Alright, I know I'm not doing the greatest job on this, I just have already been through this once and that kind of makes it bothersome to type it all again you know? So excuse me if it doesn't look like as much work goes into it at times, especially the canon scenes.

So, I have a new rule. Don't like my work? Leave. I won't change because of some hate filled review and I will probably ignore it anyway, because I don't want stress and I don't want to sink into a depression, so ya. Don't post negative reviews, just positive ones, or leave! GOT IT?

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or anything else used or referenced in this fic, I do own the OC's and the fic itself.

"Huh? Where am I?" AJ asked himself as he stood in infinite white.

"In a realm that I couldn't really describe for a mortal." A voice said and AJ turned around to see an angel with long brown hair staring down at him.

"I need you for something, I need all four of you for something." She said in a surprisingly NOT monotone voice, more like a teenager, and motioned around AJ and he looked to see Raymond, Sam, and Isaac all next to him just now standing up.

"GUYS!? Are you all ok?" AJ asked them.

"That depends, where are we?" Sam asked.

"That isn't important, what is important is that you know this: You four are being sent to Remnant." The angel said.

"Wait what?" The four of them said. Two excitedly and two confused.

"It worked with the person my sister sent, but he had too much power and it ended up creating a demon and yada yada yada, you four will have the power split within you, so that won't happen." The angel explained.

"So, why are we being sent to Remnant?" Raymond asked.

"What's Remnant?" Sam asked.

"I'll explain later." AJ said quickly.

"We aren't satisfied with how things went with the pawn my sister sent down, so we are trying again in this world. Despite sending the same person twice, we think sending others with him might change the outcome."

"Wait, so you sent one of US before?" AJ asked.

"Yes, you actually. From another dimension of course, anyway. You must choose your weapons if you want to live in this world. Don't worry, I will give you four adequate training the moment you first grab your own weapon." The angel explained. "Choose whatever you want."

"Ok, um… a lever action rifle that can change into almost any other weapon!" AJ said excitedly.

"Just give me magic!" Raymond said excitedly.

"I know what magic you are thinking of thankfully." The angel said.

"A war axe that can become a modern M14." Isaac said after some thought.

"Two hatchets, actually, two small war axes, and they can become two sawed-off shotguns!" Sam said liking the idea.

"Come on! You guys can do better than that!" AJ taunted.

"Hey! We don't even know anything about this world we are being thrown into!" Isaac said defensively.

"Well, I think it's good enough." Raymond said.

"I suppose." AJ said sighing.

"Alright then, you four will be sent in, and you'll do fine, I'm sure of it!" The angel said proudly. "Oh, and there will also be four pistols placed just for you four, you'll figure that out later."

"Who are you, by the way?" AJ asked.

"If you must know, I am sister of the Angel of Emotion." The angel said. AJ and the others stared at her waiting to finish. "I don't suppose you would believe that there is an Angel of The Elements?" She asked.

"I don't know, are you?" AJ asked crossing his arms and waiting for this angel to get to the point.

"Why would there be an angel for all of the elements?" Isaac asked.

"I've never heard of one." Sam commented.

The angel was growing more and more annoyed with each comment.

"I don't know guys, she might be pulling our legs." Raymond said.

"LOOK! I am the Angel of The Elements! And I am going to give three of you elemental powers to prove it!" The angel said angrily. "You'll find out what they are soon enough though." She said smugly.

"Gee, if she can throw a tantrum, I'm not sure she really is an angel at all." AJ taunted.

"Why only three?" Raymond asked.

"You already have magic, you don't need an element." The angel said simply.

"What about ammo?" Isaac wondered.

"Oh don't worry, it's an anime, you never have to worry about ammo." The angel said simply, again.

"Wait, ANIME!?" Sam asked/yelled.

"K! Have to wipe your memories now! GOOD LUCK!" The angel said happily before waving her hand at them and everything went black.


"Wait, did we even grab a chess piece?" Isaac asked as they got up for their first day of school in Beacon.

"Now that you mention it…" Raymond said.

"No… we didn't…" Sam answered.

"Huh, Ozpin must have snuck them on us so we could stay." Raymond figured.

"Well that was nice of him." Isaac said.

"Alright, we've taken long enough, wake him up already." Sam ordered pointing at AJ who was curled up in a ball in his bed.

"AJ! Wake up!" Raymond yelled, too excited to care about subtlety.

"Agh… fuck you…" AJ groaned from his rude awakening and sat up rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Hurry up. Time for our first day at Beacon!" Raymond said excitedly.

"We have Port's class at the end of the day remember?" AJ pointed out.

"Is it really that bad?" Isaac asked.

"It can't be that bad, right?" Raymond asked.

"Well we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Just figure out what our first class is and where it's at while I use the restroom." AJ said as he walked into the restroom.


After their first class, they had breakfast. They had gotten in line, gotten their food, and were now looking for a table to sit at.

"Let's just find our own table, like we did in the high school." AJ suggested as he looked for an empty table.

"Why not sit with RWBY and JNPR?" Raymond suggested. "Besides, Isaac wasn't there when we did that. Tyler was there instead."

"Oh yeah. But there is supposed to be a bit of a bond between those teams and we would just get in the way." AJ pointed out.

"Hey!" A voice shouted and SWM of SPWM looked around to see who might be calling them. Raymond quickly found Ruby waving them over.

"Looks like Ruby is calling us over." Raymond said to AJ, getting his attention.

"Are you kidding me?" AJ asked, annoyed.

"Nope. Come on, we have to meet them eventually." Raymond said and AJ had no choice but to join them.

"Yang, remember these guys?" Ruby asked her sis as the boys approached them.

"Oh yeah! You were the guys that helped out Ruby! Thanks for that by the way!" Yang said to them.

"It was nothing, really." AJ said simply, still looking for an empty table.

"You guys need a place to sit?" Jaune asked them.

"Well we-" Sam started.

"Yep! I don't suppose you guys have room?" Raymond asked hopefully. AJ and Sam glared at him from both sides but he ignored them.

"Sure! Go ahead and sit down!" Yang said and SPWM took the far end of the table with RWBY following and then JNPR on the other side.

"So, you guys know my sis Ruby, I'm Yang."

"Blake." Blake said looking up from her book for just a moment.

Weiss simply huffed in annoyance. "That's Weiss." Ruby said for her partner.

"I'm Jaune!" Jaune said from the other side.

"Pyrrha."

"NORA! And this is Ren!" Nora said pointing at Ren who nodded at them.

"Hello everyone! I'm Raymond!" He said excitedly. He sat at the very edge of the table on Yang and Ruby's side.

"Isaac." Isaac said. He sat across from Raymond.

"Sam." He said annoyed as he started to eat. He sat right next to Weiss.

"AJ, the guy who naturally looks like he hasn't slept in weeks because he gets maybe 5 hours of sleep." AJ said tiredly and put his head down between his arms. He sat between Yang and Raymond. He also managed to get a chuckle out of two or three people.

"He isn't normally like this." Raymond said pointing at his friend who covered his head with his cloak hood.

"Really? Great, so the first impression is wrong. Now I have to be open minded the next time!" Yang complained overdramatically.

And so everyone introduced themselves and got to know each other a bit, except Weiss who wouldn't speak, Blake who was more focused on her book, and AJ who was catching up on sleep. The one interesting thing that happened was Yang got curious and tried petting AJ while he was sleeping and he purred for a bit before looking up and, while blushing in embarrassment, glaring at her silently so she stopped, but she didn't stop laughing. Eventually they left from the cafeteria to head to their next classes.


"It's that bad…" Raymond complained in his seat in Port's class. The other classes that day had been fine, meeting Oobleck had been… interesting… Goodwitch's class didn't have a spar for the first day, and now they were here…

"Despite smelling of cabbages," Port continued his story that team SPWM drowned out as they talked quietly.

"What is with his moustache though? It's awesome!" Isaac commented.

"And now we'll have to deal with Weiss's fight with the Boarbatusk, and yelling at Ruby." AJ pointed out.

"Should we do something about that?" Isaac asked.

"Nope. It works out in the end." Raymond answered.

"Oh, so… don't fix what isn't broken?" Sam asked.

"Exactly." AJ answered.

"So, who believe themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?" Port asked the class.

"I do sir!" Weiss answered angrily.

"Well then, let's find out! Step forward, and face your opponent!" Port said and pointed to the cage containing the Grimm.

"And here we go." AJ said quietly and sat up to watch.

Weiss went to get dressed in her proper gear before facing her opponent.

"Gooo Weiss!" Yang cheered.

"Fight well!" Blake said as she held a small flag that said RWBY on it.

"Yeah! Represent Team RWBY!" Ruby cheered.

"Ruby! I'm trying to focus!" Weiss scolded.

"Sorry…" Ruby said.

"Alright, let the match… begin!" Port shouted and chopped off the lock for the cage and the boar Grimm charged out of it.

Weiss jumped out of the way and sliced at it as it went by, quickly finding she couldn't break through the armor.

"Haha! Wasn't expecting that were you!?" Port unnecessarily shouted in the background.

The Boarbatusk charged again and Weiss met it half way.

"Hang in there Weiss!" Ruby shouted and distracted Weiss enough so that her weapon was caught by the tusks of the Grimm.

"Bold new approach! I like it!" Port commented.

"Show it who's boss!" Ruby encouraged.

Weiss turned to glare at her and lost her weapon because of it. The Grimm hit her with its tusks and knocked her back.

"Now what will you do without your weapon?" Port questioned.

Weiss dove out of the way of another charge and quickly grabbed her weapon.

"Weiss! Go for its belly! There's no armor underneath-"

"Stop telling me what to do!" Weiss interrupted Ruby who hung her head down.

*Sigh* "It's even more aggravating in person…" AJ commented.

"She was like this in the show?" Isaac asked disbelievingly. AJ nodded.

The Boarbatusk started doing its roll attack at Weiss but ran into a glyph she had made. She made another glyph behind her and used it to launch herself at the Grimm and plunge her rapier into its belly.

"Bravo! Bravo! It appears we are indeed in the presence of a-"

"True huntress in training." AJ mimicked quietly while Port continued. "And now the bell rings." He said so only his team could hear. "Let's just head to our dorm now so I don't have to hear Weiss yell at Ruby." AJ said annoyed and left before any of his friends had a chance to agree or disagree.

(Ok, either the show just skipped to the last class of the day or they have different classes at the end of the day… or maybe they have one long class each day… meh… I don't know)


"And then it ends with 'Be the best person you can be' and all that and eventually Weiss comes back late at night and basically says she's sorry." AJ said as they walked back into their dorm.

"Well, hopefully that is what happens this time." Sam says with a sigh.

"Well the fight scene with the Grimm pretty much like canon." Raymond pointed out.

"Yeah, I'm sure we'll be fine. It's not like any of us would really help the situation." AJ said as he sat back down on his bed.

"So the school actually serves food after classes, like, it's pretty much dinner." Isaac mentioned.

"Oh really?" AJ asked looking up from his bed. "Was never mentioned in the show."

"Yeah. We had lunch like, two classes ago but now they serve for another two hours or so. It's the same stuff as lunch but I think that's dinner." Isaac explained.

"Well I guess one of you could bring me something if you want." AJ said and lied his head back down.

"It's not if we want, it's if you want. You're the one that would go without food tonight." Raymond pointed out.

"Alright, fine. Bring me something then." AJ said dismissively.

"You don't want to come with? RWBY and JNPR are gonna be there." Sam said, figuring AJ and Raymond would be interested in seeing the characters from the show they liked, and wondering why AJ didn't seem so excited.

"Nah, just wake me up if you come back and I'm out." AJ said and rolled away from them.

They eventually came back and found he was still awake.

"You know, they asked where you were." Raymond said as he handed the tray of food to AJ.

"Really? Why?" AJ asked carelessly.

"Well, they actually see us as friends already. They seem to actually care for us and even you despite you not saying anything to them." Raymond explained.

"Why? I'm not that special." AJ said casually with food in his mouth.

"I figured you were the kind of person to say 'We're all special, guys!'" Raymond joked and AJ laughed a bit.

"Heh, I probably am. But I really don't see how I'm that special." AJ said simply.

"Well I'll tell you how special you are." Isaac started. "You know that girl Blake?" AJ nodded. "Well she was the one to ask about you." He said grinning. "And it looked like she didn't mean for the question to slip out, maybe she likes you and was wondering where you were?" He asked while grinning.

"Heh, yeah right. She's always reading, she doesn't care." AJ said like it was a joke.

"I don't know… I think she liked you man, just saying." Isaac finished and went back to his bed.

"Sure, whatever." AJ waved him off.

That night he went up to the roof again and enjoyed the winds and the stars. It actually would end up becoming his routine, he would come up there every night because he couldn't sleep, and sometimes he would even practice swinging his weapon around at imaginary enemies. What he never noticed was Blake had taken to coming up every night as well, and without meaning too her routine became enjoying the breeze on the roof and watching AJ who was on a nearby roof.


Only a few days into the school year Ruby demanded to know what their weapons were and they agreed to show them off after classes. RWBY and JNPR had gotten a good look at each other's weapons during initiation, but not the all guy team's weapons.

Sam went up first.

He started right off by firing his shotguns into a group of bots and demolishing them. He then swapped to axe mode as he cut down the next few.

He dodged a swing for his head by ducking before cutting off the bot's leg and bringing the other blade down on its bland face.

He jumped over a low swing and kicked the bot back. He and the bot both swung their blades and their blades bounced off with sparks flying. His other axe quickly found its chest but it kept moving, getting a punch on him. While he was reeling the bot sliced him and he fell back. He quickly rolled out of the way and cut its arm off while it was reeling and with no weapon to protect itself he cut its head off.

He saw another three coming at him and he threw his left axe right into one's head. He switched his other axe to shotgun mode and took out one of the approaching bots while he ran and retrieved his thrown axe. He quickly switched the shotgun back to axe mode and used both axes to block the last bot's overhead sword strike. Sam jumped away from a kick and used his Semblance to create red water from his hand and blasted it out with such force that it went right through the bot's chest.

"I think that's enough for now." Sam said casually. He didn't really care for fighting but knew he had to in this world. He walked back to the others and Ruby went crazy over his weapons, meanwhile…

Isaac went up next.

He pulled out Silent Antagonist, his menacing looking, spiked war axe. He started off with and overhead swing that cut a bot right down the middle before it was close enough to hit him.

He turned to his right to see a bot already mid swing and he blocked it with the shaft of his weapon before jumping away from it to get a good distance to swing. The bot kept rushing him and not giving him the benefit of distance.

He eventually realized he wasn't going to get away from it so he used the shaft of his weapon again to block the strike, then mecha-shifted his weapon to rifle mode and fired point blank into its head. He turned and shot another few bots before they even got close, then three finally got close enough and he went back to war axe mode.

He twirled the weapon above his head to get them to back up, he abruptly stopped the spin and swung downward on one bot like when he had started, but this one actually put its sword up to block the blade. It was pushing as hard as it could against Isaac but Isaac was pushing harder, so the other two bots charged to help.

Isaac's Aura took the first hit before he jumped back and out of their attacks, they both continued the charge and he continued to back up and parry attacks with his large weapon. Unfortunately he left himself open and was hit a few times before he grew frustrated and used his Semblance.

His brown eyes turned light blue and he punched the ground with this right hand shooting blue flame out and forcing the two bots back, the third finally joined back into the fight. Isaac channeled his Semblance into his weapon shown by blue flame that came out of the blade. He did another twirl above his head and this time used it for a horizontal swing, the bots all put up their swords to block it but the fire allowed the war axe to go right through their blades and he took out all three with the one swing.

He simply grinned and slowed his breathing for a moment before heading back to the others and facing Ruby's weapon nerdness.

"I don't actually have a weapon, I have my Semblance. Let me show you." Raymond said confidently and walked out.

Raymond simply stood still adjusting his trench coat while the bots slowly approached him, when they got within a few meters he suddenly waved his arms and a bunch of purple sickles cut the closest ones into pieces.

The bots now took action and charged him, so he created a sword and held it in his right hand.

He leaned out of the first vertical swing and blasted it away with his free left hand. He swung out at the one on his right and it blocked his attack, he quickly jumped back before the bot on his right could take advantage of it. He used both hands to create a war hammer and used it to smash them both before creating a wall to block an attack from behind and bringing out his right sword again.

He let the wall fall and swung diagonally at the bot which parried and countered with a lunge. Raymond jumped to the side and stabbed it quickly before it tried to swing at him and he jumped just out of range. It jumped at him with a vertical swing and he created a small shield on his left arm to block it and swing out horizontally, to which the bot jumped away.

'This one is smarter, I guess some must be on higher settings than others.' Raymond thought.

He realized one was sneaking up on his left and he put his hand out towards the bot in a palm strike and a purple spike shot out and met the bot's head. The other bot used this chance to get close and jumped again, Raymond simply leaned to the side leaving the bot open and cut it in half horizontally.

He turned around quickly and raised his shield to block the blade he heard moving behind him, the blade was dark brown. He looked through his shield and saw AJ smiling at him competitively.

"I figured I should show what I can do, against you." AJ said pushing harder.

"Alright then!" Raymond agreed and attacked with his sword in a horizontal swing.

AJ simply used his right sword to block the swing to his left before turning the sword and holding it reverse to lunge at Raymond's chest. Raymond took a step back to stay out of range and removed the shield on his left arm. AJ turned the sword back to the way you normally hold it, but as he did that it had mecha-shifted to the rifle form and he fired once, hitting Raymond in the shoulder.

Raymond took the initiative and jumped forward, swinging vertically, AJ leaned to the right and dodged it before swinging horizontally at Raymond's chest. Raymond leaned back before firing a purple energy blast from his left hand.

AJ didn't dodge fast enough and took the hit just barely keeping himself from being knocked down by it. He pulled out the pistol and fired it left handed.

Raymond quickly created a small floating shield with his left hand before removing it to lunge forward.

AJ turned the pistol into a small shield to block the lunge, he suddenly spun to his right, turning the shield into another one-handed sword that just missed Raymond's face by an inch because he leaned back. AJ continued the spin and brought his right sword around using the spin for momentum and swinging horizontally left to right. Raymond leaned back again, thinking the attacks were done he leaned forward to use another energy blast from his left hand. AJ had turned the left sword back to pistol form and fired it from the hip as his 360 came to an end. The shot got Raymond right in the gut and he bent over from the hit. AJ brought the right sword back to his side and put it back in rifle form and fired point blank, then while using the lever action to turn his rifle into a hatchet, he turned his pistol, which was high above his head with some help from recoil, back into shield form and brought it down to smack Raymond in the head with it. Then used the hatchet to trip him and he put one foot on his chest pointing his shield-now-pistol at his face.

"Heh… why should I stop now? I still have Aura." Raymond commented smiling despite the pain he felt in quite a few places.

"Because when your opponent puts you in a position like this it's considered a 'win' for them." AJ said grinning. Raymond chuckled and AJ raised an eyebrow before looking around and seeing Raymond wasn't putting his hands up in surrender, no there were large floating spikes around AJ poised to take him out.

"Why don't we… call it a draw?" Raymond said slowly as he was still breathing a bit heavily.

AJ chuckled. "Sure." Before helping his friend up and the spikes disappeared.

"That… was… awesome! What kind of weapon is that!? I've never seen it before! Can I hold it!?" Ruby was talking a mile a minute.

"Calm down sis." Yang said grabbing Ruby before she could lunge AJ for his weapon.

"That was pretty cool fight guys!" Isaac commented.

"You ok Raymond?" Sam asked.

"Yeah. Aura, man, it makes everything better." Raymond said grinning while clutching his side.

"My weapons can turn into a few different things, not gonna say what though, you'll just have to find out later." AJ teased grinning while he set his pistol back in its holster and putting his rifle on his back where it belongs.

"And I just have my Semblance make whatever I want." Raymond explained.

Various comments were made on how cool everyone's weapons were and such before everyone went their separate ways for the day.


"Alright, it's been like, four weeks already! When are Cardin and Jaune gonna have their match?" AJ asked quietly as they walked to Glynda's dueling class.

It had been a few weeks, they had all started to get used to being in the world and the school's schedule. Sam was still irate about being here but he was doing better, AJ and Raymond still hadn't gotten over how cool everything was, Isaac was doing perfectly fine with few complaints.

"Hopefully canon continues soon so we can get on with it!" Raymond said.

"Yeah, we thought it was a long time waiting for the next episode, try actually going through the actual time between each episode in the world!" AJ complained.

After going over this every day for the past two weeks, today was finally the day that something canon happened!

Jaune took a breather before charging Cardin with a war cry, Cardin easily dodged it and knocked him down with his mace. Jaune stood up again, this time with only his sword, and charged with another war cry. Cardin blocked it and began pushing Jaune down.

"This is the part, where you lose." Cardin said.

"Over my dead-" Jaune was interrupted by a knee to the gut.

Cardin wielded his mace over his head preparing to hit Jaune while he was down when a buzzer sounded and the lights came back on.

"Cardin, that's enough." Glynda said calmly. She walked up to the edge of the stage to address the class.

"Students, as you can see. Mr. Arc's Aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament style duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle, and that the official may call the match." Glynda explained. "Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now. Please try to refer to your Scroll during combat. Gauging your Aura will help you decide when it is appropriate to attack, or when it is better to move to a more… defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you getting gobbled up by a Beowolf, now would we?"

"Speak for yourself." Cardin said before walking off the stage.

"Remember everyone! The Vytal festival is only a few months away! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms begin arriving in Vale, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale." Glynda explained when the bell rang and everyone began leaving the amphitheater.

"It never gets old seeing canon happen right before me." AJ commented as they started to leave.

"No kidding." Raymond agreed.


"So, there we were, in the middle, of the night." Nora began.

"It was day." Ren calmly corrected.

"We were surrounded by Usai."

"They were Beowolves."

"Dozens of them!"

"Two of them."

"But they were no match! And in the end, Ren and I took them down! Making a boatload of lien selling Ursa skin rugs!" Nora finished proudly.

"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." Ren explained.

"This is canon?" Isaac asked Raymond quietly from across the table.

"Yep." Raymond said nodding.

"Jaune? Are you ok?" Pyrrha asked.

"…Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?" Jaune asked, clearly distracted.

"It's just that… you seem a little… not, ok…" Ruby explained hesitantly.

Jaune notices everyone is staring at him now. "Guys, I'm fine. Seriously! Look! Hehe…" He said as he threw up a thumbs up and a lame smile.

Everyone turned to the sound of laughter and noticed Cardin and his team picking on Velvet, a rabbit Faunus girl. AJ disliked it in the show, but seeing it in front of him was different… and he didn't like it…

"Jaune, Cardin has been picking on you since the first week of school!" Pyrrha mentioned.

"Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah! He just liked to mess around, you know! Practical jokes!" Jaune defended lamely.

"He's a bully." Ruby pointed out.

"And you know it, Jaune." AJ said.

"Oh please! Name one time he's 'bullied' me." Jaune requested and got three quick answers.

"I didn't land that far from the school!" Jaune defended.

"Jaune, you know if you ever need help you can just ask!" Pyrrha said.

""We'll break his legs!"" AJ and Nora both shouted and stood up, Raymond and Ren both set them back down.

"Guys! Really! It's. Fine. Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me! He's a jerk to everyone." Jaune said standing up and leaving with his food tray.

"Ow! That hurts!" Velvet cried out as her rabbit ears were pulled on by Cardin who laughed along with his friends.

"See! They are real!"

"What a freak!"

"Haha!"

"Nope! Not standing for it!" AJ said simply as he suddenly stood up and began walking down the rows of tables. 'This is one part of canon I don't mind changing.'

"AJ! Stop!" Raymond shouted and put a purple pillar in AJ's way. AJ smoothly spun around it not losing momentum.

"Just let him, Raymond." Sam said.

"Yeah, the guy deserves it." Isaac agreed.

"I know but he can't do this right now!" Raymond said as he tried blocking AJ with another pillar and he spun around it again.

"I'm not standing for it… I'm not standing for it… I. Will. Not… STAND FOR IT!" AJ shouted and punched Cardin in the face and knocking him flat.

Dead silence throughout the cafeteria.

"Oh, I see the animals take care of each other." Cardin commented smiling.

"Back off, you idiot!" AJ demanded.

Cardin's teammates went to surround AJ and AJ showed his claws making them back off a step.

"Get out of here… now." AJ demanded and growled at them. He didn't notice his yellow Aura begin glowing on his hands and sparking slightly, Cardin's teammates backed off from this but Cardin was willing to stand tall.

"Why should I? An animal like you can't do anything to me!" Cardin said with a cocky tone.

"Oh really?" AJ asked tilting his head slightly. "Wanna test that!?" He growled evilly and now sparks were actively coming from his claws and his bright green and gold eyes had turned yellow and were faintly glowing.

Cardin took a defiant and stupid step forward, he met the floor real quick, so did AJ as they had both been stopped by Glynda.

"Both of you! My office! Now!" Glynda demanded. AJ tried his hardest to not vent his new energy on her and calmed down slightly.

"So? What happened?" What remained of teams SPWM and JNPR along with all of RWBY, asked when AJ came back.

"Let me off with a warning since I was defending Velvet, didn't say what she did with Cardin." AJ said still irate about everything.

The bell rang then signaling them to go to their next class.

"Hey, can I talk with you for a minute?" Blake asked AJ while they were heading to their next class.

"Yes?" AJ asked as they took some distance from the others.

"What happened? I get that you were angry, but I thought you said that stuff didn't anger you." Blake asked.

"To me? I don't care! To others? Fuck that! I'm stopping that jerk!" AJ explained angrily.

"Why?" Blake asked.

"Because I'm used to it, and I don't care if people do it to me. If people do it to others I'm going to stop them!"

"That doesn't explain why you seem to put others before yourself." Blake said.

"Because they are more important! They are the ones that don't deserve anything like that, the ones that should have someone help them!"

"And you don't deserve that? With such a selfless idea as that, you don't deserve help?"

"I don't need it! Or want it!"

"You didn't strike me as one of those people that would put himself down." Blake commented.

"I can take care of myself and I don't need anyone's help!" AJ said before walking away.

"Well… clearly you do…" Blake said to herself before going to catch up with them.


Blake found it hard to focus in Ooblecks class for one reason… AJ wasn't focusing.

She had, for some reason unknown to her, been looking at AJ when he was around, and when you do that you tend to learn about that person. She found herself thinking she knew more about him than even Raymond seemed to know but she didn't know why she was proud about something like that… anyway. She had noticed he seemed to like History, he always focused in history class, never answered any questions willingly, but she could tell he was shy so that wasn't a surprise, he also would even tell his friends to be quiet when Doctor Oobleck was speaking, so the fact that he seemed frustrated and uncaring now made her feel bad about her talk with him earlier.

She wanted to help him, cheer him up, but he made it clear he didn't want help. Maybe because he was shy and he didn't want her attention on him? The way he seemed to make others seem more important than him, he might think he isn't worth her time, and she couldn't stand that he might actually think that.

How do you help someone that doesn't want help? The obvious idea that came to mind first was force her way in, become a friend and talk to him. Friend… That raised another thought, maybe ask his friends for help, or to do it themselves? They seemed to all share some sort of secret though, they avoid parts of their pasts, and all that left her unsure if they would be willing to talk about his past and help her help him. She wanted to know why he would act like that though… Maybe she really should just bring it up to them, let them handle it…

With some form of a plan in mind Blake went back to focusing on the class, especially since a question was being asked.

"Who can tell me the advantage the Faunus had over the General's forces in Fort Castle?" Oobleck asked.

"Hey!" Jaune complained.

"Mr. Arc! Finally contributing to class I see! This is excellent! Excellent! What is the answer?" Oobleck asked.

"The advantage… the Faunus… had… over that guys stuff." Jaune said to himself and Blake noticed Pyrrha making motions trying to give him the answer. "Binoculars!" Jaune said and the class laughed.

"Very funny, Mr. Arc!" Oobleck said unamused. "Cardin! Perhaps you would like to share your thoughts on the subject?"

"Here we go…" AJ said sighing.

"Well I know it's a lot easier to train an animal, than a soldier." Cardin commented.

"You aren't the most open-minded of individuals, are you Cardin?" Pyrrha asked with just a tinge of annoyance in her voice.

"What? You got a problem?" Cardin asked as if he was threatening.

"No, I have the answer, it's night vision. Many Faunus are known to have near perfect sight in the dark." Pyrrha said.

"Excellent! Mr. Raymond! You don't contribute to class much, why don't you elaborate on how night vision led to the General's defeat?" Oobleck suddenly asked.

"Oh! Um… Sure!" Raymond said suddenly feeling like everyone was watching him, and absolutely caught off guard by the break in canon!

"The General thought he could ambush the Faunus in their sleep, so he snuck in at night and the fight quickly turned away from his favor and he was captured." Raymond prayed he didn't stutter and any point. AJ suddenly smiled. "Perhaps if he had paid attention in class he would have remembered something like that, and not have been remembered as such a failure." He commented and very obviously looked at Cardin, who was on the other side of the class room, causing him to stand up in anger.

"Mr. Winchester, please find your seat." Oobleck said and Jaune laughed. "You AND Mr. Arc will stay after class for additional readings."

"Aww…" Jaune said.

"Moving on!" Oobleck stated before dashing off to another part of the class.

"You just had to say that didn't you?" Raymond asked.

"Yep!" AJ whispered smiling and giving a thumbs up. "That face? When you are the one that caused it? So worth it!"

Eventually class ended and they all filled out except for Cardin and Jaune.

"Heh, you know? I'm feeling pretty good right now! Gonna head to the library and find something funny to read, see you guys tomorrow!" AJ said leaving his friends to simply head to their dorm without a member.

Blake saw her chance to do something about AJ.

"Hey, can I talk to you guys for a minute?" Blake asked Raymond, Sam, and Isaac.

"Oh! Sure! What do you need?" Raymond asked while the others turned to watch.

"Look, AJ looks happy now, but he was pretty angry at the start of the class. Can you tell me why?" Blake asked.

"Why do you ask?" Isaac asked smiling in a way that Blake was used to seeing on Yang and immediately didn't trust.

"I'm just curious." Blake said smoothly.

"He already explained that he doesn't like stupidity, racism is really stupid to him." Raymond explained.

"That doesn't explain why he reacted so violently. He never got that angry when Cardin antagonized him, he just calmly told Cardin to leave or shrugged him off. He never went straight to violence like that, not even a threat first." Blake pointed out.

"I don't know, I guess he just doesn't like it when it happens to others." Raymond said shrugging.

Blake wasn't sure if he was being vague or if he actually didn't know, and if he didn't know than what was she going to do!?

"Alright. See you tomorrow." Blake said and turned to leave… to the library. 'He just told me what AJ already said! This is actually really frustrating!'


She went to the library, found AJ still looking around for books, so she sat down at a nearby table. AJ noticed her presence, she knew because of one of his cat ears twitched, and when he found a book he took to a separate table away from her.

She noticed he would glance up at her every once and a while, clearly he was too shy to ever come over, so she moved over to his table and sat down without a word. She could tell he wondered why she had done that but was trying to ignore her. He had stopped laughing from the book he was reading though and was clearly a little tense.

"Hey." Blake finally spoke up after some time.

"Yeah?" AJ asked not looking from his book.

"I'm sorry for making you angry earlier." Blake said.

"I wasn't angry at you." AJ said glancing at her for a moment.

"You know, you could talk to us if you ever needed help." Blake suggested with an unusually soft voice.

"Which I don't." AJ responded.

"You do, you just don't want it." Blake corrected.

"You aren't wrong." AJ said simply.

"Can you please look at me when you talk to me?" Blake asked. AJ reluctantly looked up at her.

There was a long pause where they were both just staring at each other.

"Why don't you look anyone in the eyes when you talk to them?" Blake asked suddenly.

"What?" AJ feigned ignorance.

"You don't look at anyone in the eyes for long when you talk to them, not even your own team. You look at other things like a book, or your food, or the class. If you ever have an actual long conversation with someone you only look at them briefly before looking at other things." Blake explained. 'I believe I read in a book that meant he was insecure… I might be wrong.'

AJ remained silent and looked back at his book which he set down, trying to think of a reason.

"I just…" He stopped when Blake grabbed him by the chin and turned him to look at her again. They both blushed slightly.

"Please… please look at me when you talk." Blake asked, more like pleaded, and it kind of confused AJ.

"Sorry." AJ said truthfully, his Faunus ears hanging down.

"And that too! You say sorry for everything, like you've done something seriously wrong." Blake pointed out.

"Is that a bad thing?" AJ asked trying to defend himself.

"I didn't say it was. I'm just pointing out what I've noticed with you. For the simplest requests that we say no to or that we don't have time for, you say sorry in a way that is borderline overdramatic." Blake explained.

"I just feel like I was a bother and I feel bad about it." AJ said looking down slightly before Blake forced him to look back at her again, both of them blushing slightly more.

"You aren't a bother, stop putting yourself down." Blake requested.

What they didn't realize is that for the next half hour they both just stared at each other and when Blake finally realized this (not how long, just that they had been staring at each other) and blushed heavily and let go of him.

"Blake?" AJ asked blushing as well.

"Yeah?..." Blake asked, suddenly the one that couldn't look him in the eyes.

"If it means anything… I'm sorry for acting the way I was… It doesn't change my beliefs, but I'm sorry." AJ said.

"Ok. I guess I feel a little bit better now. I just was hoping to get you stop thinking that way." 'And I'm not gonna stop trying.' Blake thought.

They both took their books and went back to their own dorms at that point, it would end up being their new thing to do after classes, find a table to sit at and read books, rarely saying anything, just the presence of the other person being enough comfort for them.

Blake was glad to have befriended him and was hoping someday to get him to stop putting himself down, but she kept reminding herself to be patient.


There were two things often talked about now at the table, how AJ and Blake were always going to the library after classes and they all wondered what happened there. Yang had tried to find out but being that they were both Faunus they could hear Yang coming and would glare at her when she came around so spy on them, saying she would be loud and bothersome for them while they were trying to read so she would leave. She saw nothing, but assumed there was more than what she saw.

The other thing that they talked about, or used too, was Jaune always hanging around Cardin now. Pyrrha didn't seem to like talking about it so they went back to talking about the possible couple they might have soon and Yang had taken to tease them whenever she could.

"So, anything happen in the library?" Yang would ask.

"No." AJ and Blake would answer. They had grown bored of Yang's constant teasing and it didn't even make them blush anymore, unless Yang got more suggestive. Otherwise it was just plain annoying for them.


"So, I know what to expect from Yang asking, so I am gonna ask you now, in our room, where Yang and the other's aren't here." Raymond said as he had a very rare moment of seriousness.

"Ok, what then?" AJ asked.

"Are you and Blake going out at all?" Raymond asked.

AJ sighed annoyed. "No, we aren't. We are just becoming friends lately. Not like anything more would ever happen…" He mumbled the last part.

"Good, cause something like that would make it more difficult to go back to Earth." Raymond said.

"It ain't gonna happen on Earth, it ain't gonna happen on Remnant." AJ said depressed.

"Hey, don't be like that." Raymond said putting a reassuring hand on AJ's shoulder.

"Look, don't worry. It won't happen so you have nothing to worry about. I'm just worried how Ozpin is going to get us back if we don't even know how we got here." AJ pointed out.

"I think he'll figure it out. Ozpin seems like someone who can manage something like that." Raymond said confidently.

"Hopefully." AJ said.


And suddenly, after two weeks of bonding with AJ, he suddenly stopped coming to the library. Blake started looking for him and found him cutting down bots in the training rooms. She wanted to know what was wrong but he suddenly seemed very angry and wouldn't answer her.

Day after day she would find him taking his anger out on the training bots and she hated that he seemed so angry now. Just when she thought she was getting to him, something happened and now he won't talk to her.

He sliced a bot in half vertically, before taking off the head of another. Then he tackled one down and stabbed its 'face' with a dagger, then he stood up and cut off both the arms of another bot before taking his pistol and shooting it in the face like it was some execution. He put a lot of force into every swing and she decided to just leave him to vent each time. Even though the fact that he needed to vent everyday meant it wasn't actually helping.

Eventually the field trip to Forever Fall happened and as she walked with her team she noticed him, along with everyone else, gazing in awe at the red trees.

"Yes students the forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful, but, we are not here to sightsee." Glynda said as she walked at the front of the group.

Both Raymond and AJ had the same thought, the show doesn't truly show how beautiful this place really is. Then again, the show looks like an anime but here everything looks like real life. Actually, it would have been weird if everything looked like it did in the show… especially seeing each other as anime characters… that would be really weird. Ruby still had her anime like cuteness regardless.

"Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from the trees deep inside this forest, and I'm here to make sure none of you die while doing so." Glynda said before stopping and turning around.

"Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap, however, this forest is filled with the creatures of Grimm, so stick close to your teammates. We will rendezvous back here at four o'clock, have fun!" Glynda finished.

"Come on buddy! Let's go." Cardin said and grabbed Jaune.

Raymond, AJ, and Pyrrha all sighed before moving on.

"So, we're just supposed to collect this sap?" Sam asked, confused.

"That is what Glynda said to do." AJ said, annoyed. 'Like really, that's just a stupid question!'

Blake glanced over at AJ occasionally, she had taken to really caring about his wellbeing and was concerned about how AJ was starting to get over the looks of the forest and was getting irritated again. While everyone was distracted doing their job, she noticed AJ walk off on his own, so she followed him.

He just seemed to be making himself angrier, mumbling and punching the air in frustration. She couldn't stand it for some reason and finally approached him.

"Whatever you are doing, you are just making yourself angrier, so stop!" Blake said, concerned.

"It's hard to ignore something that will follow you for the rest of your life!" AJ replied angrily.

"Please AJ, I know you don't want it but please, just talk to me and let me help you." Blake requested.

"I can't talk to you about it, I'm sorry." AJ said turning away from her.

"No, look at me when you talk to me." Blake demanded and grabbed him, turning him around. "Why can't you?"

"It's not important." AJ said simply.

"Don't give me that!" Blake shouted and shoved him. "You are important to me and I can't stand seeing you like this! Tell me!" Blake pleaded.

"…What?" AJ asked astonished.

"What?" Blake asked confused.

"What you just said." AJ answered.

"Wha-" Blake stopped realizing what she just said and blushed. "Look! Just tell me why you-"

"Everything ok? I heard yelling." Yang asked as she parted a few bushes and saw Blake and AJ. "Oh! Uh… bad time?" She teased and left.

AJ growled in annoyance before walking back to the others, away from her. "You wouldn't get it." He said as he left.

"But… I think I do… I think I know exactly what the problem is…" Blake said to herself before following him.

"Ursa! Ursa!" Someone yelled before Yang could tease the two.

"What!? Where!?" Yang asked.

"Back there! It's got Cardin!" The student who AJ realized was the mohawked guy on Cardin's team, yelled pointing where he came from. 'He didn't get grabbed by Yang this time, oh well. Not important.'

"Jaune!" Pyrrha realized.

"Yang, Blake, go get Professor Goodwitch!" Ruby ordered.

"Ren, Nora, go with them! And be careful, there could be more!" Pyrrha warned.

"Team SPWM will save the day!" Raymond shouted as Isaac and Sam prepared their weapons.

"YEAAH!" AJ shouted holding his rifle above his head. 'Kind of silly seeing as we aren't gonna do anything.'

They ran and got there just in time to see Jaune defend Cardin from a killing blow with his shield. The Ursa Major towering over them.

"Wait." Pyrrha, Raymond, and AJ all said to the others.

"I wanna see him pull this off." AJ said smiling even though he already knew the result.

Jaune slashed at the Grimm, making it stagger back, before clawing at Jaune. Jaune dove to the left to dodge, before jumping to dodge the sweeping slash, leaving him open to by hit in mid-air. He landed in a roll and jumped at the Ursa. It hit him while he was still in the air (Like Ryan) and sent him flying past.

He got up again and looked at his Scroll to see his Aura was in the red, the Ursa stopped before him. They both charged each other and that was went Pyrrha used her Semblance to make sure Jaune's shield blocked the strike leaving the Grimm open for decapitation.

"Whoa!" Isaac commented catching what happened.

"Um… what?" Ruby was confused.

"How did you?" So was Weiss.

"Well, you guys have elements and purple energy, Ruby has speed, and you, Weiss, have your glyphs, my Semblance is polarity." Pyrrha stated.

"Whoa, you can control poles." Ruby said in awe and team SPWM laughed.

"No you dunce! It means she has control over magnetism!" Weiss corrected.

"Magnets are cool too…" Ruby said to herself.

"Hey, isn't this the first time Semblances are mentioned in canon?" AJ asked.

"Oh yeah! I completely forgot about that!" Raymond realized.

"Where are you going?" Weiss asked Pyrrha and team SPWM.

"Yeah, we gotta tell them what happened!" Ruby agreed.

"We could… or perhaps, we could keep it our little secret!" Pyrrha suggested.

"I'm up for that! Sure!" AJ said.

"Yeah." Raymond said, nodding.

"If you say so." Sam said.

"Alright." Isaac agreed.

And so they went back to find Glynda, make up some lie about how everything went fine, and head back to the school.


A few days later, there had still been no improvement between Blake and AJ and it was tension that everyone else noticed now.

After classes AJ and Blake had started walking towards the library again and Blake hoped maybe AJ was going to cheer up and talk to her.

He didn't.

It seemed like something was eating at him, and she wouldn't know until after their reading time when they were about to go their separate ways to their dorms.

"Blake, I'm just gonna get this over with… do you like me as more than a friend or not?" He asked simply, he tried his hardest not to hold onto hope.

"W-What?" Blake was too surprised by this sudden question to answer.

"It's simple, do you like me as more than a friend or not?"

"I… um… well… I don't… w-what about you? Do you… like me that way?" Blake asked hesitantly.

"I'm certain." He said leaning towards her. "And I always make sure that I am never certain because I could always be wrong."

"Then how do you know?" Blake asked.

"Because I find myself drawn to you. My eyes are drawn to you, I want to be around you, it's hard to look away from you. That's why I don't look you in the eyes more than anyone else, because your eyes are so beautiful, everything about you I find beautiful, your face, your hair, your voice, your laugh which I have only heard once, your smile, your very presence, everything, but your eyes more than anything. I have never been so sure of anything in my life, I am in love with you, no doubt about it." He said smiling. "So please, just get it over with and tell me if you do or not so we can be together or I can just drop it." He said gaining a serious face again.

Never had someone looked so conflicted in all of Earth and Remnant's history. AJ couldn't help but wonder why she was so conflicted, what could make her want to say yes if she doesn't or no when she does? What could be making it so difficult?

It certainly was the hardest decision Blake had ever made, she knew what she wanted, and what she felt needed be said, just one problem:

They weren't the same thing.

And so… she made her decision…

"I'm sorry… But I don't think I like you that way…"

I can't stop grinning, I'm sorry. (oddly enough I'm listening to I'm So Sorry by Imagine Dragons right now) I always hated BIG cliffhangers, now I know why those bastards did them! I CAN'T STOP GRINNING!

Those of you who don't hate this story and actually are following this, OOOHHH you must hate me right now! XD HAHA!

I don't usually do cliffhangers, usually the 10000 mark has been at the end of something or after it ended with no time for a cliffhanger on the next thing, not that I want to do a cliffhanger anyway, this time I make an exception. It's only 9759 but I'm ending it now because I decided to.

I'M SO SORRY!~

Can't say I didn't go a different way with the romance this time! Hehe…

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