It was a bright and sunny day at Beacon academy when a young maiden woke up from her bunk and stretched
"Morning already? Man I fell like I just got to sleep" she yawned getting up and slicking back her platinum blonde hair out of her turquoise eyes, as she went to the bathroom, only to pause to look at her team. Her team's leader was snoring softly making her smile
'He's been through so much' she thought before turning to the team's mage who was sleeping silently, his black cat ears flicking as he breathed in and out, before turning to her last teammate who was a very laid back guy was muttering about apple pie.
'Hopefully your pain and suffering will be ended by us' she thought entering the bathroom and letting her light teal satin nightgown pool by her feet as she stepped into the shower.
An hour later the leader of the team woke up and jumped down from his bunk as he went to rouse his sleeping teammates.
"Yo! Obi, Neo wake up" the leader said ruffling his golden blonde hair before turning to the only girl on the team's bunk before hearing the shower running and delicate singing coming out of the bathroom
"Damn, she'll be in there for a while" the Faunus Obi, or as he was really named Oberon said as he cracked his knuckles and stretching like the cat his Faunus heritage was
"Morning man" the last team said as his light hair resembled a bird's nest
"Hey Neo" Oberon said "So Naruto what's up first?"
"I don't know, I need to ask Elsa alright?" Naruto asked entering the bathroom
"Wait he can just go in there?" Neo asked.
"They have been dating ever since Signal, but they've known each other for longer than that, before the dark event" Oberon said
"Dark event?" Neo asked
Naruto closed the bathroom door and saw Elsa in nothing but a towel brushing her hair, totally distracted by her hair
"Don't you know its rude to barge in on a lady when she's in the bathroom" Elsa asked seriously
"I couldn't wait to see you" Naruto said slinging his arms around her shoulders.
"You do realise I just got out of the shower right?" Elsa asked "So join the guys and I'll be out in about five minutes"
"Fine" Naruto said kissing her cheek "I can't believe it's been seven years already"
"I know, do you still?" Elsa asked going behind the curtain before grabbing her uniform
"Yeah I do" Naruto said leaving to give Elsa some privacy 'more than you ever know'
in the cafeteria the four friends saw that nearly all of the new students were dressed in their uniforms with various modifications, even Naruto's team had modified their uniforms somewhat, Naruto left his jacket open and had his sister's scarf tied around his bicep, Elsa had replace the normal bow like necktie with a normal tie, Neo didn't wear the blue vest with a maroon beanie covering his bird nest of hair and Oberon wore black armoured gloves with his uniform.
"So what's the food like?" Oberon asked
"Not bad" Elsa said
"The pancakes are quite good" Naruto said
"Sounds ideal man" Neo said
"Of course you loser would go for something like that"
"Morning...Sabine" Naruto groaned interacting with the voice behind him.
Sabine Sabre was the captain of Team SBRE, who were very skilled; however they let that skill go straight to their heads and began proclaiming themselves to be Beacon's top team. However the teachers had yet to decide who was the actual top team of this year; but several figured that Naruto would probably be the top student consider he was trained from a young age to fight in combat. Sabine had caramel brown hair that came down to teh bottom of her shoulder blades and stunning violet eyes, yet her beauty was only skin deep.
"Its a pretty you chose these loser Schnee, after all you could be a queen of the school" Sabine said
"I rather be a nobody then a bitch" Elsa said
"Okay guys chill it down" a voice said, they turned to see a redhead leaning against the wall
"Hey Charon" Naruto said smiling.
Charon Nikos was the brother of Pyrrha and was considered to look like a male version of his sister, and he was the leader of Team CHRT (chariot) this generation's version of team JNPR, with Naruto's team NEON being this generation's team RWBY. Charon also went to Signal with Elsa, Oberon and Naruto becoming good friends with teh trio.
"Come on, let's save the hostilities for the weaponry test this afternoon" Charon said
"Alright" Sabine walking off.
"Bitch" Oberon and Naruto muttered. "Now breakfast I've been craving some of Beacon's legendary pancakes for years now" Naruto gleefully said acting liek a moustache twirling villain. Naruto was now able to eat better foods, since he went back to the village he didn't exactly have a well balanced diet; he mostly ate Ramne until he went to Signal which he still didn't really have a good diet.
"Okay so an order of pancakes for Naruto" Elsa said kissing his cheek "Obi what do you want?"
"Something protein filled" the Faunus mage said
"And Neo what do you want?" Elsa asked
"Bagels, but why is the lady getting our breakfast?" Neo asked
"An old habit from Signal between the three of us" Naruto said
"Old habits do die hard, including you over indulging on Ramen" Oberon said
"Hey it was either Ramen all the time or I starve" Naruto said
"well here you can maintain a proper diet" Oberon said pulling out a small tome of Aura spells.
"Okay so we have Pancakes for Naruto, Smoked Salmon on toast for Oberon" 'Thank you' "Bagels for Neo and Blueberry Porridge for myself" Elsa smiled sitting down next to Naruto
"So lessons who's got what for today?" Neo asked
"We all have Grimm Studies and Combat training together and that will take us to lunch time; after lunch I have Semblance management and History" Oberon said
"I have History and Dust studies after lunch" Elsa said
"Oh man I've got Semblance management and the weaponry studies after lunch" Neo said
"What about you Naruto?" Elsa asked
"Most days I've got Leadership 101 and history; Oobleck's class, so the only one of us without history in our timetables is Neo, but he'll probably get in later in the year" Naruto said
"You said most days, why?" Oberon asked
"Because instead of History today I've got Ozpin on my timetable" Naruto frowned
"Why, I thought Leadership classes was after history with Goodwitch" Elsa said
"I have no idea, but whatever it is may be because of the lessons I had with him after I was rescued" Naruto sighed
"Come on, we need to eat up" Elsa said digging in to her breakfast.
"Huntsman, Huntresses you are guardians of this world from Demons, Monsters and Nightmares, they all can be described by these names but the Grimm are a real threat and it is our duty to defeat the darkness" Port started his speech
"At least he's changed it or so I heard" Naruto muttered as Port droned on about a tale from his youth, "And he still uses the same coma inducing stories" the ninja added. A while later Port stopped his story before sighing
"How many of you has heard of Beacon's Dark event?" he asked looking as about a dozen students raised their hands, among were Naruto, Elsa, Oberon and Charon, who was the only member of his team who did.
"I see, not many now if those of you who knows about the event wants to, you may leave" Port said looking at one student in particular: Naruto the only student to witness it firsthand having lost Yang to it. Deciding he didn't need to relive it so he left the room saddened
"So the event started off as a simple mission to retrieve a student, a Faunus mage by the name of Velvet Scarletina. However what we didn't realise was it was a massive trap set by an unknown enemy; we sent in a twelve man assault team led by a student by the name of Yang Xiao Long; they were surrounded by White Fang and thieves. Now this is the part where it went south, the unknown enemy we now dub Hex was a high tiered Aura user who used a Dome spell to kill the assault team. Why she did this is unknown, but what happened was the team died one by one shattered as they were engulfed in the light, only one person survived the event" Port explained
"Naruto" Elsa whispered
"Professor, I want to know what colour was this light?" Oberon asked
"From an eyewitness report it was amber" Port said making Oberon's interest increase
'That spell it shouldn't be but' Oberon thought as the bell rang
"That is all we have for today, now I suggest you use this break to changed out of your uniforms and into your combat gear from Goodwitch's combat classes" Port said.
"Awesome" Neo said.
After getting Naruto they went into their dorm room to change as Elsa got her combat gear and went into the bathroom locking to door
"So who's psyched?" Naruto smirked as he changed into a pair of black ninja pants, a white t-shirt covered by a black fur collared jacket with his red spiral insignia on the left bicep and Yang's scarf on his right bicep and closed toed ANBU styled boots
"You know it" Oberon said summoning a rune circle before stepping in to it exchanging his uniform with a black body suit before plates of gunmetal armour connected to his body, forearms and shins. Finally he pulled on a helmet which covered most of his head leaving only his eyes uncovered, it even had move for his ears.
"YEEHAH!" Neo said grabbing a grey hoodie and pulling it on over a grey muscle shirt. He exchanged his black trousers for a pair of faded black Cargo pants and old Steel capped boots.
"You know it" Elsa said walking out in a light teal tailcoat over top a black version of her sister's top and Combat pants, while she wore a black version of Weiss' boots.
"Now we need to get to the locker room and grab out weapons" Naruto said as he and his team raced out of their dorm rooms.
"Good day students, now as you know we will be testing your weapons in a group of three teams at a time, while they are being tested the other students may sit in teh gallery to watch" Goodwitch said "Now onto the format: we will be using a simulation to see what the weapon and semblances of each team is, after that we may engage in a triple combatant fight which will be four rounds for the highest ranking group" Goodwitch added "Now let's begin" The teams were sorted into groups, Teams NEON, CHRT and SBRE were all in the same group
'The top three teams in one grouping, should be interesting, just like RWBY JNPR and CRDL. I have the highest hopes for these teams. Especially Team NEON' Goodwithc though looking over the students, over time she'll begin to see the teams as small groups of siblings, but for now they were strangers.
"Group one GO!" she shouted.
"Group seven you're up" she shouted as Naruto's grpup walked over to the simulator and prepared their weapons for combat. Team NEON waked in first
"We'll be trying the Forever Fall arena for you guys, considering that one of your group has practically mapped out the Emerald Forest in his head" Goodwitch said
"I was bored that day" Naruto shrugged
"So you mentally mapped an entire forest?" Neo asked pulling out his weapon Reflector: a set of curved handblades that had a grip in the middle and the blade surrounded the grip like a fan when it was folded out.
"I agree that it is impressive, you must really have been bored" Oberon said summoning Shadow Oak: a wooden staff with a small orb of Mana Dust to help him with his Semblance.
"Just don't get cocky Naruto, remember this is skills test and demonstration. Nothing more Nothing less" Elsa said preparing Arendelle, a turquoise coloured Multi-action Dust Rapier Mk2, meaning it was 15 cm longer and half a centimetre wider than Myrtenaster, plus instead of the standard six dust barrels it instead has eight giving Elsa slots for green healing dust and silver dust which has an unknown ability.
"If you guys can't handle fact, I guess there is a lot you can't handle" Naruto said preparing his High Impact Shot Katana: Burning Leaf. The team stepped up to the plate
"Activate" Goodwitch ordered.
"Hopefully we are the ones who get to enter the battle" Oberon said.
Charon prepared his team for the Emerald Forest Arena; he looked looked over to Rhea and his partner Hera and Rhea's partner Tiberius. Charon had chosen to wear a black and silver Spartan chest plate, black combat trousers and boots with black and silver grieves and bracers. His weapons were silver, black and red versions of his sisters Milo and Akouo called Tartarus and Olympius, only Tartarus changed into a longer sword called a Spatha into of a Xiphos short sword and instead of four wave like etchings, Olympius had four lightning bolts.
"So who's ready?" Charon asked.
"We're ready" Rhea and Hera said being twins. Rhea wore a red toga like combat dress and had her long creamy brown hair in a plat, whiel Hera wore a Pink toga like combat dress and left her blonde hair down.
"Whenever you are" Tiberius said pulling out his Sniper Halberd Maximus.
"We just need to test out our abilities as Hunters" Charon said
"Got it: Hera said pulling out her twin gladius Sparta and Arkadia while Rhea grabbed her bow Uranus, Sparta could combine with Uranus becoming a Sword Crossbow called Zeus, which meant who ever wasn't using Zeus could use Arkadia to fight.
"Activate" Goodwitch said
"Alright Tiberius you and Rhea take left me and Hera will take right" Charon shouted
"Yes sir!" the team said.
"So what arena will she give us?" Sabine asked as she drew her Flintlock Sabre Arthurian, she was dressed in a blue dress with silver chest, shoulder and shin knight styled armour.
"I know hopefully we get the top ranking so we can bring down those punks team NEON" Bri Khopesh said flicking her dark red hair over her shoulder as she adjusted her leather styled armoured corset over her lavender suit, before checking her leather shin guards over her black pants. "Perfect" she said her Khopesh sword Osiris.
"However the leader of NEON has some advanced combat training even at a young age" Raye Odachi said as she smoothed out her red under dress before tightening one of the straps to her white samurai Dou chest armour before checking her forearm and shin guards before pulling out Orochi her Whip Odachi.
"I think that he is just a blonde idiot" Elizabeth rapier said as she drew her own Quad Dust Action Rapier Etoile, a lighter version with only four barrels and a 90 cm blade, she tucked a few strands of her princess blonde hair that was braided and wrapped around the back of her head, she wore silver chest and shoulder armour, brown boots and a light grey pleated skirt.
"Activate" Goodwitch said as SBRE charged into the ice arena.
"Let's see how this plays out" Ozpin said watching from his office, before glancing at the wall to see where the hands of the massive clock which acted as a window to his office was.
"This year may be interesting" he said gazing out the window as the second hand ticked past him as he slurped his coffee "But there are things that have me on edge concerning Naruto Uzumaki" the headmaster said to himself as he checked Naruto's stats "Mainly around it" he said as he sat back to watch the combat training.
"On your left!" Oberon shouted as he put up a barrier between him and an Ursa. Elsa stepped in and cleaved a massive wound into the Ursa.
"Naruto!" Elsa said leaping into the air before summoning her icy semblance to make a stage for her to land on
"Got it" Naruto said loading Burning leaf with burn dust buckshot "Yo Yogi, here!" Naruto shouted unloading the buckshot into the Ursa, "Neo"
"On it dude" Neo said as he eyes and veins started to glow neon blue "Freeze" Neo shouted blasting ice at one Ursa, before turning around and his eyes and veins became neon red before breathing fire, releasing smoke after he finished. "water" he rasped
"Got it" Oberon said passing a water bottle to the aura elemental
"Thanks" Neo said downing the bottle as the simulation ended.
"Good, we should get you the med room just in case" Naruto said.
"Impressive fight today Mr Uzumaki" Ozpin said as he heard the door to his office opened an dthe young Shinobi huntsman walked in and stood at attention
"Thank you sir" Naruto said being normal for a chance
"At ease, I prefer your goofiness over you seriousness any day Naruto, it helps the world be interesting" Ozpin laughed
"Thanks old man" Naruto said relaxing "So what did you want to see about, it can't be a resuming of the lessons we started seven years ago" Naruto said
"No, nothing like that I just wanted to make sure you were handling everything okay. From what I've heard it hasn't exactly been easy for you the past few years" Ozpin sighed
"You could say that Professor" Naruto said
"Naruto, you have faced many difficulties, but now you will face your greatest challenge yet. One might say the road to a hunter is the toughest challenge. But we both know that isn't the case, is it; so what do you think is the greatest challenge?" Ozpin asked
"The greatest challenge is oneself, or rather the darkness within one's self" Naruto answered
"Very good, now off you go" Ozpin said
"Yes sir, I'll see you next time sir" Naruto said closing the door.
"Minato you son is so much like you" Ozpin said as he looked out his clock window seeing a bright light in the Emerald Forest that contrasted with the now darkened sky which was pelting down rain.
"That site, it can't be" Ozpin gasped.