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Chapter One: Team Cabal
"Wake up! Stand at Attention men!" Cobalt shouted his booming voice spreading throughout the team's dorm room.
Ash fell off of his bed hitting the ground with a thunk as the rudely awoken student began to slowly rise.
"Cobalt! If you wake me up at 5:00 AM one more time I will end you!" The rebel without a cause shouted back slouching immediately after his outburst due to fatigue.
"It's necessary we were called in by Iron Wood and I will not keep him waiting" Cobalt walked over to Loki shaking him awake.
"Huh…. five more minutes pleaseeeee…" Loki begged immaturely as the sleep deprived teenager drooled on his pillow.
Ash filled up a glass of cold water and poured it directly onto his face causing Loki to shoot up from his bed.
"AGHHH…! WHY?! YOU JERK!" Loki now wide awake jumped off of his bed and jumped at Ash the two beginning to wrestle.
"If I'm waking up early, you're suffering with me" Ash got him into a headlock giving him a noogy.
"Blaidd good to see your wake on time" Cobalt complimented beginning to put on his uniform as their Wolf Faunus companion was reading a comic book titled 'The Recollection.'
Blaidd gave a simple thumbs up before returning to his readings, he gave a quiet chuckle in response to the story.
"Now that we're all up, everybody gets yourselves presentable, I want to make a good impression on the general" Cobalt said the group getting their silver and white uniforms on.
Cobalt wore nothing extra only the basic Atlas uniform that looked as clean as the day he bought it.
Loki wore green headphones around his neck, Ash had the top three buttons unbuttoned on his uniform and Blaidd's uniform had a few rips/cuts on it.
Cobalt quickly took the headphones off of Loki's neck putting it on his bed before forcing a reluctant Ash to button his uniform.
He would then take Blaidd's uniform and roughly stitch together the damages inflicted as the rest of the team would brush their teeth and clean themselves up.
Finishing up the job, Blaidd would give Cobalt a wordless thank you through a simple nod putting the uniform on as the group headed out of their room.
The group of four walked through the colorless walls of the Atlas huntsman academy getting a mixed reaction from students walking by.
Some would fangirl as if they were celebrities, with looks of admiration and respect.
Some would give stares of resentment and distain mostly towards Blaidd who gave no response to the glares or disrespectful murmurs.
"You got a staring problem?!" Ash barked at the group of kids who'd passed by glaring at Blaidd.
"It's fine" Blaidd replied gently.
"No, it isn't, if anybody messes with you, they're messing with all of us" Ash replied placing his hands behind his head.
"I'll be okay, don't worry about me" Blaidd's sentences were short and his voice remarkably silent.
Ash didn't reply giving up on the subject for the time being as they arrived at the headmaster's office seeing the massive pure white doors with two Atlassian guards on both sides of the doors.
"We were requested to see General Ironwood at our earliest convenience!" Cobalt stood at attention with his hands behind his back.
"Yeah, what the guy with a stick up his ass said" Ash commented chuckling receiving a glare from Cobalt.
The guards nodded grabbing both doors allowing them into the office.
They saw Ironwood.
The peak of the Atlesian military.
The most respected man in the kingdom.
He was standing at his desk looking at the group with a stern expression.
"Hello gentlemen, I appreciate your punctuality" Cobalt gave a smirk to Ash who rolled his eyes.
"Now let's see…." Ironwood stared at five files that were laid across his desk.
"Cobalt Sparks"
He was a bit shorter than all of his team; his intimidation factor was not lost as despite his height he was clearly muscular with his large arms and chest.
He had incredibly short white hair with blue eyes, he had the look of solider as if he was born exactly for the purpose of being in the Atlesian military.
"You have an exemplary record whether it's missions, academics or recommendations from your teachers you're not lacking in anything" Cobalt couldn't hide his pride a smile spreading across his face.
"That is excluding your mission to the Woods of course" The smile was wiped from his face, now giving an apathetic stare towards the General.
"Ash McCarthy"
Ash was average height with tan skin, a red Mohawk and mischievous yellow eyes, his smirk was intoxicatingly smug.
"You have a long rap-sheet found guilty of robbery, assault, resisting arrest, arson, and more" Ironwood listed disapprovingly.
"Those are just the ones y'all know about!" he chuckled receiving a glare from Cobalt and Ironwood as he remained unfazed.
"Your grades are less than stellar to…but you have one of the highest combat records in recent memory" Ironwood gave in to some praise.
"Blaidd…oh there isn't a last name here?" Ironwood looked up for an explanation only receiving silence from the tall figure whose face and purple eyes remained expressionless.
Blaidd was tall and lengthy with messy, shaggy black hair that covered some but not all of the scars that stretched around his neck and seeped into his clothing.
"Well…. your semblance is known as one of the strongest on campus and you're well respected by your combat instructors though you've been involved in many confrontations with your fellow classmates" He read off of the file.
"That's never Blaidd's fault! It's always some jerk wad" Loki protested Ironwood giving an understanding nod.
"Loki Midora"
Loki looked the youngest out of the group only a bit taller than Cobalt with bright green eyes and similarly green spiky hair.
"Oh, the Midora family, I expected you to be in a lab not a military academy" He noted seeing an obvious glare cover his face.
Ironwood dropped the sore subject continuing his talks.
"I'm very hesitant having someone so young at this academy, but you've managed to excel with your…unorthodox weapon and semblance I'm impressed despite your age you've achieved the largest sparing win streak since Winter attended here."
"Aw shucks you're making me blush" The youngster joked.
"Team CABL(Cabal), you are one of-if not-the best team at this academy; I have a mission that requires students, and I've picked you to accomplish this task" Cobalt's eyes lit up with excitement.
"This is such an honorary sir! Whatever mission I'm sure team CABL can complete it!" Cobalt said enthusiastically.
Ironwood held his hand out causing Cobalt to calm down immediately.
"I hand out this praise but I want all of you to know that I see weakness and uncertainty in all of you, I won't say I've never been tempted to kick at least one of you out due to the several behavioral or mission related mistakes you have made"Ironwood sternly spoke grabbing the fifth file.
"I haven't because I want to believe despite failures in the past, or misconduct or unorthodox situations that you can become the future of the Atlesian military so I'm giving you a chance to prove yourselves, succeed and I'll guarantee you a place at my side as huntsmen."
"And if we fail?" Cobalt questioned.
"You don't want to find out" Ironwood then proceeded to open up the file, putting several papers onto the table gesturing for the group to walk forward.
"We had a weapon designed to enhance semblances to 100x their normal power, its position was leaked so we had to move it, but the convoy was assaulted by the White Fang and taken."
Pictures on the desk showed several huntsmen and Atlesian soldiers being defeated by three White Fang members.
One wore a mammoth Grimm mask wielding a chainsaw, he had to be over seven feet tall with droopy piglike ears.
One wore a stand Grimm mask wielding a red sword, he had red hair and bull horns.
One wore a snake Grimm mask wielding a massive scythe, she was small and appeared to have scales along her skin.
Seeing the bull Faunus made Blaidd's eyes light up before he quickly extinguished the emotion, he had shown so that nobody noticed.
"These three beat six huntsmen and two dozen soldiers."
"By themselves" Ironwood emphasized.
"So why the hell are you making us deal with this?" Ash asked.
"Because the weapons tracking device went off nearby Beacon right before it was shut off, it could be a coincidence, but Beacon students have previously interfered in the plans of the White Fang, so I believe it's related" The doors opened as Winter walked through with her hands placed behind her back.
"You'll accompany me under the guise of being transfer students helping set up for the Vytal festival, as we investigate" Winter moves to Ironwood's side.
"You are here to protect the students and report anything of note at Beacon, if you see any of these three individuals you are not to engage and report it to me, I may ask for you accompany me on my missions in Vale BUT you will follow my orders TO THE LETTER, got it?" The ice queen spoke with force more so than even the General.
"Yes ma'am!" Cobalt saluted.
"Whatever" Ash responded.
Blaidd nodded.
"This is gonna be an adventure!" Loki said excitably.
"What have I gotten myself into…" Winter sighed.