emotional scarring he may have earned but he claimed he was fine and that he'd been through worse.
For the past two days he'd been locked up in his room with Neo, what was going on was anyones guess but Fidelis claimed to Adam that he and her were just talking about the past and learning about each other.
Adam had never in all the years he'd known Fidelis seen him like he had been when they found him. The medic said that the emotional state he was in when they found him was most likely caused by the cocktail of chemicals the Trapper had pumped into him while he was being interrogated, that mixed with the huge amount of stress his body and mind were under at the time meant that it was no surprise that even someone like him would have a break down.
"I'm well aware, but we know that the Red Hand are present in Vale and we can't ignore the possibility that they know what you look like. This is the best way to keep you alive while still being useful. So in other words, its either this or you stay locked up here at base and can only go out once your fully healed and even then only on missions." Adam explained with his arms crossed knowing how frustrated his friend was.
Fidelis groaned. "Fine I'll do it. How do you plan on getting me in?"
"Thats already been taken care of. You will also have a partner for this who is already at your destination, he's not a member of the Fang but I believe you've worked with him before. Any further questions?" Adam asked sending a message to Cinder explaining the situation.
Fidelis let out a tired sigh. "When do I leave?"
"In an hour, so get whatever you'll need and be ready. Also you'll need to leave the mask obviously, you'll need to find some other way of hiding your face for a while." Fidelis stood and walked to the door.
"Any messages you want past on?" He asked stopping in the door way.
Adam flinched slightly. "No." Was all he said as Fidelis left the room.
One hour later
Fidelis stood next to the bullhead in the warehouse with Neo in front of him, she was flipping through hand signs quickly. 'You look absolutely ridiculous in that.' She signed while silently giggling. Around his head Fidelis had bandages encasing him as if he was some kind of mummy, the only parts of his head that could be seen were his eyes. On top of his head was a large kasa style hat that had tassels hanging down obscuring the view of his face.
He was wearing a long sleeved black leather flak jacket and a pair of black jeans with a black belt with a sliver belt buckle in the shape of the word 'smile'. His hands were also wrapped up in bandages and he had a pair of black and white skating shoes on. Across his back was his trusty back up Gunbai which was painted solid white as opposed to his main one which was painted white with black trimmings.
Fidleis chuckled. "I have no idea what your talking about, I look awesome." He said smiling under his bandages. He then bent down and moved some of the wrappings to reveal his mouth and pressed his lips to Neo's. "I won't be able to see you till Saturday but I'll text you alright?" He said after parting lips. She nodded with a happy look and a slight blush, displays of affection like that were still new to the two of them and while Fidelis normally hated when people would do things like hugging him or grabbing onto his arm in public, he'd gotten use to Neo doing it and let her get away with it.
"Ight, well I see you then." He said boarding the bullhead, just before the doors closed all the way Fidelis turned around and flashed a short series of hand signs which surprised Neo. As she watched the Bullhead take off tears began welling up in her eyes as she thought about it. She pulled out her scroll and sent him a text.
'I love you too.'
Aboard the Bullhead
Fidelis was sitting in the back of the airship meditating on what was going on right now and trying to get his backstory straight. Contrary to popular belief, Fidelis actually puts a lot of thought and detail into any alias creates. Some of the one he uses more frequently then others, such as Butch Kozner, actually have quite a bit of work put into them. Butch Kozner was a registered citizen of Mistral with a record for selling black market items.
When Fidelis took on a role he was thorough about it.
"Setting down in two minutes." The pilot said over the intercom.
Fidelis stood up and cracked his neck before taking a deep breath. "Show time." He mumbled to himself as he could feel the ship begin to descend. After another thirty seconds the door on the side of the ship opened up and Fidelis stepped out taking a look around at the large landing area and all the other ships around him.
"Welcome to Beacon!" A loud enthusiastic voice came from his right, he turned and saw a tall girl with very long blonde hair wearing the Beacon academy uniform. She walked up to Fidelis who was still trying to get over the fact that he was currently in what he considered to be the lions den and wasn't allowed to start breaking shit. It was one thing to break into Beacon academy for one night and being prepared to have to fight off have the students there, but it was something else entirely to be stuck there for an extended period of time while undercover as a student visiting from another school. This was sure to be a nerve wracking couple of weeks.
"My name is Yang and I'm suppose to show you around." Yang said pointing to herself.
Fidelis raised his hand. "Actually hot stuff, if you could just show me to where I'll be staying that would be great. I just had a long ass flight here and am wiped. Don't worry I'll tell whoever you need me to that you gave me a riveting tour of the whole school and all that good shit." He said lying about the long flight, it had only taken around ten minutes to get to the academy but he didn't want to be dragged all over the school.
Yang frowned slightly. "Alright, if thats what you want." She began leading him towards the dorms while taking quick glances at him the whole time. "Normally the visiting student have their own dorms but sense you and your partner are late arriving you'll be staying in one of our spare rooms in our dormitory. By the way I heard your a fourth year at your school, I didn't think upper classmen usually traveled for the festivals and stayed back with the headmasters."
Fidelis quickly went over his backstory in his head before replying. "Well Warden academy is a rather small school, and the students there make up the bulk of the defense against the grimm on the island its located on, so we can't risk sending away to many and leave the place unguarded. So instead the headmaster decided to send us to represent the Grey Isles." He explained while mentally patting himself on the back for coming up with a rather sound excuse.
"That makes sense, oh sense we're already going there, why don't you come meet my team?" She asked excitedly. Fidelis though about it as they entered the dorms.
"Sure why not, wheres the harm." He said not realizing he just jinxed himself. The whole time they'd been walking he'd been trying to figure out why this girl looked so familiar, he knew he'd seen her before but just couldn't seem to place where. He kept thinking about it as he followed her through the halls until they arrived at a white door. Yang pulled out her scroll and opened it up.
"Hey girls I'm back, and I brought the new exchange student to say hello." Yang shouted as she walked in followed by Fidelis.
"Hellooooooooooo..." His happy hello turned into something of a groan as he looked at the people in the room and suddenly remembered where he saw the blonde haired girl before. She was with Blake when he first stumbled upon her a few months ago. His eyes met with Blakes though she didn't seem to recognized him right away. Even as Ruby and the Schnee walked up and greeted him he never stopped watching her face, then he saw realization hit her. Yang went to grab something while the Schnee decided to go back to her studies.
Ruby offered him a snack which he agreed to and reach dashed over to her drawer. When only Blake's eye were on him he raised a figure over his mouth in a shushing gesture before winking at her.
"Here you go!" Ruby shouted handing him a cookie she pulled out of a bag he recognized as being from the same bakery that he sat with her at and told her about his childhood.
"Thank you. Now I was wondering if one one you could show me to the room of a team GRIN if I remember correctly. An old friend of mine named Rideat is on that team and I'd like to say hello." He said deciding that sense he'd only been here for less than half an hour and Blake already found him out and it wasn't long before she let Rideat know of his presence as well, that he might as well take this as an opportunity to say hello.
"I'll take you there." Blake said quickly jumping down from her bed and rushing towards the door and grabbing his arm dragging him out of the room leaving the other confused. After dragging him down the hallway and around the corner she stopped and pushed him against the wall. "What the hell are you doing here?!" She hissed with a mixture of rage and hate.
Fidelis almost chuckled at this. "You know I've been asking myself that sense I got here." He laughed clearly making Blake even more angry. "But I can see if I don't tell you the truth then you'll most likely turn me over to Ozpin, so I'll tell you." He grabbed her shoulder and pulled her close until her chest was pressed against his and he lowered her head till it was less than an inch away from her ear and whispered. "The Red Hand are in town and may know my face. They captured and tortured me before Adam and another friend of mine came and got me out of there. We killed a Trapper in the process but the other got away. When the hand learns they lost a Trapper and that both me and Adam are in town, their very likely to send more. Adam decided to send me here so that I wouldn't be in as much danger, though I think he may just have sent me here to make sure they don't reach you." He said letting out a cackle before putting a bit of space between them again.
Blake was still in the process of swallowing everything she'd just learned. "Adam's in town?" She mumbled getting another laugh out of Fidelis.
"I'll never understand what he sees in you." Fidelis turned to leave and started following his nose towards where Rideats room was. "Later Blakey." He said as he saw her still standing in the same place not moving. "Now lets go see Riddy."
With team GRIN
Rideat followed Gabriel down the hallway after a long session of sparring. He and Gabriel were discussing who won their match sense the score board said it was a draw but both were adamant that they were the winner. Nick and Iris were trailing a little further behind talking about where they were going to be going on their date this weekend, or more specifically Iris was explaining it while Nick was just nodding his head not really listening.
As they approached the door to their room Gabriel stopped. "Someone broke into our room." He said pulling out a few of his reapers. Iris stepped forward and inspected the door a little closer and saw that there was a large boot print next to the door lock and there appeared to be frame damage.
"Whoever it is their still inside lying on my bed." Rideat added with slight irritation that someone was on his bed. "I don't recognize their aura, though I'm pretty sure their wearing an aura scrambler." Rideat paused and sniffed the air. "And a massive amount of cheap cologne."
Gabriel taking point followed by Rideat opened the door quickly and barged into the room quickly surrounding Rideats bed and the one laying on it. There lying on the bed was a man wearing mostly black clothing ans a kata hat sitting on top of his face hiding it from view. They could hear light snoring coming from under the hat as well.
"Is this asshole sleeping?" Rideat asked still pointing his arm at the man.
There was a pause and the mans form began to stir slightly. "Yo asshole wake up!" Nick shouted loudly from his position near the mans head.
There was a groan before he began sitting up and let out a loud yawn. "Morning, sup Riddy?"
Rideat groaned as he recognized the voice and lowered his arm. "What the fuck do you want Fide?" He asked as everyone else in the room tensed as they heard Rideat identify the intruder as his older brother.
"Nothing much, just wanted to take a nap. Oh and tell you our biggest fans the Red Hand are in town. I had another run in with them." Fidelis explained as he laid back down onto the bed.
"Well your still alive so that means their dead, problem solved."
Fidelis laugh at the bluntness of Rideats assessment of the situation. "Actually we only managed to kill one of the two Trappers that were sent, the other got away. The one that lived was if I remember correctly from Adam's report of his fight, Plaga The Black Death. So yeah, problem not solved."
Rideat sighed as he took a seat in one of the chairs in the room. "Start from the beginning."
Another chapter down. Sorry if that last half felt a little weird but I wrote it just after I woke up this morning and I usually do all my writing in the late afternoon so it felt weird to break routine. Anyway leave a review and tell me what you thought about it. LATER.