Team RWBY slept peacefully in their dorm awaiting the alarm that would signal the start of their day. For Yang,Unfortunately nature had different plans. A large thump rattled the building and sent Yang sprawling from her top bunk down to the floor.
"Ah, What the hell." Yang muttered to herself as she stood up. Yang began stretching to wake herself up when another similar thump reverberated throughout the building. The noise repeated a few more time before Yang finally realized it had to be coming from team ENDD's room. Yang's eyes flashed crimson. Yang stormed out of her room and down the hall growling and smoking(literally). When she
reached team ENDD's dorm an even larger crash almost sent her sprawling to the ground,
"You IDIOTS!" Yang yelled as she kicked open the door and barged into the room. Unfortunately, she entered to quickly and was barely able to duck under a sidekick from Darron. Before Darron could even put his foot down Allister kicked his ribs sending Darron flying into the ceiling and back down to the ground. Allister moved to curb stomp Darron but Darron curled into a ball and pushed himself
upwards slamming both heels into Allister's chin. Yang watched incredulously as the fight continued. She looked over at one of the desks. Her anger reignited when she realized that it was only 4:30 in the morning. Yang marched over and separated Darron and Allister,Who were at the moment rolling on the floor attempting to strangle the other into submission. Yang threw Darron to the other wall and lifted Allister by the collar of the t shirt he was wearing.
"Why are you guys fighting at 4 IN THE MORNING." Yang yelled at Allister. Allister just raised his hands in mock surrender.
"Sorry sunshine. We just started training like we always do. Although, in hindsight, maybe training inside wasn't our best idea." Yang kept glaring
"It wasn't. Some people are still trying to sleep."
"Sorry for interrupting your beauty sleep."Darron responded from the other side of the room. Yang yawned obviously still tired.
"It's fine just keep it down. By the way where are Max and Zade?" Darron gestured over to the wall right below the window. Zade and Max sat against the wall leaning against each other obviously in their own dream lands. Yang looked awestruck.
"How are they still asleep?!" Allister released himself from Yang's grip and stood up.
"Probably because they are used to it. Besides most days they are usually up training with us anyways." Yang looked impressed.
"Damn, you guys are serious about fighting. well I'm heading off back to bed to see what sleep I can
salvage." Yang was about to walk out the door when she turned around again.
"And, keep it down." Yang threatened as she walked back to her dorm. Darron and Allister looked at each other for a moment before bursting into uncontrollable laughter. Once the two composed themselves they looked at the door. The door was smashed open and was only dangling on one thing while the lock seemed pretty effectively smashed.
"Whew, What a woman." Allister stated. Darron just shook his head.
"Stick a dick in let's fix this door before we get in even more trouble." Darron started walking towards the door with Allister right behind him muttering
"Boy would I love to." It was now 6:00AM. Zade and Max sat in the chair at their respective desks while Darron and Allister stood back and admired their handywork.
"Done." Allister stated confidently, hoping this would be the last time they had to reassemble the lock. Darron carefully shut the door and turned the lock. Allister and Darron ducked as if they were expecting an explosion earning some amused glares from Zade and Max. after a rather anticlimactic minute Allister and Darron high fived at their accomplishment.
"Took you idiots long enough to finally fix it." Max mocked the two earning him a nice set of birds. Zade just laughed at them.
"C'mon team now that everybody is awake we can get started on training!" Darron called out. Everyone answered with a shout of support.
"Shhhhhh. Guys be quiet if we wake up yang again she may crush our wang's."Allister warned. Everyone groaned at his rather shitty joke.
"Ok then it's decided. First training exercise will be a smacking around event. Starting with Allister." Allister slumped in regret as the team made their way outside(quietly) to begin training. Weiss woke up in happy mood. Why? because Ruby had forgotten to set her alarm clock sparing weiss from the usual morning whistle. Yang was already up and in the shower and Blake was up on her bed reading a book with a black cover which title Weiss couldn't make out. Weiss decided to not bother her as she seemed unusually interested with this book rather than her others. At that moment an idea sparked in Weiss mind. She slowly creeped her way over to Ruby's desk and slid open the top drawer. Weiss
began to laugh menacingly to herself as she pulled out Ruby's standard wake up whistle. Weiss stood on one of the chairs and leaned real close to Ruby's face and blew...hard. The sudden screech from the whistle caused Ruby to wake like a rocket. Literally, using her semblance Ruby bounced around the room a few times before landing back on her bed. Weiss had started to laugh but was quickly silenced as she tumbled backwards off the chair due to Ruby's tailwind. Weiss hit the
ground with a thud.
"Oh my god Weiss I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for you to fall. The whistle was just so loud and I just freaked out and." Weiss held a hand out to stop Ruby's blabbering.
"It's fine it was my fault anyway." Weiss walked towards the bathroom as Yang stepped out with one towel around her and another around her hair.
"Darn, I feel like I missed something good." Yang complained. Weiss responded with a growl from weiss. Blake just shifted herself so she was deeper under her covers. Later, after all of team RWBY was ready they headed down the hall to pick up team ENDD for breakfast. Ruby dashed ahead with her semblance. Ruby noticed the door was slightly open and threw the door wide open before announcing.
"Good morning team ENDD. Who's ready for a wonderful... day… of… looking….around." Ruby's sudden change in tone caught the attention of the rest of her team.
"Ruby what's up?" Blake asked.
"They're gone…" Ruby's response caused her team to run into the room. Nobody was in the room however. Ruby started to freak out,
"Oh man. How could we let them go. We were trusted with keeping an eye on them and we couldn't even make it 24 hours before losing them." Yang waved a hand in front of Ruby's face to capture her attention.
"Rubes it's fine. it shouldn't be too hard to find them." Ruby looked at Yang puzzled at what she meant. Yang turned and gave Weiss a thumbs up. Weiss immediately whipped out her scroll and activated the special button. Immediately Zade's cries could be heard from outside the building.
"Found them." Weiss stated bluntly. The girls rushed from the room and towards team ENDD. When the girls finally reached the front of the dormitory they immediately stopped. They all were equally confused by what they were witnessing. Allister was tied to one of the trees. Darron,Max,and Zade, who was still slightly smoking, took turns punching and kicking Allister while he was unable to defend himself. Ruby was the first to speak up.
"What is going on! why are you guys beating up Allister!" Team ENDD looked over and much to team
RWBY's surprise Allister is the one who responded
"It's ok guys. This is just one of our training exercises." Blake looked a little skeptical.
"And what could you possibly be training for by stringing Allister to a tree and beating him senseless." Darron answered her.
"There are three things being trained here. 1: not only are we currently trying to increase Allisters pain threshold, we are also ensuring that no matter how badly anyone tortures him,should he be caught, he will never give up sensitive information about the team. 2: We are training in team trust because we are having Allister express his full trust knowing that we would never do anything too far
beyond what he could handle. 3: We are training in control. We need to try and damage Allister as much as possible without doing anything that would affect his ability to function as part of the team." Team RWBY looked shocked at the complexity and thought put into Darron's answer.
"And all of you take turns getting beaten?" Weiss asked. Team ENDD just nodded,
"Wow, these guys are pretty badass if they are willing to do this for the team and Darron must be a badass leader to have developed exercises that not only benefit a single member of the team but always supports some group dynamic." Ruby mumbled to herself. Max apparently overheard Ruby's mumblings.
"Don't worry Ruby." Max told her reassuringly.
"I'm sure you're also a pretty good leader. You just don't have the same level of experience at it as Darron does." Max was happy to be encouraging even though this exercise had been implemented into their routine within a week of the four members of team ENDD even meeting.
"Anyway, c'mon let's go get some breakfast guys." Yang suggested. Both teams agreed with her and began making their way back to the cafeteria.
"By the way why are you wearing your combat gear I thought you couldn't on Beacon property?" Team ENDD stared at Yang with eyes that spoke 'Really?' and implied that all the members of team RWBY also appeared to be in their basic combat attire. As the two teams rounded the corner they forgot
something slightly important. Allister was still tied to the tree.
"C'mon guys. Seriously. I mean it. It's not fucking funny anymore guys." Allister called out and when
nobody returned after a minute he flexed his muscles straining against the rope. The rope yielded easily to Allisters immense strength and Allister started chasing after his friends. Breakfast was rather uneventful except for Allister bursting in barraging team ENDD with a string of curse words, some of which even Yang had never heard. After the two teams had finished Ruby jumped on the table and began announcing the plan for the day.
"Alright teams. We only have one day before classes so each of us is going to show our counterpart around the school today."
"Wait, Why do we have to do this individually? Why don't we just show them around as a team?" Weiss asked.
"Because, It would be so boring if we all just walked around in a group. Besides this way we can all get to know a little bit more about the person we will be spending a lot of time with." Everyone nodded in agreement and since Weiss couldn't find anything wrong with Ruby's plan they left team JNPR and went their separate directions. Max walked casually down the halls of Beacon's main academic building while ruby bounced all around the hall pointing out everything.
"This is professor Oobleck's room, and this is professor Port's room,and this is professor Peach's room." Max grinned at Ruby's obvious enthusiasm. Once they reached the end of the building Ruby started to pull Max towards a single story gray building.
"C'mon Max I really want to show you something." Ruby whined still tugging on
Max's arm. Max started to laugh.
"Alright, only because you asked so nicely." Max allowed Ruby to drag him over to the building. Ruby used her scroll to unlock the door. As Max reached out to pull the door open he felt a sudden weight on his back and hands covering his chuckled.
"Ruby? Why are you hanging on my back."
"Because I want it to be a surprise." Ruby responded seemingly bursting with excitement.
"Alright, but you better be a pretty good pilot." Max shrugged as he headed off into the building. Max stumbled through the building careful to use his hands after having Ruby guide him head first into the fourth wall that day. After each hit Ruby would begin apologizing profusely and Max would again reassure her that he was fine. Max went to turn a corner on Ruby's orders when he heard her yell out.
"No! wait, Max stop!" It was too late Max had already missed the first step of the stairs and began falling. Ruby let go of Max and began to fly through the air. Ruby closed her eyes and curled up in a ball ready to brace the impact of the wall. However, the impact never came. Ruby timidly opened her eyes to see Max holding her up. Max lowered Ruby until their faces were nearly even.
"Maybe you should let me drive." Ruby blushed and hid her face in her hands. Max set Ruby down and stood up. Ruby walked over to a thick set of doors. Ruby used her scroll to open the door.
"Welcome to the beacon firing range." Ruby announced. A lack of response from Max caused Ruby to turn around worried.
"Max, are you...are you crying?"
"Yes." came Max's answer "It's so beautiful" Tears of joy began to make their way down his face, and rightly so. The Beacon firing range came complete with 30 different types of moving targets. 15 different courses with 20 types of enemies. and had 25 separate firing lanes up to 3000 feet. Ruby stood next to Max with the same look of appreciation.
"Isn't it though." While Max was wiping the joyous tears from his eyes Ruby lifted a metal sliding door up. Behind it was a wheel with any kind of projectile weapon available. Max's jaw dropped briefly. Max
darted at near Ruby speeds and began inspecting the weapons rack.
"You know I'm not really supposed to be using these guns right?" Max asked.
"It'll be fine it's not like you've killed anyone or something." Max's eyes widened at Ruby's nonchalant response.
"Yeah...right." Luckily Ruby didn't pick up on Max's nervous tone.
"Anyway are you sure you want to do this. Ozpin probably won't like it?" Max asked. Ruby turned to him with a smirk.
"What he doesn't know won't hurt him right." Max smirked back at Ruby before turning to the massive arsenal presented before him.
"Bam,motherfucker!" Max yelled as he fell yet another target with his L115A3 AWM bolt action sniper rifle. He and Ruby were locked in fierce competition. Max quickly slipped the magazine out of his rifle as he heard the bolt on crescent rose pull back to load another shot. But before Ruby could pull the trigger Max had already reloaded,recocked,and blasted away another target. This went on for a few more minute before the systems automated voice yelled time. Then the scores were projected down the range. IN 150 seconds. Max: 64 kills, 45 headshots. Ruby: 57 kills 27 headshots. Record, Max: 11, Ruby: 6. Max left the stall and sat next down next to Ruby on the bench.
"Damn, Max you're pretty good at this." Ruby complemented.
"You're not bad yourself. why if I had to guess yar the best shot yee has seen in awhile." Max's hand immediately snapped up to cover his mouth, Unfortunately, his slip up had not gone unnoticed.
"Was that… a pirate voice?" Ruby asked curiously.
"Yeah. Why?" Max was unprepared for when Ruby started laughing.
"Oh my god, That is so cool. You talk like a pirate."
"Yeah I try to keep it under wraps mostly. It's pretty hard to get people to take you seriously when you sound like that." Max stated. Ruby was still curious.
"But why do you even have that pirate voice?" Max left out a breath.
"It's a long story." Max's attempt to dodge the question failed when Ruby slid down the bench and rested head on Max's shoulder.
"Good thing I have plenty of time." Max was surprised at both Ruby's actions and her words.
"Ok, The reason my real voice has a pirate accent is because I was actually a pirate. I was born on a ship somewhere in the sea between Minstral and Atlas. My parents were the captains of the ship. It was an old ship as I remember, very 1750's style yet still unnaturally effective. I spent everyday on that ship learning to sail, navigate and anything having to with being as great a pirate as my parents." Ruby looked up at Max.
"That's cool but how did you end up with team ENDD?" Her soft tone only encourage Max to continue.
"It happened when I was about 12. As pirates we obviously did pirate things ,like raiding ships and stealing their money,weapons,and dust. One day we came across a loaded Schnee dust company freighter. We immediately set upon capturing it. We used our cannons to disable it and the crew rushed aboard. We were met with unnaturally hard resistance. The crew did their best to secure what they could while I and some of the others worked to support. We were over ran and while we were all running one of the Schnee guards grabbed me and started dragging me away from my ship. My
mother ran to grab me but one of the other guards shot her in the stomach. She collapsed and my parent's crewmates grabbed her and pulled her back. I haven't seen my parents since and don't even know if my mother is alive. While I was in the Schnee captivity they beat me and called me a useless leech on society. Eventually they must have grown bored of the their actions towards me so they decided to throw me off the ship. One of them was kind enough to give me a life jacket so I wouldn't drown. For the first couple days I looked for any sign of land but as time went on I was unable to stay awake. l went into unconsciousness and then days passed and I woke up to see three men standing above me on the shore near a forest. They had found me washed up on the shores of Minstral and became my new family. The real reason I disguise my voice is that it reminds me of my past, and of the parents who I don't even know are alive, much less will ever get the chance to see again." Ruby felt her heart hurt hearing recollect his rather sad past. Max was surprised when Ruby wrapped her arms around his chest in a tight hug.
"I know how you feel." Was all Ruby said.
"What?" Max asked not fully understanding what she meant.
"I know what it feels like to lose people who are important to you. When… I was younger… My mother went on a mission… She's promised she come back like she always does. Except this time she didn't. She had been killed. It was the worst experience I had ever had. But you can't give up hope Max. At least you have hope that your parents are still out there and can be found. You should
never give up that hope." Max just shifted himself and hugged Ruby back.
"Well as kind as those words are they still don't change one thing." Max whispered.
"What." Ruby replied. A large grin grew on Max's face.
"I can still outshoot you with any kind of gun." Max was suddenly pushed back as Ruby used him as a launch pad to run back to the weapon wheel screaming.
"You are so on!" Max smiled before chasing after the small red girl.
After breakfast Zade followed weiss dutifully throughout the individual academic buildings. Weiss was indignant about giving Zade a full rundown of all the rules,important and trivial, of the academy. Weiss was slightly unnerved at the level of attention he was giving her. It was highly unusual, considering who her teammates were, for anyone to even appear like they were taking her words to heart. Weiss continued her lecture for what seemed to be at least another hour. Zade looked just as interested as he had when she had was seriously concerned now. Nobody ever followed, much less listened to her talk on better study strategies. Weiss saw the school cafe and immediately dragged Zade inside. Zade just let her guide him without any resistance. The cafe was relatively empty save for the staff and a
few stragglers. The place was quite obviously designed by Coco. It's mostly brown color scheme and impeccable sense of design was evident of that. Weiss moved over to one of the tables. Zade was barely able to sit down across from her before she began her interrogation.
"Give it up. What's the plan." Zade just raised an eyebrow in curiosity and smirked as he expected a rather amusing response from the heiress.
"How are you distracting yourself. Nobody had ever paid attention to any of my lectures or such for more than 2 minutes before complaining that I was putting them to sleep. There's no way you could have been paying attention for the last 3 hours(Weiss is scary like that)." Zade's suspicions were confirmed. He was amused by Weiss's outburst.
"What? Is is not possible for me to interested in what you speak of. Especially someone of your inherent skill and intelligence." Weiss was taken aback by both his answer and the succeeding complement.
"Why, Thank you I do try my best." Weiss replied.
"Yeah," Zade countered. "I bet the Schnee household wouldn't have it any other way." Weiss's face dropped at the mention of her family but quickly sprung back to it's usual stern gaze.
"Regardless, I'm still going to have to quiz you on everything I was talking about. Just to be sure." Zade laughed at the heiresses always professional attitude.
"Well if we're going to be doing that why don't we make it a little fun." Weiss looked confused, and quite honestly a little scared.
"What kind of fun." Weiss answered. Zade was quick up the slight tinge of nervousness. "Don't worry princess. I'm not Allister,or Yang." Weiss let out a large sigh of relief as Zade continued. "One question. That's all it is one question. If I answer every single question right I can ask you any question I want and you must answer truthfully. If I get even one wrong though. You can ask me anything." Weiss's face contorted in thought. How bad could a single question be she thought to herself.
"Alright you've got a deal." Zade smiled at the heiresses agreement and the game began. "According to Beacon infirmary protocols what is the limited amount of time one can be considered injured for a flesh wound?" Weiss smiled smugly as Zade's face began to concentrate. They were deep into the game. Even though Weiss put on a smug expression she was secretly freaking out on the inside. Zade had already answered the 90 such questions correctly and Weiss was beginning to run out. Not necessarily because of the question he would ask but rather that her competitive spirit had kicked in and she was determined not to lose. Zade looked up from his though and began to answer.
"Depends on the type of injury. Blade related between 1 2 weeks based of depth and length. Bullet injuries can be from 1 4 weeks based on placement and caliber. Major dust related injuries are anywhere from 3 weeks to 11 weeks depending on the amount of dust and type of used as well as the particular kind of dust injury and whether or not any dust has remained in the patient's system."
Weiss's heart dropped as Zade laid yet another correct answer in front of her. How the hell did he retain practically everything I've talked about all day. Weiss's thoughts were interrupted by Zade's taunting.
"What's the matter heiress are you running out of questions for little old me." Even though Weiss knew the taunting was in good fun it reignited the competitive fire in her. And this time it burned with a vengeance.
"Alright, final question" Weiss declared. Zade leaned back in his chair seemingly bating Weiss.
"What is the 3rd best way to study for a grimm studies exam should the first 2 ever not be available?" Zade's eyes widened. 'AH shit shit shit.' He thought to himself as he scoured what he could remember of Weiss's speech to find the answer. Weiss could tell Zade was flailing for an answer to her
last question so she decided to go up to the counter and get herself coffee. While Weiss headed to the counter Zade was intensely concentrating.
"Fuck" Zade muttered realizing her had finally been beaten at his own game. When Weiss returned she saw the defeated look on his face and it immediately brightened up her day.
"Hey, did you finally come up with an answer?" She asked with more pep than she had had the whole day.
"You don't need to rub it in, but yes I don't have an answer I guess you win this one Snow queen."
"Hey!" Came Weiss's natural response.
"I will admit you performed far beyond my expectations." Zade dipped his head in acknowledgement.
"Now it is time for me to ask you a question. What is your past?" Zade shrugged obviously prepared for the question. "It's not the prettiest of such if you'd imagine." Weiss leaned forward and took a sip of her drink.
"It's ok. I'm sure it won't change my view of you that much." Zade looked content with that
answer.
"I was born in Mistral. In a very run down neighborhood just outside the city. We lived in a tiny one room apartment. My mother was in the nicest terms a prostitute. She told me my father abandoned the two of us before she had even known she was pregnant. It was tough. We barely had enough to live on. I wasn't exactly the most popular in the area either(honed my fighting skills plenty though). When I was eleven, I guess one of my mother's 'clients' wasn't particularly happy with her. He broke into our house and started trashing the house. I ran and hid in a hole we couldn't afford to fix inside one of the cabinet's by the stove. I watched him and my mother argue for a while. She started begging for her life. The client just shouldered his shotgun and sprayed my mother's brain's all over the room." Weiss's eyes widened in horror. She went to apologize but was stopped by Zade. "Don't apologize. I've already come to terms with it and have moved on. Anyway, then the client started looking for me. I pushed myself further into the hole and opened up the other side of the wall. I made the decision that had nothing left to live for and all that usual it's all about me bullshit. I climbed down the pipes in between the walls. I managed to get out of the building unnoticed. I lived the homeless life for 10 months. I perfected moving silently and the art of pickpocketing. I was finally able to afford the materials I needed to craft my weapons based on the blueprints I found in a book I had stolen. Unfortunately, in the process of learning to steal I had become one of the cops highest priorities. After one too many close calls I left the city and set out to find an isolated life in the forest. I wandered for about a month when I stumbled across a camp. That's the day I met Darron and Allister. It was only about 2 months later that we found Max washed up on the beach." Weiss was stunned at how openly he told his story. "The one thing I will tell you though. If I ever manage to find my father I promise I will make his life far worse than any living hell one can experience." As Zade concluded Weiss took a moment to process everything before responding.
"I understand." She whispered mostly to herself.
"What was that princess?" Zade asked barely hearing what Weiss said.
"I said I understand what it is like to hate a parent and want to make them feel hell." Zade chuckled
"Yeah I'm sure you do." Weiss quickly finished her coffee before standing.
"Well it's getting rather late I believe we should return." Zade gestured to the door.
"After you princess." As they headed back Weiss looked back at Zade.
"One of these days you're going to teach me how the hell you remembered all that stuff so quickly." Zade grinned.
"One day ice queen one day."
"Hey!" Weiss shouted at Zade's insult which only caused him to burst into laughing. "Why?! Why! You dolt!" Weiss stomped her foot and annoyedly walked away followed by a rather pleased with himself Zade.
Yang was currently Hanging onto Allisters back as she pointed out some of her favorite places around the Beacon campus. Yang had eaten a lot at breakfast so she decided to have Allister give her a piggyback ride. At first Allister was a little hesitant but with a quick wave of her scroll he suddenly became so much more agreeable. Yang was surprised at how easily Allister whipped her onto his back. As they walked Yang rested her head on Allister's shoulder.
"Man! the weather is really good up here." Allister laughed.
"Yeah but It can get a little thin sometimes." Yang laughed at Allister's continuation of her joke. After pointing out a few more places Yang asked Allister to let her down.
"Well ok, Yang I... we've been together for a long time but I just think it's not going to work out. It's not you it's me." Allister's sarcastic answer received him a smack on the back of the head before Yang scolded him, laughing the entire time.
"Idiot! I meant put me down on the ground." Allister laughed as he reached up and managed weaved his hand through Yang's thick hair until he grabbed her collar. Allister lifted Yang up and over his back with
one hand and set her down in front of him.
"Eep!" Yang let out a squeak in surprise at Allister's inherent strength. Yang just crossed her arms and turned away from him as soon as she felt solid ground. Allister only had enough time to grin nervously before he felt the familiar feel of electricity coursing through his body.
"Ahhhh!" Allister cried out as he fell to one knee then onto his side. Yang decided to show some mercy and stop Allister's punishment. Yang leaned down so that her face was level with Allister's face as he picked himself up. Their faces stopped right in front of each others and Yang broke into a huge grin.
"C'mon slowpoke I want to show you something really cool." By the time Allister had processed the whole situation Yang had a pretty good head start. Allister saw Yang turn a corner and decided to
take a shortcut. Allister Rushed to the nearest building and placed his foot up on one of the windows. Allister pushed up and effectively jumped himself up 5 floors where he grabbed onto another window sill. Using only his arms Allister managed to lift himself up onto the window sill and jump again landing gracefully onto the roof. Allister quickly made his way diagonally across the roof and allowed himself to drop off the side. Yang screamed as a shadow caused her to look up and see Allister jumping of easily a 15 story building. Allister landed right in front of her and bent his legs to absorb the impact. As Allister righted himself he flashed Yang a toothy grin and a thumbs up.
"How slow was that?" Allister's mocking was cut short as Yang kicked his shin...HARD. Allister's leg flew out from under him and he landed face first as Yang yelled at him.
"What the shit were you thinking! You could have been killed. Do you know how dangerous that was?"
"Yang." Yang was stopped by Allister.
"I'm fine. Besides I thought you were a thrill seeker."
"That doesn't mean I like watching my friends throw themselves off of buildings. Especially when I don't know what they're capable of." Yang countered. Allister conceded.
"Ok where to then." Yang happy that their trip was back on track skipped ahead really confusing Allister until he felt the shock once again.
"Maybe we should take that thing away from you!" Allister called from his spot on the ground.
"Come on you big cry baby let's go." Yang taunted him. Allister and followed Yang into a nearby building. Allister could hear metal clanging and grunts of exertion as he followed Yang
into the Beacon gym.
"I'm shocked you would bring me here." Allister said sarcastically.
"Of course I would. It's probably my favorite place in the school. C'mon spot me." Yang pulled Allister to a bench press and started placing weights on the bar. Yang laid back and started to press the weight as Allister stood over her. Yang's first 30 reps went relatively quickly but she soon started to falter. Yang continued to press on as stubborn as she is until she felt the bar begin to slip from her grasp from the combination of sweat and weight. She gasped as the bar came falling towards her face. Fortunately Allister was able to catch and reset the bar before Yang could be injured. Yang's smiled as she stood up.
"Hell yeah! 60 reps at 250 pounds. A new record. Thanks for saving me." Allister just started adjusting the weights.
"No problem, now watch this" Yang turned around. and was shocked at the amount of weight on the bar.
"Al, That's like 1500 pounds are you sure?" Yang's question was answered as Allister started bench with unnatural ease. 50,100,150 reps and Allister was still holding strong. Yang stared wide eyed and slack jawed at Allister's impressive feat of strength. The entire gym seemed to notice and was gathered around Allister cheering him on. At about 200 reps Allister re racked the weight and
sat up. The crowd around him applauded his achievement. Allister looked to Yang who still hadn't moved from her spot and flashed her a smile.
"Man I can't believe that's all the weight you have. Pretty weak if you ask me." The crowd nearly fell over at Allister's statement. Allister laughed and dispersed the group. After everyone had left Allister noticed Yang was still sitting still. Allister gently tapped her head with his finger.
"Anybody home?" Yang shook her head to bring her back to reality.
"Allister how the hell can you lift like that. Your semblance must be amazingly powerful." Yang's sudden outburst was cut short by Allister's chuckling. Yang looked at him quizzically until he answered.
"Actually. My semblance is entirely cut off if you remember I just have naturally freakish strength."
"No way! You are just that strong naturally. Man your parents must also be monsters of strength."
"Shame you won't ever get to meet them though."
"What?" Yang already starting to know where this is going.
"I actually never knew my parents. I was left at the step of a temple in northern Vale where I was raised by the monks of the region. It wasn't bad actually. I trained along with the other students in martial arts and weapons combat. I asked plenty of times who my parents were but even the monks did not know the answer. Life was actually great and my grand strength allowed me to help around the temple all the time. I planned to actually become a Monk like the teachers in the temple. Unfortunately, that would never come to fruition. I was 10. I was practicing sparring against one of the students who was at least 16 by my memory. There was an accident and I was excommunicated from the temple." Yang's face fell into one of empathy as she placed a hand on Allister's shoulder while
he continued.
"After I left I spent the 2 years wandering around Atlas using my strength to complete odd jobs for people and protecting those in trouble. Eventually, I saved up enough money and bought a ticket to Mistral. When I got there I was treated just as coldly as I was in Atlas. People only spoke to me to use my services, paid the lowest amount possible, and refuse to take me in or help me find anywhere to stay. Eventually people's disdain for me increased and soon no one even asked me for help." Yang clenched her fist. Angry that people could be so cruel especially to someone so young. "One day." Allister pressed on." I was sitting in an alley hungry and cold. I was sure that would be the place that I died. The sun came down on my face and I allowed it to blind me so that I wouldn't see the mess that I had become. A dark figure stepped into my view. I opened my eyes to see Darron standing above me. He looked almost as bad as I did. He talked to me for a while and asked me if I would like to join him. We instantly became the best of friends, brothers even. We retreated into the forest. We set up a small camp where we trained, and learned all we could. 6 months went by and suddenly Zade came stumbling into our camp. He joined our group pretty quickly and his stealth proved very
useful. Not long after that we were down at the shore when we noticed Max washed up on the beach. We brought him back to our camp and he decided to stay with us. That's the story of team ENDD." Yang didn't know how to feel. Allister was so open and quite frankly uncaring about his past.
"Don't you ever wish you could meet you parents one day?" Yang asked.
"Hmmm...Nah" Allister replied. Yang started at him.
"WHY! Why wouldn't you want to see your parents again. My mother left me in the care of my father as a child and I've never seen her but I still want to see her just to know. How can you be so carefree about all this stuff."
"It's easy Yang." Allister could see Yang starting to become sad.
"I don't want to find them because I already have a family that easily could out do any of them. I don't care because as far as I'm concerned they aren't even worthy to stand before me. You should feel the same way. Instead of focusing on what you're missing out on why don't you start to think about all the thing's your mother is missing out on, A strong, beautiful daughter who brings light to any situation." Yang had managed to relax and focused on the words Allister had spoken to her.
"You're right!" Yang exclaimed. "She should be the one mad she never got meet someone as great as me!" Allister laughed.
"Good to see your back to your usual humbleness." Yang glared at Allister. Allister stood up and headed to the door.
"C'mon yang this was fun but I think we've deprived the others of our glorious presence too long." Yang laughed as she followed Allister back to their friends. Naturally the first thing that Blake did when the group split up was to grab Darron by the collar and drag him across the campus to the school library. She pulled him up to the second floor and back into one of the corners. When Blake was sure nobody could hear them she spun Darron around in front of her.
"What the fuck Darron?" How the hell are you still alive." Blake quietly scolded him. Darron gestured for Blake to sit and they leaned against the bookshelf. "Darron I know most of the story." Blake began before Darron could say anything." I remember our time in the White Fang. I remember us being best friends. I remember when we went to the protest in minstral when we were 11. The protest itself where a anti faunus movement began slaughtering all of the faunus. I remember how we all ran, fleeing for our lives. You grabbed my hand and pulled me through a couple of backstreets and managed to get us into the forest. I remember the man who had cut us off, How you fought him and managed to win and steal his gun. You led me to the small cabin. You assured me and told me to continue running. I remember standing behind a tree scared as I heard the men breach the cabin and all the gunfire that followed. Then the cabin exploded and I thought you were dead. I ran back to the
white fang devastated and was there until I left. But how? How did you escape? Where did you go? Why didn't you come back?" Darron wrapped an arm around the shoulder of a nearly crying blake and pulled her close.
"It's ok Blake." Darron tried to comfort her. "While I was waiting for them to show up I found a large supply of burn dust in the basement and a rigged a small device just incase. When the came in I we started to shoot at them. There we're a lot of them probably 20 25. Fortunately the table was thick enough to keep me alive at first. I knew I was going to eventually die so I made a bit of a gamble. I climbed halfway up the chimney and set off the bomb. The force of the blast launched me high into the air and upon crashing back down I blacked out. I woke up with a broken arm and some fractured ribs. I searched and searched but couldn't find anyone willing to help an injured faunus. I got lucky and managed to steal a simple medical textbook to heal my injuries. I wandered from city to city using the skills I had gained from my time in the white fang to survive. Not long after that I met Allister. He was alone and near death in an alleyway. I invited him to join me and we moved out into the forest. Zade eventually wandered into our camp and became part of out group, and Max washed up on a beach not too far from where we were set up. We started training and learning. Stealing books and weapons to enhance upon the training we already had." Blake had seemed to calm down considerably the more Darron told the story. Once he had finished Blake sat up off his shoulder and wrapped Darron in a hug.
"Whatever the case, I'm glad to have you back Darron." Darron smiled and returned the hug.
"So, tell me about yourself. Are you still the bookworm that I remember or have you found yourself a new hobby?" Darron asked.
"Nope, Still love books above almost anything. I've just started this new series and I think it is
just fantastic. It's called the Hunter's Ascent Trilogy and I just finished the first book. The character development is a little sloppy but the symbolism employed is just excellent." Darron chuckled.
"A simple yes would have sufficed. The literature lecture was a little unprecedented though." Blake just shrugged.
"I guess my team is just rubbing off on me a little. Now Darron are you studying all the time like you used to?"
"Of course, I always love learning new stuff about the world. In fact here's something right now." Blake laughed as Darron pulled out a book about styles and muses for art around 100 250 years ago. Blake simply pulled out the small book she always kept with her and began reading as well. The two continued to read and Darron eventually found himself wedged between the end of one bookcase and one against the wall. Blake laid perpendicularly with her head on Darron's chest. They stayed like that for a while before blake spoke up again.
"You know, You never did answer why you didn't come back to the white fang after the riot. I really missed you." Darron answered calmly.
"We just went different ways. I wasn't very into the eradication of an entire species that was beginning to to gain rapid speed among the white fang core. So, when the opportunity arose I disappeared leaving the white fang to only assume I'd been killed and they wouldn't waste the time or effort hunting me. I knew that you hadn't figured it out yet and that convincing you to leave the only home you've ever known would be impossible." Blake nodded in understanding.
"But still you didn't contact me at all." Darron looked at Blake with eyes that were easy to read.
"Yeah," Blake muttered. "I guess we shouldn't have risked it." Darron just reached down and began scratching Blake's ears behind her bow. A low purr filled the air as Blake instinctively arched her back to move her head closer to Darron's hand. She suddenly realized what was happening and covered her face with her hands blushing in embarrassment.
"I guess some things never change do they Blake."
"No, I guess they don't." Blake answered her voice muffled by her laughed as Blake just pulled her book up close to her face and began reading in an attempt to ignore Darron.
"So, your team seems pretty interesting what have you guys been doing together?" Blake's question caused Darron to unnoticably tense before he just shrugged the question off.
"Not much actually. We trained a lot, killed some grimm that got too close to the camp. Did a couple of jobs for people in the area when hunters were too far away. All in all it was a pretty simple life." Darron hated lying to Blake. Especially about something so huge, but Darron knew Blake would wholeheartedly disapprove of team ENDD's actual employment and all the people who have fallen victim to it. Blake seemed content with his answer.
"You guys must have trained a lot to be accepted here without formal training." Darron smirked.
"You don't have any either if you remember." Blake rolled her eyes.
"I know that but at least I was trained by some one and learned in the White Fang. You on the other hand had to practice and learn with nobody but you team." Darron shrugged his shoulder.
"Yeah, That's true I guess but yeah we did train a lot. Probably was for hours a day. We came up with some pretty effective training techniques along the way to." That piqued Blake's interest.
"What effective techniques?"
"You'd probably be better off not knowing those they aren't exactly the safest way to train." Blake glared at Darron but he was unyielding in his silence. Blake just laid back down and began reading, still annoyed at Darron's resilience.
"Blake tell me about team JNPR." Blake looked at Darron puzzled,
"Why do you want to know?"
"I'm just curious. I've figured out your team pretty much but I haven't quite learned team JNPR yet."
"Ok," Blake responded. "there's not much to tell. Jaune is the leader and he's got spirit but is still pretty behind in skill, fortunately he's been getting trained by Pyrrha. Pyrrha, on the other hand, is the top of the team she's ridiculously skilled. Nora is pretty easy to understand. She may seem complex but when you really get down to it she's one of 2 things. She's either hungry or wants to smash
something with her hammer. Ren is quite, but rather understanding, He's quick in a fight and loyal but doesn't say much." Darron contemplated what Blake had just told him.
"Thanks Blake That's useful to know especia- ." Darron was cut off by Blake's scroll ringing. Blake pulled it off of her belt and answered it.
"What… At the fountain… 7:30… Great, sounds like a plan. I'll see you there...Love you too bye." That last sentence captured Darron's attention and he looked at Blake obviously asking who she was talking to.
"Sorry Darron, That was my boyfriend Sun. You met him the other day. He's the leader of team SSSN. Anyway… He wants to go on a date later tonight so I need to go get ready. I'm glad we had this chance to catch up Darron." With that Blake left the library before Darron could say anything.
Darron just continued laying on the floor staring up at the ceiling.
"Fuck." Darron murmured to himself before pulling himself to his feet and heading to see if his team
had had any better luck than he had today. Darron eventually decided to skip dinner and walked around the campus on his own. He wasn't paying attention and he found himself near the front of the campus when he heard a voice call out.
"Sun!" Darron immediately identified it as Blake and made the mistake of looking up to see Blake and Sun share an embrace and a quick kiss before Sun began leading off to wherever he would be taking them for the night. Darron clenched his fist and a low growl emitted from his throat. He turned and headed back towards the woods at the edge of the campus. He walked between the trees until he found one thick enough and tall enough for him to release his anger and jealousy upon. Darron Slammed a first fist into the tree, followed by another, and another, and another. Darron continued to punch the tree until all the bark from where he was hitting it had been torn off and the ground around him was littered with splinters. Darron's hands were torn and bleeding but he refused to stop. Only after he had punched a sizeable crater in the tree did he decide to stop. Darron looked at his hands and could see the blood flowing out of them . Darron used his aura to stop the bleeding and close up part of the wound. He wiped away the tears that were threatening to form in his eyes before turning back to the Darron opened the door to his room he was greeted by his team.
"Hey! Darron." Zade called out.
"We missed you buddy." Max continued.
"So how did that thing go with Blake?" Allister asked. In reply Darron just raised one of his hands that was covered in dry blood and shredded skin.
"That well huh." Allister stated. "Don't worry about it I'm sure she'll figure it out eventually." Darron laid on his bed. Before shooting up confused. The team laughed.
"Boss, didn't you notice that some came in here today and replaced that midget we had with some real bed's." Max called out. Darron just laughed at his own actions before addressing his team.
"So how did your little adventures go today?" Allister was the first to answer.
"Pretty good. Yang seems to be a fun person to hang out with. A little trigger happy on that shock collar thing though." Everyone snickered at the thought of Allister being electrocuted.
"All in all though she's gonna be fun to be around for the time we're here." Allister concluded. Zade was next to answer.
"Weiss is rather intelligent. Quite polite and pristine to. Unlike you louts with whom I so frequently accompany myself with." Team ENDD glared at Zade.
"You literally live with us 24/7 what the hell do you mean accompany." Darron jokingly accused.
"You all know what I mean you idiots. Besides she's a schnee she could be a very powerful ally to keep close to the chest." Zade defended.
"Yeah I bet you'd really like to keep her 'close to the chest'." Allister mocked with a set of air quotes to insinuate the inappropriate nature of his words. Zade swiftly extended an arm across the table and smacked Allister upside the head, Darron sighed at the two and looked at Max, asking him with his eyes to start his own story and hopefully shut the two of them up.
"My day was pretty cool. Me and Ruby just spent the whole day down at the firing range shooting shit to see who was the better shot." Everyone looked at Max expectantly.
"Of course I won." Max validated. "What you don't think shooting for 3 hours a day everyday doesn't eventually make you into a ridiculously fast and accurate shooter. Ruby is very nice by the way. She seems to be one of those people who cares deeply for her friends. She's also pretty hyperactive and kind of cute. She definitely appears to have earned her spot into this academy early." Darron nodded contently at the stories his team had told him.
"Alright guys." Darron addressed his team. "I don't know about you but we have classes tomorrow(Oh God) And I would like to be ready so I'm going to sleep." Darron walked over and fell back onto his bed, snoring before his body had even settled. Allister, Zade and Max followed his example and the entire team was asleep within 20 minutes. Team RWBY sat in their room keeping themselves occupied. Ruby and Yang were playing a fighting game, while Weiss was preparing herself for classes
tomorrow. Suddenly they heard the door handle turn and Blake appear to try and walk quietly into the room. The other members of team RWBY turned to look at their new arrival.
"Sorry guys." Blake apologized.
"I thought you guys would already be asleep."
"It's cool. How did your date with Sun go?" Ruby asked.
"It went well. It wasn't anything to special." Blake's response immediately cued Yang.
"Are you sure you guys didn't 'monkey around' a bit while you were gone." Blake and Weiss
glared at Yang for her line of questioning as well as another crappy pun.
"Well, Now that everyone's here it's time for the team meeting! I want to know everything about the member of team ENDD you were with today so we can increase team dynamic and cooperation with them."
"You just want to know things so they'll be your friends right. " Weiss accused. Ruby laughed nervously and scratched the back of her head. Ruby closed her eyes and randomly pointed somewhere in the room. When Ruby opened her eyes she was pointing directly at Yang.
"Yang, You get to go first." Yang nodded.
"Allister isn't that hard to understand. He's a pretty cool guy and is really funny. He's got ridiculous strength, I mean he can probably throw tons around like a football. His past is also pretty rough." Yang seemed to sulk slightly at the end. Ruby decided rather to move on then exacerbate the issue.
"Weiss! how did you do with Zade."
"Zade is… A rather interesting individual. For having such a tragic past story he seems polite and well mannered. Unlike the rest of his team. He was a pleasure to converse with." The rest of the team's eyebrows raised.
"What?" Weiss asked defensively causing the rest of the group to giggle.
"So Blake what can you tell us about Darron. I feel like you know him." Blake sighed already expecting Ruby's question.
"Yeah," Yang continued. "I really want to know what that whole meltdown thing in the detention cells was about." Blake sat down on her bed and began telling the story of how she and Darron were best friends in the White fang, how she thought she watched him die, And what he did afterwards. Once
Blake was finished the other members of her team nodded understandingly.
"So Zade isn't the only one with a bad past." Weiss stated and the team began telling the stories of each member of Team ENDD. The air slowly became depressed as each member of team RWBY recalled the story of team ENDD's past. Once Ruby finished her story Yang was the only one to speak.
"So that's why Ozpin called them misguided. I mean, my life hasn't been all rainbows and sunshine but some of the stuff they had to live through is just ridiculous." The team sat in an awkward silence agreeing with Yang's words before Yang decided it was time to lighten the mood.
"So, Ruby, You never did tell us about how your day with Max went." Weiss and Blake also looked at Ruby expectantly hoping they could change the mood of the current situation.
"W-what do you mean Yang. I Just showed him all of the buildings around campus. Yeah that's right, well I also showed him the firing range and we had a little competition."
"No." Yang countered Ruby.
"What was HE like."
"Oh." Came Ruby's nervous response.
"He's nice, funny, definitely a good friend, and he'salsokindacute." Yang took Ruby's now flushed face and her sudden increase in speaking speed as cue.
"What was that Ruby. I don't think I could hear you that well." Blake smirked to herself obviously knowing where this was going while Weiss looked utterly unsurprised that Yang would push the issue. "What are you talking about Yang?"
"You know what i'm talking about." Ruby looked defeated as Yang continued to press the issue. "I I might have said that I… uh… thought he was… cute." As soon as the word cute left Ruby's mouth Yang squealed and wrapped her sister in a big hug.
"AWE! My baby sister has a crush on Max. That's so cute. I might have to have a talk with him though, a little sister to boyfriend talk."
"Hey, He's not my boyfriend Yang." Ruby protested.
"Yeah but call it a preemptive strike." Weiss and Blake smirked at the over exuberance that was reignited in Yang. After Yang finally let go of Rwby Team RWBY settled down for the night all of them excited to see team ENDD again yet curious as to how they would be in their classes.