Chapter 183 - 177 - Movements In The Dark

Within a back alley, there is a moderately tall individual with a tattered black hoodie on. He was standing over someone else that was laying on the ground. They had their hands on the person's head slightly moving their fingers.

"Just a little more and you will be ready to do my bidding." The hoodie figure said while working on that sleeping person.

"Do we really need to start from the homeless people? Can't we just work with the low-class workers? Why did I have to stand over her anyway Azure?" A voice came from behind the hoodie figure.

"No, people will suspect something if people start acting differently. The homeless on the other hand will be the start of the army that will be easy to amass. We can then go on to the lower people. My ability only lasts for five hours. It only takes a minute to take control of someone asleep." Azure said while standing up finishing what he was doing.

Azure turned around to see a chameleon Faunus was standing in the alleyway looking at them. Azure recognized them stood up knowing that they already had the next person to go to.

"I'm guessing you already have the next person Judd," Azure asked.

"Indeed I do. They struggled for a bit but that always makes it more interesting. They are unconscious so they are ready to control." Judd said with a maddening grin on her face while holding her shoulders while squirming around.

"What are we supposed to do about Adam not showing up. Does that mean that he isn't working with us anymore?" The one standing behind Azure asked.

"Yes Bob, he isn't coming. He was too incompetent and managed to get himself captured." Judd said with her eye twitching a bit thinking about how it happened.

"Is the information credible?" Azure asked since she wasn't the sanest person.

"I played around for a bit and saw everything myself. I even have one of the participants that were in the earlier fight ready to join your hive control. How satisfying it was to see that no one on his team realized that I had taken his spot and has been with them this entire time. Hunters are so easy to get around if they think they already know you." Judd said with a large grin on her face while laughing.

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Weiss was heading to Team JNPR's room when she notices that Neptune was standing at the door. Neptune heard footsteps coming from behind him and turned around. He saw that it was Weiss and a smile started to appear on his face.

"Hi, Weiss!" Neptune excitedly turned around seeing the girl he has been talking to.

Weiss waved at him. She had a blush on her face seeing him thinking about when was he going to ask her on a date. She had seen had excited the others were when Shallot took them on a date and wanted to feel the same way.

Weiss walked up to Neptune waiting for a compliment. She had changed her hair a bit and had the back part braided. Neptune was looking at Weiss and was thinking of something to say but his mind went blank.

Neptune was screaming inside his head telling himself to say something. He noticed that she had on a different outfit today.

"I like the outfit that you have on today," Neptune said.

Weiss was waiting for the compliment for her hair. She waited with Neptune giving his patented pretty boy smile.

When Weiss didn't hear a compliment she puffed her cheeks and turned around. She started walking back to the room not wanting to talk with Neptune anymore.

Neptune was about to chase after her when the door to Team JNPR's room opened.

"Yes?" Pyrrha said sticking her head out the doorway.

Neptune wanted to find out something first before he went after Weiss. He wasn't even sure why she was upset. He complimented her clothes. He knew that she had on a different outfit than she usually wears.

"I wanted to know if you've seen Sun. I thought that maybe he would have come this way." Neptune asked.

Pyrrha thought about it a bit but hadn't seen Sun.

"Jaune! Have you seen Sun!?" Pyrrha called into the room.

Instead of Jaune answering it was Norra that zoomed over to the door next to Pyrrha.

"I've seen him! He was laughing like a maniac on the roof of the building before jumping off going somewhere. He was like, full supervillain laughing." Norra acting out what she had seen.

"The Pancakes are ready Norra!" Ren called out while coming out with an apron with some hearts on it with the words "Please Do Nothing To The Cook".

"Laughing like a supervillain?" Neptune asked since Sun wasn't that eccentric. When he thought that he could continue the conversation Norra was already away from the door sitting at a table eating pancakes.

Jaune came from around the corner and was sweaty.

"You called Pyrrha?" Jaun asked Pyrrha who was standing by the door.

"Have you seen Sun recently?" Pyrrha asked Jaune.

Jaune shook his head. He had been talking with him recently and trying to find out ways to get his body in better shape. He told him his workout he does to stay in shape.

"Actually, I did see him yesterday but he was different than usual," Jaune said to Neptune since he remembered how he didn't remember the conversation they had.

"What do you mean by that?" Neptune asked.

"Well, he seemed more hyper than usual. When I asked about what we're talking about last time it seemed that he had forgotten even though what we were talking about was pretty much his idea. I thought that maybe he just forgot but then I noticed that he didn't have his staff with him. He takes that thing with him everywhere." Jaune said thinking about how he thought that Sun "felt" different than usual.

Neptune thought about it but he couldn't think of Sun being any different than usual. The other guys didn't seem to think anything of it either.

"Are you sure?" Neptune asked.

"I don't know how to explain it. You feel like yourself right now but Sun seemed different than Sun even though he looked, sounded, and talked like Sun." Jaune said while rubbing his head thinking that it was pretty confusing.

"Maybe my semblance is messing with me or something," Jaune mumbled to himself.

"Thanks. I think that I'm going to head to ask around some more to others to know if anyone has seen him." Neptune said.

When he was about to leave Ren spoke up asking a question.

"Why are you looking for him right now?" Ren asked.

"A girl came by our room and said that she hadn't seen Sun and that he was supposed to go on a date with her. She wanted to know why he stood her up after talking to her for so long. We told her that we also don't know where he was at the moment." Neptune said.

"That doesn't sound like him at all. Even though I've known him for a bit of time. He doesn't seem like the kind to leave a date for a girl that he went after." Jaune said while thinking about all the stuff they've talked about especially him being told that he was dense.

Jaune looked toward Pyrrha with her turning to seeing him and smiling.

"That's why we're all looking for him. Sun wouldn't miss a date of a girl he was interested in unless he couldn't physically make it there." Neptune said.

"Have you talked to the teachers or told the police that he's missing?" Ren asked since you should report these things as soon as you think something is wrong.

"We have but they said that they've been getting reports of people going missing and have been busy," Neptune said.