Chapter 6

Light shined through the blinds annoying a certain Saiyan imposter. He turned his face away from the light so that he could go back to sleep. Unknown to him someone quietly walked up to his bed and pulled out a trumpet. Taking a deep breath the person blew into the instrument. "GAH!" Black fell off his bed from the loud noise. "Gooood Morning Captain!" Lewis shouted with a bright smile.

Black stood back up and grabbed the boy by the collar and lifted him up. "I should castrate you for waking me up like that!" Lewis wasn't fazed by Black's threat and just giggled, much to his annoyance. Gohan walked in the room with Alli behind, both of them wearing their school uniforms.

"Oh good you're awake," The half-breed was met with a deep glare from Black. "Why was I awoken so early in the day?"

"Uhh, class starts in 15 minutes," Gohan answered.

"Class? …Oh that's right I'm in school," Black dropped Lewis and stretched his limbs. "What's with the clothes?" Pointing at his team clothes.

"Oh these, these are our school uniforms," Gohan patted chest. "Yours is by the desk. Black walked up to the desk and grabbed his uniform. "It was bad enough I have to live with these mortal now I have to wear their clothing too."

Black rubbed the back of his neck, then grabbed his uniform and walked into the bathroom to change. After five minutes he came out, now wearing his uniform, adjusting his tie. "These clothes are uncomfortable,"

"You'll get used to it Captain." Gohan checked his watch. "We should go," With that team BAGL headed to class. When they entered their class they all waited for the bell to ring. Lewis slept peacefully, Gohan waited patiently, Alli twiddling her thumbs in a nervous manner. Black was reading a book by a separate table. "Hey Black, maybe you should sit with us." Gohan suggested.

Looking up from his book he stared at the half-breed. "Why?"

"W-Well shouldn't teams stay by their t-teammates in class? Alli nervously asked. Black gave it a thought before agreeing. He got up from his seat and made his way to his team. The door suddenly opened and a group of teens crashed into him making them all fall to the floor. "Ow, what did we run into, a wall?" Jaune groaned. Ruby opened her eyes and was met with black eyes staring at her. "Oh, H-Hi Black, nice morning we're having right?" she then noticed that she was pretty much lying on top of him with the others piled on her back. Letting out a huff of exasperation he effortlessly pushed everyone off of him and got up.

Gohan walked up to his friends and offered them a hand. "You guys alright?" He pulled Ren and Yang up. Alli helped Weiss and Pyrrha up as well. "Yea we're good." Yang said. Black sent them a glare before taking his seat by Lewis.

"I think we might've pissed him off." Jaune said.

"Well, Lewis did wake him up by blowing a trumpet in his ear." Gohan lightly laughed. "Sounds very familiar with how I was woken up this morning." Weiss looked towards Ruby's direction who just whistled while looking away.

The bell rang and everyone took their seats. The teacher walked up to the front of the class. "Monsters, demons, prowlers of the night, yes the Grimm have many names. But I merely referred to them as prey." He laughed at the end but no one laughed with him.

"And you will too upon graduating from this prestigious academy. Now as I was saying, Vale and as well of the other three kingdoms, our safe haven is in this treacherous world. Our planet is teeming with Grimm that would love to tear you to pieces. But that's where we come in, Huntsmen, Huntresses." He winked at Yang which grossed her out.

Black rolled his eye as the man starting saying praises about the Huntsmen and Huntresses. "I don't understand what's so good about these Huntsmen when they can barely last 5 minutes against me." He's fought and killed a couple of those huntsmen and huntresses back when he was Adam's partner, the only tricky part of them were their semblance, but it was nothing he couldn't handle. He boredly listened to the old man tell his tale for the next 15 minutes.

"I would rather listen to Mercury's annoying voice than listen to this man's story." He looked to his side and saw Gohan and Alli paying attention. Looking at the first row he saw Ruby doodling on a paper. She lifted it up revealing her drawing to be a really fat version of the teacher. The picture made Yang laughed.

He then noticed the Schnee's body trembling with anger. "Oh, looks like she's about to explode." He said in an amused tone. Gohan and Alli heard him and they looked towards Weiss. "So who here has the characteristic of a leader?" Professor Port asked.

"I do sir!" Weiss said.

"Good, now come down here and face your opponent." Weiss left the class to get changed. "Is she alright?" Alli asked.

"I don't know."Gohan answered with a hint of concern. Black had a slight smirk on his face. She came back in, now wearing her combat clothes and took her position in front of the cage. "Go Weiss, Fight well, yea represent Team RWBY!"

"Ruby I'm trying to focus!"

"Oh, sorry." Black chuckled lightly,

"Alright, let the match, begin!" Professor Port released the Grimm and out came a charging Boarbatusk. Weiss sidestepped and swiped her rapier at the Grimm, the attack had no visible effect. The boar turned back around and ready itself to attack again.

"Haha, not expecting that were you." Weiss thrust her Myrtenaster forward in an attempt to stab the creature. The Boarbatusk caught the blade with its tusks and Weiss struggled to free her weapon. "Come on Weiss show it who's the boss." Ruby cheered. Weiss looked back to her partner and the boar took this opportunity to pull Weiss's weapon away and knock her back. "Oh, what will you do without your weapon?"

Weiss looked back up and saw the Boarbatusk charging towards her, rolling to her right she dodged the charging boar and which it ended hit a desk instead. Weiss ran back to her weapon and grabbed it. "Weiss, go for its belly there's no armor underneath."

"Stop telling what to do!" Ruby gained a hurt look, which made Gohan narrow his eyes. "What's wrong with her, Ruby's only trying to help."

Black still wearing an amused smirk. "She's definitely a Schnee,"

The boar curled itself into a ball and spiraled towards Weiss. She summoned a Glyph in front of her which the boar crashed into and landed on its back. Weiss then jumped back and summoned another Glyph which she used to launch herself forward and stab the boar in its belly.

"Well done, it appears we are in the presence of a true huntress in training. I believe that's all the time we have for today." Weiss got up and made her way out of the class. "Sheesh what's with her?" Jaune asked

Gohan and Alli shared looks also wondering why Weiss was acting so mean towards Ruby. Black got up and walked out. "Hey captain where you going?" Lewis asked, but received no answer.

Gohan walked up to Yang and Blake. "What's up with Weiss?"

"No idea, she wasn't like this in the morning." Yang said.

"Well, whatever it is hopefully Ruby can figure it out." They all watched as Ruby chased after her partner. "Come on hots stuff we're going to be late for our next class period." Yang grabbed Gohan's arm and pulled him out the room while Blake, Alli and the others followed suit.

Black made his way to the Library to return three books. He dropped off his books in the return pile and looked for another. He grabbed two, one was about the Faunas and the other was a book he heard that was quite popular, which gained his interest. He walked up to the library receptionist. "Oh wow, you finished using those three books you checked out yesterday?" The lady asked.

"Yes,"

"My, my you're a fast reader." She complimented and scanned the books. Black grabbed his new checked out books and headed back to his dorm. "That damn class was such a waste of time. I hope the rest won't be as boring as that one." As he turned the corner he bumped into someone. Looking at who it was none other than Ruby. "You have a habit of bumping into me, don't you?" Ruby waved her hands defensively. "No, no, no, it was an accident. I was just… thinking." He raised a brow at this, and then recalled the events that transpired in class. "I'm guessing this has to do with the Schnee?" Ruby hesitantly nodded.

"She's a Schnee, it's in her nature." Black casually said.

"Hey Weiss isn't like that." Ruby retorted.

"Really, cause from what I saw she treated you like a nuisance when you tried to help her." He said back. This caused Ruby to look down a bit, "She was mad because I was chosen to be a leader even though I acted childish a couple of times during the initiation." This caused him to chuckle. "That's the reason she was mad? Figures," Ruby looked at him with a confused look. "You sound like you know her pretty well."

Black walked past her a bit and stopped for a second. "Nope, but I have some personal experience with other Schnees." With that, he left.

He made his way back to the dorm. There was no way in hell he was going to sit in a class for another hour listening to some boring human. As he entered the room he was met with silence. "Guess they're not back from class yet." He laid on his bed and began reading one of the books he checked out. After several hours Gohan, Alli, and Lewis came in. "There you are." Gohan said.

"We've been looking all over for you." Alli added. Black didn't respond and just kept on reading. "Where'd you go?" Gohan asked.

"Library,"

Alli grabbed the Faunas book and looked through some of the pages. "You're interested in the Faunas?"

"There were a couple of faunas I've never seen before, I'm curious about what they are and how best handle them in a fight." He lied.

Gohan sweatdropped. "You like to prepare yourself huh." He then handed him a notebook. "Here, it's the notes from the classes you missed today."

Black glanced at the notebook then back to Gohan. "…Thanks," He took the notebook and placed it by his side. "Well, I'm going to hit the hay."

"Huh, but it's still early."

"And those classes are boring. Oh and wake me up the same way you did today and I'll break both your arms." His glare was directed to Lewis who gave him a salute.

The next morning everyone headed to their classes. Upon entering Black noticed that Ruby and Weiss talking to each other in a friendly matter. "They made up?" He was confused on how Ruby could be friends again with the Schnee after being treated badly yesterday.

He sat down and rubbed his temples. "Humans are so confusing."

A couple of weeks later, teams RWBY, JNRP, and BAGL began to hang out more and more after classes. Black was also with them whenever they all hung out since Gohan told him it's a good experience to develop conversational skills since he was a "sheltered child". Black only spoke a few words at first but then started talking more and more with others.

Right now the group was in combat class spectating Jaune's match against Cardin, which he was losing greatly. "How the hell did he get accept into this school?" Black thought as he witnessed the many mistakes and amateur decisions Jaune would make.

Jaune charged forward and tried to slash downwards but missed. He was then hit from the side by Cardin's mace and knocked away. Getting back up he tried again and this time Cardin blocked the attack with his mace. Jaune tried pushing Cardin back but was slowly being overpowered.

"This is the part where you lose." Cardin said.

"Over my dead bo-." Jaune didn't get to finish his sentence since Cardin kneed him in the gut. Raising his mace in the air he prepared to finish him off. "Cardin that's enough," Glynda ordered. The lights turned back on as the match ended.

"What a weakling," Black sighed.

"Hey Jaune tried his best." Ruby defended.

"Tried? Not sure you can use that word anymore for him since he's been "trying" these past 5 weeks and hasn't improved a single bit besides losing." Pyrrha wanted to deny his claims but couldn't. Though his words were harsh they held truth in them. Jaune hadn't improved at all since day one and it was starting to worry her.

She looked back to her leader only to see his depressed expression.

"Come on Black not everyone can improve in 5 weeks. For some people, it takes longer." Gohan said.

"Yea Gohan's right, Jaune might be… bad right now but I'm sure he'll get better in no time." Yang added. Black rolled his eyes.

"Remember everyone the Vytal Festival is only a few months away. It won't be long till students from other kingdoms start arriving in Vale. So keep practicing." Glynda announced.

The Vytal Festival, Black heard about it a couple of times from Gohan and Weiss. Apparently it's a tournament that has teams from other kingdoms compete against one another. He saw the excited looks from RWBY. "Guess this Festival might be something to look forward to."

"Those who chose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale." The bell rang and everyone got up to head to lunch.

At lunch everyone sat with their friends, eating their food and chatting with one another. Nora was telling a dream she had to Yang, Gohan, and Lewis while Ren corrected some of the parts she said.

"And there we were in the middle of the night."

"It was day,"

"We surrounded by Ursa."

"They were Beowolves,"

"Dozen of them!"

"Two of them." Ren corrected.

Lewis gasped and leaned forward. "Did you guys make it out alive!?"

"What do you mean did they make it out alive, they're right in front of you." Weiss said.

"Hush Ice queen, the pancake queen tells her tale." Weiss just facepalmed, Gohan and Yang chuckled at Lewis's childish mind.

Weiss went back to doing her nails. Blake read her book. Alli was enjoying her nuts and almonds, and Black was sitting at the end of the table next to Ruby also reading his book.

Ruby and Pyrrha had a concerned look when they noticed Jaune had barley touch his food. "Jaune are you alright?" Pyrrha asked.

"Huh, yea I'm okay. Why?"

"Well, it's just you seem a little… not okay." The group stopped what they were doing (except for Black) and looked at him. "Guys I'm fine, see." He flashed him a fake smile.

"I've seen children show a better fake smile than the one you just showed." Black commented. They all then heard laughter, looking at the table behind them they saw Cardin and his team picking on a Faunas girl. Jaune tightened his fist in anger.

"Jaune, Cardin has been picking since the first week of school."

"Who Cardin Winchester? Psh naa he just like messing around, ya know practical jokes."

"He's a bully." Ruby stated.

"Oh please, name one time he's "bullied" me."

"He knocked your books out of your hands." Ren said.

"He activated your shield when you walking through the doorway." Blake added.

"Oh, he shoved you in the locker and launched you into the sky. No fair I didn't get to have a turn." Lewis pouted, making the group sweatdrop.

"I didn't land far from the school." Jaune defended.

"Jaune if you know you ever need help you can just ask." Pyrrha said. Nora got up from her seat. "Oh, we'll break his legs." She said with a grin. Lewis happily agreed. "I think that'll do more harm than good." Gohan stated.

"Guys really it's fine, it's not like he's only a jerk to me he's a jerk to everyone. He's even bullied Black once." They all slowly turned to the Saiyan imposter. Black sensed some stares and looked up from his book. "What?"

"Yea, that's not true." Weiss said.

They all heard more laughter coming from Cardin's table and they saw him pulling on the Faunas rabbit ears. The sight made Gohan boil with anger along with the others (again except for Black). Unknown to them Alli stared emotionally at the scene; she then grabbed an apple and threw it at Cardin's head.

The hit made Cardin let go of the girl's ear. Looking back he stood up angrily. "Who threw that?!" Alli looked towards Black's direction and others did as well amusing it was him since Alli looked at him first.

Black ignored the stares and continued reading his book. Other students stopped chatting and watched the commotion. Cardin walked up to Black, "So you think you're funny, huh?" Black continued to ignore him.

Ruby and the others just glared at Cardin. "Come on stand up!" Cardin's teammates walked next to him. "This book is more interesting than fighting you Cardin, now do me a favor and walk away before something bad happens to you." Black warned, his eyes never leaving his book.

The warning earned him a pissed look from Cardin. With a smirk, he grabbed a plate of spaghetti from someone. Realizing what he was going to do Gohan tried to stop him. "Cardin don-."

The whole cafeteria went quiet when they witnessed Cardin dump the plate of spaghetti on top of Black's head. Teams RWBY, JNPR and the three members of BAGL slowly scooted away.

"Maybe that'll teach you to threaten me, bookworm." Cardin taunted.

Black stared blankly at the page he was reading. Taking a deep breath he exhaled calmly, putting his bookmark on the page he was on he closed the book and set it to the side. Slowly getting up from his seat and he stared expressionless at the human in front of him. "B-Black?" Ruby tried to get his attention.

"Oh, bookworm's going to fight?" Cardin's friends laughed. The instincts of the Faunas in the lunchroom yelled danger and told them to run away. Gohan readied himself to stop Black if he were to do something that might endanger Cardin's life.

Raising his arm Black pointed out his index finger and touched Cardin's chest plate. The action confused the members of CRDL. Black pulled his finger an inch away before punching Cardin. The force of the punch made Cardin fly back and hit the wall.

Everyone was stunned. Russel aimed a punch at Black's head but was effortlessly avoided. He kneed Russel in the gut making him fall to his knees in pain. Dove and Ray tried tackling him down but Black simply kicked Ray away and grabbed Dove by the head and slammed it down onto a table, breaking the table.

He made his way to Cardin who was still trying to get up. He grabbed him by the neck and lifted him off the ground. "Do you know the sound of a snapping neck sounds like?" Cardin's eyes widened. "I could show you right now." Black quietly offered.

"Mr. Son, release Cardin at once!" Glynda yelled. Black looked at Goodwitch for a second before complying. "Now come with me, Professor Ozpin would like to have a word with you about your actions."

"Wait but Ms. Goodwitch Black was only defending himself. Cardin and his friends started the whole mess." Gohan explained.

"Yea, Black was the victim here Ms. Goodwitch." Pyrrha added. The others agreed as well. Glynda sent them a glare that shut them up. "I will talk to you all individually later, but for now Mr. Son will be coming with me." The gang could only watch as their friend walked out with Glynda.

Alli blinked a couple of times and looked around to see CRDL on the floor in pain. "H-Huh? What happened?"

The way to Ozpin's office was quiet. They entered an elevator and waited. Glynda glanced at him a couple of times to see if he were to do anything. "Lewis won't shut up about you." Black said breaking the silence.

"What does he say?"

"Saying you're a Badwitch, not a Goodwitch. And the delicious treats you would bring him as a child." Glynda looked away with a faint blush on her cheeks. The day students found out that she was Lewis's aunt made it slightly hard for her to keep her serious and professional attitude in check.

The elevator doors opened and they both walked out. "Black, how are you doing?" Ozpin greeted.

"Can we get this over with," Crossing his arms he looked away, "I have better things to do than listen to you two scold me."

Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. "You've made quite a good amount of people fear you, including some of the staff here these past few weeks."

"Hmph,"

"You've also sent a couple of the students to the hospital after your matches during Ms. Glynda's combat class." Ozpin informed.

"Not my fault they can't take a beating."

"Sigh* Black, this is a school to train huntsmen and huntresses, it not a place where you beat them down till they're unconscious." Ozpin said back.

"Tch, fine I'll go easier on them if it gets you all to stop bugging me."

Glynda narrowed her eyes at the Saiyan imposter, "Now about Cardin."

"Great, this is going to be a long talk."

Gohan and the others were in BAGL's dorm waiting for Black to come back. "Ugh, what's taking him so long?" Yang covered her face with a pillow.

"Well, he was being taken to see Professor Ozpin." Blake looked at the time, it has been nearly 30 minutes since he was taken. "Well we can't do much right now but just wait." Gohan stated.

"It wasn't even his fault though Cardin clearly was the one who started it." Ruby fell back on the bed and stretched her limbs. "True but Ms. Glynda wasn't there to see that, only when Black was beating them up is when she showed up, very unfortunate if you ask me." Weiss added.

"Auntie did look mad when she saw what the captain did."

"I wished he would've broken his legs."

"Nora if he were to do that he would be in more trouble than what he was already in." Ren explained. The doorknob then turned and in came Black. "Hey, your back." Looking around the room Black saw everyone sitting on the floor while three were laying on the beds. "What are you all doing in here?"

"We wanted to check up on you, ya know after what happened after the beat down you gave Cardin and his pals." Yang answered.

"Yea that was so cool when you one inch punched Cardin into the wall!" Ruby said now standing on the bed. "Not even Yang could do that."

"Hey, I can do that too, ya know!" Yang exclaimed.

The younger sister turned to face her. "Really?"

"Yea, of course, I can." She nervously laughed.

"She can't do it." They all thought. Pyrrha got up from the ground. "I've been meaning to ask you something." She said gaining Black's attention. "Your semblance is it enhance strength or something?"

"Yea I remember back in initiation you picked that Death Stalker by the tail and spun it around like it was nothing! It was so cool!" Ruby had stars in her eyes which surprised Black a bit from her awe reaction to his display of power.

"C-Crap, I forgot to hold back when fighting those Grimm."

"Y-Yea you could say enhance strength is my semblance." Black lied looking away from them.

"Copycat," Yang mumbled with a disapproved look.

"So what did Professor Ozpin say to you?" Ren asked. Black sighed and walked to his bed which Ruby was standing on and flopped onto it. "He just gave me a warning, nothing else." Ruby sat back down and poked his head "Really? We thought he might've given you detention or something?"

"He seriously didn't give you any sort of punishment?" Weiss asked again not believing that the headmaster just let this go. "Maybe he knew that Cardin was the one who started it." Pyrrha proclaimed.

"It could be a possibility." Ren said.

Gohan saw that Black still had his wrist bracer on. "Black you forgot to put your wrist bracer back into your locker."

"Oh, Oh, Oh, can I see it!?" Ruby excitedly asked.

Black gave her a strange look. "You're a very strange girl." Ruby's face reddens a bit as she laughed. He placed his arm on her lap which confused her. "Aren't you going to take it off?"

"Hmm, oh, yea." He took off his wrist bracer off and handed it to her. Ruby immediately started examining it. "A wrist bracer that has two retractable blades and turns in to a 50mm handgun, I've only heard about these."

Black didn't know what to think about the girl next to him, he has never seen someone so amazed by a weapon before. "Is she always like this?" He asked.

"Yep," Yang answered.

Ruby unsheathed the blades out and started fidgeting with the wrist bracer. "What are you doing?"

"I heard that some of these can shoot their blades ou-."Ruby accidentally pressed something which shot the blades out and embedded themselves in the wall with Weiss's head in the middle, the blades barely grazing her skin. "You idiot! You nearly killed me."

"Ahh s-sorry!" Black flicked her on the forehead and removed the wrist bracer from her. "Ow,"

"Yea, you're not using this anymore." He said which brought a shocked look from her. "Wha-What?! But I didn't get to finish examining it!"

"Don't care," Placing his wrist bracer back on, he then pulled the two blades out of the wall and placed them back inside his wrist bracer before sheathed them. "Where's the blonde?"

Yang was about to answer but Black beat her to it. "Not you, the other blonde?"

"Jaune? I haven't seen him since we left the cafeteria."Pyrrha crossed her arms as she thought back at how depressed Jaune was. "What are we going to do with him; he refuses to accept help from us."

"Well, we can't do anything for now till he realizes that he needs our help." Gohan said.

Black made his way to the door. "Hey, where you are going?" Nora asked.

"To go finish some work that green-haired guy gave us."

"Oh shoot I haven't even started on Professor Oobleck's homework." Yang ran out of the room along with Ruby, and Nora. "I'll be in the library." Closing the door Black headed to the library to finish the assignment he was given.

The next day Black was sitting by a tree reading his book. "Finally, some peace and quiet." He thought as the last pair of students left the courtyard. 10 minutes passed and still no sign of any humans or faunas. The sounds of the wind and birds brought music to his ears. Ever since he came to this planet he's enjoyed bathing in the sounds of nature.

He picked up his teapot that he stole from a store and poured himself some tea. Taking a sip he closed his eyes, enjoying the taste of his tea. "It's been too long since I had some tea. Last time I had some if I recall was when that earth woman shot me." He took another sip and set it to the side. "Too bad it's not the same taste," Footsteps were heard coming towards him. "Well, there goes my peace and quiet." Looking up he saw that it was Ruby.

"Hey Black, whatcha up to?" She asked.

"Well I was peacefully reading my book but I guess I can't anymore." He bluntly said.

"Oh, sorry." She scratched the back of her head. "…So whatcha reading?"

Black stared at her for a second before replying. "It's about a warrior who was forced to push away his pride and honor in order to protect those he cared."

"Sounds like a good book. Can I read it with you?"

"Aren't you supposed to be in class?" He asked.

"Umm, the 3rd period ended a few minutes ago." She answered.

"Then why not hang out with your friends?" He asked again.

"Well Yang got in trouble with Ms. Glynda, Blake is in another class with Weiss, Pyrrha, and Jaune. And I don't know where Gohan and Lewis are."

"What about Ren, Nora, and Alli?" He asked again, hoping to get her to leave so he could enjoy his peace and quiet once again. "They're in the city to restock their dust ammunition."

"Of course they are," Black knew she wasn't going to leave. Scooting to the side he let Ruby have enough space to sit next to him. He held the book between them and they both started reading.

As time passed by Ruby and Black sat in silence as they continued reading the book. He was surprised to see Ruby actually being quiet and enjoying the book. Another 10 minutes passed and the pair were still reading the book, only stopping when Black poured more tea into his cup.

The bell rang signaling that the 4th period was over. Closing the book Black stood up along with Ruby. "Wow, I wonder what he is going to do to him." Ruby said.

"Hey, do you think I could keep on reading the book with you?" Black gained a suspicious look. "You're not pretending to enjoy the book so you can get your hands on my wrist bracer, are you?

"What, no, I actually like the book. Jeez, what do you take me for a crook?" He narrowed his eyes at her. A bead of sweat slid down Ruby cheek. "Lair,"

She quickly waved her hands in front of her. "Okay, okay, okay, yes I was trying to take your wrist bracer but when I started reading the book with you I really got interested in it." Black rubbed his temples. And before Ruby knew what happened in her hands was Black's wrist bracer.

"One day, then you return it, got it?" She rapidly nodded her head yes. "Oh and break it and I break one of your hands."

"I'll be extra careful then," When Black was out of her view Ruby's eyes gained stars. "Let's see what this puppy can do."

The day passed by pretty slow for Black much to his dismay. He was currently on the roof of the school gazing at the stars. He felt his scroll vibrate, taking it out he saw that it was a message from Roman informing him that there will be another dust and weapons shipment by the port tomorrow. "Great, going have to come up with another excuse to tell my team why I'm out late again." Working with Roman and Neo wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. Aside from them being humans, the two criminals were actually someone he could put up with. Besides Neo and him always getting on each other's nerves, he actually appreciates their presence.

His thoughts were interrupted when he heard the roof door open. Black slightly lifted his head up to see who it was.

"Pyrrha I know I'm depressed but I'm not desperate." Jaune said while looking over the edge. Upon realizing what he meant Pyrrha immediately pulled him away from the edge. "No! That's not why I brought you up here."

"It's those two, wonder what they're up to." Black thought.

"Jaune I know you're having a difficult time in class and that you're not the strongest of fighters so, I want to help you." She said with a smile.

"What?"

"We could train up here after class where no one can bother us."

But for some reason, her offering gave a different reaction than to what she hoped for. "You think I need help?"

"No, no that's not what I meant."

"But you just said it."

"Jaune everyone needs a little push from time to time. It doesn't make you any different from the rest of us." She tried explaining. Black laid his head back and continued to listen to their conversation. "You made it to Beacon that speaks volumes of what you're capable of."

"Still wondering how someone like him was able to be accepted into this academy."

"You're wrong I don't belong here." Jaune said.

"That's a terrible thing to say." Pyrrha tried to get him to face her but he pulled away. "NO," the reaction he gave confused Pyrrha and caught Black's attention.

"Sigh* I wasn't really accepted into Beacon." Jaune said.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I didn't go to any combat schools, I didn't pass any test, and I didn't earn my spot in this academy!" Jaune breathes out and continued. "I lied, I got my hands on some fake transcripts and I lied."

"What, why?"

"Because this is what I always wanted to be. My father, grandfather and his father before him were all warriors, heroes. I wanted to be one too. I was just never good enough." Jaune looked up to the night sky.

"Then let me help you."

"NO, I don't want any help, I don't want to be the damsel in distress I want to be the hero." Pyrrha tried to calm him down but it came to deaf ears. "I'm tired of being the lovable idiot stuck in the tree while his friends are fighting for their lives! Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own than what good am I." She again tried to comfort him but he backed away. "Just leave me alone."

"If that's what you think is best." Pyrrha then exited the roof. "Hmm, well that's something I didn't expect to see." Black thought.

Black was about to make himself know but then sensed someone also here. From the edge of the roof, Cardin pulled himself up, chuckling evilly. "Jaune,"

"Cardin!"

"Great this pathetic human again."

"I couldn't help but hear you two from my dorm room. So you snuck into Beacon, I gotta say I didn't expect you to be such a rebel."

"Please Cardin, please don't tell anyone." Jaune begged.

"Jaune come on I'd never rat out a friend like that." Black's eyes narrowed, he's heard about these situations before, blackmailing. "Uh, a friend?"

"Of course," Cardin placed Jaune in a headlock. "We're friends now Johnny boy and the way I see it we're going to be friends for a very long time. You know as long you're there when I need you." He then released him from the headlock letting Jaune breathe again. "That being said I don't really have time for that work Dr. Oobleck gave us today. Can you take care of it for me?" Cardin didn't let him respond and climbed down the edge, heading back to his dorm room. "Thanks best buddy, and don't worry your secret is safe with me."

"That weakling can only pick on those weaker than him, and in such a pathetic way too." Jaune pushed himself up and looked up to the sky. "Great, this day can't get any worse can it?"

That was the cue Black needed to make his presence known. "So that's how you were able to be accepted into Beacon." Jaune turned around and his face turned in to horror. "B-Black."

Stepping off the roof he landed in front of the blonde. "I didn't expect Ozpin to be fooled by a fake transcript. But at least my question was answered now."

Jaune didn't know what to say. It was bad enough Cardin heard now Black too. "Please Black, don't tell anyone." Black saw absolute fear in Jaune's eyes more than what he saw when Cardin showed up. Ah fear, an emotion he longed to see again. "I think you're confusing me with Winchester. I'm not going to tell anyone, but that also means that I'm not going to help you with your…predicament." Black said, referring to what took place with Cardin.

Jaune sighed in relief. "Well, I think I should get going and start on that essay for Cardin."

Black waited till Jaune exited the roof before making his way back to his dorm. As he walked down the hall he saw Gohan carrying some books with Alli. "Oh Black, can you give us a hand." Reaching over he took the top half of both piles and followed them. "So what's all this for?"

"Oh, we're just helping Professor Port move these textbooks into his classroom." Gohan replied. Alli moved side to side trying to balance the books. "Why does he need so much?"

"You'd be surprised how many students lose their textbooks." They reached Port's classroom door and entered it. "Looks like he's not here." The trio made their way to the front desk and placed the piles beside it. "There, I'll tell him when I see him that we moved the books." Gohan said.

"Gohan," Both Alli and Gohan turn towards Black. "It seems Jaune won't be with us for a bit." The two members of BAGL gave him confused looks. For the next two minutes, he explained his two teammates about what happened on the roof Gohan had a frown on his face. "This isn't good."

"W-We have to tell the others." Alli said.

"No you will not," Gohan saw the serious look Black had. "What? Why not? Jaune is our friend, he needs our help."

"Jaune got himself into this mess and now he has to get himself out of it." Gohan narrowed his eyes. Black made his was out leaving Gohan and Alli alone in the classroom. "Wha-What should we do?" Alli asked.

Gohan stared at the floor. "Nothing for now, but if things go too far then we'll help him." He assured.