Today we follow the group leading to something soon. Along with that zane seems to have found part of his adoptive family which is the best leads hes gotten. RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. I own the OC's, AU. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 11:Helping Set Up
The next morning came and Zane seemed to be have a great morning as he managed to find the family he had back then. Lazuli has actually been allowed to stay at the academy apparently. Ozpin had met her, she said on her way out. She explained how she was there to check on her sister.
To her surprise Ozpin let her stay and be Neo personal were planning on some time discussing a little about his past. But now more people know about his little problem, he hopes these batch of memories aren't nightmares or something. As of right now him and his team headed toward the cafeteria.
Zane was rolling his right shoulder with a crack being heard"how's everyone morning today?"Zane asked
"Great. If you count waking up with a sore side still."Eria said while eating some eggs.
"Hmmm well I heard the gymnasium is still in need of some decorations for the dance comin gup. Apparently Team RWBY volunteered to help set it up."Rogue replied with her hand on her cheek playing with her food.
How about we give them a hand? I'm sure they would appreciate it."Onxyia suggested messing with her scroll while looking at text.
Zane had a cup of coffee in his hand"Yeah with some extra hands it'll be done by the next hour maybe."he added drinking from his coffee felt warm and it seemed to give him the boost he needed for the day.
"Cool then after class we'll head to the gym and help them set up."Eria replied
Onxyia was looking at her scroll until she got a text from her brother Xander. She read it with a look of surprise on her face."no…you have to be kidding me."Onxyia said in front of everyone.
"What is it?"Zane asked his girlfriend.
Onxyia showed the text she got that was linked to a news article""White Fang leader Adam Taurus escapes custody from Vale police with his Lt Ollie Weaver still in custody. Wherebouts are currently unknown"Rogue read the news clipping.
They all look all Onxyia who was taking deep and slow breath trying to calm herself. She sighed for a long time"Of course he escaped…..great…not surprised at this point. His trait is really hard to thats how Adam escaped….fantastic"Onxyia said with her hand on her temple. A vein appeared making it seem like it was about to pop.
"Wait….what is his trait? I know hes a spider faunus but I didn't see anything noticeable on him."Eria asked
"Hmmm some faunus have small traits for him, he has spider fangs in his mouth,"Onxyia replied.
Rogue shviered at the thought of that"I do not want to see him do that I know we deal with monsters but spider…..I'm not dealing with those."Rogue said
"You guys forgeting a certain someone will not be happy hearing about this. I'm surrpsied your calm right now."Zane said
Onxyia was clenching her shirt sleeve closing her eyes"Oh I am extremely mad but i'm trying to keep my composer."Onxyia replied
"Well your doing a better job than Blake apparently."Eria stated with the others looking toward Ruby and her team. More importantly Blake who looks likes shes ready to blow up.
"Yeah she doesnt look that happy to learn about this."Rogue added
Meanwhile at Team RWBYs table Blake was completely shocked knowing that Adam the leader of the White Fang had escaped and once again free and on the run. She blames herself for her sisters lose of limb but he decided to burn the village down and that made the grimm come. Along with convincing her to have her sister join in the first place.
"I can't belvie this. Does the Vale police know how dangerous Adam is? They can't even keep track of him arghh the police here are idiots."Blake shouted slamming her fist making a cup spill its contents on the table.
"Whoa easy their kitty. Don't go breaking the table."Yang said
"Beisde that where could he even hide anyway."Weiss added
"That's exactly the reason i'm mad. He knows where to hide wherever he goes. The more time he roams free the more of a chance he could hurt more people along with more dieing by each day. Then theirs the White Fang which in turn also means more bad news for faunus everywhere."Blake hissed at the Schnee girl.
"I understand your mad about this. But their is not use crying over what has already happen. The best thing for us to do is just ignore it for now and focus on helping get the dance set up. Also Sun and Neptune are helping us out as well, the more hands the better."Weiss suggested
"Yeah and Onxyia seems to be taking it better than you."Yang added with the group looking over at her. She was clenching her hands and it was visible she was mad right now. Her ears twitched it seem with anger.
"Ummm Yang she seems just as mad as Ollie still in jail, why would she be mad"Ruby added
"Maybe because Adam got free,"Weiss added, which made Blake growl slightly.
"Yeah…..at least her brothers safe thats gotta be a positive."Yang replied
Blake just sat their listening to them talk ignoring them. She didn't like the idea to ignore it for some dance that she didn't even wanna go to. But she also didn't like knowing that Adam was on the loose again.
Soon enough classes where going on by fast throughout the day. Eventually it was getting to Combat class in which Glynda addressed the class.
"Now in case you all need a reminder the Vytal Festival is only two months away and I want all of you to be prepared for when that days arrives. Now then we shall start with todays training."Glynda replied as she called out two names.
"Yang Xio Long and Zane Graves please step forward."she said as both of them stepped toward the stage
"Hmm…one physical fighter and someone who relies on weapons. This'll be interesting."Pyrrha replied.
thing that will decide the winner is who had the better skiils."Jaune added
"This will be a close match. What do you think Ruby?"Rogue asked
Ruby took a chance to study the two as they each took their battle stances. Yang was more loose having a wider stance is the sign of a more offensive style. While Zane took a defensive and offensive stance it seems. He had one sword out with bent knees and had one of his revolvers prepared.
"Hmmm…..honestly I don't know hard to tell. Guess we'll have to see how it'll play out."Ruby replied
Glynda looked at both fighters"Now are both ready."Glynda said as both of them nodded
"You may begin."she said. Almost immediately Yang fired behind her letting the recoil launch forward with her fist clenched. Zane rolled out of the way of her attack. Then he fired a few shots at her missing two bullets but one hit her in the chest. Yang then fired off another shot of her weapons toward Zane hitting him. This kncoked him back a ways but he braced himself keeping his balance, a little bit of his aura was gone.
Yang decided to get in close again as she rushed at Zane with full force. However when Yang went to deliver anothe punch Zane ducked underneath and slashed at her in the gut. Then he flipped his gun holding the barrel hitting her jaw with the handle. This sent her back a little and she was checking her jaw. Then Zane fired the rest of his bullets in his gun. A couple hit her body but then one whizzed past Yang's hair.
Yang looked at the small piece of hair falling down to the ground. Yangs eyes twitched and her lilac colored eyes went to crimson red. Zane just laughed while holstering his pistol.
"Oh no…..he's so dead."Weiss said
Near Weiss someone asked her a question"Uh why? what she doesn't like her hair being touched?"it was Lazuli with her feet propped up. Along with sitting next to the themis CEMN now close to them.
"yeah….Yang doesn't like people messing with her hair."ruby replied smiling .
"One of the three rules for her, break them and you die pretty much,"Blake added
Lazuli just laughed"ha….well this won't be his first time dieing I guess. He'll just have to live by eating through a straw."Lazuli said. Neo had a small flag in her hand with a skull and crossbones on it waving it.
Yang punched her fist together as she activated her semblance. Zane did the small cracking of his neck with his armor covering him head to toe. Then he changed his stance to what appeared to be of a boxer.
Yang now with her semblance activated charged at Zane to get a hit in. But Zane then rushed at her which surprised her but she kept going. As she got close she threw a punch but Zane stopped a bit a way. Her fist missed Zane then rushed at her punching her in her cheek. Then he dealt a few more punches and she hung her head down a little. Zane grabbed her head kneeing her in the face.
"Ohhh thats going to hurt in the morning"Nora said wincing but still watching with excitement
"When did Zane learn to box, he usually uses his weapon when it calls for it."Weiss asked
"Over break he went to a local gym near the harbor. He's been training their with the owner alot."Jaune replied
"Wait he's been training with Colt…..oh no that's bad."Lazuli said
"Is it really that bad because I don't think it is"velvet added
"How so….and what makes him so special."Eria questioned
"Colt is a heavyweight boxer. So he relies on keeping his balance and putting strength into his kicks and punches. Perfect for the guy in the walking suit of armor."Lazuli mentioned
"Really….your not wrong, aren't there a certain style to boxing?"Onxyia asked
Lazuli nodded her head to her answer"yep….the one he's doing right now is slugger. Where they lose manuverability exchanging it for heavy hits."Lazuli said.
Down below Yang was getting even anger with her hair seeming to be on fire. She used her guanlents to launch herself above Zane. Then once she was above him she flicked her wrist launching her straight to him. Zane tried to take the impact as much as he could. But his armor held strong and Zane undid it on his leg. But his upper body was still covered.
Yang threw more punches at him landing some hits but he kept dodging her hits. After a bit of time she rushed in again using her gaunlents to blast herself. Zane saw this and reeled back arm back fist clenched holding his shoulder.
"Wait….is he going to?"Ruby asked looking at Lazuli. Who just smiled with a cheeky grin on her face.
Yang got close enough and that was when Zane struck. With everything he had he punched Yang directly in the her fist also connected with Zane face too. As they stood their Yang stood their soon falling to side.
"Yang Xiao Long aura has entered the red which mean she is eliminated."Glynda replied
Zane then undid his armor falling backwards and Glynda also looked out his aura."hmmm it seems Zane Graves has reach the red as well. We'll call it a tie."Glynda stated
Yang slowly woke up rubbing her jaws making sure it wasn't dislocated. Zane breathed laughing"Holy crap I thought you almost had me there…..sorry about shooting your hair."Zane said getting up.
Yang got up stretching her jaw to check if it was dislocated"your good but next time you're dead….where'd you learn to throw a punch like that?"Yang asked
"Oh that boxing gym i've been going to you should come you would love it their."Zane suggested
"Hmmm alright but you gotta convince the owner to let me go for free. Call it payback for running my hair."Yang said tapping Zane's shoulder.
Zane laughed"Alright i'll get you a membership with him."Zane replied
Classes then continued on as per the normal schedule until they all were finished with classes for the day.
After clases where finished Team RWBY and Team ZERO headed to the auditorium to help decorate with Sun and Neptune meeting them their with Eria still not happy being around the boy with blue hair.
"Okay tables should go over here to setp up for other foods and such. Then we should have a long table for appetixers and the punch bowl."Weiss explained looking at a clipboard
"You sure know how to plan things out Weiss. You set these up back home often."Onxyia asked
"yeah ….I would help my dad set them up back then with my brother. But he was always so nit picky on where everything should be. "Weiss said, looking down rubbing her arm.
Onxyia walked over looking at the girl with a sadden look."hey don't worry about that right now….your doing a great job. It looks amazing, give yourself some credit."Onxyia said with enoruagement.
Weiss smiled changing her attitude happy to hear that"yeah….but despite that you prepared to dance with Zane and velvet."Weiss said smiling
"Don't worry I've been praticing with Eria."Onxyia said
"By praticing you mean throwing me around pretty much….then yes."eria said walking past them with a box in her arms.
"Heh yeah though guess i'll have to swap dance partners every few seconds"onxyia replied
Ruby was in her petal form putting a banner up above to welcome the students. Once she was done she looked at her work with happiness. Yang was helping move some boxes. Zane was doing the same thing carrying some boxes.
Meanwhile Sun and Neptune were setting up the long table in the corner of the auditorium near the windows but apparently something was bothing the blue haired boy which got Sun attention
"Something on your mind buddy?"He asked which seemed to bring Neptune out of his thoughts.
"Huh? Oh an nothing. Nothing at all."Neptune said trying to writ eit off like nothings wrong but sun could tell that something was bothering him.
Dude you know were teammates right. Anything that is your problem is my problem too you know."sun said
Neptuned relzied he was cut as he let a gentle sigh of defeat. "Its just that….thing haven;t been the greatest between me and Eria sinc eour break up."Neptune said
"Wait I thought you said it was a mutual understanding"Sun asked
"I did too but she seems to hold a grudge for some reason. I already knew she didn't like me."Neptuned added
This caught Sun off guard at his answer"Wait what?! What do you mean she didn't like you?."Sun questioned
Neptune rubbed his back neck slowly"well a while back when I was still at mistral. I was minding my business one day and then Rogue comes up with Eria being dragged by her. Then Rogue tells me that her sister likes her and wants to know if she wants to go on a date. "Neptune said before looking over at the girl.
"She was blushing and seemed nervous so I said yes. We went on a few dates but….i noticed she wasn't interested in me at all. I relizied she was interested in a friend with me that day."Neptune said.
"Really is that why you broke up with her?"sun asked
"Sort of I tried to make her break up with me….I didn't want to hurt her heart. So I tried to skip dates and show up late. That backfired and eventually I broke up with her causing her to be mad at me. I just wanna repair our friendship now…not be in a relationship."Neptune finished
Sun thought for a moment"Then you should go talk to her about it."Sun suggested
"I would but i''m afraid she freeze me into an ice statue."Neptune said
Sun pondered what he should say to his friend"Look the only thing I can suggest is just going up and talk to her about the situation." Sun answered
Neptune gulped nerovusly and looked toward Eria direction cause he knew with that small frame was an ice demon that can't wait to freeze him.
Neptune knew he had to make up to what he did to her before. He had to atleast attempt it and hopefully end things on a good note.
"Ok…i'll try wish me luck."Neptune finally said as the first he set the table down and began walking over to where Eria was who was currently setting up the music.
"Um….hey Eria."Neptune said simply getting her attention.
Eria looked up at him but then noticed it was him then looked back at the music player. "What is it Vasilias? I'm a little busy right now."Eria replied with a cold expression.
"I….want to talk."He said sincerely
"You want to talk about what specifically."Eria asked still messing with the music.
"I think you know the answer."Neptune said to her calmly.
Eria anted to say something loud but took a deep breath"Lets talk outside in private."eria said. Neptune sighed following her out of the auditorium. Eria was the first one to speak.
"Alright what do you want to talk about Neptune?"she asked
He took a deep breath for a moemny before he finally spoke."I want talk about how we left things off two years ago at Sanctum."Neptune began which made Eria look to the side.
"You mean how you were rude to me pretty much then broke things off saying I was emotionless"Eria said crossing her arms.
Neptune sighed"I'm sorry for phrasing it like that back then."Neptune said
"Really? I remember what you said and I quote. You don't show any emotion or interest in the slightest during our dates. This relationship is getting us nowhere we should break it off. I was then held up in my room for a week after you said that!"Eria shouted at him
"Yeah I rember. Pyrrha threw me out of the room when I came to check on you. Rogue tried to split me in half with her axe. And your dad ughhh…he did unspeakable things."Neptune said
"Hmmm they would be anger with you."Eria added
"Yeah but I wanted to break things off because you didn't look happy at all in our relationship."Neptune replied
Eria paused for a moment"I don't know what your talking about I thought our relationship was um…."eria began stopping herself trying to come up with something.
Neptune sighed"I know you didn't have a crush on me."Neptuned said with crossed arms.
Eria was caught off guard by this then sat down sighing"how'd you know?"She asked
Neptune sat next to her looking at the sky"Well Rogue just shoved you infront of me,Tanner and…..Perun"Neptune said which got Eria attention.
She looked to the side at the mention of the last name he said. Neptune knew he hit the mark and chuckled. "Hmm surprised you like that lovable dork….so you still got feeling for him?"Neptune asked
Eria hide her face"No! We are talking about us not lighting boy."Eria replied
"Your right I don't even know what someone would see in a guy like that. Hes too laid back sometimes. He always smiling and he always playing that guitar of his. Everytime I hear it sounds terrible…Netpune said calmly with Eria looking at him.
"Actually I think his laid back attitude is pretty nice, hes calm and doesn't seem to get mad at anyone. And theirs his smile….he always look for the positives in life no matter what."Eria said smiling.
"Also he's not half bad with a guitar he's praticed alot and it sounds nice."Eria said smiling.
"Hmmm so you wouldnn't mind me telling you that he got a girlfriend."Neptune said trying to get response.
"Wait what?!"Eria asked in a worried tone.
Neptune laughed at her response"ha got you he doesnt have one still. Also that stuff I said about him I knew you would probably back him up."Neptune added
Eria had a surprised look at him then sighed. She knew when she's been made and she couldnt hide it anymore.
"yes….I have a crush on….Perun. That day Rogue made me go over their I was looking at him. But Rogue thought it was you."Eria said
"Then why didn't you explain it too her?"Neptune asked
"Were talking about Rogue if I said I liked perun she would probably say it out loud or something."Eria replied
"True…..hey if you want I can help you ask him out you know?"Neptune suggested
Eria just laughed at that response"really….why its not like you'll get anything in return."Eria replied.
"I just wanna be friends again before we started dating. I feel bad about hurting you and I feel like there's a gaping hole inside me filled with guilt. I want to make it up to you.''Neptune said calmly with a serious tone.
Eria looked at him for a moment looking at him. She then siged"Alright if you wanna try and help me ask out Perun i'll consider our friendship fixed maybe."Eria said jokingly
"Really that great, hey you got a date for tonight?"neptune asked
Erai looked at him annoyed"really we just had this long discussion about our relationship and you ask me out."Eria said
"No,no,no, not like we're in a relationship but…as friends. You wouldn't wanna be their all by yourself would you."Neptune said
Eria put her hand to her chin thinking"Fine then but you better be their by Six o'clock, don't be late big guy."Eria replied
"Alright i'll pick you up at your dorm, now lets head back inside and finish setting up."Neptune said
"Yeah we probably should"Eria added as the two headed back to the auditorium as they help set thing up.
Meanwhile in another part of the campus Cinder was reading her book without much of a care in the world now. She finally found some friends here and has been enjoying herself. Along with relaxing more with Lazuli here. She said how some of her friends she knows are coming to the dance. Ozpin allowed it but they had to leave their weapons with him.
Soon enough Cinder got up heading back to her dorm. As she was she was joined by a certain ice cream girl.
"Oh hello Neo how have you been?"Cinder asked with a happy neo next to her.
Neo smiled, texting her something on her scroll before showing her it.
"I'm great! I can't believe we found our long dead friend it's made me have a little more hope in the world."Neo text read
Cinder laughed,"well that is great I hope you and your siblings can catch up with him."
Neo smiled and was skipping down the hall with her. Soon they reached a corner to head back to their dorm room. But something grabbed Neo and then someone else grabbed Cinder. They were then dragged into a nearby room.
The room was slightly lit but their was still enough light so she could see. She could tell someone with a muscular apperance was holding her in place. Along with covering her mouth to prevent her from shouting.
As she looked around she saw someone holding Neo down. He seemed to be eightteen and stands at 6.2ft, his eyes were covered by a pair of sunglasses, his skin was dark colored. His hair was short and spiked up near the end and it was colored green. On his skin seemed to be some scales around his neck.
The boy wore a pair of black dress pants but around the right leg was a gold imprint of a snake curling around it. He wore black dress shoes with green soles. On his waist was a belt with a snakes head with its tongue out colored in also wore a green dress shirt with a black tie. The dress shirt had a snake opening its maw on the back colored gold it seemed.
"Well if it isn't Adder Tannin. You look lively, you cold blooded bastard. "Cinder joked as she sturggled.
"I'm guessing the person behind me is Arthur Watts' son….Scar."she said, receiving a squeeze on her wrist making her wince in pain.
"Hmm do it again scar I wanna see her squirm around in pain more….please"a girl voice said.
"Oh and Rosemary Kuchisake….your creepy as usual."Cinder joked with Rosemary walking over, slapping her in the face.
"Mhmm you should learn to speak when spoken too girl."Rosemary demanded
"Rose tht enough…..for now.''another voice said from a chair.
There stood a girl who seemed to be nineteen standing at about 5.9ft, her skin was white, her eyes were black like the night. Her hair was black and seemed to reach her back. Her outfit conisteed of a pair of blue jeans with a dress jacket colored black with a scythe on the back. Underneath the dress jacket was a long dress shirt colored white. She wears a pair of black boots. Along with a long black cloak around her back colored black. A silver bone brooch held it in place.
"Now you would hear my words right now or your friend here will be traveling the rivers with charon…..fall maiden.''The girl replied smiling at her.
"Bonnie Thanotos how've you been your eye doing alright."Cinder joked again with Scar squeezing her wrist again.
"Queit girl or I break your wrist."Scar demanded.
Then Bonnie got up approaching Cinder but she wasn't fazed at all as she placed her hand on her head.
"Tell me Cinder. Did you honestly think you could escape her reach."Bonnie replied rubbing her head.
"It was better than working with her."cinder replied
Bonnie just smiled before motioning for Scar to bring her up and he did. Bonnie had her hands behind her back then turned around delivering a gut punch to her.
"Don't get cute with me girl. I could kill you right now and take what I deserved. But instead I have a job for you."Bonnie said
"Like i'll do anything for you."Cinder growled giving her a glare
Bonnie then gestured to the snake faunus to do something. He smiled, opening his mouth to reveal a pair of fangs in his mouth. They looked to be snake fangs from a viper. Then he held his mouth over Neo's neck ready to bite her. Cinder looked with worry and Bonnie was happy about this.
"Wait don't hurt her please!"Cinder begged
"Oh do we have your attention now good."Bonnie said walking over presenting a flashdrive from her pocket.
"This contains a virus that you're going to put into the CCT tower. If you don't we'll make sure that your so-called team will be in the paper tomorrow. Oh and don't bother telling anyone about this little encounter. Especially you their mute."Bonnie replied as she had Scar let her go and Adder let Neo go.
"Do I make myself clear?"Bonnie said, handing Cinder the flashdrive.
"I suggest doing it when the dance is going on tomorrow. I'm sure you can handle security."Bonnie said then gestured for Scar to open the door.
The two left the room and Neo just stared down Scar with hate."What ae you looking at brat"He asked with a walked out of the room with Cinder as they walked down the hall.
Cinder looked at the flashdrive in her hand and Neo looked at sighed"don't tell anyone about this…..they could get hurt if we do. This is our secret to keep, we'll tell Mercury and Emerald later."Cinder said
Neo nodded her head in agreement before making a motion for zipping her lips shut.
Cinder sighed with a grunt"So much for us hiding out."she replied as she was now roped into a large scheme.
This concludes another chapter and it seems eria and neptune are getting on good terms again as friends. Even hearing about a possible crush of the girls, while cinder just got roped into sabotaging the CCT tower. OC Bonnie and Adder are mine. Hope you enjoyed reading!
