Black was sitting at the edge of a building, looking at the night sky. He thought about what happened over his year working with these, mortals.
His sparring sessions with Adam had increased the faunas speed, strength, and endurance. At one point Black decided to teach Adam a bit about ki, at first the Bull faunas was skeptical about it, but after Black showed him a bit of what Ki is and what it can do, Adam's curiosity got the better of him and wanted to know more.
Besides training with Adam, Black had other interesting events happen. He was given a couple of opportunities to fight some seasoned huntsmen and huntresses. Cinder reminded him repeatedly not to engage them because they might see his face. But of course, the false Saiyan cared less if they saw his face, mostly because they wouldn't live long enough to tell anyone.
The White Fang's supplies have increased a lot thanks to how fast and successful dust convoys him and Adam captured. Another thing is that his social skills with Adam have… gotten better, it almost reminds him how he would spend time chatting with himself on earth (He's referring to Zamasu). Recently though, the Bull Faunas has been giving off a hostile vibe. Not that Black cared or anything.
Looking at his hand he closed and opened it. "It's been a whole year since I came here and yet… I'm still nowhere near as powerful as what I used to be," He looked up at the broken moon. "This is annoying," His eyes then landed on the city of Mistral. All those human and Faunus walking around freely. From where he was sitting he could see everything, they tossed trash on the floor, some were fighting each other, and others were happily walking around. It disgusted him how he missed this planet. A sudden urge to kill rose in him. Lifting his hand he created a small kill ball. He could fire one and kill a group of them, no one would even notice it was him. "Just one blast," He was about to fire till he heard the door open. He quickly suppressed the ki back into his body.
"You talking to yourself again?" Looking back he saw Emerald walking towards him with Mercury next to her. "What do you two want?" He turned back to the moon. "Shouldn't you two be assisting the Fang?" Mercury gave a sarcastic hurt expression. "Aw come on Black we haven't hung out for a while. I thought we were friends." Emerald elbowed him in the ribs making him chuckle.
Black ignored him and closed his eyes. He was hoping he could enjoy tonight, away from these annoying mortals but they always seemed to find a way to ruin it. Emerald sat to his right while Mercury sat next to her but behind the edge.
"We just came here for the cool night breeze. I didn't expect you to be here as well." Emerald said stretching her arms. Black slightly opened his eyes and gave her an annoyed look. "Hey Black how's being Adam's partner like you guys having a love-hate relationship going on?" Mercury joked.
Black rolled his eyes. Thanks to Mercury's constant jokes and annoyance, Black had a better control over his temper for these mortals. "Shut up," Was all he said.
"Wow, someone's moody."
Black got up and cracked his neck making a popping sounds causing Emerald to flinch a bit. "So how are those little sparring sessions you have with Adam going?" Emerald asked.
"Good, I guess." It was true, whenever he had those sparring session with Adam it helped him to keep himself on his toes and increase his power a bit when he lowered his own to match Adam's.
But it wasn't the same as fighting like he used to with Son Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks. Damn, he didn't want to admit but… he missed fighting them. The intense and exciting feeling of someone challenging his power was something this body craved. Ugh, the mere thought of wanting them here just made him want to vomit. This planet is getting boring.
"I hear that you two became best buddies, makes me kind of jealous," Mercury said making Black looked at him boredly. "The only thing that keeps us on friendly terms is that we share the same goal."
"And that is?" Before Black could answer the door to the roof opened, they turned around. "Oh speak of the devil." It was Adam who had a folder in his left hand and a case in the other.
"Another mission the woman wants us to do?" Black asked. Adam walked up to him and handed him the folder. "Not exactly," He responded.
Black gave him a questioning look before opening the folder and reading the papers inside. Emerald and Mercury saw his eyes widen a bit. "You got to be kidding me." He growled in annoyance and rubbed his temples. Out of curiosity Emerald looked over his leaned in and read the paper.
Black your new task will be attending Beacon academy as a student so you can discover the location of the Fall Maiden. You will also be assisting a companion of ours with some operation we're planning. We also have some Intel that our hero has been spotted in Vale, try finding out who he is and end him. Remember to play nice with your fellow students and partners, and make some friends. Oh and Happy Birthday.
-Cinder
"Psh, hahaha!" Emerald couldn't stop herself from laughing. "Y-You have to go to… School!" She felt tears in her eyes. Never in her life would she imagine seeing Black attending as a student. He already hated being ordered around by Cinder now he's going to have to deal with teachers. Oh how she wished she could go and see his reaction towards them.
Black felt like breaking someone's bones right now. That bitch now wants him to go to school! Are you serious! If it weren't for this damn collar, oh the amount of pain she would be feeling right now.
Taking a deep breath he calmed himself down. He looked at the transcripts she made for him. He'll be going as Son Black. Semblance classified, martial artists, Weapon: Wrist bracer handgun.
Looking up he saw Adam who had a slight smirk on his face. "You seem to be enjoying this."
"Why wouldn't I?" Black growled it seemed that everyone on this damn wanted to mock him. "Oh you'll need this as well." Adam opened the case. Inside was a wrist bracer that reached halfway his forearm. Black took hold of it and placed it on his wrist. "It has extendable blades," Two medium long blades slid out. Black gave it a few swings and thrusts. "And it turns into a high caliber heavy pistol." He did a few motions before the blades retracted back and the top part of the bracer rolled forward and transformed into a pistol. Black examined the pistol in his hand.
"It looks bigger than the ones I've seen those soldiers use." He did a hand motion again and it transformed back to normal. "You'll need it since there hasn't ever been a student accepted into an academy without a weapon and we wouldn't want you to be the center of attention now would we." Black hummed in understanding.
"Huh, didn't know today was your birthday?" Mercury said. Black narrowed his eyes at him.
No it wasn't, today is the same day that woman placed this collar on him. An image of her laughing at him made his blood boil. "You'll leave tomorrow," Adam said, breaking Black's anger moment. Rubbing his temples he looked at the name of the school was going to attend.
"Beacon Academy," An arm hooked his neck. "Well my friend take care and can you get an autograph of the superhero for me." Mercury joked which earned him an elbow in the gut making him gasp for breath and fall to his knees. Emerald rolled her eyes and walked over him. "I told you not to bother him." Mercury tried getting up but fell back.
As Black and Emerald walked back inside, Adam's amused expression turned into one a serious one. "One year, I have one year to prepare myself."
Morning came and Black was already on his way to the ship that'll take him to Beacon. He waited for a couple of minutes, still no one. Taking out his scroll he saw that he got here very early. With a sigh Black got up and made his way down the street. "Might as well see who I'm going to be working with." During the night he received a location of the place where his new partner will be at.
Upon reaching the place he noticed it was an abandoned warehouse. "What's with these people and warehouses?" Walking in he saw many dust and weapon crates. Walking further into the warehouse he saw a table with a lamp and a map of the city. He looked at the map for a second. "Looks like what's going to happen here is going to be something big." He said to himself.
He then felt something sharp on his neck. "Indeed something big will happen kid, but sadly you won't be able to see it." Turning around he saw a man with pretty long orange hair that covered one of his green eyes. He wore a hat, a gray scarf, a white button suit with red inside. Black pants, shoes, and gloves.
Black then looked at who was holding the blade. It was a little girl. Half of her hair was pink the other was brown and she had some white streaks as well. She was pale white, her eyes seemed to change color whenever she blinks to brown, pale pink and white. She wore a white jacked which seemed to have pink in the interior, under her jacket is a brown corset in the middle, brown pants and black and white high heel boots. She also wore black gloves and a multitude of necklaces.
"I would move that blade away from me if I were you," The girl narrowed her eyes. "Unless you want your life end right now." Black threatened making the man chuckle.
"Not sure you're in the best situation to start making threats." In a blink of an eye Black disappeared and reappeared in front of the man. The man and girl's eyes widen. Black held a serious expression. "I'm guessing the woman didn't tell you about how I look." An expression of recognition appeared on his face. "Wait, so you're the one that…" The man sighed and rubbed his temples. "Great what does she think I am a babysitter?"
Black's eye twitched a bit. "I think she sent me here to take care of you," The man looked at him with a slight glare. "Or in this case both of you." He looked at the girl behind him which earned him a glare from her as well. "But like always I could care less what the hag wants me to do." Black shrugged.
The man chuckled. "I like this guy Neo," He lit a cigar and placed it in his mouth, then held out his hand. "Roman Torchwick," He shook his hand. "…Son Black."
The girl walked next to Roman. "This here is Neo, she's a mute so don't expect anything from her." The girl looked at him from head to toe and smirked. Black ignored her and looked back at Roman. "So what is it you do here?" He asked.
"Nothing much, for now, we just steal dust and dust crystals till we receive further orders." Black sensed some annoyance coming from him. "But recently our heists and robberies have been going downhill, thanks to the Kingdom's hero of justice," Roman sarcastically said the last part. Neo held a sign that said. "You forgot about the girl in red that kicked your ass yesterday." Roman facepalmed.
Black raised a brow. "A girl in red?" Seems like there will be other huntresses he'll have to deal then thoughts went back to this hero of justice, he wanted to know where in the city this hero was spotted. But before he could ask Neo tugged on his sleeve and pointed at the clock on her scroll. "Oh wow time sure does fly. Better hurry or you're going to miss your ride." Roman said.
Black stared at the two for a second before heading back to the ship station. "Why do you think Cinder had that kid be part of our business here?" Neo shrugged her shoulders. Whatever the reason might be it must be a good one.
Black now saw a bunch of students getting on board a big ship. He walked in and looked around for a place he could sit away from these mortals, but of course that was impossible. After a couple of minutes the ship started lifting off and headed to the school. Black leaned on a railing and stared at the clouds. A screen popped up and showed a news reporter talking about the latest dust robbery and Roman being the main suspect.
They then started talking about the Kingdom's hero of justice, a video started playing. "Defender of truth! Protector of the innocent! Upholder of justice! Doer to good! The Great Saiyaiman!" Black couldn't help but sweatdrop at the ridiculous poses this guy would make. Out of all the people that could be a challenge to him this… Great Saiyaman had to have a power that might rivals his right now.
"Wow, he's so cool!" A girl in a red cape said. Looking at the girl she seemed a bit young compared to the other students. She has black hair that fades into dark red her hair reached down to her neck and she had gray color eyes. She wore a long black blouse with a high collar with some red trims on the ends of her sleeves. A black waist cincher with red lacing, a black shirt also with red trims at the bottom, black stockings and black combat boots with red lacing. The type of clothing she wore would be classified as a gothic look from what he's heard from other mortals.
"Didn't you also do some superhero action too, with yesterday's dust robbery?" Another girl with yellow hair said. Ruby seemed to get a bit embarrassed as she hid her face in her hoody. "Oh it just makes me so proud of you little sis!" The girl yellow hair tightly hugged the other Ruby making her gasp for breath. "Yang, air, need air!"
The one named Yang released Ruby from her hug. "Sorry it's just hearing you stop that robbery then getting accepted early into Beacon made me so happy." The Ruby seemed a bit uncomfortable.
"What's wrong? You don't seem that happy about it." Yang asked.
"I am it's just that I was moved two years ahead. I don't want anyone thinking I'm special or anything."
Yang walked up to her and wrapped an arm around her. "But you are special, Ruby." Black kept his gaze on Ruby. "So she's the girl who took down Roman? Ruby," The screen started talking about again Roman being a wanted fugitive around the other kingdoms.
"Great, I'm partnered up someone who's known to the public." The screen then changed to a blonde woman with green eyes and glasses. She introduced herself as Glynda Goodwitch, and then started talking about the world being in a time of peace and about them being the future protectors of the world and other stuff that didn't interest him one bit.
After the woman finished he noticed Ruby have an amazed look when she stared out the window. Looking behind him he saw that it was the view of the city. Up ahead he saw Beacon. He was pretty amazed on how the school, no, this castle looked like. "Have to hand it to these mortals, they do know how to build impressive structures." His thoughts were interrupted by the two girls.
"Ah Yang you got puke on your shoe!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Gross gross gross gross," Yang tried shaking the puke off her shoe much while Ruby yelling to get away from her. The sight on how the two girls acted made Black roll his eyes.
The ship landed and Black got up to exit out. He was shoved aside by a blonde and was about to grab the boy but stopped himself when he saw the guy throw up in a trash can. He looked away in slight disgust before turning his gaze to the castle before him, admiring it for a bit. To his side he saw Ruby fangirling over some of the weapons the other students had which confused him a bit. He felt his scroll vibrate, it was a message from Roman. "We meet up in three days."
He placed his scroll away and picked up his bag. Out the corner of his eye he saw Ruby take out a scythe. "That's her weapon?" An image of his own scythe he used against Vegeta came to his mind.
"You seem to be enjoying your time there." The voice he heard made his fist tighten a bit. "What do you want?"
"Watch your tongue Black or do you need another reminder of who is in control here." He started to feel pain flow through his body but Black kept his composer. "Was that supposed to hurt me? Your little attacks are getting weaker." He taunted.
"The only reason you're not receiving the full force of it is because it might raise suspension if people see you curled up in pain," Salem explained.
"So she can't do anything to me when people are around?" A small smirk appeared on his face. "But the moment you're alone you'll receive your punishment."
"Then I guess I'll have to make some friends that'll stay by me." He heard her click her teeth and then felt the connection disappear. It might've been a small victory but it felt great. He walked forward till he was next to Ruby and a new girl with white hair. All of a sudden Ruby sneezed and a small explosion of various types of dusts erupted.
"See this is exactly what I meant!" The white hair girl said. Ruby was about to apologize but then stopped when she saw a guy next to them with his eyes closed. She realized then that this guy was also caught in the explosion. "Ahh! I'm sorry, uhh, a-are you okay?" She hesitantly asked.
Black slowly opened his eyes, his temper rose a bit but he managed to keep it under control. Turning to face the girl he responded. "Yes, I'm fine," he dusted his gi. "Make sure you both don't do this inside the building." He said causing the white hair girl to have a shocked look. "Me?! She was the one who caused the explosion!"
"Hey I said I was sorry princess."
"It's heiress actually," A new voice said. Looking behind him he saw a girl with black hair and amber eyes. She wore a black button vest, underneath was a white sleeveless high neck crop shirt which matched her white shorts. Black low heeled boots and black colored stockings with the bottom part being purple. Around her neck she had a small scarf and on her left arm was a detachable sleeve.
She looked like a simple girl really but that bow seemed… weird. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee dust company one of the largest energy purulent in the world," This caught Black attention, his eyes widening a bit. "She's a Schnee? Oh if only Adam were here." He suppressed a grin at the thought of what his fellow partner would do to the Schnee before him. He looked at the Schnee more carefully. She had pale white skin and long white hair that was pulled into a ponytail and pale blue eyes. She wore a dress with a combination of white and faint pale blue. Over the dress she wore a bell bolero with the same colors of her dress, the Schnee symbol was on her the back of her bolero. She wore white wedge heeled boots and a white pouch strapped to her waist.
"Yup, she's defiantly a Schnee. Very convenient I might say. " Black thought.
"Finally some recognition," Weiss looked satisfied then glared at him and Ruby. "The same company infamous for its controversial labor force and questionable business partners." He couldn't help but let out a low chuckle when the Schnee seemed to be angered by what the girl said. Ruby giggled at this.
Weiss snatched a dust canister from the girl's hand and stomped away. "I promise I'll make it up to you!" She shouted. Black decided to take his leave as well before anything else happens. As he a walked through the halls he accidentally bumped into someone. "Oh sorry I was distract…ted…" The guy and Black stared at one another.
The guy was the first to snap out. "Oh…hi again, remember me? From Vacuo." Black stared at him.
"No, I don't," The guy nervously laughed and scratched the back of his head. For a second he saw Goku in front of him then the next it was this guy. "What the hell was that?"
"Umm, I'm the one who bumped into you when you exited out the bookstore."
Black's seemed to recognize him now. "Ah, yea, now I remember you." The guy looked a bit embarrassed. "Never caught your name."
"Oh, it's Gohan." He reached his hand out. Black eyed him a bit; He was wearing a plain loose white long sleeve shirt with blue jeans and brown combat boots. He didn't get the chance to have a good look at Gohan back in Vacou but now, he seemed very familiar for some reason. "Black,"
Unknown to Black, Gohan was tense this whole time. Even more now that this guy before him not only looks and but sounds exactly like his father only with a slightly deeper voice. "So what school did you come from?" Black asked.
"Oh, I was homeschooled, my dad was a bit overprotected over me when I was a kid but not that much anymore."
"I see, well I guess we both have that in common then." Gohan gave him a questioning look. "I was homeschooled as well." Black lied.
Gohan looked at the building with an amazed look. "It's different, right? Being in a school with people who are our age."
Black shrugged. "Not much difference in my opinion. I think I rather stayed home than come here." He said remembering the events that took place with Ruby and the Schnee.
He felt someone tug his sleeve. Turning around he saw it was a girl, small for her age maybe around 5, 1. She had short brown hair with green eyes and creamy lightly tanned skin. She looked oddly familiar as well. She wore a blue short sleeve shirt with light brown jeans and blue boots. "E-Excuse me," Black stared at her with a serious look which made her sweat in fear a bit. "D-D-Do y-you know where we are s-supposed to g-go?"
The question made Black's eyes narrow his eyes at the floor. "Shit, where are we supposed to go?" The expression on his face made the girl think that he was getting mad at her making her run and hide around a corner, only peeking her head out. Gohan and Black had a confused look on their faces.
"Umm, miss, are you alright?" Gohan asked. The girl hesitantly nodded her head. Black stared at her for a bit. "I think you scared her with that serious look of yours," Gohan whispered. Black raised a brow at him then looked back at the girl who still had a frightened look in her eyes.
Realizing that Gohan was correct Black sighed and offered an apology. "Sorry if I scared you. It's just that I'm not sure where we're supposed to go myself." The girl seemed to calm down and walked away from the corner. "I-It's okay,"
Gohan smiled and offered her a hand. "Hi, my name's Gohan." The girl shook his hand. "I-I'm A-Alli, short f-for Allison."
"Nice to meet you Alli. This guy here is Black." Black stared at her. Where has he seen that face? Alli hid behind Gohan which made him chuckle a bit. "So Alli wanna walk with us to find out where we're supposed to go." Alli nodded her head yes. The trio walked for a while before finally finding the place where all the students were at. "T-Thank you for helping me." Alli bowed.
Gohan smiled. "No problem."
Black didn't say anything since he was staring at the fluffy brown tail she had. "Where have I seen that tail before?" She walked off and disappeared into the crowd. A man with white hair and wearing a green scarf walked up to the microphone. Having a feeling that this man will probably give a speech, Black decided to block out the voice and close his eyes, concentrating on finding this Fall Maiden Cinder keeps talking about. He didn't exactly know what kind of ki this Fall Maiden emanated, but it'll probably be something unique or very different from everyone else.
As he sensed throughout the school he couldn't really pick anything up thanks to the many ki's and Auras these students were emanating, it was messing up his concentration but he did pick up one. Opening his eyes he looked at Gohan from the corner of his eye. Out of all the ki's in the building his is the highest. His ki isn't high enough to pose a threat to him but then again he could be suppressing his true power like some humans can.
"But this is another planet and probably different dimension. There's little chance for other fighters like there use to be back on earth that could suppress their ki." Black stared at him for a bit catching his attention. Gohan waved at him, looking away Black decided to find out about Gohan's unusual high power, later. Right now, he had to look for that Fall Maiden.
Black noticed people leaving the room. "Hey, Black you there?" Gohan asked waving a hand in his face.
"Yes I am. Where's everyone going?" He asked.
"You didn't listen?" This earned Gohan a slight glare. "We're all going to be sleeping in the ballroom tonight and tomorrow the initiation."
"I see," As they both turned around to walk out Black bumped into someone. "Oh sorry I…" The person who he bumped into was Ruby. She stared at him for a while until realization hit her. "You're the guy who was caught in the explosion!"
"And you're the one called the bee's knees." Ruby's face redden a bit in embarrassment. A snicker was heard from behind Ruby. "Wow, I didn't think anyone heard me." From behind, Yang walked up to them.
Looking at Yang more carefully he noticed she had on was a tan jacket with a yellow crop top underneath. She wore a pair of mini black shorts, a brown belt around he shorts, knee high brown boots with orange knee socks and a gray bandana wrapped around her right knee. An orange scarf around her neck, black fingerless gloves, and yellow wrist bracers. She had lilac color eyes.
Black looked away. "Maybe next time you should be quieter when having a conversation with someone." With that he walked off. Yang looked at his retreating form with a displeased look. "Wow, guess someone's cranky today."
Ruby looked down a bit. "Aw don't be sad little sis. There are tons of people you can become friends with, so don't let ice queen and spike hair dude get you down."
"Your sister has a point," Gohan said.
Yang looked at him. "And you are?"
"Oh sorry my name's Gohan nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too Gohan, I'm Yang, this here is Ruby." Ruby nervously waved.
"Sorry about Black, it's his first time being in a school with other people around his age." Yang gained a curious look. "First time?"
"Yea we were homeschooled so we didn't get many chances to hang out with other kids. Well I kind of did but I'm not sure with him." He cupped his chin.
"Wait, are you two like, brothers?" Yang asked.
"No we aren't, I just recently met him a little while ago." The school speaker turned on and Glynda's was heard telling all remaining students in the halls to head to the ballroom. "I think we should get going,"Gohan said and then the three headed to the ballroom.
As everyone was getting settled in the ballroom Black sat in a corner and read a random book he grabbed from a student's bag. After a couple minutes of reading, he closed the book and gazed at the students in the ballroom. Some of the boys were flexing their muscles while some of the girls ogled at them. Black rolled his eyes and rested his cheek on his fist. Looking to his right he saw Ruby and Yang walk up to the same girl that was there when Ruby exploded.
They tried to start a conversation with her but it was clear that the black bow girl did not want to talk to them. He was able to hear that the girl's name was Blake. After a couple attempts in starting a conversation with her, Yang was about to give up and leave but Ruby asked Blake what the book she was reading about.
"It's about a man with two souls. Each fighting over control over his body." Blake said. Yang looked uninterested but Ruby wasn't. "I love books, Yang use to read to them me every night before bed. The stories of heroes and monsters. They're one of the reasons why I want to be a huntress."
"And why is that? You hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
"I'm hoping we all will." Black gazed at Ruby. "As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in those books, someone who fought for what was right and protected people who couldn't protect themselves."
Yang snickered. "Like the Great Saiyaman?" Ruby nervously laughed. "That's very ambitious for a child, but unfortunately the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."
Ruby smiled. "Well, that's why we're here to make it better." Black was a bit amazed by Ruby's words. "She really believes that we'll all live happily ever after." Yang picked up Ruby and hugged her from behind which caused her to punch her and start a fight her sister.
"What in the world is going on here?! Don't you see that some of us are trying to sleep!" Weiss exclaimed. Yang and Weiss looked at each other. "Oh no not you again!" They both shouted. Ruby tried to get them to be quiet but it only caused it to get worse. Getting tired of the noise Black grabbed his book and threw it at the girls, first hitting Yang in the face then somehow bouncing off and hitting the Schnee in the nose. "Quiet, both of you," He said.
Weiss glared at him while she held her red nose. "H-How dare you! Do you know who I am?!" Yang was about to say something as well but shut up when she saw the serious glare he sent towards them that sent chills up their spine. "You'll know who I am first hand if you don't shut up." He threatened before lying on his back with his hands behind his head.
Black still heard the Schnee's voice along with Ruby's and Yang's but quieter he decided to block out their voices and close his eyes. "Tomorrow is the initiation. We'll see how good these mortals are."