Team JSON
Chapter 1:
Ruby Rose and Jason Gladius
Legends stories scattered through time. Mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains, forgetting so easily that we are remnants, byproducts, of a forgotten past. Man, born from dust, was strong, wise, and resourceful. But he was born into an unforgiving world. An inevitable darkness, creatures of destruction. The creatures of Grimm set their sights on man and all of his creations. These forces clashed and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void. However, even the smallest spark of hope is enough to ignite change and in time, man's passion, resourcefulness and ingenuity led them to the tools that would help even the odds. This power was appropriately named, "Dust". Nature's wrath in hand, man lit their way through the darkness and in the shadows absence, came strength, civilization and most importantly, life. But even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone… darkness will return. So you may prepare your guardians… build your monuments to a so-called free world but take heed… there will be no victory in strength.
A man in a bowler hat and a white coat with a cane walks down an alleyway with a pack of darkly dressed men. They walk past people who gasp in shock and fear, toward a Dust shop named From Dust till Dawn. They enter and approach the shop owner.
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Dust shop open this late?" says the bowler hat man as one of his henchman points a gun at the owner.
"P-please! Just take my Lien and leave!" pleads the owner.
"Shhh, calm down, we're not here for your money." says the white coated man. "Grab the Dust" he says to his goons.
His henchmen spread out to collect dust powder into Dust canisters as one goon opens a box in front of the shop owner and says "Crystal. Burn. Uncut." as the owner reaches for a crystal to give it to the man.
One of the henchman sees a girl in a read hood by the magazine section reading with her hood up. He growls and walks over to her not noticing the hooded camo jacketed boy behind him
But perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten things that require a smaller more honest soul.
"Alright kid, put your hands where I can see 'em." the henchman commands. The girl ignores him and is still reading the magazine. "Hey I said hands in the air! You got a death wish or something!?" he said has he pulled of the girls hood revealing her wearing head phones. The girl wore a black dress that ends in a skirt. she wears black leggings. she has hair that slowly changes to red as it reaches the edge of her hair. She has a rose red hood with silver colored eyes. He gestures to the girl to take off the headphones.
She removes them then asks "Yes?"
"I said, put your hands in the air, now!" he exclaims clearly impatient.
Then the hooded boy walk up and places a hand on his shoulder. "Are you robbing her?" the boy asks. "Yes!" the henchman yells impatiently.
"Oh." Says the boy and the girl
*Hyah* the goon is launched across the room the man in the bowler hat gestures for two more goons to get the kids, but both end up being tackled out the window as the rest of the goons and the man looks out the shattered window a girl in red and the boy, who has now lowered his hood looks up to show of his black spikey hair and golden eyes. His jacket was aquatic blue, he wears a red t-shirt underneath the jacket. Navy blue pants and some black sports shoes.
Both activate their weapons the boy with a sword and shield and the girl with a giant red scythe.
"Okayyy… Get her!' he says. The goons file out and surround the to kids.
"Ruby you ready?" says the boy.
"I'm always ready Jason" replies Ruby.
"Alright then let's do this!" shouts the boy as they both charge towards opposite directions to meet their separate group of enemy's.
Ruby charges and slashes at the goons. She plants her feet on the blunt part of the scythe she pulls a trigger and propels herself into another goon then using the scythe as an anchor she spins around and kicks another goon in the face. She then speeds from goon to goon so fast that it looks like she teleports.
Jason cut, stab, and slashes his way through the goons. He spins around hitting four at once then bashes one goon with his shield. That goon flies into the rest of the goons scattering them. His sword shifts and becomes an assault rifle loads a clip with stun bullets and fires at the remaining goons and takes them out.
As a goon falls unconscious in font of Roman the white coated man he scoffs and says, "You were worth every cent. Truly you were." he says sarcastically. "Well, Red and Spikey, I think we can all say it's been an eventful evening, and as much as I'd love to stick around… I'm afraid this is where we part ways." He raises his cane and fires a bullet at the two children.
Jason jumps in front of Ruby shield raised to block the shot. It detonates on impact knocking Jason back into Ruby with a grunt. They both get up and look around to see Roman climbing up a building to escape. "Is it alright if we go after him" Ruby asks.
Both turn to get an answer from the Shopkeeper
He replies with a "Uh huh."
"Let's go" Jason says.
They run after Torchwick, Ruby running up the wall while leaving Jason to have to climb. They reach the roof just in time to Roman reach the other side. Jason transforms his sword into gun form and points it at Roman as Ruby yells" Hey!"
"Persistent…" Roman grumbles without looking at them. A Bullhead flies out from under the building and Roman jumps onto it. He turns to face the kids and shouts, "End of the line twerps!" as he throws a burn Dust crystal onto the ground in front of the two children. He fires a whining blast at the crystal at their feet. Jason jumps in front of Ruby and raises his shield to defend him and Ruby and braces for impact. When it doesn't come they look up to see a blond woman with oval glasses standing in front of them with a protective glyph in front of her.
Roman grunts and runs to the cockpit and says to the woman in the seat, "We've got a huntress!"
The woman walks to the open hatch to face the new arrival.
She pushes up her glasses then waves her riding crop and fires a purple blast into the air above the Bulkhead. A mini storm appears trapping the Bulkhead in place, "The hell…?" comments Roman, she then waves her riding crop downward which causes icicles to rain down on the Bulkhead, causing it to shake violently.
The woman stumbles a bit then regains her footing. She extends her hand and a blast of flame erupts from her fingertips and shoots it at the blonde Huntress the Huntress steps back and dodges the attack but when the blast hits the ground it splatters all over it. The woman gestures upward with her hand. The ground starts to glow the blonde notices and jumps away as the ground erupts in fire. The blond jumps out of the way then using her telekinetic abilities she uses the rubble to form a spike. She launches it at the cockpit of the plane.
Torchwick angles the plane so it ricochets of.
The blonde Huntress, Glynda Goodwitch, splits the spike in four and surrounds the Bulkhead. She launches it all at the plane. The mysterious woman summons her own glyphs and blasts the rubble to dust.
Jason and Ruby pulls out their weapons, changes them to ranged mode and start shooting at the woman.
The lady blocks every shot with her hands then with a wave the ground all around erupts into flame. They jump out of the way. Unfortunately the criminal managed to escape.
Jason and Ruby turn towards Glynda with awed faces.
"You're a Huntress" says Ruby
"Holy crap!" Jason excalimed
"Can I have your autograph!?" both of them squeal.
Interrogation Room
Jason is sitting in a chair in a dark room lit only by a dim light.
He has been here for the last five minutes but it felt like hours.
He was worried about Ruby. He should have guessed that she would get herself into trouble. He was asked by her dad to go find her from the Dust shop. He lives with her family ever since he finished his training with the infamous warrior Evin Xing. He has been living with them ever since.
Suddenly the door opens to reveal a man with circular glasses and gray hair. The infamous Professor Ozpin.
"Greetings young man." said Ozpin
"Hi", Jason replied
"Where did you learn to fight like that?" Ozpin asked
"I learned it from Master Xing", said Jason
"The greatest swordsman in all of Remnant?" asked Ozpin
"Yes sir", Jason answered.
Ozpin stares at him for a few seconds, "You...have golden eyes."
"Um... Yes sir?" Jason said.
"You don't seem to be related to Ruby Rose." Ozpin said.
"I'm not I live with them, ever since my parent died Master Xing found me on the streets he took me in fed me and trained me, once I finished my training I met Ruby in the park. She was being bullied by other kids from her school. I taught them a lesson and helped her and from that day on we became best of friends."
"Hmm… tell me, do you want to become a Huntsman.
"Yes I would" Jason replied
"Do you know who I am?" asked Ozpin
"Of course, your Headmaster Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon."
"Hello", Ozpin said
"Hi', said Jason.
"Would you like to come to my school" Ozpin asked
"It would be an honor", Jason replied
Ozpin considered this for a few moments then said, "Very well then, you are accepted into Beacon."
Jason's eye grew wide, "Your serious!?" asked Jason thinking that this was a dream.
"Of course I'm serious." Ozpin said with a smile.
"Alright!" Jason exclaims.
Jason steps out of the room to find Ruby waiting outside. When she sees him she dashed over to him in the blink of an eye
"What happened? Are you okay? What did he tell you? Are you in trouble?" Ruby asked in a blur. " Hey calm down! I'm fine he asked my where I learned to fight and invited me to Beacon." Jason replied.
"Wait you're going to Beacon, too!?" Ruby looks at him in surprise.
"Uh… Yeah, wait what do you mean by 'too'? Are you going as well?" Jason asked
"Yes I won't be alone! Yes! YESSS!" Ruby ran around him while squealing in joy as Jason just smiled and shook his head.
Airship to Beacon
Jason and Ruby are on a ship to Beacon and Ruby is being strangled by her sister, Yang,
"Oh, I can't believe my baby sister is going to Beacon with me! This is the best day ever!" Yang said
"Yang stop you're going to cut of her circulation" Jason says as he sees Ruby is turning a bit purple.
"But I'm so proud of her!" Yang says letting go.
"Really Sis it was nothing", says Ruby
"What do you mean? It was incredible! Everyone at Beacon is going to think you're the bee's knees." Yang says gesturing to all the people on board..
"I don't want to be the 'bee's knees' okay? I don't want to be any kind of knees! I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees!" Ruby says
"What does bee's knee even mean anyway?" Jason askes but is ignored by Yang who is still talking to Ruby. He decides to leave them alone he turns around and notices a familiar flash of dark brown hair. He smiles 'Looks like he made it to' he runs over to the boy and puts him in a headlock.
"Gaahhh! Yo' Jason my man let me go!" says the boy with a laugh.
Jason lets the boy go while laughing "How's it been Niko? Long time no see!"
"You too man, didn't know you made it to Beacon." Niko says
"Of course I did, no surprise that you made it ,too, we were both trained by Evin", Jason replies
"Yeah guess so" Niko says then he looks up at Jason and asks "Hey is Yang here?" he asks
"Yeah" Jason points to the two sisters "She's there want to go talk to her?"
"Oh hell yeah! C'mon bro." Niko says as he ran over to Yang while shouting here name.
Jason shakes his head and smiles as he ran after his friend. Niko has had a crush on Yang since they first met.
Niko is Jason's best friend. They met at Master Xing's monastary. They trained together and are best friends. Niko is a boy with dark brown hair, and chocolate colored skin. his weapons are his two combat gloves. At the wrist section are four Dust canisters filled with Ice, Burn, Energy, and Wind Dust. He can charge the different Dusts into his fist to give his punches more damage. He wears a green army jacket with a gray t-shirt underneath. He has black pants and he wears combat boots. his hair is short and curly. he is a pretty musculer person.
"Sup Firecracker!" Niko shouts
Yang turns to see Niko and smiles, "Hey Niko how've you been?" Yang said.
"I've been good girl. Damn it's been to long!" Niko said.
"Hi Niko!" Ruby said
"Yo' Ruby… wait why are you here?" Niko asked earning a jab from Jason.
"Ow…what?" Niko said
"Ozpin said I could come to Beacon" Ruby said
"Wait but your like what fifteen you should still be in Signal!" Niko said
"Yes but for some reason Ozpin invited her. So since the headmaster decided to invite her she is a student of Beacon." Jason says
"That's cool." Says Niko
News Reporter: The robbery was lead by the nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities. If you have any information on his whereabouts please contact the Vale Police department. Back to you, Lisa.
Lisa: Thank you, Cyril. In other news, this Saturday's Faunus Civil Rights protest turned dark when the members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony. The once peaceful organization has now disrupted…
The holographic screen disappears and a holographic image of Glynda Goodwitch appears.
"Hello and welcome to Beacon!" said Glynda
"Who's that?" Niko asks Jason
"My name is Glynda Goodwitch" said Glynda almost as if she could hear him.
"Oh"
"You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now, it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world."
The image fades and students star pointing and talking among each other.
"Whoa guys look" Niko says as he points out the window.
"Wow!" Ruby stares in awe at the view
"Hey Rubes look you can see Signal from here!" Jason says.
"I guess home isn't too far after all" Ruby says
Jason puts his hand on Ruby's shoulder and says "Beacon's our home now Rubes"
They hear a moan nearby and sees a blond boy looking a little queasy and holding his stomach and mouth. He turns away from the window and runs past Jason and the others.
"I guess the view isn't for everyone" Yang says
"It was a nice moment while it lasted" Nathan said
"I wonder who we're gonna meet?" Jason wondered
"I just hope their better than 'Vomit Boy'." Ruby replies earning a ruffle of the hair from Jason and a laugh from Niko and Yang.
Jason then notices a greenish yellow liquid on Yang's shoe
"Oh Yang gross that kid puked on your shoe!" Jason exclaimed
"Gross, gross, gross…"
"Ah that's nasty!" Nathan said
"Get away, get away! Get away from me!"