Yay chapter two. It actually only took me two days of writing to finish this, even if I was watching copious amounts of anime at the same time and staying up late. Anyway, continuing where the last chapter left off, enjoy.

Chapter 2: Darkened Night


Ruby Rose bit her nails nervously as she rode the elevator up to the headmaster's office. Were they in trouble? They couldn't be in trouble, they hadn't done anything wrong! Maybe… "Yang, what did you do?!"

"What?! I didn't do anything!" Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's older sister, wasn't as nervous as Ruby, but she was curious about why they were being called up to Professor Ozpin's office, as well as Team JNPR. It did look like Ruby had forgotten they'd been called up too.

"Be quiet dolt!" The teams resident Ice Queen, Weiss Schnee, yelled scolding the team's' leader. Honestly, having a fifteen-year-old leader could be very irritating sometimes. But she had said she'd trust her to be a good leader, so all she could do now is try to help her.

Blake Belladonna, the quietest of the team of the team just sighed, ignoring the argument that was now growing inside the small metal box. She just wanted to know what they were being called up for, and Team JNPR as well.

Eventually, the elevator doors dinged, and Ruby shot out, rose petals flying off of her as she used her semblance until she skid to a stop in front of Ozpin's desk. "HelloProfessorOzpinwhydidyoucallusupherewe'resosorryforwhateverwedidwedidn'tdoanythingwrongweallblameYangforit!"

"Hey!"

Professor Ozpin put down his mug of coffee, a smile on his face. "Calm down Miss Rose, you and your team aren't in any trouble."

"Oh. Well, okay. You can, um, ignore that whole rant thing… yeah." Ruby rocked back and forth on her heels, pulling the hood of her cloak forward to cover her blushing cheeks.

"How did you understand any of that, Yang?" Ruby gasped and turned to see what most of the school considered Team RWBY's sister team, even though two of the members, including the leader, were male. In fact, it was that leader who was talking to the buxom blonde of Team RWBY now. "I mean, I could barely understand any of that…"

"Eh, I'm used to it Jaune. Older sibling sense, you know?"

"I guess."

"Hi, guys! How'd you get here before us?"

"We were walking back to our dorms when Professor Goodwitch let us know that the Headmaster wanted us all to go to his office, so we were already nearby."

"Miss Nikos, I believe the headmaster would like to tell you all why he called you here now."

"Sorry Miss Goodwitch…"

Professor Ozpin waited until the two teams had been quieted down and then stood up, bringing up a video of the golden portal and the golden shape that had crashed into the forest. Both teams watched in shocked silence as the massive dust cloud shot up, showing just how heavy the object was. The video feed then changed to a damaged camera lodged into one of the trees, that had a very static filled shot. In the shot, a large golden claw and parts of what looked like a wing were lying limp on the ground, whatever they were attached to out of view. With a knocked over tree lying right next to the leg, everyone could see the leg itself was around ten feet long, and several feet thick.

"Whoa!" Yang had her hands up, a large grin on her face. Now that looks like it'd be fun to fight!"

"Be serious Yang, If that's only its leg, It might be even bigger than the Nevermore we fought at Initiation. And we almost died fighting that!"

"Naw, It'll be fine!" The hammer-wielding maiden of Team JNPR, Nora, exclaimed. "Because we can go after it together!"

The only other male on the team sighed, Ren both amused and exasperated at his partners' energy. "I suppose if all of us fought it together, we could have a chance." He turned to the headmaster, who was watching him with a knowing smile. "Because that's what you called us up here for isn't it? You want us to go find out what that thing was, don't you." It wasn't even a question, just a statement.

"Correct Mister Ren, but that wasn't the end of the video." He pressed play, and the video continued. The leg and wing were still lying there until sounds came from out of view of the camera. Moments later, the leg and wing were cloaked in a deep red aura and were sucked away, off-screen. The students began freaking out until Ozpin shushed them. "Now, let me show you the same thing with the audio uncorrupted.

The scene played out again, but this time a man's voice was heard. "... You Necrozma… Saved us." After, growling noises sounded out, presumably from the creature, which from the context clues they were given, was named Necrozma. Moments later, the red aura appeared again, and the leg and wing disappeared.

"So that creature has a name?" Blake had finally spoken up, and while she still looked bored, there was an intrigued glint in her eye.

"Perhaps." Ozpin took a sip from his coffee mug and placed it back on the desk. "We don't have enough data to tell for sure, but that also wasn't the end." The video began playing again, and this time from another camera, by a small stream. It showed the back of, apparently, the man who had been talking before. He had several objects in his hands and was filling them with water from the stream. After he was done, he turned around and began walking off screen. The brim of his hat covered most of his face, but his outfit was clearly visible, including what everyone assumed was his weapon, the staff with a sapphire orb and metallic ring.

Glynda turned on the scroll she held in her hands and began tapping at the screen. "Your objective is to take a bullhead to the crash site of the creature and the man and find him. I will be going with you, in case the creature is still there, or if there are larger amounts of Grimm than normal, as the crash may have attracted them."

"Sounds like fun!" Yang pounded her fists together, Ember Celica unfolding as she did so. "I kinda hope we get to fight the thing!"

Weiss sighed and nodded to the headmaster. "We'll make sure she doesn't destroy anything, you can count on us, Professor."

"I'm sure I can." He hid a smile behind his mug and pressed a few buttons on his desk. "A bullhead is waiting on the landing pads, Do be careful."

The two team leaders nodded, with Ruby giving a playful salute. Both teams piled into the elevator, with the deputy headmistress following them.


"HOLY CRAP!"

Sapphire winced at the volume of the yell, it being so loud that it knocked him out of his stunned state. It also agitated his headache, and he glared at Noct. Noct looked at Sapphire and saw his glare, and began to fume. "Don't get angry at me for yelling! The freaking moon is BROKEN!"

"We have to calm down, and think about this logically, not start freaking out." Even as he said that his breathing was accelerated, and his heart was beating a thousand times a minute. "A-alright, I never really looked at constellations myself, but do you recognize anything?"

Noct tried slowing his breathing, and his eyes darted across the sky. "Uh… No, there's nothing! Ursaring major and minor, Draco, Pyroar minor or major, none of them are there!"

Willow just held her legs to her chest, breathing in and out, while Anthony just shook in place. "Maybe there are clouds in the way! Right Sapph? Noct?"

"There aren't clouds for miles!" Noct pulled at his hair, looking up at the stars, eyes darting back and forth.

"Alright!" Sapphire stood up and grabbed their attention. "This obviously isn't home, the moon isn't blown up into a million pieces, so the main thing we need to do is get back to earth."

"Well, maybe we can take another Ultra Wormhole!" Anthony pointed at Sapphire. "That's how we got here right?"

"No good, Ultra Wormholes occurring naturally is exceedingly rare, and I do have a pokémon that can travel through wormholes, but to get home we'd need a trail to follow, like breadcrumbs. When we travel through a wormhole, we naturally leave that trail, but since that was a man-made Ultra Wormhole…"

Anthony sighed, slumping over. "Then even if we found a natural wormhole, there'd be no trail back home."

"So we need Kukui and the others to make another Pseudo Ultra Wormhole then?" Noct sighed, falling back, hair splayed out. "Great, I'm sure they'll be able to make another one within the next few days. And I'm sure it definitely won't be imploding in on itself within seconds again."

Willow hid her face in her legs sighing. "And then there's the whole radiation and no air thing. So we're stuck here."

"Unfortunately." Sapphire looked back up at the moon, before turning to the others. "Okay, I'm sure we're all tired, so we'll get some sleep, then decide what to do in the morning. Hopefully, there's civilization nearby…"

"Yeah… Yeah, let's do that…" Noct sighed, beginning to crawl back into his tent until he was stopped by Sapphire.

"No, we need to set up a sleep schedule."

"What? Why do we need a schedule?"

"We have no idea what planet this is, on earth we literally collect creatures that can control the elements, what do you think could be here?"

Noct sighed at his logic, massaging his forehead. "Alright, so how do we set up a schedule?"

"Someone stays up and keeps watch, and shouts if anything happens. DO NOT run off into the forest if you see something and want to chase it, this is not going to be a crappy horror film. That person will keep watch for three hours, meaning the rest of us will get nine hours of sleep. I'll take the first watch, who wants next?"

Noct raised his hand slightly, "I guess I should. I'm still feeling tired for some reason from the portal thing, so I'd like some rest right now."

Sapphire sighed to himself, looking down at his hand. It seemed filling the others with his aura to keep their bodies from being torn apart by the higher gravity, and to protect them slightly from the radiation had some side effects. They were all more tired than usual, after all, who can go back to sleep after sleeping away a large portion of the day? There were probably other side effects from giving them his aura, but he'd have to worry about that later.

"I'll take the last watch," Anthony spoke up, "I can make breakfast that way as well. No offense but you really need lessons." Sapphire scowled and turned to Willow.

"You've got the third watch then, Willow." Willow nodded, crawling to her tent. Sapphire watched her go and sighed, walking over to the stump of a destroyed tree. "You two as well. Get some rest."

Noct and Anthony nodded wordlessly, crawling into their tents. Well, Noct crawled into his own, and Anthony crawled into Sapphire's. Sapphire sat on the stump, kneading his forehead, before looking at the moon. "Where in Arceus's name are we?"


Noct turned over, yawning as he heard someone bang on his tent. "I'm up damn it." He crawled out of his sleeping bag and brushed his hair back with his hand, before pausing when he saw it was night. "What…?" He then turned and saw the shattered moon, still hanging ominously in the sky. "Right. Still on Arceus knows where."

"It's your turn." He turned to see Sapphire holding his head and wincing as he crawled into the now vacant tent.

"Hey, are you okay?" Noct reached out a hand, concerned that the guy was injured somehow.

"I'm fine, just a headache."

Noct was silent for a second. "So, you're not just a regular trainer are you? I mean, I've seen people dress up pretty outlandishly, but you look like you're cosplaying as a blue and black Link."

"Don't compare me to a video game character." Noct snickered at the deadpan tone coming from the tent and stuck his hands in his pockets. "I'm an Aura Guardian."

Noct tilted his head, a frown forming. "Never heard of 'em."

There was a thud from inside the tent, followed by a groan. "All you need to know is that Aura Guardians use aura, a power that exists within everything, and can harness it to use abilities like pokémon, aura sphere, force palm that kind of thing."

"That sounds pretty cool."

"Right, we can also use it to affect the physical world around us, water walking, enhanced jumps and speed, we hit harder too. But we can't misuse it, our main objective is the protection of humans and pokémon, and to protect the world from dangerous threats."

"Great I've got my very own superhero to protect me." the tent opened slightly and a blue eye glared out at him. "So you think you can teach me any of that magic soul stuff?"

"I may have no choice."

"Eh?"

"Mixing somebody's life force with another's without the proper precautions or techniques can be a bit dangerous, and I did just that to protect you all from the void."

"Wait, is something wrong with us now?"

"I don't think so, the aura I supplied you with should have been enough to deal with the small amount of radiation from the void without any dangerous side effects, but there may be other side effects."

"Yeah? Will I suddenly be able to use ghost type moves or something?"

"Maybe. Or maybe I awakened your psychic abilities like those girls from that one gym in the Kanto region. Perhaps you'll be able to see aura. There's no way to tell right now. But shouldn't you start your watch now? I'd like to sleep."

"Sorry, it's just… I'm still kind of panicking you know? I mean, I'm usually a pretty chill guy, and when it comes to jokes and pranks I'm a bit more energetic, but… this whole thing is just…" He gestured with his arms, trying to find the right words. "you know?"

"I guess." There's was silence for a moment.

"So why do you cover your eye with your bangs like that? If you're always fighting, wouldn't you want your hair out of your face?"

"You sound way too much like my mom..."

"If it's that sensitive of a topic…" Noct snickered.

"Ha. Ha." He pulled open the tent and pulled his bangs aside. Instead of a normal eye, with a blue iris and black pupil, he had a golden colored iris, with a blue pupil. "My family line goes back centuries, an entire side of my family consisting of Aura Guardians. But only the strongest of them had this." He pointed to his odd colored eye.

"One eye would be normal, but their other eye would have a golden iris, with the pupil being the color of their normal eye. Normally those who had it would be born with this trait, but I wasn't born with it, I unlocked it during incredibly intense training. The first to ever do this."

"That's pretty cool. But uh, is there any significance to it besides looking cool?"

"Some of my family said those with the golden iris were destined for great things. Others said we had more powerful auras, with more control. Nobody really knows."

"Damn, I was hoping it would be like a Sharingan thing."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Sapphire just sighed. "Whatever. Now leave me alone, I need to sleep. I've got a wicked headache."

"Sure, night, Sasuke." Sapphire sent him one last glare before closing the tent flap.

Noct walked over to the stump Sapphire had sat on and held his hand out in front of him. "Hmm." He threw his hand forward, "Shadow ball!" nothing flew out of his hand, and he sighed, letting his chin fall into his hand, bored. "Welp, time to sit here for three hours…" He groaned and fell back, already bored.


Noct sighed, in that halfway state between sleep and consciousness, drool running down his face. He groaned and reached up, rubbing his face, before smacking himself a few times, trying to wake up. He wiped away the drool and stood up, stretching. "Damn, how long has it been…?" He reached into his bag and rooted around, taking out his pokédex. With a few button presses, he saw that only half an hour had passed.

"Arceus, how can hours pass, yet in reality, it has only been a few minutes?" He decided to take a walk around the perimeter of their camp, hoping it would pass the time and keep him awake. Halfway around the camp, rustling in the bushes caught his attention. Immediately he reached back, hand grasping a pokéball, rolling it between his fingers. "Guys?!" He stepped back as there was more rustling, now with some growls coming out.

There was some activity behind him as the others burst out of their tents, scrambling over themselves. Sapphire got to him first, sweeping his arm to the side, indicating to stay back. Anthony and Willow got to his side a moment later, pokéballs in their hand. "I don't know what it is, but I heard growling and rustling from back there, sorry if it's a false alarm…"

"If it is a false alarm we'll forgive you! We can't take risks out here." Anthony gave him a nervous grin before enlarging a pokéball. "So, what is out there?"

"There may be a slight problem…" Sapphire grimaced, his eyes glowing a brighter blue than usual, giving off an ethereal glow. "...But there's nothing there."

"What?!" Willow turned to him, pointing at him. "But we can literally see its glowing eyes! And the whole shaking and growling in the bushes!"

"Yes I know, which is why this is concerning." Sapphire enlarged the pokéball in his left hand and readied the staff in his right. "With aura sight, I can see anything with aura, which encompasses all living creatures. These things… There's a blank space, no aura exists there! These things aren't living beings!"

The bushes rustled again and out stepped what looked like a large wolf. It was around seven feet tall, had midnight black fur, eyes red as blood, and white bone plates over its face. Noct and Willow stepped back, while Anthony actually stepped forward. "Fascinating! This may be this world's version of a pokémon! It actually looks rather similar to a midnight form Lycanroc!"

The creature growled, and leaped forward, swiping with incredibly sharp claws at Anthony's face, but was stopped when Sapphire blocked its strike with his staff. He grunted, feeling the force behind its blow, and parried, swinging the staff around and smacking it in the face, making it stumble back. Sapphire scowled to himself, thinking. 'These things are much stronger than they look! Even though I was holding my staff with a single hand…' He turned to the others, "Go, deeper into the clearing!"

The others nodded, and began to back off, until the clearing was filled with several more of the wolves, then a dozen, then two dozen, then more and more. Everyone backed up, until they couldn't any further and were all back to back. They all looked at each other and nodded.

"Lucario, let's unleash our aura!"

"Ampharos, I need your help!"

"Hydreigon, time to party!"

"Roserade, show the forest's power!"

All four trainers unleashed their partner pokémon, each letting out their respective phrases.

In front of sapphire landed a near five-foot tall jackal-like pokémon. It stood on two black-furred legs, with its body being a mix of cobalt and cream colored fur, with a large spike in the center of its chest. It also had spikes on the backs of its paws, and Its face was also cobalt and black, however, the black fur formed a sort of mask around the pokémon's red eyes, that also covered feelers at the back of its head that could sense aura. "I am ready, Master."

Anthony grinned as his pokémon appeared from its pokéball, a large yellow pokémon about six feet tall standing in front of him. It had several black stripes on its neck, tail, and ears, with red orbs on the end of its tail, and on its forehead. "I'm ready, Anthony!"

The pokémon that floated in front of Noct was a large seven-foot tall dragon, most of its body covered in dark blue scales, with dark grey scales over its neck, arms, back and six wings. Two extra rows of black scales ran down its stomach until they intertwined and ran down the underside of its tail. At the ends of both arms there were extra heads, however, they didn't have the fangs or bright red pupils the main head had. "All right, what do I get to kill?!"

Lastly, in front of Willow landed an elegant looking pokémon that seemed to be a rose, if it grew to the size of a child. It stood at around four feet tall, and most of its body was covered in a bodysuit of leaves, with a darker green coating of leaves forming a sort of cloak. Where its left hand should have been was instead a bouquet of blue roses, and where its right hand should have been was a bouquet of red roses. Its 'hair' was a large white rose, and it had a darker leaf covering on its face, forming a pseudo mask over its red eyes. "Let us dance, then."

All the trainers except Sapphire were shocked and completely forgot about the pack of wolves around them. Noct shook his head, looking at Sapphire. "So, would this be a part of the whole side effects thing of you giving us your aura? Because I kind of just found out my pokémon's a homicidal killer! Well, I knew that already, he's a hydreigon, their whole thing is killing, they're literally called the brutal pokémon… but actually hearing him say he wants to kill is different!"

"What, side effect?" Anthony and Willow turned to Sapphire, who just shook his head.

"It doesn't matter right now, I'll explain later! Just know you finally have the ability to understand your pokémon perfectly with no error in translation, make the most of it!" With that, Sapphire bounded forward, ducking under the swipe of a wolf, and bringing his staff around to smash its head aside, his Lucario right behind him.

"What?!" Getting no reply, Anthony turned back to his Ampharos. "Uh, alright then, Ampharos, discharge!"

"You got it!" Ampharos charged up, the red orbs on his body lighting up before it let loose a storm of energy, blasting across a whole part of the pack.

"Okay Roserade, poison spikes! Make it harder for them to move!"

"Of course." Roserade spun, thorns flying out of her bouquet. The thorns landed in the tall grass, mostly green, except for at the tips where they turned a sickly purple. One of the wolf creatures tried running at Roserade, but stepped one of the spikes, flinching back as poison flooded their body.

"Hydreigon, let's show them what power really is! Wipe them all out with draco meteor!"

Hydreigon let out evil sounding laughs from all its mouths, flying up into the sky and sending gusts of wind out and staggering the trainers, pokémon, and wolves. "Finally! DIE!" A purple orb of flame built inside his mouth, until it reached critical mass. He aimed up, firing it high into the sky. The flame orb flew higher and higher, until it exploded, sending dozens of smaller orbs screaming down from the sky. Each orb that landed exploded, killing dozens of the wolves.

"Reign in your damn dragon Noct!" Sapphire jumped back, dodging an orb that killed two wolves. Looking up, he paled as a gigantic raven creature smashed into Hydreigon head on. The raven had midnight black feathers, just as the wolves did, and also had the same blood red eyes and white bone mask. Hydreigon roared, yelling some rather choice curse words, and started biting down on its neck.

Hydreigon cursed the raven that dared harm him, and built up dark energy in his left head, holding the raven still with his main and right head. The raven cawed, scratching at his body with its talons, daring to try and injure him again. The energy finally finished building, and he fired it directly into its face, causing the raven to cry out in pain, and break away. "COWARD! COME BACK AND LET ME KILL YOU!"

The raven cawed, pulling its wings back, and then flinging them forward. Out of those wings, uncountable numbers of feathers shot out, heading straight for Hydreigon. "Hydreigon!" Noct's voice barely reached him at the height he was at, but hear it he did. "Use protect, quick!" He snarled at the command but followed it. He may have liked to kill, but he did acknowledge Noct as his trainer, he'd taken care of him for so long, and he believed he knew best.

A green shield appeared in front of his body, and any feather that slammed into it shattered, sending ripples across its surface. Down below, however, all of the feathers that missed Hydreigon had slammed into the ground, nearly impaling the trainers and pokémon. However, with so many wolves still alive, a lot of them were impaled, or cut in half. Anthony recoiled as a feather slammed into the ground feet away from him, causing him to fall over shaking.

Up close he could see just how large the feathers were, each one being the size of his body, and apparently hard and sharp as steel. "O-Oh crap!"

Sapphire turned, scowling at the sight of the feathers and Draco meteors raining down. "Everyone, into the forest!"

"What?!"

"We need to get underneath the trees! Or would you rather get blown up or skewered?!" The others looked at each other before Anthony and Willow returned their pokémon. Before Noct could return his, Sapphire grabbed his hand and dragged him into the trees. "Hydreigon will be alright! We need to go!" Noct looked back, before following into the deep shadows of the tree line, while the howls of the pack of wolves sounded out behind them.


Ruby kicked her legs back and forth, holding onto the edge of her seat, bored at the multi-hour flight. Really, she bet that with her semblance she could be running faster than the dang bullhead! What was taking so long?!

"Chill out Rubes, we'll be there soon!" Her sister grinned at her, throwing her a thumbs up, which she tried to smile at, before leaning back in her seat and groaning.

"I'm just so bored! How can we not be there yet?!"

"We have almost reached our destination, don't worry Miss Rose." Professor Goodwitch exited the cockpit, leaving the pilot alone, continuing to look down at her scroll.

"Great! I was starting to get antsy!" Nora cradled Magnhild in its grenade launcher form, a dangerous grin on her face. The frightened expression on Jaune's face was understandable, given how the barrel was pointing straight at his head. Or maybe it was just his motion sickness.

"I've just been occupying myself by thinking of how awesome a fight with the big gold creature thing would be!"

"I still think that it would be a stupid and childish idea to deliberate start a fight with a creature of that size," Weiss spoke, crossing her arms and huffing.

"Well, if we pla-" whatever Pyrrha was about to say was interrupted as the entire Bullhead shook, alarms coming from the cockpit. Everyone almost fell over, and Professor Goodwitch forced her way back into the cockpit to see the pilot struggling with the controls.

"What happened?!"

"I-I don't know! Something hit the left turbine, we're losing altitude!" The pilot was pulling back on the joystick and was barely keeping them from crashing into the tree line.

Another crash rocked the ship, and suddenly the back of the Bullhead was torn off, barely visible purple flames vanishing moments later. Professor Goodwitch scowled and turned to the hunters and huntresses in training. "Everyone, we're getting off now!"

"What?!" Jaune panicked, beginning to wave his arms. But, that's dangerous, isn't it? At the speed we're going, we might as well- ACK!" Whatever he was going to argue was cut off as his armor was coated in a black aura, as Pyrrha used her polarity semblance to pull him out of the aircraft.

"Sorry!"

Jaune cried out as he fell through the canopy, branches smacking against him, only his aura protecting him from getting multiple cuts and lacerations across his face. It didn't stop the pain, however, or the fact that he smashed into the ground face first. "Owww…"

"Sorry!"

"It's fine Pyrrha… Where's Miss Goodwitch?" A soft fluttering came from behind him and Professor Goodwitch walked out of the underbrush, completely unflustered.

Before anybody said anything, they all looked up as another explosion sounded out, and watched as an orb of purple flame smashed into the right rotor of the Bullhead, finally sending it down into the forest. Professor Goodwitch turned to the group of students in front of her, a no-nonsense look on her face. "Everyone split up. The panic most of you just felt may have attracted the Grimm, and we must find the objective. When you do, notify everyone with your scroll and make your way to the clearing from the video, we'll call for another Bullhead there and hold out. Miss Xiao Long, Miss Valkyrie, you two find the crash site, see if the pilot is still alive. We will not leave anyone behind."

"You got it Miss Goodwitch!"

"Yeah! C'mon Nora, let's go bust some heads!" The two girls ran into the woods towards where the transport went down, weapons unfolding and ready to be used.


Sapphire scowled as he ducked underneath the claw of another wolf creature, bringing his staff around to smack its head to the side, before placing his hand on its chest. He focused, and barely a millisecond later a burst of aura shot from his hand, tearing apart the creature's stomach. "Lucario! These creatures are weak to aura-based attacks, maybe because they have no aura of their own! Use aura sphere and force palm more often!"

"I understand, Master." Lucario nimbly dodged two wolves swipes at once and smacked his staff formed from a bone rush against their legs, tripping them. With them on the ground, he formed an aura sphere in each hand, firing it into the wolves faces, causing their heads to explode. "Where did the others go, Master?"

"No idea! We were separated sometime after we entered the forest!" He rolled to the side, an aura sphere shooting from his hand, destroying a wolves legs, and then stuck his staff through its head with the end of the pole. "And I can't search for them since all of these creatures keep blocking my aura vision with their void of non-aura! HOW MANY OF YOU ASSHOLES ARE THERE?!" He punched straight through a wolves chest, before unleashing a burst of aura and exploding them from the inside out.

Roaring from above them caused them to look up, and through the trees, they could see Hydreigon high above them duking it out with the large raven. "I do hope that they don't use draco meteor or whatever that feather attack was. The trees may protect us, but one lucky shot could be all that's needed." They both gasped as a large grey aircraft flew directly over the trees, trailing fire and smoke, with bits of it trailing purple fire.

"Oh boy. I think Hydreigon may have hit what could have been our way out of here with a stray attack…" He scowled, ducking under a wolf attempting to bite his head off, letting Lucario kick it in the face with a flaming leg. "Come on, we need to check it out and rescue any survivors!"

"Of course, master! Lead the way!" Sapphire leaped up and kicked a wolf in the face, using it as a springboard to leap into the underbrush. Lucario followed, sweeping his leg out, setting the bushes on fire to keep the wolves from following them.

Sapphire sprinted, wasting no more energy than he needed to as he dodged tree trunks and the odd wolf monster that appeared before him. Eventually, he entered a clearing created by the crashing ship, illuminated by purple and red flames. The back of the aircraft was open but covered in flames meaning they couldn't get in that way. "Lucario, help me get the door open!"

"Right!" He bound forward, landing next to the main body, and stuck his fingers into the hatch. Lucario joined him, and both used their aura enhanced strength to pull it open with a horrible screech of metal on metal. Sapphire ran inside, taking off his hat to cover his mouth to protect himself from the smoke, and found the cockpit door. He tore it open to find a man dressed in pilots gear unconscious behind the controls.

"All right, let's get moving." He grabbed the guy and placed him over his shoulder, turning to see Lucario standing behind him.

"Master, people with unknown auras are approaching, and those auras are… powerful. They are unrefined but possibly stronger than yours." Sapphire looked at him in surprise, before huffing.

"Alright, that could be bad. If I fought them with you we might be able to win, but still, we should try for peace … but with you with me, they may attack. Alright, for now, return."

"Master." Lucario bowed, letting himself be returned. Sapphire exited the aircraft, placing his hat back on his head, and setting the pilot down by the side of the odd helicopter.

He suddenly threw himself to the side, as a massive Warhammer slammed down at where he just stood, smashing the ground. The entirety of the hammer was about the size of his entire body, with the actual hammer part being larger than his head. The weirdest thing about it was that the girl wielding it was shorter than him, hells she barely broke the five-foot mark! She had a pale complexion, with orange hair and turquoise eyes. And her outfit… how the hell was he supposed to describe something that looked like that?! All he knew was that it must be a crime to wear that much pink.

His instincts flared again, and he dodged to the side as several bullets flew by his head. Again it was another girl, but this time she had a whole mess of bright golden hair, all the way down to her waist. She had bright lilac colored eyes, with a pale complexion. Her outfit at least wasn't a mishmash of armor and cloth, having a tan jacket with a yellow shirt underneath that bared her midriff, with a brown belt over black mini shorts, with a longer asymmetrical white material forming a sort of skirt. What drew his attention, however, were the golden gauntlets she wore… that had barrels and smoke drifting from them? "Hey, buddy, eyes up here!" Sapphire's eye twitched. Great, she was one of those girls.


Yang and Nora had just reached the aircraft, just in time to see shadows moving around inside the cockpit, even as the fire raged. "Yang, maybe he caused us to crash!"

"What?"

"Think about it! Those weird purple things that were raining down and destroyed the aircraft, no Grimm could do that! So it has to be him!"

"Well…" Yang couldn't really find a fault with that logic, but before she could try to placate Nora, a red light shined out from the cockpit, and moments later The man from the video exited, with his cap covering his mouth, showing that he had brown hair, with parts dyed blue and covering his left eye. He placed his hat back on his head and lay the man down on the ground against the aircraft.

"Come on, let's go!"

"Nora!" Yang reached out but didn't grab her in time, and she extended Magnhild, bringing it down to smash the guy. He somehow reacted in time, dodging her strike easily. Well, if they were going to fight anyway… She bound out, throwing forward several punches, firing Ember Celica at the boy. Without even looking in her direction, He rolled, catching himself on one of his hands and knees, glaring at her. Heh, he had a pretty intense glare, didn't he? And those eyes had a definite power to them, they were practically glowing blue with strength! Well the right one, at any rate, the left one was still hidden behind his blue bangs.

She noticed his eyes were actually focused on her gauntlets, and smirked at the opportunity to get a joke in. "Hey, buddy, eyes up here!" He twitched, and scowled, rising to his feet, taking the staff from the video off his back and twirling it in his hands, settling into a ready position. Great, now they had a male Weiss on their hands! Who wouldn't laugh at that joke? Or at least blush?!


Sapphire scowled, glancing between the two girls. Lucario was right, they both had a powerful aura around them, however, unlike his, their's wasn't reigned in. They would be hitting hard, and they were probably quick too, but he could bet they wouldn't be able to use many abilities, like aura spheres or protect barriers.

Sapphire was brought out of his thoughts when the blonde girl rushed him, bringing her fist around. He brought his staff forward ready to move. 'Time to gauge their strength then.' He held his staff between both hands, blocking her punch. He gasped as he was pushed back, creating trails in the ground from the friction of his feet against the dirt. The strength of that punch was a hell of a lot stronger than he thought it would be! His staff actually bent slightly, cracking at where she hit it.

Sapphire jumped back, grimacing at the staff, before holstering it, and bringing his fists forward. He couldn't risk shattering his staff, but luckily he was just as skilled in hand to hand combat as he was with bōjutsu. The problem was, Aura Guardian weapons and clothing were all enhanced, and then enhanced further by the wearer's aura. So how the hell could a single punch nearly crack his weapon like that?

"Hey, what's with that face?" The blonde girl was speaking again, and he frowned as she placed her hands on her hips. Why couldn't she take combat seriously? "What, didn't think a couple of girls could do any damage to you or that rinky-dink staff of yours?"

Was she taunting him? How childish. One of the first things he learned was how to avoid taunts, so why not use her own tricks against her? "No, I just expected you to be a bit tougher than that. I mean really, its a wooden staff, and you couldn't break it in one punch? Pretty weak blondie. And what do you mean damage to me? All you've hit is my staff, try and be a bit faster there." The girl scowled, and set her stance, her eyes changing from lilac to red. Oh? That was an impressive trick. Of course, now he'd have to focus on dodging and counter-attacking. Being angry makes you hit harder after all, but your senses were dulled by anger.

The blonde girl dashed forward, bringing her fist around in a right hook that whiffed, Sapphire, having ducked underneath it to uppercut her, sending her tumbling back. His eyes shifted, and he backflipped over the redhead's hammer, as it swung around to crush his legs.

He landed, spreading the weight between his hands and feet, before sprinting forward with a burst of speed, punching at the girl. She quickly blocked with her Warhammer, but he switched from a punch to a grapple at the last second, gripping her Warhammer and using his momentum to throw himself over her, sweeping her legs from behind. She cried out as she fell, and Sapphire brought his fist down into her stomach, smashing her into the ground.

"GRAAAAGH!" Sapphire spun, barely bringing his fists up in time, as blondie smashed her fist into him. At the same time, her gauntlet fired its bullets, throwing him back, tumbling end over end, before smashing into the aircraft, and completely tearing through the metal. He groaned, feeling something wrong in his arm. When he looked, he noticed his left arm had been dislocated.

"Hey!" He turned and saw that both girls weren't even injured, and now the blonde girl was pointing both gauntlets at him, while the redhead was busy transforming her Warhammer into… a grenade launcher. Just perfect. "Surrender now, and maybe we'll think about letting you live!" He scowled and stood up, gripping his left arm. With a yell, he relocated it, tearing up from the pain. He wouldn't be using it to block or punch anytime soon, but at least it wouldn't be hanging limply.

"Surrender?! You're the ones that started this!" He brought his hands forward, pulsing aura through them until he had aura spheres in each. The girls backpedaled in shock, and he clapped his hands together, casing both spheres to explode into practically thousands of miniaturized aura spheres, each one speeding straight for the girls. They tried to defend themselves, but there were too many of them, and they were coming from every direction.

Smoke billowed as the spheres exploded, hiding the girls from view. Sapphire breathed out, holding his arm. He wouldn't disillusion himself into thinking that would be enough to knock them out, but hopefully, it had done some damage. He exited the aircraft while patting down part of his cape that had caught fire, and continued looking at the smoke. Suddenly, there were twin flashes of yellow and pink, as the girls' aura flashed, and they ran out of the smoke, weapons at the ready.

He scowled, holding his good arm in front of him. The entire time he had been fighting at a disadvantage, being outnumbered, unable to use his weapon, and now having use of only one arm except for aura techniques. On top of all that, the headache that had been growing since the portal incident hadn't abated, and at this point, it was getting hard to see past the pain.

He ducked back from the Warhammer strike and dodged the two successive jabs the blonde threw at him, lashing out with a sidekick, throwing her back and making her gasp for breath. He frowned, looking them over. Whenever he hit them, their auras flashed, the blondes aura yellow, with the redheads being pink. It seemed that while they couldn't use protect barriers or skilled aura techniques, they could coat their bodies in their aura, protecting themselves from harm while also healing their own injuries.

'I thought that I could beat them by outlasting them, but if they can heal themselves like that…' He shook his head, refocusing just in time to dodge a grenade that had a pink heart on the front and rush forward, jabbing her several times, before roundhouse kicking her away. 'No, I can still beat them… I can use an aura technique to overload their own aura, or perhaps call out several of my pokémon. I didn't want to as it seems this world doesn't have pokemon, but I seem to have no choice.' He began to reach for one of his pokémon's pokéballs, before gasping.

He threw his arm out and fired an aura sphere, the ball of energy careening through the air towards the blonde. She prepared to defend herself but looked confused when it flew over her shoulder. She turned and gasped when she saw it smash into the face of the wolf creature, sneaking up behind her. "You… saved me?"

"Of course! You attacked me, I wasn't trying to harm anyone! Hell, I was saving the pilot when the damn redhead attacked me," He yelled back at her. "What the hell did you attack me for in the first place?!"

The blonde stood still for a moment before looking at the redhead, who had somehow snuck up on him when he wasn't looking, causing him to recoil. "So you mean you didn't shoot down our Bullhead with those purple thingies?" He looked at the redhead before vehemently shaking his head.

"Of course I didn't! What reason would I have for doing so?!" Sapphire looked away, foregoing the fact that it was a companions pokémon that did so. They didn't need to know that.

"Whoopsies! My bad then!"

Sapphire twitched, before throwing his arm to either side. "Your bad?! You dislocated my arm and threw me through an airc- Bullhead!"

"Yeah, but that's all in the past! Come on, our teacher said when we find you to go to the clearing you were in!" Sapphire was beginning to have trouble keeping up with the girl and looked to the blonde, who began to pick up the pilot and carry him over her shoulder.

"Yeah, Nora can be a bit excitable. I'm Yang by the way. Sorry for the whole attacking you thing. The headmaster of Beacon, Professor Ozpin, saw some huge golden portal and creature, and then through some cameras in the area saw you. He made it our mission to come out and escort you back to the school."

Sapphire thought about what she said, even as he began absentmindedly following Nora and Yang. If he and the others went back to this school, they'd have a place to stay until they could find a way home, or Kukui made another, safer portal. But… He'd need to give this Headmaster Ozpin a reason to let them stay. He shook his head, his thoughts becoming clouded again. But… was it just him or was it really hot all of a sudden?

He held his head, his vision becoming blurry before he fell onto all fours. He held a hand in front of his face, trying to focus on it even while he heard what he thought was Yang and Nora yelling. He suddenly coughed, and his glove was stained with his blood, and a lot more than what was probably healthy to cough up. If it was healthy to cough up blood at all. Wow, was he getting woozy? That was his last thought, before he fell over, unconscious.


The end of the chapter, on a cliffhanger. Remember how everyone was talking about how the inside of the Pseudo Ultra Wormhole was super poisonous? Yeah, I didn't forget that or ignore it. Sapphire's been sick with radiation poisoning for pretty much half a day now, with no rest except a thirty-minute nap, while having made camp, made food, and fought off dozens of beowolves, Yang, and Nora. Could Sapphire have won if they fought to the finish? Maybe, but he was literally minutes away from going unconscious.

Would he have won if he was fully rested and not poisoned? No idea. I want it to be that the remnant aura users are stronger, but less refined in their aura usage except for their semblances, and its protection and healing, while the pokémon world aura users just get lesser boosts to everything, and are more flexible in its usage, like aura spheres, force plam's, and various other pokémon moves. Plus the whole water walking and other stuff they could do with it. So yeah, Remnants: Powerful but limited, Pokémon World: All-rounders with various uses.

Also, who didn't expect Sapphire's partner to be a Lucario? Shame on you. He's an Aura Guardian, that's like, a rule. Or something.

So Yeah. Next chapter September 8th.