We are back with another chapter in the story. As always RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and its associates, as always my characters are my own so let's get to the story.
Carmine woke up before everyone else, his eyes were heavy as he could not sleep. The threat of assassins sneaking into the room at night had kept him from keeping his eyes closed for more than a few minutes. Entering the bathroom he dunked his face in cold water to wake himself up, as he heard the rest of his team getting up.
Moring class was uneventful giving Carmine time to rest his eyes, Omar was asleep next to him like usual so it would not be conspicuous if he were to sleep as well. Delilah was taking thorough notes for both Omar and Carmine as Levina was muting the sound of Carmine's snoring. Delilah was worried since Carmine would never sleep in class like Omar did, but she figured that with all the new information about the Jaegers sending a team after them had him a little rattled.
Professor Oobleck was zipping around class as usual when he walked by Carmine, "Mr. Kodiak I would appreciate it if you would stay awake for my class, while your teammate tries to find new and inventive ways of trying to hide his sleeping to no avail you are a surprise." Leaning closer to Carmine he whispered, "I received an email with information about an unsavory group of people that have plans to eliminate you and your team, I know you must have been quite worried but here at beacon you are completely safe. If you must, please take a walk outside to refresh yourself I will give your partner your homework." Carmine nodded getting up, the professor pointed to Omar, "and you young man owe me another paper on the current lesson." Omar groaned loudly as Carmine walked out of the room with a worried Delilah looking on.
Carmine was walking in the courtyard taking deep breaths, seeing a bench by a tree he figured a brief break would help clear his head. As he leaned back he heard someone walk by him, they stopped taking a seat next to him. Lifting his head he saw a man wearing an elaborate black suit, the bench that was partially in shadow became covered in it. Carmine stared at the man confused until he spoke, "Hello Carmine Kodiak, my name is Schwartz. It seems like you've had a rough night." Carmine leaned away from the man slowly reaching for his scroll. Schwartz had a derby hat on that was tipped in a way that covered most of his face but Carmine could still see the smirk he had. "Even if you could call someone they would not get here in time. Don't worry I'm not here to kill you, yet." Carmine had slid to the end of the bench when he realized who he was sitting next to.
Schwartz crossed his legs resting his hands on his knee, "I would like to assure you that I handle every mission with the utmost professionalism, so my team and I will not take any hostages or throw civilians in the crossfire. We have found that the most effective way to eliminate targets cleanly is to ensure they are in an isolated area with no distractions. So your family is in no danger from us, now typically we complete jobs within a week of accepting them but since this is the first time we are tasked with eliminating children we have decided to allow you to finish the school week. After all education is very important for an aspiring hunter, a last bit of information before I go. Once the week is up we will be coming for you, regardless if you are in town or on campus we will complete the job so enjoy this week as much as you can."
Schwartz tipped his hat as he got up to leave, Carmine was drenched in a cold sweat as he saw Schwartz calmly walk away. Swallowing back his fear he shot up and lunged at Schwartz only to pass right through him, Schwartz laughed as Carmine picked himself up, "come now if it were that easy I'd have been out of a job by now." Carmine watched as Schwartz faded into the shadow of the trees. Once he was completely gone Vigil talked surprising Carmine, "Sir are you ok? I was placed in a computing loop, I could not notify the team of your situation." Carmine took a deep breath as he fell to his knees, his hands were shaking profusely as his body became drenched in sweat again.
Omar, Delilah and Levina came running out into the courtyard with their weapons drawn as Carmine had went back to sitting on the bench. Omar and Levina were looking around the area as Delilah wrapped her arms around Carmine, she did a quick check to see if he was ok. Carmine brought Delilah into his arms as he held her, his breathing became ragged as Delilah curled her head into his neck. Omar and Levina took a deep breath after they saw nothing, putting away their weapon they walked by Carmine to see how he was doing.
After telling the professor about what happened the team was brought to Ozpin's office, where Glynda, Ozpin, and Doctor Oobleck were waiting. Carmine was sitting in front of Ozpin's desk with Delilah, Omar and Levina were by the windows looking out into the school's courtyard. Ozpin took a sip from his mug as he sighed, "Carmine I am very sorry that you were confronted as you were, I had hoped that the faculty would have been enough of a deterrent for any would be attackers." Glynda tapped her scroll several times before talking, "I am assigning a pair of upperclassmen to shadow you for the next two weeks. They are some of the best we have, so rest easy." Omar scoffed, "you honestly think a pair of upper classmen can keep the team safe? Sorry Miss Goodwitch but I'm better off by myself, assign my pair to Delilah or Levina. I can take care of myself." Delilah spat, "god can you just shut up about yourself one minute, and Miss Goodwitch is trying to keep us from getting killed!" Omar crossed his arms leaning back, "If I was really serious no one could touch me in a fight, so yeah I don't need a babysitter." Levina understanding what he meant picked up one of the pieces to a brain teaser cube on Ozpin's desk, turning to him she lobbed the piece into the air at him.
Omar straightened up walking toward the group, as the piece fell it disintegrated when it was a few inches from his head. Bringing up his hand he made a replacement piece tossing it back to Levina. Delilah shrugged, "and what's that supposed to mean, we already know that you can deconstruct objects." Ozpin lowered his glasses slightly down his nose, "I am going to assume that power does not just work on objects?" Omar nodded his head, "anything but Grimm can be affected." Glynda pushed her glasses up, "well I am still going to assign you upperclassmen, if you semblance does what Ozpin is implying then I refuse to have one of my students commit murder for whatever reason." Carmine took a deep breath, "Omar, since you have the most knowledge of these kind of things, what are the chances we survive the week?" Omar shrugged, "bad, good, decent? I can't really tell since we don't know what their semblances are. I just hope to whatever deity is out there that one of them is not an elemental."
Glynda raised an eyebrow, "an elemental? That's the first time I've heard that." Ozpin nodded, "likewise, please explain." Making a seat Omar leaned back, "an elemental is someone whose semblance is tied to a specific element, kinda self-explanatory. But what makes those people special is that they can become intangible, which is something that makes it very difficult to fight. My aunt Ohara is an elemental, she controls ice." Carmine chuckled, "what is she like Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat?" Omar cocked his head to the side, "kinda, but she could easily freeze most of Vale under a sheet of ice about two feet thick. It sucks for everyone if she goes to sleep without her sleeping mask my sister made." Levina asked, "Does it syphon off aura or something?" shaking his head Omar replied, "No more like it directly suppresses her semblance so she only affects an area about three feet around her. She's too strong for anything my sister can come up with right now." Delilah asked, "She can freeze most of the city?" Omar shook his head, "sorry should have been specific, she can freeze most of the kingdom. How'd you think Hanami was built in such a short amount of time, the Grimm weren't keen on letting anyone settle down on the continent. So my aunt froze a big enough area for the city and they got to work building the wall, after that was done they started on the houses and other buildings."
Ozpin took a sip from his mug, "I had heard that Hanami was built in a short amount of time but I did not have the slightest clue as to how an entire city could be built within a year with the constant threat of the Grimm." Omar scratched the back of his head, "yeah that's supposed to be a kingdom secret. Lately I've been really bad about letting others know various thing's they shouldn't." Ozpin put his mug down and folded his hands, "do not worry, what is said in this room will not be repeated. But I need you to trust us and allow us to protect you." Omar sighed, "I'll be fine, one of my cousins is in town for a bit I was planning on visiting them." Carmine asked, "Will it be ok?" Omar nodded, "yeah, I mean I may be a rank above her in strength but if things get to hectic she can get us both out of it no problem." Ozpin smirked, "you are set on not having anyone follow you correct?" "less of a distraction, if I need to run I have to wait for the other two." Delilah rolled her eyes as they got up to leave.
In the lobby team CFVY was waiting for them along with another team, Carmine recognized them as the team that were sparring with Yatsuhashi the first day of school. The girl walked up and introduced herself, "my name Freyja, these are brothers. We will be protecting soft round Faunus behind." Delilah stood next to Carmine giving him a grope, "Freyja this soft round behind belong to me ok." Freyja smiled nodding, "wolf girl own bear, understood." Carmine grew red from embarrassment, "Ah ladies, my behind is my own thank you." Coco laughed, "Damn, someone got dibbs before me." Fox rolled his eyes as he stood next to Yatsuhashi, Velvet apologized to Carmine for Coco as he sighed. Coco and Velvet were in charge of looking after Delilah, while Yatsuhashi and Fox were left in charge of Levina. Carmine learned the Freyja was in charge of team FRZE, all four of them would be looking after Carmine as he explained Omar's unwillingness to have 'babysitters' tailing him.
Standing in front of team RWBY's door Omar took a breath before knocking, Weiss was the one to open the door. "Is Yang here I need to talk to her." Weiss narrowed her eyes, "what's going on?" "Is she here or not?" Yang towered over Weiss, "what's up?" Omar motioned his head for her to exit the room, pushing past Weiss she closed the door behind her. Putting his hand on the wall he made a solid wall blocking the door, they could both hear a saddened Ruby behind the wall blocking their door. Moving away from the room Yang asked, "What's up?" the concerned look on her face made it harder for Omar to speak. Yang studied his face, "you're going on another mission aren't you?"
Shaking his head he took a breath, "no, but it's something a bit worse." "What?" "They managed to get into the school." "Who?" "The assassin team after us, their leader waited for Carmine to go outside," "Is Carmine ok!?" "Yeah he's fine, a bit shaken up. The guy told Carmine that we can live till the end of the week, then they'll take us to a secluded area where they plan to kill us." Yang gave a nervous laugh, "you aren't going to let that happen right?" taking his hand he rubbed the side of her arm, "not if I can help it, but I just wanted you to know that I may have to do something regrettable if I'm put in a situation where it's me or them." Yang flicked him on the forehead, "hey I'd rather you come back." Omar smirked, "beaten and broken?" taking both of her hands she caressed his cheeks, "no, alive." After a brief kiss Omar lower the wall to her room and went back to his.
In the room Carmine and Delilah were sitting at his desk silently doing their homework, Levina was sitting on her bed reading a book. Velvet and Freyja were in the room off to the side doing some of their own work, when Omar walked in Freyja was in a fighting stance as Velvet was in a defensive position in front of Carmine and Delilah. Putting his hands up slowly he continued to walk into the room, the two relaxed going back to their table. Sitting down at his desk the book his father wrote stared at him, tracing a hand over the worn leather cover he picked up the book leaning back in his chair. Flipping through the book he saw that each page was dedicated to a warrior in history, while not the most well known they had a single battle that defined them as being exceptional. Putting the book down sighing he thought, 'can't believe dad wrote a history book, if I wanted to know history I would ask Delilah or check out a book.' Putting the book down with a sigh he saw a glass of water sitting on his desk, using his semblance he created an arm from the top of the desk to extend out and hand him the glass. Retracting the arm he noticed the books pages were slightly glowing.
Picking up the book again the pages lost their glow, flipping the pages he looked at the book confused until he remembered the glass. Gathering a small amount of aura in his hands the pages began to glow, words appeared glowing from behind the words that were written on the pages. Taking a breath Omar concentrated on covering the book in aura, the glowing words overshadowed the original text enough for him to read.
If you are reading this then that means that I'm dead. I'm sorry Sakura I couldn't keep my promise of watching the kids grow up. Mavis you are always my little warrior princess, no matter what I know you'll pull through whatever life throws at you. I need you to look after you brother for me while I'm gone, he can be a handful but he has a big heart please keep it safe. Donna my little business woman, I wanted you to know that you can always count on family to be there for you whenever you feel alone. You don't have to isolate yourself in your work, take a break and spend time with the people you care about. Faye my little evil genius, try not to blow up the house to often you'll give your mom gray hairs. I know the world can be an interesting place, but try not to spend so much time looking at it through a computer screen that you forget what it really looks like. I love you all so much, and I wish that I could have continued being there for you helping out where I could and giving you advice when you needed it, but I'm sorry things didn't work out like that.
Now Mavis if you're reading this I need you to hold onto this book until your brother is old enough to wield the sword I gave you, he's going to need to know what's written in the book if he wants to really learn how to use the sword.
Closing the book Omar sat in his chair silently, Delilah tapping his shoulder broke him from his thoughts, "hey you ok?" Omar nodded, "yeah why?" Delilah wiped a tear off his cheek, "you're crying." Using his sleeve he wiped his face putting the book down, "I'm fine really." Delilah looked at the book, "that the one your dad wrote?" he nodded as Delilah rubbed his shoulder, "all of us are going to bed now, if you wanna stay up to read more I'll understand and tell the others." Wiping his eyes he shook his head, "Naw I think I'll go to bed too." Delilah nodded as everyone climbed into bed, Freyja and Velvet were still in the room as everyone drifted off to sleep.