Last we left off with the group they were at the big vytal dance! Some romances seem to be blooming but i'll never say when. I wonder what today story will be.RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. I own the OC's, AU. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 14:Expedition
The morning came as everyone was now coming off the high that was the Vytal Dance last night everyone seemed to have a good time. The sun shined through the room of Team Zero finally waking them up.
Onxyia was the first one up and soon the rest of them followed her as they changed into school uniforms.
"Man last night was a blast….how'd your guys night go?"Zane asked his team
Onxyia just smiled with her tail wagging"Oh you know…..I certainly had fun last night. It was funny seeing Lazuli trying to spike the punch and fail."Onxyia replied.
"Oh my god I know right, when Ironwood walked over she downed the entire flask in a minute. Surprised she drinks although she seem's like shes done that before."Rogue said
"What about you sis you and neppy make up and start dating again?"Rogue asked leaning against her bed frame.
"Ummm no Rogue were not dating again, me and him are just trying to rebuild our friendship right now."Eria said getting out of bed.
"Other than that I saw a certain someone turning red hot last night with a certain mercury black."Zane said knowingly. Then Rogue threw a pillow at his face.
"Hey….. I wasn't blushing that much, was I?"Rogue asked
"You were bushing quiet alot though this is the first time i've seen this side of you. "Eria teased to an annoyed Rogue
Then someonething popped in her head that she had to do this morning. "Ummm well last night was fun but….I need to change and see Ozpin."Rogue replied
"Huh? Why do you need to talk to the old man?"Zane asked
"Don't worry nothing important just some uh…..questions about Ember he seems to know alot about her."Rogue added before changing into her normal attire.
"I hope this isn't going to lead to the end of the world or something"Rogue thought leaving the room
"Hmmm I wonder what that was about?"Onxyia asked tapping her chin.
"Don't know but don't worry about it. If I know my sister she can handle herself."Eria added seemingly not worried.
"Alright then…..we should get going now."Zane mentioned as they changed into their normal attire.
Meanwhile in Ozpin office it seems that he was currently dealing with something probably more than likely something or more like having a massive headache due to not only Glynda but General Ironwood too.
"They were here! Who it was they somehow managed to get into our faiclites and hack into our systems. Who knows what they might've done in the process?!"James shouted slamming his fist down on Ozpins desk
"yes .James we are aware of that we don't need it to be repeated."Glunda said trying to defuse the situation.
"Are you? Well then if you are then what are we going to do about? If we let things continue who knows what happen to the Vytal Torunument or are we going to ignore what is right in front of us."He added which didn't help with Ozpins headache
However the door rang signaling that someone had arrived which to him seemed like a god send if it meant an end to their bickering.
"Come in"Ozpin ordered as the Door revealed Ruby and Rgoue at the door.
"Sorry for the wait professor some idiot messed with all the buttons on the elevator getting up here."Rogue replied whistling with her hands behind her back.
"It wasn't me….it was her."Ruby replied
"No it wasn't you liar"Rogue said jokingly which caused the two to argue a little. Even more arguing to add to Ozpins headache.
"Miss Ross and Miss Hayley, i'm glad you two can make it. I received the message you sent from last night saying you wanna speak to me."Ozpin replied rubbing his head.
"Yeah and from what I can tell its probably what you all were just discussing."Ruby replied
"General ironwood has already informed us on the situation regarding the matter and could tell a women had infiltrated the tower. Maybe you two can shed some light on some things?"Ozpin asked
"Was their anyone with her? Did she look familiar to you?"Glynda asked
Ruby shook her head"We know that nobody else was with her. However she did seem like the women way back before I even started attending Beacon with the way she'd block my shots."Ruby replied
"But her face was obscured so we couldn't tell who it was."Rogue added
"hm….interesting . anything else that we need to know?"Ironwood asked
"Well…..when she attacked us her clothes seemed to….glow so to speak."ruby added
"glowing . What are you getting at?"Ironwood replied not exactly knowing what they mean.
"Thats just it. Her clothes were glowing and next thing we knew she'd blinded us. Then she was gone."Rogue added
Glynda thought for a moment before condluing with an answer"could it have been a semblance that did this?"She asked
"Maybe. I don't know what else could've done it."Ruby replied
"But she did leave this behind."Rogue said bringing out the flash drive that they'd remove placing it on Ozpin desk.
"Hmmm….now why would this women go through so much trouble to just install a flash drive."he asked himself
"Don't know but one thing I can put together. It was left on purpose I think for us to find."Rogue added
Ozpin took another look at it before putting it in his chest pocket. "Thank you to the both of you. Yesterday you both noticed a threat and took action. Good examples of a huntress. 'Ll someone take a look at this and figure out its now you two can return to your dorms."Ozpin replied
"Thank you for your time professor."ruby replied as the two heard out of the officer leaving them to their business.
"You sure that we'll be able to analyize what it had Oz."Glynd added
"I'm not sure but whatever plan our enemy has they have begun to make their moves already."Ozpin added folding his hands into each other.
"If our enemy has made a move then we need to make our move Ozpin. I can send my men throughout Vale and find out where they are hiding and take them out in one swoop."Ironwood replied
This seemed to annoy Glynda"Why is it that theirs a threat you must treat it like some miltary bravdo for you to just…."
"Glynda"Ozpin warned
Glynda simple crossed her arms under her bust"well he does."she simply added
"While I would want to end this conflit quickly. Need I remind you that this might go beyond Vale….beyond Beacon. Whatever informationn we have is only speculation in which we yet know the enemies final move whatever master plan they have. We mustang't be so bold….nor we can disk the spread of panic."Ozpin replied which he was correct. More panic only meant to attract grimm which he wouldn't want the blood of people on his hands.
This only seemed to bother Ironwood"I have served you faithfully for years Oz. But if your telling me that your plan is to hold the defense and wait…"Ironwood began but Ozpin stopped him
"It is not!"His voiced echoed throughout his office.
"Your a general tell me when your prepared to go to war who do you send in first….the flagbearer of the scouts?"he asked confidently which only seemed to stop the general in his tracks.
Rogue and Ruby returned to the dorm but heard more noises coming from Rogues team room which it sound more than just her team.
She opened the door and noticed the rest of team RWBY came over to their room and it seemed like Yang was carrying a package meant for two.
"Oh hey up?"ruby asked
"We were wondierng that?you left without saying anything to us."yand added
"Sorry about that Yang."Ruby apolgized
"So what was it about that you two had to talk to Ozpin?"eria asked her sister
Rogue and Ruby then explained to them about what they found out at the dance yesterday.
"Your sure that was okay. The general would be taking a risk."Weiss added
"Hm….honestly it was rather odd that the women would just leave it their just for it to be found. I think it was left on purpose."Blake added
"Well how about we get our minds off this cause i'm sure Ruby would want to see this. Got mail from home."Yang said holding a cylinder package.
"Yeah! Something from home."Ruby squealed
"Hold on it came with a note."Yang said taking the note off the package as she read it.
"Dear girls, i know you were home during break but i thought this would be nice to remind you of home every once and a while. Yours truly. Tai Xio read the note placing the package down.
Once the package was set on the ground the package itself began to shake a little bit like something alive was inside it. Ruby opened the package in whiched revealed a familiar face to her and yang.
A certain black and white corgy poped out of the package and barked as if to say hello.
"Zwei!"Ruby cheered seeing her beloved pet appear before her.
"He sent a dog in the mail! What kind of person does that?"zane replied
"Yeah that's just dad for you."Yang replied, glad seeing Zwei.
"Um….where Blake?"Weiss asked the sudden black haired faunus went misisng
"I think she's over there."Onxyia said, pointing toward a bed with someone underneath its covers.
"um ….blake why are you in my bed?"Eria asked
"Just ignore me. Pretend i'm not even here."Blake simply said
"Blake…..do you not like dogs?"Ruby asked
"I'm not….extactly a big fan of them persay….just bad experience with them."Blake replied
Weiss then turned to onxyia"You know why she so afraid of dog?"Weiss asked and got a shrug from the girl.
Then she looked at dog petting it"Besides who would be afraid of this little cutie. Hes absolutely adorable"Weiss said
Zwei walked around for bit around the group then noticed the wolf faunus and walked toward her looking with a thoughtful look. Onxyia smiled bending down to pet him then he jumped biting her tail.
Her eyes budlged out of her head screaming"Ah get it off he's on my tail!"Onxyia exclaimed
"No Zwei bad dog let go.''Ruby demanded and the dog let looked sad at what it's just done, then it walked over to Onxyia clutching her tail licking her pant leg. Onxyia looked at the dog sighing before petting it, reassuring it.
"May all students please report to the balltoom immediately with your gear. Repeat all studnet to the ballroom."Glynda voice echoed
"Hmm wonder whats going on?"Rogue asked
"Well we better get going. ZWei will be here when we get back."yang replied as they began to leave as Blake quickly dashed out of the room. However that was when Ruby got an idea since she was worried about Zwei being left alone by himself
The two teams headed toward the ballroom with their gear and everything. Ruby however had a large bag behind her as it slightly move a little. Why? Because she somehow managed to sneak Zwei into it
She gently placed the bag down near the opening where other peoples bag where at.
Meanwhile in front of them all the teams are holo bullboards that currently are blank right now and standing on the stage was Glynda and Ozpin.
"Before you all are dismissed Professor Ozpin has some words for all of you."Glynda said then stepped aside allowing Ozpin to speak.
"Before I begin I would like to say a good morning to you all and hopefully you all are well rested because you will ned your strength for what is coming. This will help you further your education in becoming huntsmen and huntresses. As you are aware when you do graduate you can decide what you do and what jobs you take whether they are simple tasks or something that'll provide a challenge."Ozpin began
"However it is time to give you a more hand son approach in the matter of what I speak of. As you've seen these bulletin boards holds job that you all can take part of. However due note that their will be some that you cannot take yet since you are all first years. However you will also be accompaoined by a huntsmen or a huntresses when you choose what job you wish to take."he added
"But I need you all to exercise caution. You will be going beyond the safety of Beacon and Vale city. These quests could take several days or a week but the only thing I ask of you all is to stay safe and watch out for each other. Now I leave you to begin your first mission."Ozpin reapplied, stepping away.
With that said the groups had disappeared to check out the bulletin boards. Already Team ZERO was already looking at some of the quest but none seemed to peek their interest.
"Grimm elimination. Escort. Nothing that is connected to stuff we know"Zane said
However Erias eyes fell upon one quest in particular that seemed out of ordinary
"Hey hold on a second. What about this one?"Eria asked
Rogue looked at the quest she was talking about.
"Two Uras minors and a major have been terrorizing our town for weeks with several people going missing. Could you please help deal with them?"Rogue read the request info thne relzied what it was.
"Wait….three uras one major and two minors…"Zane said outloud
"You guys don't think it was the one with the clothes we fought a while back?"Eria asked quietly
"I wasn't their but they could be…along with that hyprid faunus you mentioned."Onxyia added
"Well if this does have a connection then maybe we can find more about this grimm faunus. Along with whos been experimenting on people."Zane added with hope
Then Eria sighed"Okay then we better accept the quest, then we can get to the bottom of this.".Eria Zane tapped on the quest and then registered the team name. A moment later his scroll buzzed as a message appeared on it.
"Report to the air dock. A ship will be waiting for you."Zane read the message to his team
"Alright we better get going."Rogue added as they made their way to the airdocks.
When they got their they noticed an airship returning which was capable of holding six people. Then from the ship out step Vevlet and Yatsu along with two others.
One of them was a teenage boy seeming to be eighteen standing at 6.2 with dark skin and dark messy copper hair that was long fringe and in a cowlick. He was wearign a sleeveless,muted orange zipper vest with black lining and a high collar. He also wore a pair of black jeans and brown laced shoe. His eyes were pure white it seemed, along with his arms having long black glvoes on them. Their was also several pouches attached to his belt.
The second person with them was a girl who stuck out a sore thumb. Because she had fair skin standing at 6.0 seeming to be eighteen. Her hair was short and dark brown along with her eyes being dark brown. She has wavy locks on one side of her face, and dyed gradient that stats as a dark brown and transition to caramel.
Her clothes consisted of a long cocoa colored shirt with an upturned layered frill collar with a black single strapped waist cincher. She also wears black trousers that have golden lining around the pocket and ribbons attached to the back of a golden zipper seam around her knees. A black golden studded belt that seems to be hidden by a larger cocoa colored belt with gun caritages on the left side and a large crosshair buckle. Their was also a very large piece of black fabric attached to her fabric hanging down on her right side. Along with wearing a pair of dark black high heeled leather calf high boots with golden buckles
For her accessories she has a variety of them such as a bracelet with black roses as decorations, along with black gloves accompiying them. Then their was also a three beaded necklace alongside a black scarf tied around her collar. She wears a black beret with a cocoa brown trim and a pair of black, wire rimmed aviator sunglasses. On her side shes holding a black shoulder bag with gold studs which is held by a bandolier strap.
"Hey velvets team is back from this mission."Rogue stated
"Yeah….but weren't they gone for more than intended? "Eria asked
Soon enough Velvet saw team ZERO waving to them greeting them along with their team.
"Hey guys great to see you."Velvet said walking over waving before kissing onxyia on the cheek then zane.
"Bun it's great to see you guys back how was your mission?"Onxyia asked
Velvet seemed to go quiet by this and just sat their frozen. Then her other teammates joined her staring at the frozen bunny faunus. The girl in the beret seemed to chuckle at this.
"Don't worry about bunny ears over here….we just had to deal with alot of grimm thats all."the beret girl mentioned
"Hmm by little you mean swarms of them."the copper haired boy added
The beret girl rolled her eyes smiling then looked at Team Zero"I'm pretty sure we haven't met yet which is surpsining ,names Coco leader of our little group here."the girl introduced herself
"And this guy right here is Fox Alliastor."Coco added with Fox giving a wave.
"Its nice to meet you i'm Zane Graves, this is Eria and Rogue Hayley, and our furry friend here is Onxyia Blair."Zane said with Onxyia pinching his ear.
"Ow….come on just a joke."Zane said smiling with Onxyia rolling her eyes smiling.
Coco smiled at this then relzied something"hey your that guy who helped Velvet get away from that jerk Cardin back then. Along with you two being her well boyfriend and girlfriend."Coco said as velvet blushed sligtly
"Hmm yeah but Cardin actually been trying to redeem himself now I think."Zane added
Coco just scoffed at that answer. She seemed to not have forgiven for what he's done to her teammate. Who wouldn't blame her? Cardin was a complete jerk back then. But for the past month hes been trying to make it up to everyone here at Beacon.
"Despite that….we need to head over to our ship for our mission. "Eria mentioned getting their attention. Then they started to walk their separate ways before Coco gave them some words of advice.
"Hey by the way, look out for each other out there no matter what. Take some advice from your seniors."Coco said with Team Zero nodding in agreement
"Same applies to you thanks for watching out for bun"he replied
Soon enough they got to their ship examining it. Their was some gear in the ship along with enough room for them.
"Hmmm? I wonder who the huntsman or huntress will be joining us?"Rgoue asked
"That would be me, children."a voice was heard behind them and it was Professor Port. The man who never knew how to stop talking about himself.
"Ummm Professor Port why are are you here?"Eria questioned
"I'll be acocmpanying you all on this quest. I have already prepared our equipment in case we are gone for more than we intended. But I feel like we shouldn't need it since you have me coming along. We could live off the land for weeks even."Professor port said
"You sure you can handle this Professor Port?"Rogue asked
"Why, I'm sure this old man is still a veteran huntsman. Back in my day I was considrred one of the most skilled huntsman in my days."Professor began which seemed to annoy them to death.
"Alright we get it your the best huntsman around sir….shouldnt we get going no offense."Zane said
"You are right my dear boy, come now children. Time for your first quest with one of the best huntsman around."Professor Port as he climbed abroad the airship. They followed suit climbing aboard strapping themselves in. Then Port motioned for the pilot to take off and so he did.
They were then heading outside of Vale City and were not flying above the forest northwest of here.
"We just left the city. No going back."Onxyia said as the ship continued its course.
Then another hour went by and they were soon arriving at a small village near some plains in the background. As they were getting off the ship Onxyia looked around the place from the ship. A sigh was infront of the village and it read OakShire. It looked like a normal village you would see in the countryside. The houses were made of wood,brick and stone.
"I'm guessing this is the place."She said
"Yes it is come now we mustan't keep the village mayor waiting. He sent the request so we'll need to talk to him about it and why he sent it out."Port added
"Maybe we can get a better grasped on what were dealing with."Rogue added as they entered the village
The five walked as Port looked back at the young team."remeber children were here to represent Beacon ACademy so behave yourselves."Port remind.
This surprised them but maybe he was just making sure they would be respectful. Once they entered several people were already giving them were look but directly at Onxyia and more importanly her faunus traits. Their were also some men into uniforms with symbols on their arms of a talon colored crimison on some patches.
"I'm not liking this one bit…it's making me uncomfortable with all their staring, ''Onxyia said, getting nervous. Zane then grabbed her hand nodding to reassure her. She smiled and continued looking forward, clenching his hand tight.
"Yeah you're telling me, it's creeping me out too."Rogue added
"Just head them, no mind children and keep walking. Once we find the mayors officer we'll be out of their view."Port said
A few minutes later they were in front of a two story cylinder like building with a blue roof and a lantern hanging off it. In front of the building was a man in a normal suit and tie with blonde hair along with another. He had short hair and seemed muscular in apperance. Their was a tattoo on his right arm of the same patch on some of the men in town. He wore a black tactial vest and shirt along with grey combat pants. On his back was a large automatic rifle it seemed.
"Hello there. You must be the huntsman we asked for?"the man in the suit asked
"Yes we are. My name is Peter Port and were from Beacon Academy. You sent out a quest about some grimm troubles it seems. Port replied
The mayor smiled, clasping his hands together"yes we did but we weren't expecting anyone to accept the request."The mayor said looking down.
"Well we accepted it sir. As huntsman its our job to accept any request."Zane added
This seemed to make the mayor happy but the man next to him growled"Oh sorry this is Hassan Adkins. He helps run a local milita against the grimm in our town."The mayor replied
"Hmmm but why would you call huntsman then if you have your own milita?"Eria questioned
"Well you see um…"the mayor began before Hassan interutped.
"We've never had problems dealing with grimm before. But these one are different especially for a pack of uras."The man said
"Was there anything strange about them?"rogue asked
The mayor thought for a moment before he answered"Actually yes….there was something on the back of the uras major. It looked to be a little girl in some type of patient gown it seemed. She gave out commands to them and some of our people went missing after she took them away."the mayor added worriedly.
This seemed to surprise the group at what they just heard.``Little girl in a patient's gown. You three are thinking what I'm thinking?"Zane asked
"You think it might be that uras faunus girl we saw back then."Eria added
This got the mayor, Hassan and Peter Port interested in what they just said.
"Uras Faunus kid your making things up they don't exist."Hassan said laughing
But Port seemed interested in what they were talking about and listened to them."That wouldn't be possible, children grimm have no souls. "The mayor added
"Well we saw one it was certainly an uras faunus that attacked Vale City sometime the thing is that there was no also mentioned people in white coats."Rogue added
"Yes, that 's what happened here as well. But she usually takes at least two people from the village with her. Along with materials it seems around the woods and village.."The mayor replied as Hassan looked at him.
"Did you see were if ran off too?"Port asked
Hassan then snortted spitting to the ground which disgusted them.``over the hills into the forest. The grimm more likely went in there. Though my men have been having trouble dealing with them before turning back halfway."Hassan replied pointing to the forest.
"Very well sir. We'll investigate this matter and return the supplies and your people."Port replied
"I could care less about our supplies, please make sure my people are okay. They have family here."The mayor replied
"Don't worry we got this and they'll be returned to you."Zane replied
"I certainly hope so,"the mayor said, heading inside the building behind him nervously.
"Well if your leaving let me send a few of my men with you to watch your back."Hassan added
"It's alright sir, keep your men here just in case. If more grimm attacks you'll need all the men you can get."Onxyia added which annoyed Hassan. He gave her a dirty look which made her nervous before he scoffed walking off bumping into her shoulder.
Zane looked at him gripping his holster but let go because it wasn;t worth it. But Rogue had other ideas about chastising the man but Eria stopped her by covering her mouth.
"Fricking jerk…..guess the first mission is we deal with some jerk from some merc group."Rogue said after eria let her mouth go.
"Its alright children, these types of things happen. I just wish they wouldn't treat them so badly are you alright dear?"port asked
Onxyia nodded her head"yes it didn't hurt….although it was rude. But he may just be tense because of what is happening."Onxyia replied
"Very well, but first we are heading into the unknown area. We must discuss a strategy of how we approach it. If we go in unprepared were more likely to be snuffed out by the creatures of grimm."Port saod
"You got a point there. We should be careful or we could become Grimm chow before we make it out alive."Zane added
"Yes. It's best we utilzie our strengths and our weaknesses. We'll form a two by one by two formation. your our center with your semblance it may prove with your rifle you can take down any grimm from a distance. Rogue you and me will provide cover in the front. With your semblance dear you can slow down our prey then we can take them out."Port added
"Then me and Eria will watch the rear my revolver got some decent range."zane added
"And like Rogue I can slow down anything that comes from behind before they get the chance."Eria added
"Hmmm Zane, be careful not to use your semblance, we wouldn't want you becoming our prey."Port added, surprising them all.
"Since when did you know about it?"Eria questioned
Port just laughed"Oh most of the teachers know about every student. Ozpin made sure to tell us specific details on each student and what to watch out for."Port said laughing a little
"Alright then since I got a game plan. We should check out weapons and gear then we'll head out."Onxyia added as the group returned to the airship to check their supplies.
However someone was watching them and they seemed to recognize them.
"Hmmm it seems big ears here haven't seen her since that job I did back then. Although the guy next to him seems familiar."the figure said as he disappeared from the village.
Then there was Hassan who watched the group making a call"Hey boss you know that side project you mentioned about years ago. I think I found him i'll let you know if I can confrim it."Hasan said before hanging up
Here we go its the team first expedition with Peter Port, I wanted him to get more screen time since he never got much. Along with that seems this hassan fellow has an alteritive motive. Hope you enjoyed!
