Italics denotes inner thoughts of Rodrick Ariditti, the only character I will follow for know.

Chapter 1: Big Bust

"Hey you see that guy over there in the blue hoodie the sawed-off shotgun. I think he's the Ariditti Dagger; I heard that one time he took on twelve guys with his bare hands just tossing the guys around like playthings." Two men give a quick glance at me over their shoulders. The second guy questions, "If he's here does that mean something bad is going down soon? Because if it does I'm sticking close to him; I want to make it out alive."

I am sitting down under the one long window of the second story walkway that connects the two large buildings together. It overlooks the long driveway leading to the Ariditti family mansion. I Look up to the light fixtures on the ceiling I hope nothing happens because I don't think I can handle it all by myself. The family is sadly falling apart and I can't do it alone. Last week my old teacher was killed in a police raid on a supply cache that we knew they would attack. No amount of preparation made him ready for whatever went down that night. I don't know who or what is strong enough to do that, but I don't like it one bit. But if something does happen tonight I will stop at nothing to get my revenge.

Gunshots coming from the front gate break my inner thoughts and I immediately jump up looking out the window toward the commotion. A female rabbit faunus with long blonde hair wearing a suit mostly covered by a trench coat is weaving between the front gate guards' bullets. Off her back she pulls a stockless trench shotgun with a chainsaw bayonet and takes a swing taking the pair of guards down without even slowing down her sprint. That must be the police dog or should I say rabbit that has been taking us down. She quickly covers the long driveway acting more like a tank then a police officer putting gang members down with shot after shot.

She reaches the mansion and jumps up from in front of the mansion up to the second story walkway shattering the window and plowing through the two guards in the hall with me. With my right hand, I pull out my blue butterfly knife giving it a few spins and hold onto my sawed-off in my left hand. I dive forward striking for her head as she brings up her weapon blocking with her chainsaw and kicking my shotgun out of my hand. She grabs me by my hoodie and flings me through a wall down the hallway into a gambling room until a crash into a roulette table stopping my flight.

A shotgun blast goes off launching dozens of small pieces of lead into my stomach, my aura flaring to protect me from the lethal shot. I pick up a chair throwing it towards my opponent and the wooden chair shatters from a second shot. The faunus enters through the hole in the wall room as I take cover behind a knocked over table. I grab three kunai that are strapped to my thigh launching all at once toward the enemy. She rolls underneath the blades kicking the table I was using into the wall. Pinned behind a table I shove it off me while ripping off a leg quickly blocking a chainsaw blade.

I punch her causing her to stumble and kick her back into the hallway. "There's that faunus bitch, open fire men." A multitude of bullets whiz past the girl; quickly she turns her attention and runs down the hall blocking most the bullets with her gun. The gunfire stops as each man lets out a grunt of pain. I peek down the hall through the hole I made in the wall and see three men sprawled out on the floor and some blonde hair quickly vanish around the corner. Damn it she is to good! I got to get the boss before her and get him out of here. I collect my sawed-off and kunai off the ground and chase after her around the corner.

After knowing I am not being followed I barge into the Boss's bedroom knocking the door down searching the room for hostiles. Quickly I flip the king-sized bed on its side revealing a hidden hatch in the floor. Opening the hatch I hop down the ladder well into the hidden safe room, "Boss we have a problem! We need to leave now!" He lets out a sigh as he stands up out of his executive chair, "Guess it was bound to happen one day. Driver let's get out of here." The other man in the room lowers his weapon and slings his assault rifle onto his back. He flips a small switch on the Boss's chair and looks behind me. A door slides open in the wall and a pair of stairs lead down into darkness.

The driver enters first with the Boss and I following close behind. A few steps down the stairs the door behind us slides close and some dim lights on the wall switch on leading us down. We reach the bottom and enter a garage holding one car. The car shines a pearlescent white even in the dim light and has dark black tinted windows. The driver pulls out a pair of keys and clicks them causing the car to beep and the walls begin to creak as one wall is raised opening onto the driveway leading to the front entrance. "Let's get go…" a rapid-fire volley of bullets hit the driver. I grab the Boss protecting him from the rest of the magazine with my aura.

Turning around I point my sawed-off at our pursuer; a short girl maybe my age or younger wearing a plaid skirt, white button-up shirt, and a black blazer. Why the hell is a school girl here and with a gun none the less? Firing both shells a wall of lead clashes with her aura. A girl's voice calls out from behind me, "Surrender now and we won't kill you! We have you surrounded, you have nobody left to back you up, and you're out of aura." How does she know if someone is out of aura or not? I turn around looking at the Boss as he simply stands there and raises his hands in defeat.

I drop my sawed-off and start removing my hoodie and a girlish squeal cries out, "Woah, what are you doing; stop that!?" I toss my hoodie down, "Isn't this how you surrender you remove all your weapons?" The girl in the uniform peeks in between her fingers, "Oh I see what you mean." I unsheathe the bowie knife strapped to my back, slip the two switch blades on my wrist off, and remove the three ninja stars on my chest tossing all of it on my hoodie. Quickly I toss my three kunai from my thigh and two pocket knives on my ankles in the pile of knives. "That's all of them."

One of the normal officers walks up the pile and scoops up the knives, "Quite the arsenal you have here; too bad it will never see the light of day again." I pick up my hoodie and slip it on. "Now hold still so I can help you." The school girl grabs my thigh and my leg begins to glow covered by a warm sensation. "What the hell did you just do?" The girl steps back, "Sorry… I shot you, so I thought I should heal your leg with my aura." I look down at my leg sticking my finger in a bloody hole in my pants. First time I get shot and it's from a little girl that won't be good for my reputation. Hope nobody in prison ever hears about that. Quickly the faunus slaps handcuffs on me, "You better thank her or she might put another bullet in you." I put my hands out, "Thanks my name is Rodrick Ariditti and you two are?"

Damn do I hate this room. The perfectly spotless white floors and same colored walls and ceiling tiles. The metallic table and chairs in the center reflecting all the light from the brightest fluorescent light I have ever seen. Worse of all the one black reflective window that has someone on the other side always watching me. Hell, there is probably at least one camera watching me to and some guards on the door.

The loud sound of a key unlocking the door breaks the silence of the room and the door swings open. The steel door makes a loud clang when shut and one of the officers at the raid sits down across the table. "We have enough evidence to convict you right here and now thanks to you spilling the beans on everything you have ever done for the Aridittis. If I had any say on this I would have already put you in the ground to be honest. Anything else you want to say to the lovely people watching this?" I continue my silence. "Okay, well you're free no matter what or anybody here thinks. Your Boss took the fall for all the small fries with a plea bargain. Someone else will be in here later to talk about what will happen afterward because we can't just let you loose." He stands up and someone from the outside opens the door for him and closes it behind him.

Good guess I don't need these anymore. I slip a lock pick out of my pocket and quickly remove my handcuffs tossing them on the table while rubbing at my wrist. Damn I think if they were any tighter I would have lost blood circulation. A few minutes pass and the metal door is once again opened. This time though the two girls from the raid come walking in, but the school girl is talking to someone on her scroll. "We just walked in let me just put my scroll on speaker so you can talk to him yourself." She presses a button then sets it in the center of the table. "Go ahead Professor you're on speaker."

"Rodrick, I am told by my best fighter that you were able to hold your own even when you were surprise assaulted by her. Quite the achievement for anybody who hasn't received proper training. That two hunters from my best team had to work together just to wound you and that bullet didn't even phase you enough for you to notice. Therefore I would like to let you in on a little bit of information I came across of tonight from a very good source. During a police raid the infamous Ariditti Dagger the enforcer of the world's strongest gang was killed by a team of huntresses from Beacon Academy. During that same raid they also captured the head of the family, or at least that is the official report. But there is a rumor of one young thug that escaped police custody. He decided to change his ways and is becoming a hunter at Beacon Academy this year. Not sure about you, but sounds like that guy has some of the best luck in the world."

I respond, "Sounds better then being put to death by the police. It seems to good though, so what is the catch? Am I always monitored, put in custody of these girls, or what?"

The Professor responds, "I see you do realize that this is not just a get out of jail free card. But it is still an opportunity at a new life, one that helps everyone instead of hurting them. What do you say Rodrick?"

I stand up, "The sooner I get out of this building the better."