Chapter 3

They left the job center and looked at the poster, trying to figure out where to go. Draco brought out his Scroll and started reading the directions on where to meet the provider of the job. A confused look crossed his face.

"It seems that we need to get on an airship to get here. Many jobs are located quite a distance away, which includes this one. Maybe I should have gotten one a bit closer." he said.

"You know what I'm thinking?" Nadeshiko asked "What is in that mug?"

Gerard turned to face her "You know, there are even times when something is too random for even you."

"Ozpin's mung, you big muscle-head." Nadeshiko stated "He's always throwing it in our face that he know what's in it and that there's so much of it, but what is it?! It's driving me insane!"

"To be fair, you're already sort of insane," Draco points out, "And I believe that he wants you to get aggravated because we don't know what is in his magical cup."

"Can we please not talk about Ozpin's cup and figure out where to go to get on an airship?" Rebecca asked. "I thought we were going to take our very first job seriously and not act like a bunch of children."

The others agreed and they set off to find the airship port. After several heart-wrenching minutes that threatened to throw the group into despair, they found it 3 blocks away from the job center. They walked up to the entrance, bought tickets to their destination, and then got on the appropriate airship. Once inside, they all found a room in the large interior and sat down, preparing for the long flight ahead of them.

"How long was this flight again?" Nadeshiko asked.

"4 hours and 23 minutes. Roughly," Draco said, closing his eyes and crossing his arms. "Don't wake me up until we get there, please. Ozpin wears me out."

Around an hour into the flight, Rebecca, Gerard, and Nadeshiko felt the airship tilt and move as if it was changing course. Nadeshiko stuck her head out of the room to see if anything was wrong and quickly brought it back in, a worried yet excited look on her face.

"What is it?" Rebecca asked.

"The airship got taken over by the White Fang! Don't mistake my excitement for joy that my fellow Faunus are probably going to cause major panic and destruction. I'm just excited that our adventure has a side adventure!" she said.

"Well, we should at least stop them from terrorizing people and being, you know, terrorists." Gerard said, laying his hand on Ragnarok. Ragnarok's voice was in his ear, telling him to just destroy the airship and everything on it, even more excitement in his voice than there was in Nadeshiko's.

Rebecca nodded and grabbed Gungnir and put it into its secondary shotgun Form. Nadeshiko drew her dual submachine guns and got ready to exit the room. Gerard stood up and hefted Ragnarok over his shoulder. When Rebecca gave the signal, Gerard opened the door and they all rushed out and got into formation, Gerard in front, guarding them with Ragnarok, and Rebecca and Nadeshiko behind using him for cover. The Whit Fang guards outside of the pilot room noticed them and drew identical swords.

Nadeshiko poked her head out and aimed her guns at them, "We're going to stop you guys from doing whatever evil plot you have in store for this airship!"

Gerard chuckled, "You know you're supposed to say something cool when you address the bad guys and tell them you're foiling their plans."

"Shut up, you know I'm not good at things like that." Nadeshiko said, kicking him.

The White Fang grunts run at them and start to run around Ragnarok to get to the group. Nadeshiko stopped their movements by shooting the ground in front of them. Noticing that they didn't have any firearms, Gerard lifted Ragnarok and launched an attack of his own, knocking the grunts into the walls using the flat of Ragnarok's blade. The doors around them opened and four more grunts left the rooms. Gerard smashed two more into the wall, knocking them unconscious. Nadeshiko shot the other two with stun rounds, which allowed Rebecca to run over and smack them with the butt of her gun, disabling them.

The group regrouped the the center of the larger room and high-fived each other in victory. The pilots room's door opened and Gerard barely had enough time to spin around and bring up Ragnarok in defense of a rocket that caused an explosion that sent everyone flying backwards. A giant bear of a man, literally, stepped out holding a giant rocket launcher. He started walking forward, stopping a few feet from Gerard and the unconscious girls. As he raised the rocket launcher to finish the job, he smiled, knowing that there was no way Gerard could protect them a second time.

"I thought I told you not to wake me up," came Draco's voice from behind the man. The man spun around and tried to hit Draco with his weapon, but it was caught and thrown aside. Draco then grabbed the man by the throat and lifted him off the ground. As he did so, he extended the Red Dragon's Scales to their full extent, covering his entire body, protecting himself from the man's thrashing arms and legs. He then threw the man across the room and into one of the rooms that the grunts were in. The door closed and he locked it, hearing the sounds of the man throwing himself against the door from the other side. Retracting his armor, Draco helped Gerard up and started to wake the girls. Gerard, ashamed that he couldn't even do his job of protecting the girls correctly, went to the pilot room and saw the pilot steering the airship. Gerard notified the pilot of what had happened and asked him to head to their original destination, to which the pilot complied.

The airship landed safely several hours later and the group brought out the White Fang members to the authorities waiting outside. Once they had done that, they started heading to the place where they would meet the job employer. They headed there and found a Faunus girl waiting in the spot specified on the poster.

Draco walked forward and introduced them. "Hello, we are Team RDGN, Red Dragon, and we were hoping to find the person who sent this job poster to Beacon Academy."

The girl bowed and said, "I'm Stacy, and I was the one who sent that poster. We have a large Beowolf problem and we need some Hunters to take care of the problem."

"What kind of Beowolf problem?" Rebecca asked.

Stacy lowered her head, "For the last several months, large numbers of Beowolves have been attacking and killing our livestock and ranchers. Nothing has been safe and we have no way to get money. We are too scared to even leave our houses because we never know when they might attack. Please, help us!"

Gerard placed a hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry, it's our job to help you." At this, Nadeshiko giggled and turned away.

Stacy smiled but shook his hand off, "Thank you, I'll take you to my home. It's been attacked the most frequently." She starts walking towards a large ranch-house in the distance.

Draco puts a hand on Gerard's shoulder, "Don't worry, man, you'll find someone who doesn't think you're scary someday."

Gerard blushes, "It's not what you think. I just want to help! And I'm not scary!" He heard Nadeshiko laugh behind him.

"You're not scary? You're a giant that carries a sword that has the apocalypse on it. In what world is that not scary to a random person? Hell, if you weren't the good guy, you would undoubtedly be the bad guy of almost every story."

Gerard glares at her and walks after Draco and Rebecca. Nadeshiko watches him go for a few seconds and whispers to herself, "I don't think you're scary, though." She then follows after them all, jogging to catch up.

End of Chapter 3