The Midnight Serpent (RWBY x Male OC)

Chapter 11: A Rabbit Problem

Midnight's POV

Me and my team were sitting in our dorm room, just lounging around. Alpha was reading, Galand was playing his guitar, and Ethan was just watching meme videos on his scroll. I on the other hand was laying down on my bed, having an internal conversation with Umbra.

Umbra: alright, it's time to learn another ability of mine, kid.

Midnight: alright, so what does this one do.

Umbra: as you might know, pride demon have the ability to control and manipulate shadows, but another perk of having that kind of power is being able to create different creatures out of their own shadow. I call it Shadow Morph.

Midnight: so like Viper and Mamba?

Umbra: exactly. Now I'm gonna need you to find a source of light, like a flashlight or a candle.

I sat up on my bed and asked my team...

Midnight: any of you guys got a flashlight or something.

Ethan: I have one.

Ethan opened one of his drawers and pulled out a rechargable flashlight. He tossed it to me. Alpha became curious as to what I was doing.

Alpha: what do ya need a flashlight for?

Midnight: uh, just some semblance training.

I switched it on to make sure it worked. It seemed bright enough.

Midnight: alright, what now?

Umbra: set it down on the floor, then sit in front of it with your back to it.

I did what he said and sat down in front of the flashlight. My shadow covered the wall.

Umbra: now focus on your shadow.

I looked down at my shadow.

Umbra: now think of an animal, it can be anything. It needs to be the only thing on your mind inorder to work.

I thought of an animal and focused on that single thought. I could feel my team's gaze on me, waiting for something to happen. After a few seconds of staring at my own shadow, a little pitch black rabbit hopped out.

Galand: WOAH!

Umbra: ...a rabbit...really?

Midnight: hey, you said it could be any animal, and I'm not making something as big as a dragon in our dorm room!

I crawled over to the rabbit made of my own shadow and it looked up at me. It's ears twitched. I reached out my hand and lightly pet it. It was cool to the touch and felt smooth.

The shadow rabbit rubbed it's face with one of it's little feet and began quickly hopping around our room. I started laughing until I noticed something in my peripheral vision. I looked and saw 2 more rabbits hop out of my shadow.

Umbra: oh no.

Another rabbit suddenly came out, then another, and another, and another, and another, and another.

Ethan: CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!

After about 2 minutes, the room was FILLED with shadow rabbits. Me and my team were dead silent, not knowing what to say.

Midnight: what...the hell...is this?

Umbra: yeah, if you keep thinking of a specific creature after creating it, more will come out.

Midnight: alright, after making an animal, immediately think of something else. Noted.

Suddenly, the door to our dorm swung open, and there stood Ruby.

Ruby: MIDNIGHT, WE NEED YOUR HE-

She immediately stop what she was saying upon seeing the sea of black rabbits that my team was currently trying to deal with.

Midnight: don't ask, we know as much as you. Anyway, what do ya need?

Ruby: I'LL ROLL AROUND IN THIS PILE OF CUTENESS LATER! IT'S BLAKE, SHE'S GONE!

All of our eyes widened at what she told us. We got up and carefully stepped over the rabbits until we we're out of our down. Galand shut the door behind us.

Ruby: come on!

Ruby sped down the hall and we followed. We arrived at team RWBY's dorm and saw Weiss and Yang standing outside. We stopped and took a moment to breath.

Midnight: ok *panting* what's going on?

Ruby and Yang both looked at Weiss.

Weiss: ...what?

Yang: you're seriously not gonna tell em?

Weiss: why should I?

Ruby: well, you did it?

Ethan: uh, I'm completely lost, what's going on?

Yang: alright, so on Friday we were walking around Vale City when we saw a monkey faunus, who was apparently stowing away on a boat, make a run for it.

Galand: ok, and what does this have to do with Blake?

Yang: well, after seeing that, Weiss immediately accused him of being a part of the White Fang.

Alpha's ears perked up.

Alpha: what?!

He was looking directly at Weiss.

Midnight: well...what happened next?

Yang: after Blake heard that she started getting all defensive, saying stuff like "just because he's a faunus doesn't mean he's with the White Fang". Of course Weiss had to bring up her family and how the White Fang have been robbing Schnee dust shops. The argument lasted until that night. After a while, Blake said "well, maybe we're sick of being pushed around". When she realized she said that she ran out of the room and hasn't come back since.

I could feel Alpha growing angrier and angrier with every word. He let out a low snarl and began slowly approaching Weiss.

Alpha: so your automatic reaction to seeing a faunus do any kind of mischief is to immediately accuse them of being a part of the White Fang?!

Weiss looked utterly terrified. Alpha had her backed against the wall.

Alpha: I've had to deal with descrimination and ridicule for all of my life, but you know what, I've gotten used to it at this point! Ever since I was little I've hated being insulted by humans just because of something I can't help! However, whenever I see a faunus being treated unfairly I always step in! I speak for faunuses around the world when I say we never asked to be born this way, and that we weren't willing to fight for our rights just to be insulted by a little girl in a dress!

Weiss: IT'S A COMBAT SKIRT!

Alpha: yeah, if that's a "combat skirt" then my Fury's Song is a butter knife!

Umbra: not that I don't enjoy watching this, but you should probably break this up.

Midnight: agreed.

I spoke in the most commanding tone that I could muster.

Midnight: Alpha...

His head spun around to look at me.

Midnight: she's not worth it, you're just waisting your time.

Alpha sighed, knowing I was right. He walked back over to us and Galand patted him on the shoulder.

Galand: so you need help looking for her?

Ruby: yeah, we don't know where she could've gone. Maybe the library, or maybe a book store.

Midnight: maybe if we split up we can cover more ground.

Yang: good idea, let's move.