Damien the Renegade (RWBY FANFIC) (Discontinued)

Ch. 2: Hooked on a Feeling

Soon enough, the Vytal Festival came to town and while the gang was in the library, someone mentioned the tournament and when Damien heard about that, he got very excited. "A tournament? Like a fighting tournament?! That sounds amazing!" Damien said excitedly, pumping his fists with anticipation. "Right! and I'm going to win it all." Yang tells him, confidently. "Oh really?" Damien says with intrigue and a smirk. "You gonna challenge me for the title of champ?" Yang replied with a smile, leaning on the table to get closer to her challenger. "By the end, the only champ will be this guy." He said pointing his thumbs to himself and smiling. "If I could cut in for a moment", Weiss interjected, "we can't really do much with all the White Fang robberies going on around town.". "So are you going to single handedly expose and take down a massive criminal organization overnight?" Damien asked, knowing full well what the answer was going to be. "Well...No...but we can't just ignore this." She answered, clearly flustered by being called out. "Actually, you have to ignore it because you're students and mortal ones at that." Damien points out.

Then Blake chimes in, "And what, are you immortal?" She asked with clear sarcasm in her voice. Damien just kinda nods his head nonchalantly. "Wait, really?" Yang asks, clearly not expecting his answer. "Well I will live for a long time, don't age and am really really really hard to kill so...that's pretty much immortal." He explains. "Then how about you go and take down the White Fang!" Weiss demands. The others look to Damien. "Because I'm not the police and unless they start messing with me directly, it ain't my problem." Damien answers. "They are criminals and criminals don't deserve to roam free!" Weiss argues. Then Blake leaves without a word, looking rather upset. "I think you struck a nerve there, Weiss." Damien points out. The girls go after Blake, leaving Damien to his classes, "Alright see ya later, I guess."

After a couple hours, Damien was walking through the central courtyard, heading back to his room, when he saw the girls again, this time without Blake. He felt something was off. He walked over, "Damien!" Yang rushed over to him, "Have you seen Blake?" She seemed a bit frantic. "Uh no. I haven't seen any of you since you left to do...whatever you were doing. Why? What happened?" Damien asked, feeling like the situation was about to get pretty bad. "Weiss happened." Yang grumbled, giving a side glare to her white haired teammate. "Hey, I'm not at fault here!" Weiss argued. "Are you kidding me?! How can you be this delusional?!" Yang yelled to her face.

Damien then stepped in before a full on fight broke out, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Can you please calm down? I still need some context here." He asks. Ruby answers for them, "We were at the docks to see the arriving students, then this monkey Faunus kid ran from one of the boats, we followed him, bumped into someone, then Weiss and Blake are in this big argument about Faunus and then..." Ruby takes a breath before continuing, "Then Blake let's slip she has a history with the White Fang and then she bolted."

Damien stands there, trying to comprehend that. "So...she left because she was afraid?" He concludes. "Weren't you listening, you dolt?! She is one of the White Fang! The enemy was right under our noses and now that she's outed, she had to escape." Weiss scolds him, though he didn't really seem convinced of her reasoning. "Hey, Weiss, maybe, and this is just my thought here, she didn't tell you the truth because this is how she expected to be treated." He stated and this put Weiss at a loss for words for a moment. "Also, name one thing she has done to make you distrust her prior to this." He asked the flustered heiress. Weiss is trying to think of a response but has to concede. "See? This is what I was talking about." Yang scolds. "You could have at least worded your yelling better." Weiss retorts. "Damien, can you help us find her?" Ruby asks him. "I mean I can try, it's not like I can just snap my fingers and poof, there she is." He tells her, making her look a bit disappointed. "But, you got your cool gear. You don't have like a... super-search mode or something?" She hopefully asks.