Chapter 1: A New Fight
Ruby Rose sat by her dorm window, viewing the dozens of students pass by the fountain. She's been doing this kind of thing for quite some time, looking for a new challenge in Beacon. Sure, being in a team is fun and all, but new people signify new challenges. She has already done this with the other teams and now she is somewhat bored that she has challenged everyone in Beacon and is hoping for someone new to come. Silently, she waits; not before something breaks the silence.
"Sis!" a voice from behind called. Ruby turns around to see her sister, Yang Xiao Long, waving from outside their dorm room.
"What is it?" she asked, feeling disturbed and annoyed.
"I know you're gonna love this!" she said, taking a seat next to her sister, "I just heard that a trio of new students are coming all the way from Sphere Academy. I also heard that they have some pretty wicked weapons. Your favorite!"
Ruby gave a smile, a tearful smile, "Yang," she said "I know you're trying to cheer me up. But, there's a reason why I'm doing this. I'm sure you remember?"
"Oh..." Yang said, sadden, knew what her sister meant, "Well, I'm sure mom would be proud of your efforts."
"Yeah..." Ruby said, softly, shedding a tear.
Yang seemed concerned as always. Ever since their mom went missing and haven't heard a word from her since, Ruby hasn't been the same; turning Crescent Rose into a HCSS rather than just a scythe as their uncle, Qrow, recommended, forged a hate for the Creatures of Grimm and the worse part, Ruby would never open up to her. Now this whole challenge thing has taken Ruby to the limit and she still wouldn't tell Yang why she did this. All of this was an embodiment of the fact their mom is missing. But, that was what Yang was thinking, but what Ruby knows could be far worse that what she knew. Yang decided to help out her sister by looking out the window. Then, she noticed someone.
"Oh, my god!" she exclaimed, as she rushed towards the door.
"What is it?" Ruby asked.
"They're here!" she said, the excitement in her voice was hardly unnoticeable. She then rushes away to the main door, leaving Ruby to follow her jumpy older sister. She sighs, trying to imagine what is to come.
Down below, three well armored students approached the school doors. Worried was written on their face at the sight of Beacon.
"Think we can survive this?" asked the boy with spiky hair wearing a blazer. He carried a rifle on his back and he bore a scar on his right cheek.
"I have no idea." said the boy with shaved hair, carrying a minigun on his back. He wore ninja attire that he fitted with shoulder guards and knee and elbow caps.
"Stop your whining, guys." Said the boy in hunting armor, bearing a shield with a cross emblem on it. His hair was brushed forward and wore a cape as well, bearing the same symbol on his shield, "You think we got moved ahead a year just to get here to Beacon?"
"No." Both of them answered.
"Then," said the boy carrying the shield, "we, Team SMG; Stephen, Marco and Gavin, will be one of the greatest teams here in Beacon!"
"Don't forget," the spiky haired boy told him, "we still have to pass Ozpin's initiation test for the new students plus, we're still unofficial."
"Right..." the boy with the shield answered. He then turned over to his shaved partner.
"Marco!" the shield-wielder said, "Grab the letter Ozpin sent us."
Marco opened their suitcase, which caused all of their stuff to burst out of the suitcase. Marco gave them a smile of embarrassment while his two teammates looked at him with such annoyance. Marco digs through and finds the letter and tosses it to Stephen.
"Hmmm..." Stephen said as he read the letter. "Okay," he said, "according to Ozpin, our initiation will begin tomorrow in the Emerald Forest, we must first report to Prof. Goodwitch a day before the initiation, and look for team RWBY?"
"Who's team RWBY?" Gavin asked.
Before Stephen can respond, someone crashed into him. It sounded like a girl but couldn't tell just before he/she crashed into him.
"Stephen!" Gavin said, pulling the person away from him.
"Stephen...?"Marco said, looking at his dizzy teammate.
"Oh, my god!" Yang said, "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it! Please don't be mad."
"Nice going, Yang." Blake said, coming in from behind.
"It was an accident, but I'm just so excited that they're here." Yang told Blake.
"Well," Weiss said, "I think you should've been more mature in your approach."
"C'mon Weiss," Ruby said, "Yang was only trying to be friendly."
"Ruby's got a point," Blake told Weiss, "I mean you know how she was when she heard about them yesterday."
"Excuse me," Stephen said, trying to get on his feet, "but how do you know us? And who are you girls anyway?"
"We're team RWBY." Ruby said.
"Wait, wait, wait!"Gavin said, "You're team RWBY?!"
"Forgive me," Marco said, "but you guys hardly look the part, especially you." pointing to Weiss. Weiss just glared at him.
"Well," Ruby said, "allow us to introduce ourselves first. I'm Ruby, the leader. The girl in white is Weiss, the heiress. The girl in the bow is Blake, the sort of silent type and the girl in yellow is my sister, Yang, the sort of sassy one." Yang and Blake rolled their eyes in criticism to Ruby's introductions.
"Nice to meet you guys." Stephen told them, "Anyways, we're team SMG, though we're still kind of unofficial. I'm Stephen Constantine, the dude in spiky hair is Gavin Lionheart and the shaved dude is Marco Churchill. We got moved up ahead a year 'cause we showed too much potential back in Sphere. Right, guys?" They nodded, confirming Stephen's words.
"Hey there." Ruby greeted them. She then took a look at Stephen's shield. She stared at them wide-eyed and awed at the sight of it.
"Is that a Gun-Shield?!" Ruby asked with pure excitement in her voice.
"Yeah." Stephen said, holding up the shield, "I made out of fragments from old shields and built the gun myself."
"I can see you're obsessed with weapons." Gavin said. "
"Pfft!" she spatted out, "Obsessed is hardly the term."
"My baby sister is obsessed alright." Yang said, rubbing her sister's hair.
"Am not!" she said, criticizing her sister's words.
"Yes, you are." Yang retorted.
"Am not!" Ruby said again
"Yes, you are." Yang said
"Am not!"
"Yes you are!"
Before they knew it, they began rough housing each other.
"Ruby! Yang!" Weiss said, trying to separate them, "You two are not making a good first impression!"
Blake sighs, not bearing to watch the two sisters squabble. She opens her book and starts reading, showing zero interest on what's going on. As Gavin and Marco awkwardly watched the two sisters brawl, Stephen took this opportunity to break the ice with Blake.
"Nice book." Stephen said.
"Umm... Thanks." Blake said, still reading.
"I think I've read that before." Stephen said, "It's about two lovers separated from their family members, right?"
"Yeah..." Blake responded, looking up from her book, "How do you know that?"
"It may have been awhile," Stephen said, "but I used to read books a lot, like that one."
Blake smiled, knowing that someone here in Beacon shares has the same love for literature as she does. Ruby and Yang stop fighting, trying to see where this was going. Suddenly, the bell rings.
"Bro," Gavin said, outing his hand on Stephen's shoulder, "it's time."
"Right." he said, "We must prepare for tomorrow. Now, Ozpin told us that someone will spar with us to help train us for tomorrow. Marco, who is it?" Marco looked at the letter, trying to find out what Ozpin wrote them.
"Okay." Marco said, putting down the letter.
"Well," Stephen asked, "who is it?"
"Them." Marco said, pointing to the girls.
"Oh, now I remember!" Ruby said, "Yesterday, Ozpin told us that we would be training the new team for their initiation."
"Sounds like a plan." Yang said.
"When you guys are ready, meet us at the Challenge Dome." Ruby said, "See you guys later."
Team RWBY leaves, leaving team SMG to huddle up and discuss their strategy.
"Sis," Yang said, putting her arm on her sister's shoulder, "you're goanna get what you get what you wanted, a new challenge."
"Yeah, sis." Ruby said, as they walked away.
"We're here!" Stephen said as they entered the seemingly empty Challenge Dome.
"Alright," Marco said, readying his weapon, "we know you're here. Now, show yourselves!"
Marco's voice then started to echo around the arena, triggering a flurry of whispers coming from the top of the arena.
"Very funny, girls!" Gavin said, looking around the dark arena.
Suddenly, a blast of fire comes out of the darkness, striking the arena torches and illuminating the arena.
"Whoa!" Stephen said surprised by what happened.
"So glad you guys can make it." Ruby said, coming into view, holding her "sweetheart" Crescent Rose behind her back. Weiss, Blake and Yang appeared into view, next to Ruby with their weapons ready.
"Ready?" they asked. The three nodded at each other, signifying that they're ready. The girls come charging at them as Team SMG prepare their weapons.
"Guys!" Stephen called, "Ursa strategy! Now!"
The three split up, with Stephen entering the darkness. Marco turns his katana, Edge Shadow, into its minigun form and starts firing at Weiss. She guards using a glyph shield, protecting her teammates behind her. Gavin, on the other hand, turns his rifle, Bakunawa, into trident form and throws it at Ruby. She parries the oncoming attack and Bakunawa ends up on the floor. Seizing this, Gavin activates his semblance and Bakunawa starts to arise and attack Ruby again. Ruby parries, but Gavin continues to use his semblance at her, tiring her out. Blake then interferes by firing Gambol Shroud at Gavin. Stephen then comes into the fray and blocks Blake's attack. Taking this opportunity, Yang goes in from the side, where Stephen isn't blocking and also where Gavin is exposed. She prepares to fire Ember Celica, but she is blocked by...Stephen! She looks to see that Stephen is still guarding Gavin. Stephen then points over to the other Stephen, showing that it dispersed as Gavin reclaims Bakunawa and returns it into rifle mode. Yang is surprised, but she figures out what happened.
"Semblance?" she asked.
Stephen nods, pulls out his mace, Crusher and strikes Yang with it, but she dodges the oncoming strike. Marco's weapon then runs out of ammo and is forced to reload. As he pulls out an ammo belt from his back, Weiss deactivates her glyph shield and charges towards Marco. Before she could strike, Marco suddenly disappears, confusing Weiss. Marco then returns to view, striking Weiss with Edge Shadow now in its katana form. She blocks and evades the second strike and unleashes a bolt of lightning at Marco. Marco disappears again and tries to flank Weiss from behind. She senses his presence and shoots a blast of fire from Myrtenaster. Marco creates an ice shield using Edge Shadow's Dust abilities. Copy cat, Weiss thought to herself.
Meanwhile, Stephen fires using his gun-shield, Vorpal, at Yang, but she dodges the oncoming bullets as she lands next to her sister, who is still assisting Blake against Gavin.
"I thought this was sparring!" Yang said, firing at Stephen.
"That's what I thought too, sis." Ruby said.
Stephen then activates Crusher's spikes, which launch themselves from the mace and penetrating the ground in several places around the arena. "Heads up!" Stephen yelled, as he shoots the ground using Vorpal, launching him upward to a balcony. Marco then jumps as high as he can and stabs Edge Shadow on the ceiling. Gavin throws Bakunawa on the ceiling then pulls himself there using his semblance. Stephen points Crusher downward, revealing a button on the hilt.
"Sorry, girls..." Stephen said as he pressed the button. Suddenly, Crusher's spikes start emitting electrical waves, electrocuting the arena floor and the girls. "What the hell?!" Weiss said as she tried to withstand the pain of the electrical currents. Blake fire Gambol Shroud to another empty balcony and pulls herself there. Ruby and Yang fire their weapons on the ground, launching them to the balcony. Weiss jumps and creates several glyph platforms leading to the balcony.
"Okay, guys!" Ruby yelled to the other balcony where Stephen is, "We give!"
"I knew it." Gavin said, hanging from the ceiling.
"Call off the spikes, Stephen." Marco said, also hanging from the ceiling.
Stephen pushes the button at the bottom and the spikes stop emitting electricity and with the push of another button on the hilt, the spikes return to Crusher's sphere, recreating the mace. The girls drop down back to the floor as well as the guys, unequipping their weapons.
"Sorry about that, girls..." Stephen said, scratching the back of his head.
"Sorry?!" Weiss yelled, switching to her bitchy attitude, "You three nearly killed us with your tactics and then shock us with electricity, which almost killed us, and you guys expect an apology?!"
"Weiss," Yang said, putting her hand on her shoulder, "calm down."
Ruby then walks towards the three with a very firm look. As they prepare for the biggest slap of their lives, SMG closes their eyes in anticipation. But, unexpectedly, Ruby hugs them. The three boys look at each other in confusion, wondering why they weren't slapped.
"Umm..." Gavin said as Ruby let go of them.
"That. Was. Awesome!" Ruby said, enthusiastically.
"What?" Weiss said, surprised.
"Think about it," Ruby explained, "we faced an opponent we couldn't defeat and even though we lost, we still cooperated as a team and tried our best to beat them. Remember, Ozpin told us to spar with them to see if their teamwork and skills are ready and with what just happened earlier, I say that they're ready."
"Well said, Ms. Rose." A voice from behind said. They turn to see Headmaster Ozpin and Professor Glynda Goodwitch who were watching the battle on a scroll.
"All of you guys displayed remarkable skill in the field, as well as great teamwork." Ozpin commented, "It doesn't matter who won or who lost, what matters is what you displayed in the field and what you do in order to take down the enemy. For that, I am proud of both of you." Glynda then turned to Team SMG.
"Your initiation will begin at ten o'clock sharp." she said, "Get some rest, eat, sleep, chat and practice so that by tomorrow, you'll be ready."
She then handed them a note on where their dorm room is along with their locker numbers. Ozpin and Glynda depart as the two teams high-five each other, signifying that the bond between RWBY and SMG has been formed and it will last. They return to their dorms, ready for a long rest and what is to come tomorrow.
End of Chapter 1
Chapter 2, soon to come! :)
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY. I just made the fan fic.