The flight was calm and silent for the whole hour. No one dared to speak about what had happened at the abandoned factory, ever since the words that he said to them,
"You've just encountered some of the most dangerous beings in the universe..." His words kept popping up inside their heads, like he was telling them he is one of them.
They don't know. They wouldn't try to, even if they want to. Perhaps, they could try not to let it get back inside their heads. Inside their minds.
"His words...they keep coming back into my heads...the question is, why?" The little red hero asked herself in a whisper, as if not to make her friends worry too much. Her sister slash brawler softly placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Rubes, don't let it get the best of you. Maybe he looks like he was serious, but in reality, maybe he likes to joke around. Because, why else?" Her sister let her grip loose as she went back to her sit.
Ruby sighed. "Not that we could bring ourselves to try and ask him ourselves, right? What if he's being true to us? What if his words literally-" Ruby cut herself off, looking into the blue eyes of the heiress that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"Ruby, whatever you're thinking about them right now, stop. We'll get nowhere if you really want to talk about some unbelievable people that probably were only camping there. Now, keep your mouth shut, before I make you." Weiss said, pinching Ruby's cheek at the end of her sentence.
Violet eyes showed amusement, causing Weiss to turn to the brawler.
"Something funny, Yang?" She asked with her eyes squinted, fixated on the blonde sister of Ruby. Yang just rolled her eyes, but not before her mouth turn to a snicker.
"Nothing much. I just like seeing you socializing with people, especially Faunus, whom your family seems to hate so much. I just don't get it with you, okay?" Yang replied with one eyebrow wiggling at the heiress.
The raven-haired cat Faunus beside them heard the brief but controversial conversation. She slowly turned her head towards them.
"If you two want to talk about our species, then don't. You have two riding with you." She then turned towards Velvet, who seemed to immediately sit up, surprised being looked at by her.
"At least none of you really tried to hurt our hearts anymore, because I'm done with that. Copy?" Blake asked, turning her head towards her teammates again, but mostly focused on the silver eyes of Ruby this time, who got assaulted by hugs from Yang.
"Yang! I! Can't! Breath!" Ruby said, her once light-skinned face turning blue as her windpipe was blocked and possibly crushed by the deathly arms of her sister.
"Sorry about that, sis. But I just love my family so much that I wouldn't any one of us get tricked by some hobos..." Yang proudly said, releasing her now ragdoll-like sister, who then struggled to get air into her lungs.
Weiss was annoyed by the sisters, who literally looked nothing alike, besides their behavior, of course. She huffed and turned away, looking out into the distance.
"Dolts..." She quietly mumbled to herself.
Ignoring that, more than an hour had passed, and the familiar sight came back to their visions.
"Finally, back at Beacon Academy. Now, I can take a rest after a day filled with weirdness and unbelievable encounter." Ruby said as she stood up, along with everyone else.
They looked outside the window, before immediately finding themselves looking at courtyard that rested a fountain in the middle, and many bushes for small fruits to grow on.
However, their eyes became fixated at the helipad. They squinted their eyes to look closer.
"Is that...Professor Ozpin?" Weiss asked as she looked at the elderly man in green, Professor Ozpin, also the Headmaster of Beacon Academy. As usual, he will always drink his coffee and bring around his cane where ever he goes.
This time, the Headmaster was found on the helipad, standing in one spot, waiting for the teams to land. His eyes watched as the Bullheads came into his view, getting closer.
"Ah, finally. They're back." He simply said before drinking some more.
More than a few moments later, Ozpin found himself being stared at by twelve pairs of eyes, eyeing him in silence. Ozpin didn't do anything, instead he just drank some more before looking at them back.
"You must be wondering why am I here, on the helipad, yes?" The professor asked the three teams, mostly getting nods as the response. Ozpin nodded as well.
He then cleared his throat.
"Well, ancestors to a friend of mine will be coming here today, and it was reported that some of their friends or maybe the whole group could have gone to the lost part of the Emerald Forest as well. Have you at the least, seen them?" Ozpin asked with somewhat cold voice, as if the group of ancestors was very important.
Ruby raised a hand, her teammates looked at her.
"Is one of them called G?" Ruby asked Ozpin back, who slightly smiled hearing that name.
"Why, yes. The leader of the whole group as well, might I have heard about him. So he's at Emerald Forest, presumably having already killed all the Grimm in that area?" Ozpin asked, looking at the other teams as well.
Yang sighed.
"I don't know why would you want to know about a group of grown ups who literally call themselves, 'some of the most dangerous beings in the universe,' when all they did was kill over 500 Grimm!" Yang shouted and anger, causing her violet eyes to turn red.
Ozpin just stared at her solemnly, not blinking.
"Well, as the grandson of my friend, he will always says that, mind you. After all, he is one of the most dangerous beings in the universe. What makes you think that saying something like that doesn't make him one?" Ozpin asked them again, emphasizing the truth.
This time, Weiss raised her hand.
"Because I believe it's ridiculous. I mean, if you had look at their physique, you'll know they're just some adults and teens who like spending time together." Weiss said, clearly with irritation.
Ozpin shook his head.
"No, Weiss. You are clearly mistaken, then. They call themselves the Operators, and I know you might had heard that one before, probably somewhere, I suppose?" Ozpin asked his students, who got their mouths agape, save for some who backed away in clear shock.
Ozpin smiled. "Now, children, go back to your dorms. Tomorrow they'll arrive. From what I got, at least. Because G probably didn't mention of a tracking device he planted on the Bullhead, if you can find it." Ozpin said to them.
The Headmaster walked away, leaving the students as they looked at the Bullhead.
They looked at each other, undecided of what to do. They can either try finding the tracking device, or maybe just go take some rest for the day.
"You know, let's just search it on some other day. If there's anyone who has free time, you can come alone to find it. If you want to." Ruby suggested, everyone else looking at her.
"Yeah, sure. We need to get some rest anyway, right?" Yang responded as she looked at the others, getting tons of nods as well.
Without anymore words between them, they walked back to Beacon to finally have their minds and bodies be rested to peace.
Unbeknownst to any of them, though, as another twelve pairs of eyes spied on them from a nearby mountain.
"Well, G. Why do you keep spying on them? Better yet, why only her you always seemed to be watching?" The familiar man in purple from earlier, Brandon, asked his leader, G.
G removed the binoculars from his eyes that he used to spy on the three teams. He went deep in thought before answering Brandon's question.
"That girl, Ruby. She had silver eyes." G said, turning his head towards his team. Brandon sighed in annoyance.
"Yeah, she has pretty silver eyes. What's wrong with that?" Brandon asked. Then, a familiar teenager came to his side.
"In case you don't know, from what I heard from the granddad himself, his grandfather used to work together with someone similar. Also having silver eyes." Greg said as if it was a fact.
"Wait, if Ruby's the only one with silver eyes, then who-" Brandon was about to ask, when G interrupted him.
"Her mother, Summer Rose. That's who my grandfather previously worked with." G said, causing Brandon to finally catch on.
"So, you'd been tasked with watching her daughter. Why, again?" Brandon asked again. G just sighed.
"Brandon, the answer to that question of yours will not be answered by me." Before Brandon could ask about that, G was already walking away to a tent, set up in the middle of the mountain.
"Come on, Operators. We need to rest too. Tomorrow, we show ourselves to the world."
And finally chapter 3 is done. Man, that took away half my day, well not literally, but you get the point.
As announcement, I'm just going to say the scripts are now in the works for my original series. Although the slated release maybe in late 2018...
But ignoring that, I'm planning to make it a reality.
With that being said, bye.