Sorry for my bad English.
So, I heard things has not been doing well with RT. From the crossover idea no one asked for to taking most of their animations from YT. I really don't get it how this will financialy help them since one of them reasons they gave is that make animations is expensive. I mean, my friend who have a small YT channel told me about also use another media site called Rumble to earn a extra. While I don't know if this is working for him or not, my point is if RT have their videos in both their official site and on YT, would they earn more like that?
And with no news regard the production of volume 10, I fear for the future of the series. But then again, I feel at this point most of the fans are having the same mindset as I, only interested in see the story come to its end and let this way.
But for now, we can only wait to see how things will wrap up.
Enough said, to the fic.
Story time.
On the deserts of Vacuo, natives lived isolated as the world around the deserts slowly evolved. Men from outside the deserts then found the tribes during expeditions and were welcomed by the nice natives.
Unfortunately, no good act comes without any punishment.
It was discovered mines of dust around the desert, near the tribes. They were expelled from their homelands, which were destroyed by the excavation of dust.
Dozen incidents like this one happened and would still be going if a law was not passed turning illegal excavation of dust in the territories that belong to the natives. However, the natives did not forgive the intrusion of their lands and decide to keep anyone from the outside world away from their tribes.
Again however, two of them just happen to be child from two members of a specific tribe and people from the lands outside the desert. One of the children was raised on the world outside the desert while the other was raised in the tribe, facing hardships for being the offspring between a man from their people and a woman from the modern world.
Roberto walked to the leader of the tribe as he spoke.
-The time has come young one. –Began the leader. –If you truly wish to be fully accepted in our tribe, you must undergo the rite to redeem yourself for being born from a forbidden union. To do that, you must defeat in combat the one who also was born from the forbidden union between our people and that man from the outside.
-I will not fail you, chief. –Spoke Roberto. –Who is the one I shall take down?
-By the outsiders' language, he goes by the name of… Ryan Forest.
-He shall taste defeat by my hands! –Roberto said and run off the tent.
-Roberto! Do you know where he is?! –The chief asked.
Roberto, with a nervous smile, walked back to the tent.
-Where I shall find my opponent, chief?
Roberto gave one last look to his home before going to his journey to be accepted in his tribe. He heard rumors about Ryan but he would succeed, no matter what.
Now to Shade Academy and find his enemy.
A couple of weeks later.
Roberto left the water breathing hard, making all the way from Vale to Beacon by swimming.
-Why in the name of the spirits did he move to an academy on the other side of Remnant? –Roberto asked as some students eyed him with curiosity.
No matter. The journey just delayed the inevitable. Thanks to the info he got on Shade Academy, he knows how his target looks like. But he must be cautious. Forest may have allies who will assist him in case he needs.
Again, no matter, his glorious triumph awaits.
Beacon
Courtyard.
Chocolat was weaving and smiling to most of her classmates who were asking for her autography. All while her team mates and friends watched not far from where she was.
-She becomes a celebrity from night to day. –Ryan commented.
-All because of some photos on a magazine. –Yang commented.
-I'm feeling a bit of jealousy in your tone, Xiao Long? –Weiss commented.
The look on the blonde's face give the heiress the answer.
Amidst of the crowd, Roberto watched Ryan with an eye compared to an eagle. A crowd of Chocolat's newest fans was perfect for him to bland and hide his presence.
-The half-blood. –Roberto murmured. –Although I can't speak but this will not last much longer. It is time to gain my rightful place in the tribe.
Putting a dart inside his blowgun, he took aim and prepared to take Ryan down for good. Taking some breath, someone stumbled on him, the sudden move made him accidentally swallow the dart.
-Well, this was not planned. –He murmured and fell unconscious.
Two students notice this and look to each other.
-Those who can't meet celebrities. –One commented and the other nodded.
Chocolat walked around the school with a crowd still following her. Roberto was still using the crowd to camouflage himself as he notices Ryan walking near her.
Seeing the one eyed gunslinger distracted, he puts a dart inside the blowgun, not to make the same mistake again, and takes aim. Much like before, the students were stumbling on him from back and right, making hard for him to aim.
-It seems I need some more space. –He commented and left the crowd.
Ryan was distracted while exchanging words with the blonde boy, leaving him wide open for his attack. Roberto prepared his blowgun, his target was at sight, his weapon ready.
He blows his gun and the dart flew through the air.
Ryan notices a penny on the ground and ducks to get, the dart flying above him and going to Yang, more specifically, her hair. Seeing the gold strand falling down, her eyes turned red as her hair got on fire.
Seeing the dart that cut her hair, she turns to Roberto, who was still holding his blowgun.
Roberto flew through the wall of the academy and crashed into a tree before roughly landing in the ground of the courtyard. He slowly escaped his shaped hole stumbling on his feet.
-Impressive, the girls from outside world truly had powerful sat of guns. –Roberto comments and remember Yang's figure. –Oh goodness, I made pun.
Then he fell unconscious.
Cafeteria
For her new fans no bother her friends, Chocolat sat alone for the day. Not completely with the crowd around her asking for selfies.
Roberto stood at the end of a table, hiding behind a newspaper. Through two holes, he watched his target having his meal, completely wide open for his attack. Putting a dart inside his blowgun again, he blows the dart against Ryan.
-Nora. –Ryan called the ginger-haired girl.
Nora turns to Ryan right the time for the dart to be intercepted by the small box of milk she was holding. Nora look confused at the box in her hand while Roberto growled in the distance.
-Oh curses those circumstances. –Roberto cursed. –No matter, I just need a different angle.
Roberto moved around the cafeteria until he finds a spot with a clear view of Ryan. Putting another dart in the blowgun, he fires.
-Atchoo! –Ryan sneezed covering his mouth with the crook of his arm.
This put his arm in a way that made the dart slide on the arm and changing its trajectory.
-Bless you. –Jaune said.
-Thank you. –Ryan commented.
-Did a dart just flow by us? –Ren asked.
-So my box of milk did not have that dart from the beginning? –Nora asked while some could hear Roberto growling on the background.
Library
The duo was putting the books back on their rightful place on the shelves like instruncted by them by the librarian. Blake was present but was reading her own book in her solitude.
Like a shark swimming around, Roberto snuck around the library and preparing his final strike against Ryan.
With his blowgun already charged with the dart, he fires against Ryan. However, Ryan just let a book fall from his hand, not only blocking the incoming projectile but also changing its trajectory to the window, breaking the glass.
-What was that? –Jaune asked.
-What was what? –Ryan asked while getting the book he let fall.
All while Roberto was throwing a tantrum on the background, throwing books into the air where one just happens to land on Blake's head.
-Unbeliveable! How come the spirits favor his luck this much? Makes no sense! -Roberto complained, not noticing the angry girl walkings towards him.
Blake walks to Roberto and holds his shoulder.
-Lady, I'm in the middle of venting my frustrations over the circumstances around my nemesis so if you please-
Blake's answer was to shove the very same book that fell in her head in Roberto's mouth. The doors of the library opened and Roberto was thrown out, hitting the ground with the book still in his mouth.
Spitting the book, he ponders.
-The quest is proven to be harder than expected, the females of the modern world also proven to be formidable opponents. It seems take my adversary without his knowledge of my existence is proven to be a failed plan. So the answer is a frontal attack. Let him see the face of the one who will bring him his downfall. Muwahahahahaha! Hahahahahahaha!
With his plan formed, Roberto clacked like a super villain.
-Hey. –His evil laugh was interrupted by Dove, who called for him. –Are you going to stay down there all day?
Roberto notices he was still on the ground all the time so he got up.
-Excuse me. –He says and leaves.
-This place is a menagerie of madness. –Dove commented before enter the library.
Glynda's office
-Do you know why you were called here, Ms. Cream? –Glynda asked the brunette.
-Well, Nora has not caused any trouble in the past few days so, no. –Chocolat answered.
The duo was with them because they were the ones who called Chocolat to the Glynda's office and accompanied her there.
-It is not about your teammate, Ms. Cream. –Glynda said and threw a magazine on the table. –It is about those.
The magazine in question was the reason for Chocolat's sudden raise in popularity. It was a fashion magazine which had some pictures of Chocolat in a few pages.
-What about it? –Chocolat asked.
-What were you thinking about exposing the academy with this kind of attention?
-But are just some pictures, and none are of a bad taste. –Chocolat defended herself.
-Ms. Goodwitch, if I may-
-You may not. –Glynda said, interrupting Jaune. –Ms. Cream, as a student of this academy, your actions will also affect your classmates. Not only that, but this also will make the citizen of Vale look at Beacon in a different light.
-But Pyrrha once did this in the past. –Chocolat argued.
-She did to celebrate her accomplishments as a huntress-in-training, not for exposition in a fashion magazine.
-I fail to see how to have her face in a cereal box can be considered a celebration. –Chocolat argued back.
As the teacher and the student continued to argue, Jaune and Ryan start to hear noises compared to suction cups being pulled from a flat surface. Turning to the window, they both notice Roberto using suction cups to climb the wall.
-Ryan Forest, prepare to meet your ancestors! –Roberto screamed, getting the attention of both Glynda and Chocolat as he prepared his blowgun.
However, caught by the vision of his confused adversary, he forgot the window and shot the dart anyway, the result? The dart hit the glass and bounced back to his forehead, piercing his colored headband.
-Oh goodness. –Roberto said. –I completely forgot about the window of transparency. –Those were his last words before passing out and falling back.
A loud thump could be heard before Glynda turns to the gunslinger of the duo.
-Mr. Forest.–She began. – That boy just now had a headband similar to yours and feathers on the back of his head as well. He's one of your acquaintances?
-Never saw him in my life. –Ryan said.
-But he seemed to know you. –Jaune commented.
-Thank you for the supporting words, Jaune. –Ryan bitterly said.
Infirmary
-Very well, young one. –Glynda began. –Who are you and why were you sneaking around the school armed with a blowgun?
Roberto had a cast in his arm after his fall and some bandages covering his head. Despite his injuries, his bravado was still present when he answered.
-In your language my name is Roberto. –He began. –And I'm here to take down the half-blood and earn my place in my tribe.
-Language? –Glynda asked.
-Tribe? –Jaune asked.
-Are you from a tribe in Vacuo? –Ryan asked.
-Precisely. –Roberto answered and continued. –I must defeat the half-blood in combat and then, I shall be officially accepted as a member of my tribe.
-And this half-blood is Ryan? –Jaune asked.
-Well, my father was born in Vacuo but in the city while my mother came from a tribe of natives isolated from most of Remnant. –Ryan explained.
-And Roberto also has a parent from away the tribes. –Jaune concluded.
-Never again I shall be made fun from my mother's origins! –Roberto spoke out loud. –I will conquer the right to be called a member of the tribe and for that, you shall fall half-blood!
Roberto tried to fire his blowgun but the cast in his arm wrapped around his fingers, so he found difficult in hold the blowgun.
-As interesting that story is young one, you came to this academy without permission, which makes you an intruder. –Glynda explained. –Once you are fully recovered, we will have you out of the premises of the academy immediately.
Roberto growled.
-Curses. How could I forget about the sacred rules impose by this educational institution?
-He talks funny. –Jaune murmured to Ryan.
-It matter little. –Roberto absently continued. –The half-blood shall fall by my hands even if takes months. I will succeed in my mission. You just wait half-blood! Mwahahahaha mwahahaha!
-Does he know we are still here? –Jaune asked as Roberto continued to laugh like an evil mastermind.
-Probably not. –Ryan answered while Chocolat blinked in confusion and Glynda pinch the bridge of her nose.
As the duo and Chocolat left the infirmary to let Glynda deal with the intruder, Ryan could only hung his head low with the possibility of another nuisance to be added on his list of problems.
-You knew all along he was after you, right? –Jaune asked.
-His intentions could not be clear. –Ryan answered.
-Do you think you will see him again? -Chocolat asked.
If his time with Russell and Brawnz told Ryan anything is that a determined 'rival' will always come back.
End of the chapter.
It has been a while since I made Roberto's character but found no use for him. Well, that until I decide to rewatch that old Taz Mania cartoon. Who once watched the show probably notices the inspiration behind Roberto now.
I will focus on my other stories for now and let this one rest for a bit.
That's all folks. See you next time.