1I don't own RWBY or Assassin's Creed.
'thoughts'
"speech"
Amaranth got off the bullhead that had dropped him at Beacon, wearing his trench coat, red side out and hood down, a black t-shirt and black pants with black sneakers. If it wasn't obvious, after red his favorite color was black. Waiting for him were the headmaster and his assistant, Glynda Goodwitch. Amaranth had heard stories about her, mostly about her semblance and gravity dust infused weapon, allowing her to immobilize and capture any target.
"I trust your journey was pleasant, mister Amaranth," Ozpin said as Amaranth walked up to the duo. "I've had worse flights. So, I assume I'll be helping you in your class," Amaranth turned to Glynda. She nodded, "Among other things," before glancing at her tablet and scowling. Amaranth could have sworn he saw a cartoon tickmark appear on her forehead as she showed whatever had angered her to Ozpin.
Ozpin smiled. "It appears our students are getting a little riotous in the dining hall. Would you mind running on ahead, Amaranth, to try and diffuse the situation? Consider it a test of your skills as an assistant teacher." Amaranth nodded glancing at the tablet as he passed just in time to see a dozen watermelons being thrown into the air. A food fight. His first official job as a teacher was to stop a food fight. He sighed and started running. He'd memorized a map of the campus before coming here and knew the shortest route to the dining hall. He fired his grapple at the roof of the main hall and reeled himself up before running left to the dining hall roof. He jumped down onto it and, seeing some bushes to the side, leapt, arms spread and facing up, into them.
Amaranth emerged completely unharmed and none the worse for wear with aura either, which really shouldn't have been possible. He slammed the doors open, focusing aura in his eyes, pulled out his dart gun, and fired, the thin poison tips finding their marks in the necks of a nearby blonde that had just gotten up from a thrown baguette and a black haired girl with a bow that had suffered the same fate. He turned to those further away, ignoring the two boys by the doors staring at him, and fired again, hitting a girl with white hair, who he marked as a schnee almost immediately, a girl with orange hair, the one with the war hammer, and a black haired boy with a pink highlight. The remaining three stopped at seeing three members of RWBY and two of JNPR go down, falling asleep almost instantly. He glanced to his left to see a black haired girl with red highlights. She gulped and slowly stood up, hands raised to show no food weapons. Those dart had ignored the aura of her team and JNPR's completely. She really didn't want to be on the receiving end of it.
Amaranth mentally questioned the fact of running into her again before turning to the others, "Who are the leaders of your teams?" The girl with red highlights and a blonde boy at the other end both shakily raised their hands. "Good, that makes things easy," Amaranth stated, "You two can wait outside for Miss Goodwitch and Professor Ozpin to show up." Both paled at the thought of facing Goodwitch after the mess they'd made, but decided it was better than the boy who'd taken out 5 huntsman and huntresses in training instantly. Amaranth sighed and turned to the two boys who were still staring at him. "You ruined all the fun, man," stated the blond monkey faunus. "Don't blame me. I just followed orders. Name's Amaranth. I'll be an assistant teacher around here." The blond introduced himself as Sun and the blue haired boy beside him was Neptune. The red head who he hadn't shot introduced herself as Pyrrha Nikos (he already knew) and told him the names of those he'd shot, Yang, Blake, Weiss, Ren, and Nora. The two leaders names were Ruby and Jaune. He could guess which was which.
"Mind telling me why you thought it was a good idea to start a food fight in a school designed to train kids to kill monsters?" Amaranth asked. Pyrrha scratched the back of her head, embarrassed, "To be honest, it just sort of escalated after a misaimed pie." He looked to Sun and Neptune. They just shrugged. "We thought it was funny that the food was sturdy enough to be used as weapons." Amaranth sighed again. He'd been doing that a lot lately and had a feeling he'd be doing it a lot more. The groans around them told him the sleeping drug had worn off. He'd collected his darts already to be reused once clean and poisoned again.
"Do I have a hangover or was I actually drugged?" Yang asked, holding her head as the ache slowly faded. "I have a headache as well, so it must be the latter," said Weiss, as the five slowly got up, shaking off the effects of the drug. Nora, being her hyperactive self, was the first to recover and, noticing Amaranth, zipped over. "So you're the one who stopped me from winning? Why'd you take all the fun? I had a whole plan of instating a pancake policy once I took over the cafeteria, now those dreams have been ruined forever!" She seemed to be on the verge of tears and Amaranth briefly contemplated shooting her again but decided that the others wouldn't appreciate that. He glanced at Pyrrha, "Is she always like this?" Pyrrha nodded with an apologetic smile.
He was saved by the opening of the door and a very relieved looking Ruby and Jaune entered followed by a very annoyed Glynda and an amused Ozpin. They were getting off easy it looks like. Amaranth walked over to Ozpin while Glynda lectured the now recovered students. "Was that a good enough show of my skills?" Ozpin chuckled, "Well, you needn't have used such an advanced technique on them, but it worked I suppose. The shocked and fearful faces of Miss Rose and Mister Arc were quite amusing when we walked over." Amaranth deadpanned, "You're a sadist. Good to know," and started walking away before stopping and turning around. "By the way, where will I be staying?" Ozpin's smile widened, "You'll be in room 302. Your scroll is the key to get in." Amaranth nodded and continued on to the dormitory.
He found his room easily enough, held his scroll up to the lock and after a quick scan he was allowed in. Amaranth looked at the rather spacious room, a repurposed student dorm originally meant for four people. The bed was in the corner of the room, meaning the door and window were both visible while he slept. Paranoia had helped keep the assassins alive over the years and it certainly wasn't going to stop now that he was in Beacon. A coat rack and desk were noticeable as well as a bathroom and a small kitchen. Oz had spared no expense it seemed. To be fair, though, he had planned to make his own meals anyway to avoid poison. Even though he wasn't a very good cook. Damn Paranoia.
He saw a luggage pack with some clean clothes next to a dresser opposite the bed. He decided to unpack later and explore the campus a little first. He patted his pocket for his scroll then turned and went out. Just as Team RWBY and JNPR came out of their dorms, talking to each other, Ruby carrying a board game and JNPR holding several books and comics. The talking stopped as they noticed Amaranth and an awkward silence filled the air. Blake's eyes widened in recognition as he blinked in surprise. Then he remembered Ozpin's knowing smile when he'd told Amaranth the room number. Amaranth resolved to poison Ozpin's coffee next time they met and flashed an awkward smile at the two teams. Ruby hesitantly stepped forward.
"We heard from Ozpin that you're a new assistant teacher here. If you'd like we can show you around. We were headed to the library, but it's on the other side of the campus if you want to tag along, you don't have to..." she trailed off into mumbling. Recognizing an olive branch, Amaranth's smile turned genuine, "Sure, I'll tag along."
They left for the library, not quite noticing the figure in shadow at the other end of the hallway.
Sorry for not saying this in the previous two chapters, but please review or pm if you don't want it public, ideas and criticism are always welcome, as long as it's polite. Also pairing ideas are good too. I plan on putting up a poll later on in the story. Anyway, thank you for reading and I hope you'll like the next chapter when Amaranth gains a rival.