It was so weird. Last night, for the first time since I was transported to RWBY, I dreamed about my family. My mom, dad, my friends, everyone who I knew before I was abducted. I usually don't admit stuff like this, but I really miss home, though I don't think I'll see home anytime soon.

I sat in team RWBY's dorm eating the breakfast a couple of the teachers brought us because we're 'sick' for the rest of the week. We were discussing what we would do for the rest of the week when Yang suggested going to a gym in Vale.

"I don't know about that." Blake said gesturing to me.

"What?" I asked but I was ignored.

"Oh, right." Yang said.

"What about me?" I asked a little louder.

"Maybe we coul-" Ruby started.

"Why can't we go to the gym!" I yelled, then went back to my regular speaking voice, "What are you hiding from me?" I stared Ruby right in the eye, knowing she has a hard time keeping things from her friends.

"Alex I-" she started then went quiet.

I kept eye contact and took a knee in front of the smaller girl, "It's ok," I said in a calm, stern voice, "What is it?"

I stood up as Ruby sighed and walked over to her wardrobe and pulled out a cardboard box. She walked back over to me and handed me the box. I opened the top to see a box filled with silver pieces which was once apart of a rifle.

"We found it in pieces in the woods where we found you." Ruby said with her head lowered.

I took a deep breath then placed a hand on Ruby's shoulder, "It's ok, I didn't really get a chance to use it since I've been here."

Man, I swear I saw a light bulb go off in Yang's head.

"You know Ruby," Yang said, "You could help him rebuild it, maybe even make it better."

"Yeah that's right!" I said remembering some of the show, "Aren't you a dork when it comes to weapons?" I gestured to the compacted scythe that sat at her hip.

"Right!" she said, "And it should be a good use of our extra time."

"Cool," I said, "When do we start?"

"How about this afternoon when everyone goes to class after lunch?" she suggested.

""Works for me." I said

"I want you to have a close combat weapon too so you should probably think about that." She told me.

"Ok," I agreed, "I'm going to go back to my room and chill. I'll come by around one." then I left the room.

When I opened my door, my eyes went straight to the clock; 10:30. I had a few hours to kill so I started to put my clothes away in my closet. After that I just flopped down on my bed with my thoughts when there was a knock on the door.

I groaned as I got up and opened the door. Ozpin was standing perfectly in the center of the doorframe holding a cup of coffee.

"Alex," he said in an emotionless voice, "May I have a word?"

I gestured for him to enter then closed the door as Ozpin slipped by me.

He stood looking out the window.

"So you wanted to talk?" I asked him.

"Yes," he agreed, "It's regarding your mission with Professor Next."

"What about it?"

"Well as you are well aware, Next returned without you and we did not find you until a month later."

"Yeah, I've been meaning to give that guy a piece of my mind." I grumbled.

"We found you looking completely different other than your overall build and facial features."

"Yeah." I said crossing my arms, "It's weird to look at a familiar stranger in the mirror every morning."

"So you have no idea how or why this happened to you?" he asked.

"Nope."

"Alright thank you Alex." he said still looking out the window.

"Is that all?" I asked quizzically.

"Well, the night after your return, Next had disappeared." He turned to face me with a serious look on his face, "Do you know anything about this."

"Of course not!" I defended, "I couldn't even see properly, much less know anything."

"I'm sorry for accusing you like this, I just had to be sure..."

"Sure of what?"

"Don't concern yourself." he said, heading for the door, "Just live your life, make friends and don't get killed."

He opened and closed the door behind him, leaving me standing in the middle of the room alone.

I always knew Ozpin was mysterious and weird but in my opinion; that was a little overkill.

I flopped back down on my bed and shut my eyes, taking a little nap before I met Ruby.

I woke up in my dorm and looked at the clock, 1:15. I bolted out the door to team RWBY's dorm. I ended up body checking Ruby as she was heading towards me, sending us both sprawling out on the floor.

"Ruby!" I said helping her up, "Sorry, I didn't see you there."

"It's Ok." she said, "Are you ready?"

"Yeah." I said as I followed Ruby down the hallway.

"So what kind of close combat weapon do you want?" she asked.

I thought for a moment, "A sword."

"Oh, I have a great idea!" she said excitedly.

When we got to the workshop we made our way to one of the desks and Ruby ran to a cabinet and got some blueprint supplies then laid them out over the table.

She took a good 20 minutes drawing out my original gun then got to work on the modifications. Ruby got so absorbed in what she was doing I think she forgot I was even there, so I decided to look around while she finished.

The workshop was massive. One half of the room, where the students desks were located, was lined with weapons and portraits of famous huntsman and huntresses. The other half was the actual foarge. It was complete with tools, different metals and steels, they even had a few anvils.

I walked around the classroom half of the room and looked at each one of the weapon hunter pairs. I recognised a few of the Huntsmen and Huntresses as instructors at Beacon, Ozpin, Glynda and Port being a few of them.

One picture inparticular caught my eye. A tall man with dark brown hair was holding the blunt end a blue sword against his shoulder dressed in what seemed to be full body armor.There was a shocking familiarity to him but I was almost 100% positive I'd never seen him before.

"Grant Blue." Ruby said as she appeared at my side, "One of the greatest huntsmen that ever went to Beacon."

"What happened to him?" I asked.

"No one knows. He probably just retired or something." she said.

"Yeah," I said, "Did you finish?"

"Yeah" she said excitedly as she lead the way back to the table.

Honestly I was impressed. It was based on the original design of my gun but had certain modifications so it would double as a sword. However, I think she also wanted it to look cool.

The gun was kind of rectangular shape, the front half of the gun was more square and a rectangular piece at the top stretched to double the length of the gun. Below it, and L shape pole like piece connected to bottom right side of the front square to the bottom of the rectangle. There was notes about the contents of the different pieces but i was more interested in the handle and trigger. It was a circle near the back of the gun with a bar stretching from the top to the bottom of the circle. On one side the trigger was connected to the both the handel and circle, on the other side was a button.

Ruby and I got to work making the parts from sheets of metal. It took a few hours, so by the time we finished making the pieces, it was time for dinner.

We meet the others in the mess hall covered in sweat and grime.

"Did you get run over with a motorcycle?" Yang joked.

Ruby elbowed her in the gut.

"You had it coming." Blake laughed.

I snickered and finished eating, as did Ruby, and we both went to piece everything together.

"We did it!" Ruby and I yelled and high fived each other.

I took it my hands and pushed the button on the handled and the pieces of metal gridded and shifted until i was holding a perfectly balanced sword. The handel had shifted so it looked right down the weapon. The sword was a series of rectangles, the largest being the main piece for my gun but its edge sharpened on one side with the L shaped pole rotated so the pole was both shortened and pointed towards me like a second handle. the second was two pieces put together so it was a sharpened blade on both sides. The last was a thinner blade sharpened on both sided with the barrel of the gun poking out so i could still fire.

All in all....Best-Weapon-ever.

"Let's go try it!" she said excitedly.

At this point it was 3am. I was tired and my common sense was telling me to go to bed and try it tomorrow. Then again, it was 3am and my brain was off the clock. So like the two idiots we were, we went to the gym.

The gun shot nicely and the weight didn't bother me, and after a couple spars I figured out how to use the gun to get air while in sword form. However, I wasn't trained in being a swordsmen in any way, so I sucked, bad, and she was going easy on me!

Around five am Ruby and I were still going strong. Several cups of coffee helps. I was starting to get the hang of it and was so focused, neither of us noticed the rest of team RWBY walk in.

I kicked Ruby in the stomach and she slammed into the back of the wall. I had expected Ruby to get up as she did, but what I hadn't expected was Ember Celica catching me in the stomach.

I sat up and looked at a very pissed off Yang, who punched a laughing Ruby into the ground as well.