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Hoid walked through the woods, looking back and forth, searching for a certain duo. They had been in this area not so long ago and if they had gone north he should find them soon. As he came upon a clearing, he noticed a long trail of flames, kindly putting it out using ice dust before continuing. Honestly, what had the girls been thinking, using fire dust in a forest. He'd have to rectify that later.
Hoid finally came to the edge of the forest, seeing a large temple with empty pedestals. The field in front of him was littered with black arrows and a rather large chunk of broken ice, reminding him slightly of a similar field of swords, hundreds of men simply walking away as those who remained fought over them. He let the memory go and continued once more, finally coming to a now broken bridge and four teens staring in awe at the rather dramatic beheading that had just happened. Hoid saw the huge body of the bird fall from the top of the cliff. So they had managed to beat it. Hoid grinned and walked out to the group.
"So, you are competent fighters after all. Consider me impressed," he called out. A sword at his throat, held by an angry Weiss Schnee, as he'd taken the time to read up on the students during his walk, was the response. "Tell me why I shouldn't cut out your tongue for those remarks from the other day," she said, a rather panicked Ruby trying to get down the mountain while the rest of the soon to be team was wondering how she'd dashed so quickly over the empty chasm where the bridge once stood. Jaune, remembering Hoid as the person who'd kindly pointed him and Ruby in the direction of the auditorium, was wondering what Hoid had said to annoy Weiss so much and if he should step in.
"Because it's my job to annoy people like you, because I can offer you the quickest way out of this forest, and because the likelihood of that toothpick you're holding actually doing any harm to me is less than the likelihood that the weapons of every hunter in this world will malfunction at the same moment in time," Hoid responded. Weiss' eyes narrowed, but she lowered her rapier, not because she believed the first and last things he said, but because she was rather tired and anything to shorten the journey back to campus would be welcome.
Ruby finally dropped from the cliff, having to climb down without Weiss' glyphs, and panting slightly. Yang had used her shotguns to boost herself over the gap while Blake used her clones. Ruby leapt over with a shot from her sniper rifle that somehow had not run out of bullets yet. Hoid looked to the others, "So, are we leaving anytime soon? I'm quite happy with standing here but the rest of you color coordinated bunch have got to be tired and could likely use a shower and some food." At the mention of both of those things, Everyone perked up and, in unspoken agreement, resolved to follow him. Hoid grinned again and turned to lead them back.
The next day, the now much refreshed teams went to class like normal, having a short day after the initiation, only having grimm studies that day. The next they would have that as well as history and combat class. Everyone looked forward to combat class, the chance to show off their skills in front of everyone and to see how they compared. When they all walked in, however, they had the feeling that they'd walked into the wrong class, as an easily recognizable figure waved to them. "Ah, there's the bright and colorful bullseyes. Welcome to combat class. I'll be your teacher and if you knew how ironic this was you'd burst out laughing," said Hoid, his signature grin on his face and silver rapier at his side. This constantly insulting and barely older than them man was the teacher for their most important class? "You?!" came the rather incredulous shout from both groups and Hoid's grin widened even farther as he remembered similar incredulousness from a prince and his fiance. "Me."
That's that. I know it's been a while since I've updated this story. I'm running out of material for Hoid and to be honest I'm not very good at snarky characters to begin with even though they're my favorite in stories like these. Anyway, no mysterious assassin this time, but he'll show up again soon. Please review and give me your thoughts, criticism or praise, and stay tuned for the next installment of The Wit and the RWBY.