A Deal With An Immortal Man.

Hello again! hopefully you peeps enjoy this chapter, I took my time with it again and that seems to improving my writing instead of dedicating a whole day/night to writing up in my free time. I do not own RWBY or Bloodborne and they belong to their own respective studios.

Bold is for emphasis on speech or actions.

Italics are for thoughts

The man didn't react to the question, or at least immediately as if he had to ponder it. They were both silent, eyeing her up to the point where she thought their answer was clear. When she went to stand however the man simply shook his head. "We're just wondering why a woman with no aura is in a dangerous forest full of grimm."

That's the second time she's heard aura and grimm. In this world those words must mean something that she is ignorant of. Obviously she couldn't tell the truth, they'd either call her mad, or try to get all of the truth which could drive them mad. "Truth is I'm lost. I woke up here with my mind in a fog, I'm not quite sure where I am, or what I am doing… it just feels natural. To fight those beasts, it's just what hunters do." She feigned a puzzled look, as if she had said something odd about it herself.

"Do you really think we'd believe such a lie?" The woman spoke her disbelief at Alaine's words but a look from the man and she bit her tongue but what was said was said. Alaine was beginning to wonder who he and this woman were.

"Sorry for my co-worker's disbelief but we just don't know who you are. Do you remember your name?" Harmless question he asked, the woman let go of her weapon and stood up, giving a hunter's salutation a shallow bow of the head along with her left hand on her heart.

"Ah, I'm sorry. My name is Alaine, Alaine Gunner." She said it proudly, although saying her married name brought those bitter thoughts to mind. "I am a hunter. I hunt beasts to keep people safe."

The woman's face as Alaine picked her head up from the shallow bow was that of curiosity and confusion. The man was the same as ever, a gentle smile with eyes that held a smolder of warmth. "Well… we don't know that ourselves do we. My name is Ozpin, and this is Miss. Goodwitch." The now named Ozpin introduced him and his companion.

"You are an outsider in every sense of the word. We don't know anything about you other than your name. In this day and age that's… abnormal." Miss. Goodwitch spoke with a bit of confusion, and suspicion all wrapped up in one.

Alaine wanted to dispute what she said but the logic behind it was sound. This world was different from hers, she had no idea really what to expect from the world that was inhabited with people that were still sane. She didn't know what this world was like, nor its mystery so she accepted her word as fact in this case. "I see, I have no definitive answer to that since I don't know why myself. Although I'm willing to answer any question you like and I'll answer it to the best of my knowledge right now."

"Why don't you use aura? It's a lifesaving tool." The well mannered Ozpin had the slightest bit of curiosity in his voice as he asked this. He stepped forward from the grass and stood on the other side of the fire from Alaine. The woman stood just behind him but at his side, distancing herself from the conversation.

"I don't think I have one. I was trained to fight without any protection, I was taught that there was no armor that couldn't be torn apart by beasts and that it is better to avoid any swipe at me and retaliate fast and hard." Although it was vague she was telling the truth, and that's how these questions were going to go, half truths.

"Don't be silly, everything living has an aura." Miss. Goodwitch seemed to be just as suspicious as ever but this was more a state of fact than an accusation.

"Then consider me an exception. I don't have access to any power that can protect me." Alaine was blunt with this, but they didn't seem to budge. They're hard eyes telling Alaine that they were becoming increasingly suspicious of her. She couldn't tell the truth could she? "No, that would just have me end up in some Asylum to be kept away from others, branded as mad and dangerous."

She shifted a little and pulled out a ring that belonged to Emmet, stained perpetually in splattered and dried blood. It wasn't the real one, it was the one that the hunter's nightmare had created to bind her to the nightmare and to remind her blood drunken self of her hate towards the church. she fiddled with the ring between her fingers, she found it oddly comforting to do so. "You don't believe me."

"It's possible that your aura has never been unlocked and you were told that you didn't have one." The man said while looking intently on her, he no doubt picked up on her little nervous tick she had.

"Why would they do so?" The older woman asked out loud while still keeping her eye on Alaine.

The man seemed to have an answer on his mind but he thought it over for a bit before he responded. "No idea, we can only theorize as to why. We could unlock it, do you want it unlocked Alaine?"

It was spoken so casually that she didn't pick up the meaning behind his words. She sort of just sat there and nodded before she shook her head. "I'd like to know exactly what aura is before you do it."

"Aura is an ability that all those with a soul can use, at least with enough practice. Aura is the manifestation of the soul and can be used as a way to project a barrier between you and harm." Ozpin was matter of fact in his tone but Alaine could barely believe it. If this was true then this world was truly kind to its inhabitants.

"How does one unlock it?" Alaine asked with a bit of curiosity and caution in her voice as she did so.

"You have someone else look into your soul and bridge the gap between mind, body, and soul. All it takes is to let either me or Ms. Goodwitch extend our souls to yours and guide it." Ozpin said with his usual deadpan tone, paired with a similar expression.

Alaine couldn't help but feel like it was too good to be true, there wasn't a price to pay like a ritual or some horrific transformation to go through. Not even blood. "Is it painful?"

"Hardly. It'll take more out of me to guide your soul than it will your's." Little did Alaine know that this was a test to see if she was telling any lie up to this point. He walked over and stood next to where Alaine sat.

Alaine stood up to his level and lightly dusted herself off before meeting his gaze with a stare that was intense. The reasoning for it was because rarely was she this close to someone else without one of them trying to kill the other.

Ozpin reached out his hand and Alaine took a cautionary step back. "I need your hand Ms Gunner." Alaine slowly reached her hand out to meet his, it was the first time she'd willingly touched someone without the intent to kill since the night of the hunt, it felt odd doing so.

Immediately she felt his presence in her mind yet unlike the abomination that was the moon presence that pounded her mind and tried to force it into submission. What she could only assume to be Ozpin's soul reached inside her.

Ozpin began to speak. "Through failure and experience you learn, sharing your knowledge ensures it outlives you, through this we accumulate the knowledge needed to protect humanity. I release the chains of ignorance and rise to protect those who remain so." His voice was slightly shaky, and Alaine wondered if it was really draining him of some kind of energy to do this.

"What?" As Ozpin tried to release her soul he saw exactly what kind of person she was. Her soul soothed, yet it was unsettling how much it soothed him. He saw into her soul, he saw a field of flowers, the area was covered in pale blue fog. It was a gentle place, yet he felt eyes on him.. like he was being observed. The odd thing was that instead of the usual small.. yet a powerful soul in front of him. There wasn't a soul to be seen, yet this strange location was unlike anything he had encountered before.

He wondered why? Did she truly have no aura? If so then it is a dangerous mutation that could cripple humanity. It also made no sense. Anything created by the god of light has a soul and an aura yet where he metaphorically stood there was nothing. There were no chains to unlock, no cage, no lock to unlock. He looked around in Alaine's mind and saw nothing but this place instead of a soul.

An odd prospect came to mind, Alaine's soul was all around him and if that was the case why wasn't there anything. He touched the ground and his suspicions were confirmed, this place was her soul and there were no bindings. Even if he felt like an invader it did not quell his concern that this was something that may spread. "My… you may have been right. How? Hmm. This doesn't make any sense." Ozpin muttered to himself as he walked in a direction within Alaine's soul. He came across a hill with a single tree on it, as he went to walk past it a form caught his eye. There was Alaine, sitting at the base of the tree on the opposite side he came from.

Alaine was dressed much more casually, a pair of tailored pants and a vest, lastly she wore a top hat. She reached out her hand to the sky, he turned to look at the sky and found something that should have been impossible. The moon was whole, something that shouldn't have been possible since it was shattered when the gods left this world. He heard a sigh but before anything else he 'awoke' he opened his eyes and he felt more tired than he should so he supplemented this by taking a sip of coffee from a thermos he took with him since a cup wouldn't be appropriate for travel, even if it's a small amount.

"That is… odd." Ozpin said, his expression finally changed, even just slightly to worry. What could be causing it? And why was her soul so beautiful but strange.

Ms. Goodwitch was watching the whole time, slight confusion donning her face at Ozpin's reaction. "Is there something wrong?"

"There certainly is." Ozpin studied Alaine's face, she just smiled sadly like she'd known this would have happened. He was quiet for a moment, thinking about why she had no aura. "She's right, she has no aura."

Ms. Goodwitch was stunned, everything had aura except for plantlife, bacteria, and grimm. She then had a look of pity, this woman was trained and fought grim without an aura. How she had lived this long was a complete mystery to her. "How is that possible?"

"I haven't a clue." Ozpin said, still studying Alaine who had been silent about their amazement. He kept thinking before a thought, a dangerous thought crossed his mind. "Was she not born from a creation of the god of light?" That in itself was impossible, humanity was a creation of the god of light and he bestowed them the gifts of aura to most of his creations.

He was suspicious now, "Don't tell me Salem has been meddling with creation magic. No not even she could do what only the gods could do" He kept staring at Alaine, gazing into her eyes and remembering that place he had seen while he tried to unlock her aura. "What are you?"

Alaine still had that sad smile on her face. "I am not like you, graced with such gifts. I am a hunter. My purpose is to kill beasts to keep people safe. There are things best left… unknown about anything more. I am here to help as a hunter should" She took a gamble, it turns out letting Ozpin see her soul was a mistake. She was obviously different from this world's inhabitants but now he'd seen her for what she is and all she can do is skirt around this problem.

There was a certain tension as it had gotten quiet now. The crackling of the flames being the only noise to be heard. "I'm not sure what to think after 'visiting' your soul. but I didn't sense anything that would tell me your intentions. Just otherworldly visions."

Alaine stiffened at the word 'otherworldly' and she had a dangerous look in her eye. "What did you see then?"

Ozpin shook his head, taking a sip of his thermos before he spoke "A field of white sunflowers that stretched farther than I could see. There was a tree with you under it… lastly a unbroken moon"

Glynda's eyebrows furrowed at Alaine, she didn't like it one bit but if she meant harm she could have just attacked her and Ozpin here, but this person was just so odd.

"Lumenflowers. I see, so that is my soul." Alaine said plainly. She sat back down and then also solemnly said. "Now do you believe me? I have no aura…"

Ozpin opted to stand instead of sit on the ground. He rubbed his chin with his free hand and then shook his head. "I believe you now but the very thought that someone- no a living, thinking being is without an aura is a very scary thought"

"I've lived that way my whole life, it doesn't bother me. I am envious of you, to protect yourself in such a way." Alaine said with a bit of wistfulness in her voice, she couldn't lie, she was jealous. "But that's just the way it is, I suppose."

"It still doesn't explain why we know nothing about you" Glynda said, feeling especially tired from this encounter and how late it was.

"As you can see I'm not from around here, would that be the case? I am new to these lands, if I remember correctly I traveled here looking for work." Alaine lied through her teeth but honestly she did not care, this had taken far too long and she still didn't see an end in sight.

"If that is the case I'm guessing you came from one of the many outlying settlements…" Ozpin thought up and said out loud to which Glynda stared at him for.

"If you're looking for work. I can give you assignments to go out, kill grimm and help people" Ozpin offered to Alaine, she thought about it for a moment, it wouldn't be such a bad idea.

"If you allow me a large room, a storage room and a bed would suffice. I'll make my own little workshop and we'll call it a deal." Alaine thought about it, she had so many ideas as well knowledge that she wanted to write down, engineer, and recreate. She also had a job that she had to do once she had a place to rest.

"You can't be serious." Ms. Goodwitch said, giving Ozpin the death stare as she exclaimed with disbelief.

"We need all the help we can get, and even without aura she's good. Although I do wonder how you are okay…? the children mentioned a lot of blood." Ozpin wondered out loud once more, this time trying to get a response as to how.

"I have the ability to heal my wounds… so don't worry about me. Even without aura I will not slack against my peers." Alaine said with determination in her voice as she laid back.

"Does this mean I'm going with you?" Alaine asked, to which Ozpin nodded. Alaine stood up, looked at the fire and kicked some dirt into it to smother it. Once she was sure it wouldn't start back up she turned to Ms. Goodwitch and Ozpin, bowing once more. "I am happy to meet your acquaintance, I am the Powderkeg Hunter Alaine, Alexandria, Gunner."

Thank you for reading this chapter, I know some of you won't like the fact that she's associated with the school/Ozpin but I have a plan for the near future. I did not wish for Ozpin or the entirety of the world against Alaine for no reason but I doubt he'd let her just slip past her, and Alaine is not the type of person to kill someone she sees as sane and hasn't done anything wrong in her eyes yet. Till next time.