“Seriously? How much can you take?” Sun said.

“More than you can dish out,” Pink said.

“That was just the appetizer,” someone called from above. Sun recognized the voice, but he’d rarely heard her sound so confident. Defiant. He glanced up and saw rabbit ears silhouetted against the bright, broken moon.

Velvet Scarlatina leaped down from a low rooftop and landed lightly next to Sun.

“Just wait until dessert!” Yatsuhashi Daichi rushed out of the shadows and sent Brown flying into a wall. A spray of sand settled over the baddies. Of course the big guy was there; wherever Velvet was, Yatsuhashi was close behind.

“Hey, Sun,” Velvet said.

Sun smiled. “Nice entrance. Did you two rehearse that?” He couldn’t remember the last time he’d heard Yatsuhashi say so many words at once.

“Later,” Yatsuhashi grunted.

That was more like it.

- RWBY: Before the Dawn, Prologue