-=Third Person P.O.V=-

What seemed like the start of a normal day turned into having questions sewn in their minds. Snow was the first to wake up from long day of battling in the Vytal Festival Tournament. She was picked for the finals round of the tournament and won against Haven Acedemy in Mistral. When she sat up on her bed she noticed that Nightmare wasn't in his bed. Regret and Luna were still asleep, they have no clue that he's gone. She didn't want to wake them up so she let them wake up on their own so they could notice and so Snow would have to explain. About maybe ten minutes later they both woke up and noticed the empty bed.

"Hey where's Nightmare?" Luna was groggy from just waking up. Same thing with Regret but he just grunted instead of speaking. He got up to get his daily hygiene done in the restroom and came back out more awake.

"No idea. Last I saw he went to Vale lastnight." Snow answered her question with a slight tone of worry in her voice. Regret listens in on the conversation and he finally spoke up.

"He never came back lastnight did he?"

"Maybe, maybe not. But what I do know is that we need to get ready and get the fuck to class!" Snow exclaimed as she got ready.

Their first class they had with Professor Port. Right after class, Snow felt her scroll buzz in her pocket. She pulled it out to find that Ozpin sent a message.

"What is it?" Asked Luna looking over her taller sister's shoulder.

"It's Ozpin.
I need to your team to come to my office as soon as possible. Nightmare wouldn't answer so I chose to contact you. You're not in trouble, I just need to talk to you."

"He might know something on Nightmare's whereabouts." Regret stated.

"Well let's go see the wonderful Wizard of Oz." Snow said as she received a playful punch on her arm delivered by her sister.

"Do not ruin Wizard of Oz for me."

"Jeez sis, just messing with you. Let's go." She ruffled the shorter girls bleach colored hair. (Remember when I described her hair as "pale"? I was up at 2 in the morning when I wrote that and I couldn't think of the correct terminology.) When the three made it to his office, Ozpin turned around and greeted them.

"Thank you for coming. I see Mr. Satero is not with you."

"No, he's been missing since lastnight. I'm guessing you know what happened to him?"

The look on the headmaster's face became rather grim when he reached by his feet to retrieve something and set it on his desk. The look on the rest of the team's faces became fearful.

"Is that-?" Regret was cut off by Luna

"Dreadfang. His sword." The people in the room looked at the mystical black and white weapon with shock.

"It was found at the parking lot of a grocery store and the cameras that were scattered across the light poles of the lot captured this." Ozpin pointed his scroll at the TV on the wall to their left and Ozpin's right.

The footage showed that he was about to get to his truck. It was a big truck at that. (Best way to describe it, is that it looks like a black and maroon Ironhide from the transformers movies.) It showed that a van pulled up behind him and someone came out with a baseball bat and struck him in the head. His aura protected him from the strike that would've been fatal if inflicted on a normal man. He drew his hilt from his back that was hidden under his torn up cloak. The blade formed like magic and he went to strike his oppressor. He cut the baseball bat in half and held the tip of the blade to his throat. Another assailant came back and shot him and dragged him into their van, the rest of the team looked at that screen with fright.

"No... no no no.... is he dead?" Luna asked while trying to fight back tears.

"We don't believe so. Doctor Oobleck walked out of the store as he heard the van screech the tires and drive off. He saw the sword and took it, as well as the shell casings left when he was shot. He came back and analyzed the blue goo that was left in it and it was some sort of dendro-toxin. It was created to incapacitate it's victim leaving them unconscious for a while. It was more effective than normal tranquilizers. The chemical make up comes from a centuries old design and now someone has re-created it. And the only time I could recall it being that old is when I learned that Earth still had the United States of America, and the only people that had access to these were that of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Divison."

The team was relieved to hear that he was still alive but after that, Snow felt an uncontrollable anger take over her mind and blurted out at Ozpin.

"My little brother is still out there and you're leaving this to the police?!"

"I can assure you that they are going to get to the bottom of this Mrs. Akita." Ozpin tried to explain to her. That wasn't going to stop her from conducting a search of her own. She stormed out of there and went back to the elevator.

"We're sorry about that professor." Regret said to the weary eyed man behind his desk.

"She's hardly the first temperamental huntress I've had to deal with. If anything I should be apologizing to you. May I ask why she thinks of him as a little brother, Mrs. Akita?" He seemed more curious at the phrase.

"Me, her, and Nightmare grew up in the same neighborhood. We weren't family physically but they thought of eachother as brother and sister. I wasn't around very often because our parents divorced and my mom seized custody over me while my dad had Snow." Luna explained what the whole thing that was about.

"Well.... I'll let you know if there are anymore developments. Please, take some time to reflect off this situation." Ozpin got out of chair and stared out the window and continued what he was saying. "I doubt I can stop you from going after him, but be warned, it could lead you to something you wouldn't want to see. You are dissmissed."

Luna and Regret went back to the elevator and didn't see Snow. She went back down to their dorm more furious than she had ever been in a long time. Anger turned into a deep sadness and she stuffed her face in her pillow crying her eyes out. Her brother went missing and for once she felt powerless to do anything. She got herself together and waited patiently for her other 2 teammates. Luna and Regret came back in to find her sitting against the wall on her bed with her legs against her chest, not saying a word. She spoke up as a concern for what would happen if they told Ruby.

"What do we tell Ruby? She and Nightmare are in a committed relationship."

"I don't know but we could use their help. Weiss is the heiress of one of the richest companies in the world which means she can pull some strings... I hope... Blake was once in the White Fang, and Yang has criminal underworld contacts. We could make this work for us." Regret explained. He wasn't wrong however. With team RWBY's help they could possibly find their missing teamate.