I lay back on the ground while breathing heavily, the surrounding area was smoking from my latest practice session. The entire past year I've been practicing the tale of the dragon fighting style. That's right fighting style, turns out the tale of the dragon can be used by spears, scythes, swords, and hand to hand. So in order to master it I put my body through hell. Three months ago, Dest took all my weapons to perform maintenance on them.
{FINALLY I FINISHED!} Dest exclaims.
'Not so loud,' I tell him. 'We are talking in my head remember?'
{Oh yeah sorry about that,} Dest apologizes. {Anyway that's besides the point, I finished the upgrades for you weapons.}
'Upgrades? I thought you were just performing maintenance on them?' I ask.
{At first I was but, then I thought of some upgrades they could have,} Dest explains. {Allow me to introduce you to your new weapons.}
A case appeared on a nearby fallen tree as soon as Dest said that. I go over to it and open it, inside the box was four thin dark purple bands and a sleek black sword.
{Put the bands on, one on every limb,} Dest instructs with happiness.
I did as he said and put the bands on every limb. The bands on my legs merged into my boots and the bands on my arms became gloves.
{I completely revamped Destroyer Anubis's design and added nanotechnology to make it lighter with a special surprise,} Dest tells me with glee. {Say Full Bloom}
"Okay then, Full Bloom!" I say.
The gloves quickly cover my arms while the boots covered my legs. They met in the middle and became a cloth-like texture. Suddenly I was wearing a black jacket, black pants, black boots, and a skull mask on my arm.
{Introducing Reaper Mode,} Dest declares proudly. {It has five different forms based on your weapon, right now you're in brawler form.}
'Awesome,' I tell him. 'How do I go back to normal.'
{Tell it disengage,} Dest tells me.
"Disengage," I tell it.
As quickly as it created the outfit it went back to normal.
{Also the name of it isn't Destroyer Anubis anymore,} Dest includes. {It's Rebellious Anubis.}
'Cool what about Obsidian Crest?' I ask him.
{Using nanotechnology I reduced the size of it and made it sleeker and now the different forms all can shoot without popping the tip off,} Dest informs me. {And it's new name is Obsidian Cross.}
"Great with this my return to Beacon is ready," I say as I put Obsidian Cross on the back of my waist.
{Let's head off,} Dest commands.
"Yeah let's," I agree.
------------------------------------
I go into the dorm and head to the shower. On my bed I see my uniform and a note. Curiously I pick up the note and read it.
It said: Dear Noir,
We're going to be beginning Professor Goodwitch's class. Hurry and shower.
-Graylit
P.S. Keep the long hair, it looks good.
'What long hair?' I think to myself as I realized that my hair reaches the middle of my back.
I sigh and quickly shower and get dressed. I look in the mirror and tie my hair in a ponytail while leaving a portion in the front.
I head out the dorm room and head to Goodwitch's class.
------------------------------
When I walk into class team J.N.P.R and team C.R.D.L were fighting. Jaune was actually holding his own against Cardin.
"He seems to be doing better," I say to myself. "He still is making a few mistakes but they're negligible."
Jaune finally sent Cardin's aura in the red and with that team J.N.P.R beat team C.R.D.L. Cardin shakes in anger.
"Alright, whose fighting next?" Professor Goodwitch asks the class.
"Me!" A guy with silvery-grey hair and eyes wearing a slate gray and black two-tone partial-zip jacket that covers his upper body with black pants and boots responds.
"Alright, who do you want to fight against, Mercury?" Goodwitch asks him.
"A guy named Noir Rose," Mercury answers her.
"I'm sorry Mercury but Noir is-" Goodwitch begins to tell him.
"I'm right here," I say while jumping down onto the field.
"Whose that girl?" I hear a person ask.
I take a deep breath and talk to Goodwitch, "I'm here and ready to fight."
"Where have you been?" Goodwitch asks me.
"Training with my master," I answer. "I thought you knew that, I mean you were in there with Ozpin."
"Right, I forgot," Goodwitch says. "Anyway, Mercury, Noir is one of the top students in this school. Are you sure you want to face him?"
"I'm sure," Mercury answers while hopping down just like I did. "How tough can he be?"
"Famous last words," I tell him.
'I'm going to give everyone a big surprise,' I tell Dest.
{What? Are you gonna reveal your a Faunus or something?} Dest asks.
'Yep,' I tell him. 'This might be boring otherwise.'
Mercury and I get into our stances and the spar starts. I shift into my wolf Faunus state, blast past Mercury, and kick him in the back of the head knocking him out.
"Weak," I say dejectedly. "I expected him to be stronger."
Everyone just stood speechless once that happened. They all stare at me in my Faunus form with mouths agape.
"W-winner Noir Rose," Goodwitch finally says.
"I got one thing to say...I'M BACK!" I yell out with a smile.
I go back up to the level everyone else was at and find my friends.
"Hey people," I say to them once I found them. "How's it been?"
"Noir!" Yang and Ruby shout running up to me for a hug. "We missed you!"
"Hey Ruby, hey Yang," I say while the life is being squeezed out of me. "It's only been a week, that doesn't mean to kill me with a hug, okay."
"You look older for it to only been a week," Weiss says to me. "And more like a girl."
"My bad, my mom's genes are extremely strong in me for some reason," I say. "And yes it only has been a week (for you guys). Anyway, Graylit I thought you semblance was Foresight. How did you know I had longer hair?"
"It's a secret," Graylit and Twilight say simultaneously.
"So what happened when I was gone?" I ask everyone.
"Remember the food fights we had at signal?" Ruby asks me.
"Yeah?" I say curiously.
"Well, we had one here with Jaune and my team," Ruby says. "Even Weiss joined in."
"Wish I could've seen that," I say. " Or better yet been apart of it."
"Nah~, if you joined we would have lost," Yang tells me.
"No I wouldn't," I say in protest.
"Really?" Blake interrupts while pointing at Mercury. "Look at that guy."
"Fair point," I tell her.
"What have you been doing last week?" Pyhrra asks me.
"To put it simply, doing actual hellish training," I tell them. "It was so bad that it makes what I had y'all doing look like it was just playing around."
"And let's stop talking about that before you get any ideas," Jaune and Hayate say.
"Alright but I did learn some very awesome stuff," I tell everyone.
"What is it?" Everyone asks me.
"You'll know it when you see it," I tell them with a slight grin.