Just a little RWBY story, not gonna be able to work on it for a while, so I've made it nice and big. I'm currently working on a few other stories, including "Chameleon" by biggest one yet for X-men Evolution. Well, anyways, here you go. Hope you enjoy Team LMNS (Luminous)
Rahne: I do too!
Me: Rahne get out, this isn't X-men Evolution...
Rahne: Ever hear of a cameo?
Me: I hate you...
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Me: Enjoy the story!
BTW: I do not own the RWBY series
"Leaf?"
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"Leaf?"
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"Leaf? You there? Wake up!"
Leaf Thorne, found himself suddenly crying out in alarm as he was violently shook left and right.
"M-millie!" He shrieked, falling backwards out of his chair, onto the ground.
Several other students now looked down on them, their faces amused, or simply annoyed.
"Hey there!" Leaf peered up, Millie stared down at him from above. "Did you enjoy your little nap?"
Leaf rolled his eyes, propping himself up on his elbows.
"I was, then a certain dog-eared, friend of mine woke me up," he grumbled.
"Aww," Millie faked a frown. "Was the wittle baby having a nice dweam?"
Leaf rolled his eyes once again and, getting to his feet, gave his companion a short flick on the nose.
"Hey," she whined, using her hands to soothe her injury.
Leaf quietly chuckled, taking his seat. Before he could go back to his napping, Millie plopped herself down on his lap.
"Oh, no you don't Besty, you're not sleeping until we get to Beacon!"
Leaf groaned before muttering a drawn-out "Fine,".
Millie only giggled in response.
"This place is amazing!" Milleth exclaimed.
The brunette ran around excitedly, scanning the academy's various structures.
"Millie!" Leaf cried, running after the faunus. "W-wait up!"
"Wait!? Who has time to wait when-"
Millie bumped into something.
"S-sorry!" She yelped, shooting back up and continuing her sprint.
Leaf sighed, upon closer inspection, the 'something' had turned out to be a teenage girl with a white ponytail. He slowly made his way to her, and helped her up. The girl dusted herself off.
"Sorry about that, she's usually not like this," Leaf said, rubbing the back of his head.
"It's fine," the girl replied quickly.
"I'm Leaf, the girl that just ran you over, that's Millie," he stated, holding his hand out.
"Weiss," she retorted, shaking his hand after a few seconds.
"Well, sorry we had to meet like this, but if you excuse me, I kinda have to go stop her from crashing into anybody else,"
As Leaf said this, Millie crashed into another group of kids, sending them flying away like bowling pins. Leaf face-palmed.
"Milleth Terrabolt, you get back here!" He yelled, taking off.
He could hear Weiss muttering a "Twice in one day, lucky me," as he bolted away.
"Millie!"
When Leaf had finally caught up with Milleth, she was conversing excitedly with two other students.
"Oh Leaf, there you are!" Millie exclaimed. "Meet Jaune and Ruby!"
"Hi!" A girl who looked too young to be attending Beacon said.
The blonde next to her, Jaune apparently, nervously waved. Leaf waved back before turning to Millie.
"Millie, please be more careful,"
"Hey, I said sorry," she replied defensively.
"Yeah, while you were still running,"
"I couldn't help it, too excited,"
"Millie..."
Millie sighed defeated.
"Fine, I'll calm down,"
"Thank you,"
Ruby suddenly spoke up.
"Wait, was that girl you bumped into carrying several cases of dust?"
Millie thought for a moment.
"Yeah, why?"
Ruby's eyes went wide.
"I bumped into her too!"
Leaf backed away, Jaune did the same. The two girls erupted into chatter.
"Really!?"
"Yeah, she was so snotty,"
"It's a good thing I escaped!"
As the two girls exploded into laughter, Leaf and Jaune exchanged glances.
"So..." Leaf started.
"I have a sword and a shield, what do you have?"
Millie had never quite grasped the idea of "bedtime".
Leaf, wearing nothing but a white t-shirt and black shorts, made his way through the academy's sleeping inhabitants, Millie was missing once again.
"Millie, one day you and your positive attitude are going to get me killed," he muttered to himself.
He maneuvered his way through the pack of students, after what seemed like forever he found her, speaking again with that Ruby girl. Next to them was another girl, this one older and with much longer, yellow, hair. Leaf marched to their side, grabbing Millie's hand.
"You, Missy, I'm not letting you out of my sights," he told her sternly.
"Hey there Kitty Cat!" Millie cried.
Leaf felt for the cat ears he had at the top of his head, the black ears were almost hidden by his spiked, green hair.
"Hey there Puppy Dog," he shot back.
"Oh cool, are you that other guy my sister was talking about?"
The older girl shook his hand.
"Yep, this is...Leaf right?" Ruby asked with a skeptical look.
Leaf nodded.
"I'm Yang, Ruby's sister," Yang stated.
"Ruby, tell Leaf about how you got into here two years early!" Millie cried.
Ruby blushed.
"Well..."
"You got into here early?" Leaf inquired.
"Yeah, I did, but..."
The group waited for her to finish.
"It's not anything special, I can't be the only one that's ever skipped a grade," she said.
Leaf waited a moment before replying.
"It's alright, I can understand, it can't be fun being put on a pedestal like that,"
"Yeah, being normal rocks!" Millie yelled, earning a few glares from students, interrupted from their slumber.
"Thanks, I hoped you guys would understand," She said with a small smile.
"Yep, anything for my little sister!" Yang exclaimed, literally crushing Ruby in a hug.
Ruby struggled for a minute, giving Leaf and Millie the time needed to say their farewells and retreat elsewhere.
"Okay Millie, time for bed," Leaf told her sternly.
"Aww," She whined in reply.
Millie pouted, then almost immediately lit up as she spotted another student.
"Oh, wait! Look another student!" Leaf had to cover her mouth to muffle her screams if protest.
Instead of holding her back, Leaf found himself being pulled along with her. Millie came to a sudden stop and Leaf found himself smashing into a wall.
"Why me?" He groaned, collapsing onto the ground.
Millie, oblivious of his current state, approached the girl, who was currently reading.
"Hi!" she said, waving excitedly.
The girl looked up ever so slightly, then her eyes returned to her book.
"Doesn't anyone in this school sleep?" She inquired.
"I'm Milleth, but everybody calls me Millie,"
The girl sighed and shut her book.
"Blake," she replied.
Millie gestured towards her green-haired friend, who was currently on the floor.
"His name's Leaf, as you can probably tell, he's a bit clumsy,"
Leaf groaned.
"Isn't that right Leafy?"
Leaf struggled to get up, and held up a finger as if to say something...then immediately fell back onto the ground.
"Are you okay?" Blake inquired, raising an eyebrow.
Leaf's reply came out muffled, but Blake was able to make out something about something about an 'eventful day'.
"I'll take that as a no,"
"Oh, don't worry about him, he'll be right back on his feet in no time, just like a cat!"
"A cat?"
"Leaf and I are both Faunuses, what about you?"
"Well...I-"
Leaf finally managed to speak.
"Milleth Terrabolt," he cried out, exhausted.
"Uh oh," Millie muttered.
"Bed. Time." he said.
Before Millie could cry out in protest, Leaf scooped her up and carried her back to their 'spot'. He set her down.
"Hey! I wasn't done meeting-"
Leaf put a finger to her mouth, shushing her.
"I don't want to hear it Millie, go to bed," he told her.
Millie perked up slightly, creating her signature, puppy face. Fortunately, Leaf was much too tired to be affected.
"Nope, that is not going to work, not tonight," he stated.
Millie let out a 'hmph' and sat down with her arms crossed.
"Millie..."
Milleth simply ignored him. Leaf let out a sigh.
"Fine, we'll read a story first,"
Leaf held up a book. Millie lit up, before curling up next to him.
"Reading!" she squealed, Leaf immediately shushing her.
He began to read to her, and it wasn't long before she fell asleep, in fact, it had been less than a minute when he took notice of her slumbering.
Leaf found himself smiling, Milleth and her body were always disagreeing. He shut his book, and soon he too had fallen asleep, Millie's arms around him, her head on his shoulder.
Leaf and Millie had been sharing beds since they were kids, this was no bother to them.
The next day
Synthia Sora made her way through her former sleeping grounds, earning a few stares from its male inhabitants. She ignored them, with they way she looked, she was always being checked out. Her two long pigtails, her dark, black hair, her glowing, white skin, she had been known for her beauty, a fact that she resented. It wasn't always easy, being picked out, placed on a higher level than other students because of her beauty, sometimes it took every ounce of her training to keep calm and not explode.
She made her way to the locker room, and swiftly changed into her dark violet armor, something that resembled the attire of the ninjas she read about in stories. She pulled up her suit's hood, while her hair and forehead were covered slightly, another piece of cloth covered her mouth and nose. She couldn't be plagued by her own beauty if people couldn't see her face.
Nail Morthen cried out as he was pushed against a wall once again. He had simply been making his way to the locker rooms when a large teen with brown hair shoved past him.
Instead of offering an apology the student instead yelled at him to "Watch it!".
Nail picked himself up, shyly continuing his walk. He was small for his age, being, literally, pushed around was nothing new to him.
"You just got to keep moving, don't let anyone or anything stop you," he repeated his Father's past phrase.
"If people push you down, you gotta get right back up, don't push them down, two wrongs don't make a right, instead, show them their error and walk away,"
Still, he found himself wondering how the future huntsmen and women, ones who were supposed to save people, could be so rude as to mistreat a weaker one.
"No, wake me up later, I don't want to go to school,"
Leaf groaned, still half-asleep, and spun around under his covers in an attempt to defend against Millie's cruel way of waking him up.
"M-Millie, quit poking me!" he whined.
Leaf only heard her giggle in response.
"Wakey-wakey Leafy!"
Leaf allowed himself some relief, today she actually sounded sane.
"Get up! We have to go, everyone else has gone," Milleth cried.
"I don't wanna!"
"I said, get up!"
Leaf was rolled onto his back, the seventeen year old immediately shot up when Millie suddenly attacked his waist...with tickles.
"M-Millie!" Leaf shrieked, letting out the laugh of a madman.
"Are you awake now!? Huh!? Are you!?" Millie screamed maniacally.
"Y-yes! I'm awake! I'm awake!"
...
Unbeknownst to the two, a young man in green, and an adorable figure beside him were witnessing the event.
"Wow Ren, that girl looks like fun!"
"Nora..."
"What? I'm just saying, she looks like the kind of person you could have a party with!"
"..."
"Don't you think so?"
Ren, paused for a few seconds, after looking into his childhood-friend's eyes he let out a sigh.
"Sure Nora, whatever you say,"
"Now, come on, we still need to decide on a signal, I still don't know what sound Sloths make!"
Ren was abruptly dragged away, Nora ignoring his sudden cry of protest.
...
After managing to escape his tickle-happy companion, Leaf found himself in a room with several other students, including Jaune, Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Blake, and three other Beacon inhabitants. One was a boy in green, with pale skin, another, a girl who looked as crazy as Milleth, was darting around him excitedly, and finally there was-
"Hey Leaf!" Leaf let out a loud screech, alerting just about everyone.
"Millie!"
Milleth has burst into a fit of giggles.
"I love scaring you,"
"Why you little-," Leaf held his hands out, poised to attack. "-Get over here, I'm going to tickle you until you suffocate!"
As Leaf began to chase a startled Milleth around the room, two more huntsmen entered, one a small teen with bright, yellow hair, and a tall girl. The girl walked through, nodding her head in greeting to another tall girl, Pyrrha Nikos? The boy kept to himself, and reluctantly made his way into the room.
Elswhere, Ruby and Yang both watched in amusement as Leaf chased down Millie.
"Wow, you think they've been friends long?" Yang inquired.
"They look like they were born together," Ruby replied.
"I guess you could say that!" Milleth cried, as she passed them by during one of her laps around the room.
She revolved around once again, Leaf right on her tail.
"We're only two days apart when it comes to birthdays!"
...
"Leaf's a bit older!"
...
"Isn't that right Kitty-cat!?"
"Millie! Get back here!"
To his surprise Millie came to a sudden stop, she looked forward in awe...until Leaf collided with her.
Both fell to the ground, Leaf let out a groan while Millie remained unphased.
"Ohmygoshyou'rePyrrhaNikos!" (Oh my gosh, you're Pyrrha Nikos!) she shrieked, this time out of pure excitement.
Pyrrha smiled, clearly uncomfortable, and waved.
"Hello?" she said, backing away from the spot where Leaf and Millie had crashed.
Millie shot up, grabbed a dazed Leaf, and dragged him towards her.
"Leaf! Look, it's that girl from the cover of our favorite cereal!"
"Millie...right now I'm...a bit too dizzy...to see look at anything,"
"But look!"
Leaf shook himself out his dizziness and shook Pyrrha's hand.
"Sorry, Millie here can get a little excited at times,"
"It's fine, things like this happen a lot,"
"Can I have your autograph!?" Millie inquired, unable to contain herself.
"Um...sure? Do you have a pen or anything?"
Millie ran out, not ten seconds later she ran in with a pen in her hand, a confused boy was still attached to it.
"Millie!? For the love of-"
"Our own landing eh? That's gonna be interesting," Leaf silently told himself.
"What was that Mr. Thorne?"
Leaf, startled for a second stammered a bit at Goodwitch's question. To his relief she merely rolled her eyes and continued speaking. Leaf felt someone nudge him, he looked to his side to see Millie giving him her signature, big smile.
"See you when we get down," she mouthed.
Leaf couldn't help but return the grin in response.
Nail, who was positioned a few platforms away from them spoke up.
"We're...going to have to land by ourselves?"
"Yes Mr. Morthen, that won't be a problem will it?" Ozpin replied.
"N-no..." he stammered.
Nail felt a hand on his shoulder, a girl dressed in violet gave him a comforting glance.
It wasn't long before the platforms began to catapult students into the forest.
"Good luck!" Millie exclaimed before disappearing into the air with a loud "WHEEEE!"
Leaf rolled his eyes, and was immediately shot into the air.
"Hmm...how should I land? Maybe I could...no...that wouldn't do,"
...Leaf neared the ground.
"Or I could probably just..."
...
"Nah...I know!"
Leaf took out his weapon, a large green spear he called the, Thorn. Taking aim at the ground the spear suddenly elongated, shooting out from the sky straight into the ground. With it's spear-tip, made out of green energy, it was easy for it to embed itself into ground.
"Okay...now to-"
Performing the opposite of a pole vault, Leaf flew straight to the ground, once he was only a few feet from impact the spear-tip exploded, sending him surging forwards. With the spear-tip reforming and the spear retracting, Leaf, with a short boost, bolted forwards.
"Now, I find Millie,"
Ms. Terrabolt was currently having the time of her life.
"Woo Hoo!" she screamed.
Her weapons, a pair of long metallic claws, golden, were currently unsheathed. Millie aimed at a large tree and swung her arm, her right claw's three blades shot out. A thin, strong rope connected the blades to their container. The blades embedded themselves into the tree's thick bark and soon, Millie found herself shooting in the tree's direction.
The landing was rather smooth from there.
"That was fun, I should catapult myself off cliffs more often!"
While Millie had enjoyed her fall, Nail had not. Landing had been easy, but falling with a fear of heights...had not been.
With the use of a his golden, trusty bow, (That could disconnect into two swords) all it had taken was a few explosive shots and he was fine. He slowly walked forward, bow ready to blast any Grimm that came his way.
With his size, and his looks, (Short blonde hair and black glasses), making friends, like his fall, would not be easy.
Whoever it was, Nail prayed that they'd be merciful.
Synthia, like her last name suggested, had landed gracefully with the use of two large fans, The Violet Vipers.
She strutted forward, taking notice of more of her future classmates landing elsewhere in the forest.
"Here we go," she deadpanned.
A blonde boy could be seen jetting through the air, carried by what looked like Pyrrha's spear.
"...Well, I hope my partner's nice,"
Leaf dashed forward, Thorn in hand. The forest was like a labyrinth, Leaf could see it's tall trees for miles. It would be a while before he spotted Millie, then even longer before he found the Abandoned Temple.
"Wonder where all the Grimm are?" he muttered to himself.
A flash of movement caught his eye. Leaf shot a glance to his right, where he had seen the burst.
"I just had to talk,"
Leaf's Thorn morphed into an green, explosive crossbow. There was another flash of movement, Leaf shot a bolt in its direction, he was rewarded with nothing but a dirt cloud and bits of grass and leaves.
"Come out Grimmy Grimmy Grimmy!" he called.
He shot again, this time at a few rustling shrubs, then again into the trees.
"Oh come on!" Leaf was beginning to get frustrated.
"What kind of Grimm is that smart!?"
And then it hit him, literally.
"Ow!"
Leaf turned around to see an angry Millie.
"You tried to shoot me!"
Leaf rubbed his now sore arm.
"What did you expect to happen!?"
"I was simply joking around!"
"You're joking around...IN THE EMERALD FOREST!?"
Millie studied his flustered expression before erupting into laughter.
"You're right, not the smartest thing to do,"
Leaf stared at her, dumbfounded, before joining her in laughing himself.
"That was fun!" Millie exclaimed, pulling Leaf into a hug.
"One day your crazy antics are gonna get you killed, you know that?" Leaf stated sincerely, returning her affectionate gesture.
"It won't if I have you right there by my side," she replied.
The two pulled apart, their ears picking up a sudden growling. A Beowolf appeared from out of a large bush.
"Hmm, I was expecting more," Millie frowned.
The Grimm let out a growl, several more leapt out from behind him.
"There we go,"
Leaf and Milleth readied their weapons.
"Let's take them out, together," Leaf said with a smile.
"Together!" Millie exclaimed.
The Beowolves each let out a loud roar and charged.
Nail looked around, several Beowolves lay dead around him, each with an arrow sticking out of their head.
"Hmm, that was easier than I thought it was going to be," he thought out loud.
He continued, the Abandonded Temple couldn't be too far away. Surely, he'd be there in no time.
"I'm probably the only student left without a partner," he mumbled.
But that wouldn't make sense, they'd been thrown into the forest in even numbers.
"Well, at least I'm not the only lonely one here,"
Nail sighed, he didn't even know where he was going, after landing he just kept walking straight forward.
"Where is this dumb temple?"
Nail heard a slight "Hmph" from behind him. He spun around, startled by the sight of what looked like a violet ninja.
"This Temple is in no way "dumb" as you put it," the voice was clearly feminine.
Nail was frozen.
"Excuse me?" the girl inquired, walking up to him.
"Are you there?" the girl poked his forehead.
Nail stiffened up.
"S-sorry," he squeaked.
The girl rolled her eyes.
"It's fine, now come on, I guess we're partners," she said, walking away.
Nail reluctantly trailed after her. The girl was at least a foot taller than him.
"So..." Nail started.
The girl raised her hand, gesturing for him to stop.
"Do you hear that?" she asked.
Nail could admit that a small rustling could be heard.
"Probably just a few Grimm, no big," Nail said.
The girl leapt into the trees.
"Well, that was..."
Several Grimm leapt out from the darkness.
"Here we go again," Nail deadpanned.
Millie let out an excited scream, leaping onto the back of a Beowolf and stabbing it repeatedly in the back.
"STAB! STAB! STAB! STAB! STAB!" she screamed.
She flipped off of its back, delivering a flying kick to another one's head. Millie kicked off of it, flying high into the air. She shot out her claws, killing an entire group of the Grimm below her. The claws reformed, Millie grappled to the ground, at break neck speed she slammed herself onto another Beowolf.
Leaf, not too far away, was battling his own group of Beowolves.
Leaf knocked a Beowolf to the ground and jumped back as another one came swiping at him. The Thorn extended, stabbing through the Grimm before having the tip explode. He pulled it back, jabbing another Beowolf in the stomach with its blunt end then smashing the Thorn into the side of its head. Spinning the Thorn in his hand like a bo-staff Leaf knocked several more Grimm onto the floor.
The Thorn morphed into its crossbow form, Leaf shot shot down several targets, even whipping one to the ground. A few more shots and the rest of the Grimm were down.
"Aww," Milleth whined. "The fun's all over,"
"You're crazy, you know that?"
Millie slugged Leaf's arm.
Nail was surrounded, his bow, The Star Striker, was disconnected into its dual saber form. The Beowolves were rushing him, and his partner was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, um...I could really use your help!" he yelled nervously.
A Beowolf came running towards him, Nail quickly slashed at its legs, the Beowolf cried out and fell to its knees, then sliced at its neck. Nail kicked it down, then plunged both sabers into another approaching foe. He abruptly connected the sabers in a bow and shot several more Grimm.
Nail shot,
and shot,
and shot again.
The Grimm were relentless.
There was a rustling behind him, and before Nail could turn to identify it, a powerful swipe sent him sailing several feet away into a tree. Nail cried out at the sudden pain. The Grimm crowded around him, a large Ursa, the one that had attacked him stepped up and roared...
And that was when his partner decided to intervene. She landed behind the Ursa, slashing down its back with one of her large, bladed fans. The large beast groaned before dropping to the ground. She turned around, pulling off her mask, and bent down, putting on hand on his shoulder with a look of concern on her face.
"Sorry, I had wanted to see how you perform in the battlefield," she said, eventually turning and giving the Grimm behind her a cold glare. "You stay and rest, I'll handle these monsters,"
A Beowolf pounced, she quickly spun around, slicing its head clean off with one of her fans.
"The name's Synthia, by the way,"
Synthia bolt forward, cutting the Grimm down with her Violet Vipers. Several Beowolves surrounded her, then jumped for her at the same time. Synthia spun around, Vipers in hand, effectively shredding the Grimm to bits.
Synthia somersaulted backwards, throwing both fans. The Violet Vipers sailed through the air slicing through another horde of Grimm creatures, and then, like boomerangs, they soared back into her hands. Synthia proceeded to terminate any other Grimm left standing.
"Wow," Nail said aloud, marvelling at her talents.
Synthia checked around for more Grimm, seeing that they were currently in the clear, she walked over and helped her partner to his feet.
"You alright?"
"That was amazing!"
Synthia felt the color rise to her cheeks.
"Thanks," she replied, raising her violet hood.
"Why do you wear the hood?" Nail inquired.
Synthia shifted uncomfortably, searching for an answer.
"Its fine if you don't answer, I'm just curious,"
Synthia cleared her throat.
"I...don't really enjoy being stared at,"
"Huh?"
"Let's just say, that when you look like I do, you get a lot of attention...and not for the reason you want to,"
"Oh, I understand,"
"Really?"
"Well, if you haven't noticed, I'm not very tall, everyone thinks that I'd make a horrible hunter, I'm here to prove them wrong,"
Synthia ruffled his hair, resulting in a slight blush from her partner.
"You know, we didn't really get a chance to introduce ourselves,"
Synthia held out her hand.
"I'm Synthia Sora,"
Nail took her hand and shook it.
"Nail Morthen,"
Okay, guys, I think this chapter's long enough. Hope you enjoyed this first part of Team LMNS's adventure. See you next time, I doubt the next chapter will be as long.
Rahne: I know right, 4000 words, that's a new record for you.
Kae: Shut it Rahne.
Rahne: Why don't you make me?
Kae: ...
Rahne: ...
Bye!