RWBY: Erebus.

Chapter One: Erebus.

"I go through the motions of putting on my outfit. Thermal leggings, heat concealing leggings, suit pants, next is thermal shirt, heat concealing shirt, Suit shirt, weapon harness, kevlar suit jacket, thermal and heat concealing gloves, after that the arm band with the Blood soaked rose on it, then after a thoughtful moment, a ponytail holder for my blonde lower neck length hair, leaving two strips of hair by the side of my face, and then the deep black Grimm mask I became fond of wearing. It was joke when I first bought it, but now it's a symbol of my progress and devotion. My cat ears twitched at a slight thud behind my room's door. I stand still, and moved to a shadowed corner. A rather old man walked into the room, carrying a small dust propellant gun. I walked silently behind the old man and knocked him out, though I somehow failed to sense the bigger guy behind me before he knocked me out", I tell the officer that has me in handcuffs chained to a table."That's a pretty farfetched tale you've spun, but seeing as we have nothing to hold you here for we're letting you go, but given your previous history with us, we are putting you on 72 Hour community service," the officer stated and laughed at my expression," there are three jobs you can choose from, one Gardening at Beacon Academy," " I'll take that one," I say sounding a bit anxious. "Alright then, my fellow officers and I will escort you there within the hour," the officer stands up and leaves. I sit still until an hour or so passed, three officers came in, unchained me and escorted me all the way to Beacon.

After getting to Beacon I was greeted by a half-smiling man and a rather sour looking woman holding a riding crop."Tell me, Ozpin why are we allowing a ne'er-do-el to tend to the gardens," the sour woman whispers to the half smiling man. As soon as I heard the woman talk my cat ears twitched, and she looked at me with a quizzical look." I don't enjoy my job lady, and truthfully I'm thankful that I get to do this community service, it's a nice change," I look over to the man no longer smiling, but instead sporting a rather warming, full smile." Do you know I am," he asks me, I think for a moment," Professor Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon Academy," I tell him," nice to meet you, I'm Erebus," I awkwardly hold out a cuffed hand." Pleasure to meet your acquaintance," he says as he shakes my hand. We locked eyes for a moment and he nodded to me as if knowing what I'm thinking. I shake of my wrists and the handcuffs unlock. I hand the handcuffs to the stunned officers. "We leave him in your custody," they told Ozpin before leaving me to the school.

POV change.

"Hey Weiss, who's the new gardener," Yang shoots the Question at Weiss,"Like, I would know, he's a faunus, maybe Blake would know," " He's nice looking, and looks young."

Pov change

I finish planting the blue roses, get up and plant a sign with 'Keep Off The Grass' painted on it. I see two girls staring at me. I walk over to them and ask them " You two need something or just like staring at people." " Oh, sorry me and my friend were wondering what breed of roses those were," pointing to the black roses I planted this morning. I motioned them to follow me and lead them to the black roses," The actual name for them slips my mind, but I've always called them Guilt Roses, though you might like their counterpart," I point to a thornless white rose," it's called the Rose of Innocence, only one can grow in an area at a time," both girls stare at the flower in awe. I chuckle bringing back their attention, " I'm Erebus, nice meeting you," I hold out my hand. " I'm Yang," grabbing and almost crushing my hand, I noticed the challenge and applied my own strength though I forgot who I was battling and she nearly crushed my hand." I'm Weiss Schnee," I put my hand at my side, and put a scowl on my face." I believe the sign says to stay off the grass," I turn around and head to tend to the flowers. I can almost hear the anger swelling inside myself, how did I not recognize a Schnee.

After planting the last of the flowers, I noticed it was nearing dinner time. I head back to the small house I had been assigned to. I notice a rather large box sitting on the dinner table. There was a note on it that said,' for good behavior,'. I open the box, it contained my weapon, The Bloody Thorn, as well as other weapons I trained in, such as, a baseball bat, throwing knives, a short sword, dual Knuckle bracers, dual truncheons, and a crossbow. It also had all of my stealth gear,such as, my thermal regulating and heat concealing Muscle Suit, my three piece suit, my weapon harnesses, my earpiece, and all of my ammunition. My Bloody Thorn is a spear/sniper mix, when in spear form the balance of the spear is near the bottom where the bulk of the sniper comes from, the spear head is launch able and is chained to the spear shaft, when in sniper form it fires a non lethal knockout tranquilizer, with a shattering blood vial to make it look like the round was lethal and that it punched through the enemy's aura. I give all my weapons a complete wash and shine. I had to completely take apart my Bloody Thorn because it was jammed." Those officers didn't know what to use for your weapon did they," I activate my semblance, Knowledge, it turns up my awareness of time making everything slow down immensely and allowing me access to information about everything within my battle field; while in non combat situations, it grants me near limitless knowledge, thus the name. I recognized the voice as Daniel, one of my subordinates. I loosen up, and deactivate my semblance." Ever hear of knocking," I ask him in a sarcastic tone." You never taught me how," Daniel replies with an equally sarcastic tone. After catching up, and serving him dinner, he tells me about a former white fang member here, Blake Belladonna, uses Gambol Shroud. He starts to tell me about his teammates but a knock at the door had him hiding in the closet. I answer the door, and a black haired girl wearing a bow tie, she smelled like a faunus," I heard there was a new gardener, so I thought I'd welcome you to Beacon," "Blake you know, I wanted to say that," I was startled when a girl with a red hood, nearly jumped out from behind the black haired girl." Well I'm only here for two more days, you girls hungry I've got my dinner about to be prepared," they both come in and sit at the table. I put away Bloody Thorn and wipe down the table, then I start on dinner, a quick but flavorful, spicy curry."The name's Erebus nothing more, nothing less," I say to ease the silence,"my name's Ruby Rose and this is Blake, we're part of team Rwby, the other two you meet earlier today I believe,",scowling at the meeting of a Schnee I nod my head."So what's your story, my fellow faunus, ms.Blake." she stared at me confused," how did you know," she blushes slightly," I could smell it on you," tapping my nose after saying it. After an easy thirty minutes, I served the curry and gave Ruby and Blake a bottle of milk and grabbed me a bottle of Atlas Scotch. They both finished with rather full stomachs and an extra serving each to take to the other teammates.