Zoids awakening

"INCREDIBLE!"

Both teams RWBY and JNPR covered their ears from the loud yell of their history professor, Doctor Oobleck.

Currently the professor ("DOCTOR") and the two teams were standing in front of a mountain side near the Emerald Forest, a few days ago a large quack had hit near Vale which coursed a small portion of the mountain side to collapse. This ended up revealing a giant gateway built into the mountain, no one had been inside the gate yet... but that was going to change today, the council had decided that a group of Huntsman or Huntress's should be the first to enter the ruins, just in case there were any Grimm within.

Ozpin had chosen Oobleck because of his love for history would allow them to both check the ruins for Grimm as well as getting a start on any knowledge inside, the Headmaster had also decided to send two first year teams with him.

So the two teams stood with the Doctor among the fallen stone, dirt and trees that had been uprooted during the landslide coursed by the quack.

"Ow..." Blake muttered, rubbing her bow which hide her sensitive Faunus ears.

"Is it just me, or is he extra jittery today" Yang said staring at the historian who was running at high speed around the gate in the mountain.

The gate itself was triangle in shape and made of a pure white stone, the base of the triangle was a simple staircase which was partially buried by the ground, the two sides were carved into the shape of two katana's, the blade pointing down like there stabbing into the ground an the hilts crossing over each other. But also at the hilts was another carving, this one being a lions head which looked to have metal plating around its head rather then a mane of fur.

"He's just excited" Weiss said defending the Doctor as she dusted herself off from the walk.

Ruby, standing next to her partner was smiling brightly, showing the same amount of excitement as Oobleck "I am to, we're going exploring".

"We're treasure hunters" Nora shouted suddenly appearing between the red and white girls, her smile just as bright as Ruby's.

"Historians Nora, not treasure hunters" Ren explained to his childhood friend.

Jaune turned to the others with a smile of his own "come on Ren, treasure hunter sound way cooler".

"Gotta agree with Vomit Boy on that one" Yang said with a cheeky grin, which only got a groan out of said Vomit Boy.

"Should we go in Professor?" Pyrrha 'the invincible girl' asked.

"Doctor, miss Nikos" Oobleck corrected as he stopped writing in his note book about the gate "and yes, let us enter. But remember to be on guard".

The group walked towards the gate, the door of which had been destroyed for a while now, leaving the inside open to the world. As they came into the first room beyond the gateway the first thing they noticed were multiple different carvings in the white walls, each one painted that had been faded by time.

"What do you think they mean Doctor?" Weiss asked, Blake also looked at Oobleck questionably, wonder if there was any story behind the paintings.

Doctor Oobleck examined the carvings, they depicted several small black carvings and one larger one behind them, next to those were another group of carving that were painted a silver colour "these black carving seem to be Grimm, the smaller ones being Beowolfs and Ursa which are common in the Emerald Forest, although this larger one..."

Pyrrha looked at it carving, her eyes narrowed "it looks almost like a Creep" she said matching the carving to the only Grimm she could think of.

"Maybe" Doctor Oobleck said "although its shape is a bit off, its head and jaws are larger then a normal Creep"

"Those other carvings look like suits of armour" Ruby said "so they must be people, like a group of Huntsman?"

Weiss shook her head "Huntsmen and Huntress's wouldn't of been around back then Ruby, they seem to be knights of some kind" the Schnee explained.

Nora zipped over to the wall that had the carving and looked closer, her eyes sparkling "oooooh~, like some kind of super secret order of knights that fought against the forces of darkness".

"You might not be far off Miss Valkyrie" Oobleck said.

"You gotta be excited, huh Vomit Boy" Yang said with grin, turning around to only raise an eyebrow.

Both Jaune and Blake -that one surprised Yang- were looking at the wall opposite to the one they were looking at, this one had only two carvings, one of which was the same larger Grimm from the other wall and the new one was of another large creature that seemed to be about to fight it.

This one walked on four legs and had the general shape of a lion, it was mainly white with blue on the top of the legs and sides of the head, it also had gold claws and teeth as well as around part of the mane. Although the most unusual feature was the large katana that seemed to float above it, it had a silver blade and black hilt.

"What's that thing?" Yang said pointing towards the lion-like creature.

Doctor Oobleck pushed up his glasses, examining the the wall and the writing that was below it "from what I can gather at a glance, it may be some kind of being they worshipped... or maybe a guardian spirit".

"Cool..." both Ruby and Nora said in a awed whisper, Ruby mainly looking at the sword which looked like the stone carvings outside.

"Why are you so interested in this one?" Ren asked, aiming the question at both Jaune and Blake.

Blake was the first to answer, looking away from the carving and to the group "it looks familiar, I feel like I've seen it somewhere before"

"Same here, I feel like I've heard of a creature like this before, though I can't remember how" Jaune said scratching his head.

"Well!" Oobleck said gaining the groups attention "maybe you two will be able to remember more when this writing is translated".

"Professor!".

"Doctor! Miss Rose".

Ruby smiled sheepishly "sorry, but I found something that looks like a door".

The others had walked to were Ruby was and saw what she was talking about, they appeared to be two large door just as big as the gateway.

"How would they even open these?" Blake asked as she touched the doors, her fingers gliding over the pattern inscribed into them.

Oobleck, doing the same as Blake tilted his head in thought "it may be some form of vault, using the heavy door to keep people out".

"So lets blow a hole in it!" Yang said with a grin, punching her fists together.

"I would like to keep these ruins intact Miss Xiao Long" the Doctor said, turning a light glare to the blonde brawler who just held her arms behind her head and pouted.

"Why not just push this button?"

Everyone turned to Nora who was standing at the edge of the door, she was pointing to a small circle that had lion head design.

Weiss rolled her eyes "Nora, I'm sure an ancient ruin like this wouldn't have something as complicated as a system to open such heavy doors with a button push"

*CLICK*

Everyone stops and looked to the so called button, when they did they saw it had been pushed in by... Doctor Oobleck.

"So it really is a button" the historian said in wonder.

After they all got over the shock that it was their teacher and not Nora that pushed the button, Weiss decided to speak "professor-"

"Doctor!"

"-was it really wise to push that?"

Only a second later the doors let out a rumble as they slid open. Oobleck quickly zipped to the middle of in between the doors while the two teams grouped together and pulled out their weapons, preparing for any Grimm that could come at them.

"Pyrrha" Jaune said as he steeped forwards, Pyrrha followed her partner and the two raised their shields to stand as the front guard in case of any Grimm.

But a second later a quack shook the earth, the source of the quack could be felt from outside the gateway which coursed the group to quickly run outside.

"WHAT IS THAT!" Weiss yelled.

From the ground that was once part of the mountain and been moved in the landslide came a giant Grimm, it was like a T-rex in shape but with pure black skin and plated white bone armour along its back to its tail, there was also armour on top of its head and covering the top half of its face which went over its four red eyes.

"That things huge!" Nora shouted but her mouth was quickly covered by Ren.

Although it was to late as the T-rex Grimm turned to the group of hunters, the Grimm breathed in and its chests seemed to expand to an almost unnatural level.

Doctor Oobleck noticed this and yelled a warning "EVERYONE! INSIDE NOW!".

The students followed their teachers order and began running towards the door way in the ruins, although it was to late. Opening its mouth the Grimm realised the air with in its chest with a roar and created a pillar of wind and sound that travelled at the gateway with great speed and force.

When the attack hit it knock the students and doctor into the air and through the door way they were running to.

All of them landed within the new room, although doctor Oobleck was the only one to land on his feet as he quickly scanned the other side of the door and spotted a button just like the first one, the Doctor dashed over to the button and pressed it.

With another small rumble the doors slid close as the Grimm charge at them, easily being able to fit through the large gateway, before the Grimm could get to them the door close fully and all that happened next was a loud bang from the other side of the door followed by a pained roar.

"Well that was a trip" Yang said as she rubbed her head.

Blake sat up next to her partner "I didn't know a Grimm could do that".

"At least the landing wasn't that bad" Pyrrha said also sitting up next to the black and yellow pair.

"Girls" a muffled voice said coursing Yang, Blake and Pyrrha to look around before they eventually looked down and noticed that all three of them were sitting on top of Jaune, which most likely happened when they were hit by the wind attack.

"Could you please get off of me" Jaune said in a muffled voice again.

Said three girls quickly got off of the blonde knight. "Sorry!" they said at the same time, although Pyrrha's had more of a blush on her face then the other two.

As Jaune got up and dusted himself off he was able to take a quick look around the new room.

It was made from white stone like the others and had a raised platform at the end, around the four corners of the platform were four pillars that went all the way up to the ceiling...

Jaune would of continued to look around if it wasn't for a strong pat to his back, coursing him to trip forwards.

"Come on Vomit Boy, I don't think anybody would complain about having the three of us on top of them" Yang said gesturing to herself, Blake and Pyrrha with a sultry look on her face and followed by a smirk with a wink, Jaune's face heated up so much that steam literally came off the top of his head.

The two others blushed from the blondes implication as well, Blake buried her face in her book to hide her blush and Pyrrha just stuttered with a face as red as her hair.

"My word"

Jaune and the three girls were drawn to Doctor Oobleck, the historian was looking to the platform to something Jaune hadn't seen before.

Sat on top of the platform was what looked like a statue, its head had the same shape as the head on top of the gateway and the body followed the same theme, what looked like it would have been metal plating was place all over the body and even under that it this seemed to be made of machinery.

"Wow, who ever made this place really liked this thing" Nora said as she stared up at the statue.

*BANG*

Everyone jumped slightly as the doors trembled from the Grimm charging into them repeatedly.

"I don't think those are going to hold for much longer" Pyrrha stated as she drew her weapons.

Oobleck drew his own weapon and started to give orders "everyone! search the room, if we can find another door it could buy us some time, or even fool the Grimm into thinking we're gone"

With a nod from everyone they started to search, the four walls had no sign of a door but Blake was looking at the ceiling with narrowed eyes, something that didn't go unnoticed by the two team leaders.

"What is it Blake?" Ruby asked.

"There's lines in the ceiling like the doors, I think it might be another one but I don't know why it would be up there" Blake explained as she pointed to said ceiling.

The two team leaders followed Blake's directions and see what she was talking about, just a foot or so above the lion-like statue were several lines that made the shape of the doors they'd seen before, the only question was how they open them.

"There doesn't seem to be any button or switch on any of the pillars" Jaune said as he looked to the four pillars.

"Well maybe there's one next to the door like the other one" Ruby said with hands on her hips, proud of her idea.

Quickly the young rose dashed up and began to climb the statue, already making it to the top of its foreleg. Blake and Jaune followed after the little red reaper and started to climb the lion themselves, although at a slower pace then Ruby.

Jaune sighed as he climbed up to the head of the lion statues "I have a bad feeling about this".

When the blonde knight grabbed a part of the lions head a loud hissing sound echoed throughout the room, before Jaune knew it the top part of the head had moved up and back to rest near the neck which revealed a metal surface underneath.

"What the?" Jaune said in surprise as he stepped on to the metal and kneeled down to inspect it, sliding his hand along the smooth, cold martial.

"Mr Arc!" Doctor Oobleck asked as he and the others all grouped near the statue "what do you see?"

"It looks like metal, but... its just a plain surfa-AH!" Jaune was both cut off and proven wrong when the metal opened up to show some kind of cockpit inside, but do to the movement it also knocked Jaune off balance coursing him to fall face first into the cockpit.

Ruby quickly manoeuvred herself next to the head "Jaune, you okay?".

Said blonde stood up and rubbed his face, hoping to ease the pain "yeah, I think-" Jaune was once more cut off as the top part of the head started to close, the metal that opened up before quickly closing with it.

Ruby was surprised by the sudden action and fell back off the lions head.

"Ruby!" Blake shouted and jumped to catch her leader, safely landing on the platform next to the statue.

If things weren't bad enough with both the Grimm knocking on the door and one of their own now trapped inside the lion statue, but now the platform beneath said statue started to rumble and slowly raise up as the door above them opened.

"Quickly! everyone onto the platform" Oobleck shout his order and the students all ran to the ascending statue.

When the group found themselves through the door they saw a large, long hallway that stretch in front of the statue, although the end seemed to be cover by rock, most likely meaning it was part of the cliff side.

Doctor Oobleck rested his hand on his chin, as if stroking a invisible beard "this path must of lead outside in the past. Although from the height it wasn't for people to use, but then what did use it?"

"Um, professor" Ruby said nervously as she and the other looked behind them.

"Doctor, miss- oh my" Oobleck said as he turned around and noticed what his student were looking at.

The lion was glowing a faint blue as cracks formed around the statue, white light billowing out of them as chunks of the stone fell off which only made the white light shine brighter.

"What is that!?" Yang shouted as she covered her eyes along with the others.

"Did that dunce do something!" Weiss also shouted.

Pyrrha in worry tried to run to her team leader but couldn't because of the intense light "JAUNE!".

With a thunderous boom and gust of wind that almost knocked them off their feet the light started to die down, when the group was finally able to see past the light they all gasped in shock. The statue that stood before them... was no longer a statue, the stone that once covered its body was now replaced with mainly white and blue armour, it had gold claws, teethe and partly on the mane as well as a long black tail that ended in a white and gold blade.

But, the most noticeable feature was the large katana blade on its back, a long shining silver blade with what looked like some kind of language inscribed onto the side.

The doctor and teens stood in silence, not able to even say a word to the sight before them, and before they could something even more shocking happened...

The metal lion before them began to move, raising one of its paws and its head, slamming the first onto the ground and the second opening its jaw and unleashing a booming and noble roar, as if a great king of beasts had reawakened to the world and was ready to show them his might.

Quickly after they had made their presence known the armoured lion sprinted down the hallway, shaking it with each step.

"What... was that?" Weiss asked in complete shock.

A few moments earlier

Jaune was in a panic.

Not only had he been trapped inside this... thing, but the moment he sat down in what could only be some kind of cockpit the screen in front of him lighted up.

AURA RECOGNISED, MURASAME LIGER ONLINE

Jaune jumped at the sudden voice that came from the screen, feminine but obviously robotic.

"Murasame Liger?" Jaune asked in confusion, internally hoping the robotic voice would answer him. What he didn't expect was for the area around him to light up like TV screens and show the outside of the lion, he could see his friends down below him as well as the area behind him.

GRIMM DETECTED, ACTIVATING REMOTE LAUNCH SEQUENCE

"Wait! activating what?" Jaune almost shouted in surprise, but before he knew it the floor below him began to raise, his friends and teacher quickly climbing on which made Jaune give a sigh of relief, happy they'd be safe from that giant Grimm.

As they made it through the door the robotic voice spoke once again.

ACTIVATING: COMBAT MODE

Jaune looked as a white and blue light filled the area outside but faded soon after, soon enough Jaune felt the lion he was in begin to move and releasing a booming roar, although even though Jaune was the closest to the roar it felt less like a loud noise in his ears and more like the sound waves were piercing through his being, reverberating through his very soul.

Before Jaune knew it he had unconsciously grabbed onto the two levers at each side of the screen which seemed to only increase the feeling in his soul, and without Jaune having to do anything the metal beast he was in ran forwards.

"Wait! why are we moving!?" Jaune exclaimed as he was pushed back from the force they were moving.

Jaune was able to shake it off but when he looked ahead his eyes widened when he saw they were heading straight for a rock wall "stop, stop, stop! STOP!".

With a resounding crash the Murasame Liger burst through the cliff-side and flew in the air for a second before landing on the ground with enough force to shake the trees and kick up a cloud of dust.

"Oh thank god I'm alive" Jaune said, holding his chest to calm his rapid heartbeat.

Back up at the hallway with a now open exit, the remaining teens and their teacher looked outside to the ground below them.

"Ok what's going on" Nora said as she held her head in confusion "that thing was a statue but metal and moving, and Jaune-Jaune still inside it so did he make it move. Gasp, what if it absorbed him and he is the cat, Ren! how is Jaune going to sleep in the dorm if he's a giant metal kitty cat!".

"Nora, calm down" Ren said, taking his partner by the shoulders. Although it seemed to be to late as Nora already had swirls in her eyes and her head bellowed steam from her melt down.

Ruby looked down at the lion, worry for her first friend clear in her eyes "is Jaune going to be ok?".

"I'm sure he'll be fine" Yang said to try and reassure her sister.

Down below, large foot steps could be heard inside the temple and seen after the Grimm slowly walked out, staring directly at Murasame, this only increased the worry to all those higher up.

Jaune's hands trembled as he stared at the Grimm, its soulless red eyes lock on him as it crouched down low and before he knew it, charged.

"Come on, you moved before" Jaune said in a panic as the Grimm grew closer, but Murasame refused to acted like it did before. Off of pure instinct Jaune once again grabbed the levers and moved them, not even knowing what he's doing.

"MOVE!"

Before the Grimm could hit, Murasame quickly jumped to the right and dodged.

Inside Jaune breathed heavily, his hands holding the levers tightly 'how did I know how to do that, it was like it just clicked in my mind... like I knew it all along'.

The Grimm opened its large jaw and with it unleashed a roar that created a blast of strong winds, although that hardly affected Murasame whos weight and claws helped him stay planted in the ground.

Murasame in response stood tall and unleashed a roar of its own, unlike the Grimm it did not create a wind blast but the intent behind it was enough to make the air around them seem heavy, even the Grimm stepped back from the power unleashed.

From within the cockpit Jaune felt the feeling in his soul increase even more, spreading through out his entire body, and unknown to him his were no longer a bright blue but had changed to a pure white with his pupils becoming sharp and slitted.

'This feeling... why is it getting stronger, why aren't I afraid... I feel, I feel like-'

WEAPON SYSTEMS ONLINE

The screen showed a 3D image of Murasame, specifically the sword on its back.

Jaune glared ahead of him, straight into the red eyes of the Grimm before him 'I feel like I can fight!'

And with that Jaune pushed on the lever.

"Doctor, what is that thing?" Weiss asked as they saw the lion charge at the Grimm.

Oobleck pushed up his glasses, staring down at the two beast fighting "honestly Miss Schnee, I have no idea".

"Murasame"

Everyone was suddenly drawn to the hidden cat Faunus, all of them confused by the name she said out of no where. Blake herself just looked down at Murasame, her eyes showing both recognition and awe as if she had seen someone she admired for the first time in person.

Yang placed her hand on her partners shoulder, asking what is on everyone's mind "Blake, what's Mura... sa something?".

"Murasame, its the name of the lion" Blake explained.

"How do you know that?" Ren asked.

They were once again drawn to the two beasts below, the Murasame Liger charged into the Grimm and knocked it back but the Grimm held its ground and retaliated with a swing of its tail, Murasame was step back out of its reach and move back in for a claw swipe at its exposed side.

As the the fight continued on Blake began to explain how she knew its name.

"Back when I was a kid my mother would tell me a story about a white and blue lion that carried a giant blade on its back, she said how it was a spirit of protection, a force of nature that fought against the darkness. Mother said it would appear suddenly, raining down attacks on all those who stood against it and pass on when all was done. It's how it got its name, Murasame... the passing rain".

"But why does it have Jaune" Pyrrha asked, still worried for her lov- partner... her partner.

Blake's brow furrowed and when she spoke, she was less... sure, of what she was saying "the older legends spoke about a worrier who could summon and control Murasame. Maybe, that's what Jaune is doing".

The groups conversation was cut short when they noticed Murasame and the Grimm had separated in their fight.

"Lets end this Murasame!" Jaune shouted, pressing a trigger on one of the levers.

Outside, the sword on Murasame's back unfolded and stood straight up before rotating to its right side. With a low growl and great force from its four legs, Murasame dash at high speeds.

The Grimm roar again but the wind blast did nothing to stop the great beast from attacking. Murasame pasted by the Grimm, its sword cutting into its giant maw and slicing along to the end of its tail, completely detaching the top half of its body from the bottom.

"Nice work" Jaune said from inside Murasame, letting out a sigh and quiet laugh while his eyes changed back to normal.

Even though Jaune knew he wouldn't get an answer back, the low growl he got in return felt like Murasame was agreeing with him.

A/N: ok! first one-shot up, as you can see this is my take of how Zoids could be introduced into the world of Remnant.

The basic idea is that Zoids were around in ancient times and helped people fight against the Grimm, but got sealed away and faded into legends until Jaune awoke Murasame.

I thought about using Liger Zero but when I was looking through the list of different Zoids and saw Murasame, I thought this would be a much better fit with Jaune then Zero.

Anyway, until next time.