Outsider Chronicles: A Wizard at Beacon
Waking up in the body of a baby is rather disconcerting. Finding out I've been reborn in a world of monsters and Darkness is worse. Still, at least I've got some cool powers out of the bargain!
And here we go with another RWBY idea, this time a True OC story...sort of. At least, hes not Jaune this time. Unfortunately, to keep from having to create three new characters or add a fifth member to a Team (which I really don't like), someones gonna get the axe from Beacon. Unfortunately, that someone is going to be Jaune, although he WILL make an appearance at some point. Oh, and before I forget, yes, this story was basically so I can play around with the magic system from In Another World With My Smartphone. If you haven't seen it yet, WATCH IT NOW! Or read the Light Novels. Their next on my list after I finish Overlord. For now though, enjoy!
Chapter 1
Well, I can safely say that someone is pissed at me. Why? Well, I'd just died from having a shelf of kitchen equipment fall on me at work and now I find myself waking up in the body of a baby with a giant in a surgical mask leaning over me. Needless to say, that scared the crap out of me.
After that pant wetting introduction to my new life, I quickly made a few interesting discoveries. First of, I had been reborn into the world of Remnant. You know, the world where everyone has colour's in their name, weapons can change shape and the entire world is infested with Monsters? Yeah, that one. In other news, I was apparently now the son of Glynda Goodwitch and an unknown man, although considering my hair is black, my money's on Ironwood. Plus, my name was James, so that was another nod towards him being my pa.
Anyway, moving on. Growing up was oddly normal, all things considered. Mum was strict, but a very good teacher in the art of combat and the use of Dust in combat. Much to my surprise, she didn't actually forbid me from becoming a Huntsman, instead deciding to train me whenever she could and activated my Aura at a very early age. That led to two reveals about me. First of all, I had an obscene amount of Aura and second, my Semblance was incredibly unique. It was, in a word, Magic. By using various Dust crystals as foci, I could summon and control the Elements like no one else could using just my Aura. Hell, I didn't even use up the Crystals, unless I cast a really massive spell with one. I could also use my Semblance to use various supplementary abilities without Dust as a focus, including creating passable copies of other people's Semblances, but as a general rule, mine weren't as strong.
To complement my Semblance, I created two primary weapons. The first was a pair of bracers containing a red, orange, green, blue, yellow and white crystal, which allowed me to use Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, Light and my copied Semblance type skills respectively. Well, actually White Dust was a generic energy used in normal bullets, but it served as a decent catalyst for my copied abilities, or Null as I usually refered to it as. Mainly because it was nearly identical to the Magic system from an Anime called In Another World With My Smartphone. Actually, it was pretty much identical and I was pretty sure that if I got my hands on some Darkness Dust (the rarest and most expensive in existence) then I'd be able to perform Summon spells. Hell, I'd even done a bit of experimentation and found that I could actually use a few of the Null spells shown in the Anime.
Anyway, my second weapon was a revolver that could turn into a sword and acted as my main weapon when my Magic was unavailable. Actually, I used my Semblance to make it and it was nearly identical to Touya's Brunhilda, only mine was white and called Sheer Trigger. However, that was a secondary weapon for if my magic ever failed me or I couldn't use it for whatever reason.
In addition to being trained by Mum, I also attended a combat school located in Vale where I was naturally the top of the class, much to the ire of some of my classmates. Still, between my incredible skill with my Semblance and my not inconsiderable talent with a blade and gun, I had more than earned my spot as top student in my graduating year, just like my Mother. Considering how good I was, getting into Beacon was a synch, not that that stopped the mutters that my Mum helped me get in. Fat chance of that. In fact, if I know her, she probably marked me even more strictly than my future classmates. She expected only the best from me after all and I was only to happy to meet and break those expectations.
Anyway, eventually the first day of school rolled around and saw me making my way through Vale to the Bullhead port. Despite the fact that my Mother typically lived at Beacon, I instead lived at an apartment she owned in the City proper, with Mum coming home at the weekends and holidays. Still, we spoke often over Scrolls and were fairly close, although I couldn't expect any preferential treatment once school started. That was fine though. I was training to be a warrior after all, even if I was technically a Mage.
I reached the Port in plenty of time and boarded the Bullhead, pausing to allow some girls to get on first. What? With a mother like mine, you really think I'd not be instilled with some measure of chivalry? The Bullhead wasn't full yet, so there were plenty of seats to chose from. I sat down in one and planted my backpack between my legs and pulling out my Scroll, opening my Ignite app (basically Remnants Kindle from the online shopping company, Derwent). I sat quietly, reading my latest book, the Remnant version of the Dresden Files. It was functionally identical to the one from my old world with only a few names changed and taking place in Atlus instead of Chicago. I glanced up when Torchwick was mentioned, but I ignored the announcement from Mum in favor of my book. I'd heard it before after all.
Eventually, the Bullhead arrived and I stood, slipping my Scroll into my bag as I left the flying machine. As I did, I caught the tail end of the argument between Ruby, Blake and Weiss and watched as the former flopped down onto her back.
"Hnn, guess I should meet the Heroine," I muttered as I walked to the girl.
As I approached, she opened her eyes.
"Hey there, need a hand?" I asked, offering my hand, "I'm James."
"Ruby," said Ruby, taking my offered limb and letting me pull her to her feet.
"Are you OK?" I asked, "I caught the tail end of that argument. It looked pretty rough."
Ruby looked sheepish.
"Um, I kinda knocked over some girls luggage and she started yelling at me," she said, "Then some stuff happened and I sneezed and exploded then that nice girl came to help and told the crabby girl off and…"
"Yeahhh, I noticed that explosion," I said, cutting of Ruby's babbling, "To be fair, she was more at fault than you, waving that Dust Vile around so much."
"I know, right?" said Ruby, looking relieved.
We slipped into silence for a few seconds as we walked.
"Sooo, I got this thing," said Ruby, pulling out Crescent Rose and slamming it into the ground.
She also almost cut off my toes, but I didn't do more than flinch.
"Ohh, now thats cool," I said, "A mechashift scythe/sniper rifle. I bet this thing could do some serious damage to Grimm."
I looked up and nearly took a step back when I saw that Ruby was staring at me with massive, shining eyes.
"Y-you know what it is!" she said.
"Yeah, I had to do some research when I was making this," I said, drawing Sheer Trigger from under my long, white coat, "Its not actually Mechashift since it uses my Semblance to function, but I still had to know how it worked."
"What do you mean?" asked Ruby.
"My Semblance is pretty useful in how I can use it," I said, "It allows me to do various things with Dust and my Aura, including reshaping and transforming matter. Using that ability, I can do this. Blade Mode."
Sheer Trigger glowed and changed shape, transforming from a normal revolver with a short blade underneath the barrel to a longsword with a revolver built into the hilt.
"Whoaaaa, thats so cool!" said Ruby, her eyes wide and gleaming, "I bet that Semblance is really useful!"
I smiled and switched my weapon back to Gun form so I could put it away.
"You have no idea," I said, "I'm sure you'll get to see some of what I can do in the future when I really cut loose. For now though, we should get to the Main Hall."
"You know where it is?" asked Ruby as she followed me.
"I practically grew up here," I said, "My Mums on the staff, so when I was a kid, I spent a lot of time here. These days I mostly live in the city for school, but I still know my way around."
It didn't take us long to get to the Hall where we were supposed to meet for the opening ceremony.
"Hey Ruby, over here!" called Yang from the crowd, "I saved you a spot!"
"Oh, come and meet my sister," said Ruby, grabbing my arm and dragging me over to where Yang was waiting.
"Hey Ruby, glad to see you're OK," said Yang, eyeing me curiously, "I see you made a new friend."
Ruby blinked and looked mildly surprised by that.
"Um, yeah, I guess I did," she said.
I raised an eyebrow.
"Is it really that surprising?" I asked.
"Don't mind here, shes not very good at making friends," said Yang, eyeing me up and down with a gleam of appreciation in her eye, "I'm Yang Xiao Long handsome."
I blinked. Well, that was a tad unexpected. I mean, I'm not exactly bad looking, but I wasn't expecting Yang to start drooling over me right off the bat.
"James Goodwitch, nice to meet you," I said.
"Goodwitch? You mean like the teacher?" asked Yang.
I nodded.
"Yep, shes my Mother," I said.
The two sisters stared at me.
"What?"
"You didn't tell me your mother was the deputy head!" said Ruby.
I shrugged.
"Not like it really means anything," I said, "Believe me, just because shes my mother, she will NOT pull her punches."
The two girls glanced at the sivear looking woman on stage and nodded.
"Yeah, I guess I know what you mean," said Yang, "That aside Ruby, I told you you could make friends if you just put your mind to it."
"Yeah, but only after you ditched me and I exploded!" snapped Ruby.
"Yeesh, meltdown already, huh?" asked Yang.
"No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school!" protested Ruby, "And there was some fire and I think some ice and…"
"Are you being sarcastic?" asked Yang, now looking totally confused as I stood back on my heels to watch the show.
It was even funnier in person.
"I wish! I tripped over some crabby girls luggage and she started yelling at me and then I sneezed and then I exploded and then she yelled at me again and I felt really bad and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"
While this was going on, I was having real trouble keeping from laughing as I watched Weiss slowly approaching Ruby from behind. Apparently the white themed girl hadn't noticed her future leader yet, but that quickly changed as she noticed Ruby's red hood.
"YOU!" she shouted, making Ruby jump into Yangs arms.
"Oh no its happening again!" she howled.
"You were lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!" snapped Weiss.
"Oh my god, you really exploded," said Yang.
It was at that point that I lost all self control and burst out laughing, drawing the attention of the R,W and Y of RWBY. Yang looked like she was trying to keep from laughing as well, Ruby looked a little betrayed and Weiss...Weiss was trying to burn a hole in my skull.
"And just what is so funny?" she demanded.
"S-sorry, I just can't help it!" I said, "This argument sounds like something out of a cartoon!"
I burst out laughing again, this time with Yang joining me.
"Yang!" wined Ruby.
"S-sorry Rubes, but hes right," said Yang.
"D-don't mind us Ladies, you just keep on chatting," I said as I struggled to get my hysterics under control.
Fortunately, Ozpin chose that moment to step up on stage and give his speech, after which we were shepherded out to the Great Hall, after dropping off our gear in our lockers of course. I quickly changed into my sleepware in the gents, a pair of black pajama bottoms and a white vest, and headed back into the Hall where I headed over to where I'd claimed a spot in the corner and pulled out a book. I didn't start reading though, instead using it as a cover for watching my future classmates. I could already see several important people, such as Ren and Nora preparing for bed (Ren doing so calmly and quietly while Nora bobbled and bounced around with excess energy), Pyrrha sat quietly in another corner meditating and Cardin and his goons messing around and acting like pricks towards the Faunus in the room.
"Assholes," I muttered as I adjusted my bracers, "Lets see if we can do something about them for now. Come forth Wind, send my foes to Morpheus, veternum venti."
The green crystal on my bracer glowed and a faint pink mist emerged from my hand, wafting across the room and causing anyone it touched to fall asleep. Eventually, it reached Cardin and his friends and they all immediately collapsed as the spell did its work.
I smirked as I turned away from the morons who would likely end up as my punching bags at some point in favor of a commotion going on on the other side of the room. I smirked slightly when I saw it was the fight between the future Team RWBY. Said smirk was interrupted by a yawn and I decided to call it a night.
And done. So, what do you think? As I said up top, I won't be adding James to a team as a fifth member or creating an entire team around him, although to be fair, I could probably just you Touya's friends and no one would notice.
For those interested, I will be including a description of James in the next chapter, but his outfit is identical to Touya's, mainly because it looks really damn cool, with the addition of his bracers of course.
Despite what it might appear, hes not actually as OP as he first appears. True, he is very powerful, but his main strength is fighting at a range. While he is capable of defending himself up close, a skilled fighter who focus on CQC would flatten him in no time. Plus, his attacks require him to be able to speak to activate.
For those interested, Veternum Venti means sleepy wind.
I hope I did a good job explaining James and Glynda's relationship. We'll see some interaction between them soon enough, but I think I managed to pull off how Glynda would actually act as a Mother. Speaking of which, I wonder who his Father really is? And no, its not Ozpin.
And done. Don't forget to leave a review on your way out!