His eyes fluttered open and the world seemed blurred and disoriented. His body slowly jerked up as he started to take in his surroundings. He was sitting next to a tree, a tall one to add as the rest of them that he could see with some shrubbery here and there. He arose to his feet only to fall back down due to being unbalanced. He tried once more and leaned against the tree to support him. After awhile, he stood upright and walked forward. His movements showed to be sluggish and slightly unwilling even so, he continued forwarded.
~X~
How long has it been since he woke up? Who knows, because he certainly didn't know. He was really weary but now was not the time,for it, because it was,not what he needed, although he didn't know what he needed. He quickly fell forward into a small pond of water. He lifted himself up and looked upon the pond with a small smile with a single thought going through his head.
'It feels really cool.' Without a second thought, he lowered himself and started to drink the water vigorously as if it about to vanish. After he had his fill, he looked at the ripples of the water until they calmed and saw his reflection. His light yet dull eyes against the bright water, the three scar like marks across both of his cheeks, and his vibrant yellow hair that stood out, all on a tan yet pale face that looked void of emotion. He had no second thought of what he looked like and stood up immediately with more energy than he had before. He immediately bolted from his spot and took to the trees, jumping branch to branch.
~X~
He started to hear voices close to him as he started to slow down. He went to them as carefully as he could and looked down to the small group of people talking and preparing themselves for something to come. He jumped down and was about to call out to them when one of the them shot out at a high speed. She then pulled out an object which then turned to scythe and pulled it back, ready to strike. He looked ahead at what she was going to hit and saw a creature that he had never seen before.
"What the hell is that thing!?"
One yell was all it took to distract the whole group of people. The running girl turned her head towards the shout, taking her eyes off the enemy. In an instance, she lost her balance falling on her left side. The creature thrusted its pincers to the girl, piercing her right side, having blood squirting out leaving a deep wound. Silence had fallen upon the group, all not believing what they just had witness. But the silence did not last for long as one of them rushed out, charging at the creature.
"RUBY!"
Her hair was burning with an intense heat, she cocked and shot her arm with a powerful attack coming her gauntlets. She let attack after attack upon the creature, she first destroyed the pincer that harmed the girl and went to do the same for the other one. She then proceeded to rip off each of its legs. The creature tried to fight back, but each attack kept weakening it more and more. The girl stood in front of it and ripped its eye out and crushed it in her hand. Once she knew that the creature was dead, she rushed over to where Ruby was laying, holding her wound to keep from blood gushing out. The group of people ran over where the two girls were with worried looks on their faces.
"How is she holding up Yang?" The girl with a bow asked.
"I..." She paused, unsure or what to say as tears started to come out. "I know that Ruby will make it through this. Come Ruby, stay strong!"
The group looked on, trying to say something but none knew what to say. The bit of silence was broken when they heard footsteps approaching them. They all saw it was the person that yelled out earlier and Yang got furious when she saw him.
"This is all your fault!" She yelled as she shot up. "If it wasn't for your yelling, Ruby would be fine!"
"Hey, it's not lik-"
"Shut up! You don't get to try to explain yourself!" She was about to charge at him if not the girls holding her back. Yang looked to her right and left to see who was stopping her from beating the man to a bloody pulp.
"Blake! Pyrrha! Let go of me!"
"Yang, you need to calm down! You're not helping the situation by acting up! You're gonna start to attract Grimm here!" Blake told her. Loud growls and howls were soon heard in the distance and it was closing in fast. Shrieks were heard from above and the group saw lots of them in the sky.
"That's a lot of Nevermores!" One of them said, holding a sword in his right hand and a shield in the other.
The Nevermores started to circle around to put a bit of distance between them and to prepare for an attack.
"This is insane! We're not ready to fight something of this level!"
"Now is really not the time to point something like that out Weiss!" Blake shouted.
"Nora, Ren, Weiss, we have to protect Ruby. Form a defense line in front of her!"
"You got it Jaune!" Nora told him while Ren gave him a nod and Weiss, well she wasn't too happy about taking orders from less skilled than her, but for right now she would overlook it. They were several feet in front of Ruby, ready to protect her from the Nevermores. Suddenly more Grimm burst through the thicket of trees, ready to kill them.
It looked even more hopeless for them, to see so many Grimm in a small, their chances of living, very slim to nonexistent. They steeled themselves ready to face the onslaught until explosions were heard and big number of the Grimm were taken out. There stood in front of them a few people, two of which they knew.
The man that stood in the middle with light grey hair and a cane in hand was known as Professor Ozpin. Standing next to him with light yellow and a riding crop in her right arm is Glynda Goodwitch. Standing to his left is someone that they have never seen before.
"Glynda, take Ruby to the infirmary and get everyone back to Beacon... including him." Ozpin said with a serious tone. Glynda simply nodded and ushered everyone out of the combat zone.
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Beacon Academy Infirmary
~X~
"How is she doing?"
"Her condition is well, she no longer in actually danger. She didn't lose too much blood and she just fainted from shock, and there won't be any permanent damage to her."
"Who supplied her with blood?" Ozpin asked.
"You'd think it would be her sister but it wasn't. It was the boy you asked to be brought along that gave blood."
"Did you run a scan to find out who he was or where he's from?"
"I did and it really concerns me that he doesn't show up in any of the records. Officially, he doesn't even exist. I figured that you would want to have a word with the,boy, so I told him to wait in the doctor's office." Glynda told him with a slightly irritated tone.
"You know me very well Glynda and I thank you for that." He said with a smile. Both of them started to make way to the doctor's office which was not far away. They both entered inside the office and Ozpin decided to stand in front of the boy, while Glynda was off to the side merely to watch how this conversation would unfold.
"Do you realize how much trouble you have cause today young man?"
"I didn't cause that trouble 'sir'. What happened out there was not my doing."
"Of course you didn't do it intentionally, but that mess happened because of your actions and it could have cost someone's life."
"I do apologize for that, but those 'things wouldn't have shown up if that one girl was not blinded by rage."
"You call them 'things'. Why do you refer to them as that?"
"Because I've never seen anything like that in my life. I did travel around the world and I would definitely would have remembered seeing something like that."
"You've peaked my interest with what you said. I will ask that you stay here and we could talk more." Ozpin stated.
"And what happens if I refuse?"
"You'll be arrested and put under heavy watch and will not be let out for a very long time."
"Not much of a choice now is it. Alright, I'll stay here and humor you for a little while. Now, where will I be situated?"
"I'll have something ready for you later on. Now, I would like to know your name. Would you tell me?"
"My name is kinda dead, no meaning and no value."
"Even so, share it with us."
"You're not gonna let this go. Fine, if you really want to know, my is Naruto Uzumaki."
"Thank you." With that being said, Ozpin turned and walked towards the door. In the doorway, he stopped and slightly looked over his shoulder with a small smile, "Enjoy your stay at Beacon."
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I'll end that here and save some things between Glynda and Naruto for the next chapter. Favorite and follow and leave some nice reviews to let me know your thoughts on this.
