Scarlet angrily fired another shot from his flintlock pistol. The dust-bullet flew through air and hit the target at the other end of the firing range. Like every other one of his shots it went wide and hit near the outer ring of the target. "What the hell?! I know I'm not that bad of a shot," Scarlet said as he loaded another round into his gun.

A bit further down in a different stall a marksmen stood with her rifle watching Scarlet miss most of his shots. May laid her rifle down and quickly walked over to Scarlet. "Um excuse me, I think I know what your problem is," She said quietly.

"Huh," Scarlet looked at the red clad huntress. "Oh really that would be grand," Scarlet handed her his pistol.

May pulled a small tool kit out of her pocket and set the gun down on the counter. Then she took a long cotton swab and started to wipe around on the inside of the barrel.

"Well here's the problem," May aid handing the gun back to Scarlet. "Your barrel is filled with residual dust stopping up your barrel,"

"Ah, so what I just need to clean it out?" scarlet asked.

"Yeah just give it a good cleaning every now and then and it should be fine,"

"Wow, thanks alot for this," Scarlet said

"It was nothing, really. Just basic gun care," May said

"No, no, no this is more than that. With this knowledge you've not only increased my fighting ability but you may have even have saved my life,"

"I uh don't see-," May said quietly

"What if I were to be attacked by grimm and I hadn't known how to take care of my gun," Scarlet said "My miss shots would go all over the place and I could be killed,"

"I'm sure you would've-," she said taking a step back

"You deserve something for this service. How about dinner on me tonight?" Scarlet suggested

May froze in her step. Her face turned as red as her jacket. "Wh-what?"

"You heard me, how about you let me treat you to a nice dinner tonight?"

"I don't know I think it's fine if we don't,"

"Nonsense, it'll be fun. Here," Scarlet took out a piece of paper and wrote down his number. "Meet me down by the air docks tonight about 6, alright." Scarlet handed her the paper. "And don't worry it won't be anything too formal," Scarlet grabbed his gun and ammo and left the shooting range.

May stood there for a second before running and grabbing her sniper rifle and then back to her dorm. Before she opened the door she paused. Wait, She thought What do I tell my teammates? There's no way they'd be alright with me going on a date with someone from a different. There's no way I'm ok with going on a date with someone!

As May stood at the door fretting over what to do, her teammate, Roy, opened the door. Behind him Nolan and Brawnz where wrestling on the floor.

"Hey May, I had a feeling you would be here," He looked down at her "Are you alright? Your face is all red,"

May quickly walked into the room and put her rifle on her bed. "What? Oh yeah, no, I'm fine, totally fine,"

"You sure about that?" Roy asked.

"Well, I, mean a guy may have asked me on a date tonight," May said quietly.

"WHAT!?" Nolan and Brawnz said in unison.

"That's great ," Roy said with a smile.

"What?" Nolan said

"No it's not," Brawnz said "We don't know this guy, he could be a problem,"

"I'm sure he's not a problem," Roy said "So May, who is it?"

"It's Scarlet David," She said quietly "From team SSSN,"

"AW Hell no," Brawnz said

"There's no way we can let May go on a date with one of those SSSN guys," Nolan said "You've heard the rumors about them," May started to turn a deeper shade of red.

"I'm sure those rumors aren't true," Roy said trying to reassure May "I think you should go May, it could be a lot of fun and I think you could use something like this,"

"Do you really think so?" May asked

"Yes, really," Roy said "Now go get ready,"

"Thanks Roy," May dashed off into the bathroom to start preparing for her date.

"Roy, I don't like this," Nolan said

"Yeah, well it's her decision," Roy said

"I know that,"

"But still, this is some guy we don't know," Brawnz added in

"But we do know him, he's Scarlet David,"

"No, we know of him," Brawnz said "We don't know anything about,"

"Look, just relax. Let's just see how her date goes tonight, alright," Roy suggested

"Fine" Brawnz said

….

May stood at the air docks nervously looking at her watch. She had changed from her usual hoodie and track pants to a red blouse and a black skirt. She still had on her regular scarf, beanie and shoes. What if he doesn't show? Oh gosh, what if this is some kind of bad joke?

At that moment Scarlet walked up. He had on his usual outfit except instead of his captain's jacket he had on a red blazer. "Wow May, you look great," Scarlet said causing May to blush.

Scarlet then noticed that May's beanie was still covering her left eye. "You still have that on?" Scarlet said pointing to the hat. "I'm sorry, I just like it like this," May said pulling the beanie lower.

"I can understand that," Scarlet said "My team hates that I keep my hair over my eye," Scarlet pushed the hair out from in front of his left eye revealing a blue eye instead of a green one like the other "But I prefer it like this. It keeps people from bothering me about my eye. Is that why you keep your hat like that?"

May looked at Scarlet's different eyes and then looked down. "Yeah, something like that," May mumbled.

Sensing that the moment was gone Scarlet lead May to one of the waiting airships. The ride down to Vale was very quiet. Multiple times Scarlet would try to start some kind of conversation with May but, she would only mumble shorthanded answers. When they had finally arrived at the restaurant May had barely said anything.

The waiter set the two at an outside table. When they sat down at the table May immediately buried her face into her menu. Scarlet watched May for a minute while thinking, There has to be something that help her relax. Hmmm. After thinking for a bit Scarlet thought of something.

"So May, tell me about your sniper rifle," Scarlet said

"Huh?" May said looking up from her menu "You mean Blue Moon?"

"So Blue Moon is it's name? What made you name it that?"

"I didn't name it, my father did," May said

"Ok then, why did he name it that?"

"Because they used to say he'd only miss a shot 'once in a blue moon',"

"Oh wow he must be a great shot,"

"He was one of the best,"

"Oh I'm sorry," Scarlet said quickly once he realized the implication "Were you and your father close?"

"No, not really," May said sadly "When he passed 'Blue Moon' was all he left me, among some other things," May looked down.

After another moment of thought May said, "Scarlet I'm sorry this date has been so bad,"

"What? It hasn't been bad," Scarlet said "It's just been...different,"

"Which means bad," May groaned

"No it doesn't," Scarlet said "I know, let's try something different," Scarlet stood up and grabbed May's hand.

"But we haven't eaten yet," Msy said as Scarlet lead her out of the restaurant.

"We'll get something later. Now come on the night is still young," Scarlet thought to himself Don't worry May, before tonight is over I'll make sure you have a great date.