Y/n watched them from a distance as they hopped off the airship. They both looked so excited to be attending Beacon. How arrogant. Y/n's scroll buzzed. It was a message from Roman.

Have you arrived?

Yes.

Y/n thought about Roman for a minute. How he had taken him in that fateful day at the lake. How he had seen potential in Y/n and trained him. How he had asked Y/n to attend Beacon so he knew how to kill huntsmen.

The last bit was still floating around in Y/n's mind when he saw the sisters and the rest of the students filter into Beacons Auditorium. He quickly followed.

Y/n looked around at all the students in their various uniforms and with their unique weapons. He looked at himself.

He looked as good if not better than the surrounding huntsmen in training. He double-checked to make sure he still had his weapons.

His sword, Eternity's edge.

And his Paladin pistol.

As Y/n was double-checking his weapons, Ozpin walked onto the stage.

"I'll keep this brief."

3 hours later Y/n found himself on a pressure plate, ready to jump into the Emerald forest.

Y/n looked to his left to see Ruby and Yang talking to each other. Every time Y/n saw Yang he has to suppress memories of the years spent in that... Hellhole.

A blonde-haired boy started asking Ozpin about the landing strategy. Y/n already knew the drill, courtesy of a few of Romans spies.

Mid-sentence the blonde boy was launched into the air, unprepared. Y/n chuckled to himself as he was also launched into the air. After gliding for a few seconds he shot his paladin pistol behind himself to speed himself up. He repeated this process for 30 seconds until he ran out of momentum and had to stick his sword in a tree to slow his descent. After reaching the bottom of the now torn up tree, Y/n found himself consulting his scroll that already had the location of the chess pieces. Roman had his fingers in a lot of pies.

Y/n started heading in the direction of the chess pieces. He used the extra time in peaceful nature to think back on his decisions. All the times he had been used and abused as a child. The momentary reprieve that was meeting Roman. The heists that he did with Neo and Roman. How he had felt guilty after but never told Roman out of fear of losing his only home and source of food.

Y/n was deep in his memories when a growl woke him from his mental stupor. He looked around to see a pack of Beowulfs surrounding him. It would be good practise. The Beowulfs slowly approached him, getting closer and closer until Y/n could almost smell the rotten flesh and blood on their breath.

The first Beowulf quickly pounced at Y/n, swinging its clawed paw in a vicious strike. The Beowulf thought the kill would be easy as the prey had not even moved yet. When the beast felt air where his prey should have been it was confused. No man could move that quickly. The beast smelled it's prey again and turned around to see the dead body of a Beowulf sliding off Y/n's sword before dissolving. The Grimm could smell its fallen comrades. Y/n just smiled at the beast and lined up the iron sights on his pistol with the Grimm's head. Boom.

Y/n had teleported behind each Beowulf, one by one, and had either drove his sword through their backs or shot them point-blank. For he was the hunter, and the Grimm were merely prey.

Y/n continued on his walk to the location of the pieces. After a few minutes, he heard a commotion nearby. He diverted from his path to investigate. He saw a clearing where Yang was fighting a small pack of Grimm. Y/n stayed and watched her fight. By the time she had killed the last Grimm, she was panting heavily and leaning on her knees, sweat dripping off her face.

Y/n looked at her in the weakened state and thought if an accident were to happen, who would be around to see it? He could get revenge for all that she did to him during his younger years. All the pushing, kicking, shoving and blaming. It would only take a second. One quick teleport then a swift slice of the neck. It was so tempting...

No. Y/n thought. He needed to stay focused on his mission. He left the clearing and again headed toward the objective. Y/n arrived before any of the other students and saw a gold king piece in the centre of the ruins. He took it just as Ruby and a white-haired girl arrived. The Schnee heiress. Y/n knew her face well from the various heists Roman had performed on her father's company.

The duo picked a random chess piece and looked over at Y/n.

"I think we have company." Y/n said pointing behind them at a pair of students being chased by a deathstalker. The scorpion-like Grimm was slowly catching up on the pair as they too approached the ruins. A screech echoed across the clearing as Yang and... Y/n didn't believe it. Blake Belladonna. The daughter of the white fangs founder. Y/n had met Blake on one occasion when Roman was having a meeting with Adam Taurus. They had only briefly talked, exchanging pleasantries and whatnot.

The Screech's source was a nevermore trying to swoop down on the students. The more the merrier, Y/n thought.

The two pairs of students finally reached the centre and grabbed chess pieces then turned to face their Grimm pursuers.

Y/n was longing for action and so teleported onto the nevermore and stabbed his sword into its head. He used the sword as a joystick and aimed the great beast towards its land trapped relative. The Nevermore crashed into the deathstalker in a messy tangle of claws, blood and fur. Y/n had jumped off the nevermore and landed in front of the two beasts just as they dissolved.

"Show off." The blonde boy, Jaune, muttered to himself as Y/n began the walk back to the landing pads.

"And the team leader is... Ruby Rose!"

Ozpin said as the newly minted team RWBY congratulated their elected leader.

"Now would Y/n please approach the stage."

Y/n walked onto the stage in view of all the huntsman in training.

"You have proven yourself a powerful huntsman today. You also chose the gold king piece."

"Considering these facts, I believe it is time to take a step some would call... Dramatic."

"You, Y/n, are now the leader of team WOLF. The sole member being yourself."

The crowd sat there in stunned silence for a few seconds before they all began cheering so loudly the shopkeep could hear it. This was a first in Beacon history. A solo team. A one-man army. Y/n didn't mind, he preferred to work alone.

Y/n walked off the stage and made his way to his dorm. He was, of course, the only occupant. Y/n picked up a spare copy of ninjas of love and started reading. An hour into the reading session he heard a knock on his door. He walked up to the door and opened it to see Weiss Schnee looking at him with devilish glee.

"You know, that particular disguise isn't exactly discreet."

Weiss simply shrugged before slowly turning into an ice cream haired girl.

"Did Roman send you to check on me?"

Neo nodded in response and looked around the room. So far it was sparsely furnished as Y/n hadn't had any decorations on hand. Neo picked up ninjas of love and raised her eyebrows at Y/n.

"It was the only book around."

Neo then pointed at a semi-hidden bookshelf that contained thick, dusty books talking about the great war and other notable events in Remnants history.

"The only book that wouldn't make me kill myself from boredom. Anyway, you can tell the boss I'm fine and don't need any more check-ups. I'm not a child.

Neo gave a look as if to say she was unconvinced. She changed back into Weiss and left the room, giving Y/n a sultry wink before the door fully closed.

Y/n decided it was time to go to bed.

He slept with thoughts of how Roman would send Neo to check in on him after only one day.

Roman thinks I'm unreliable, untrustworthy even.

Y/n would continue to grumble in his sleep about the downsides of Torchwick and the life of crime he had been living.

It's time to leave.

Y/n thought as he finally drifted off into a night of true, deep sleep.