As I am walking in the woods, as I am in no rush, I ponder about those I will be teamed up with. I don't really know anyone, except Jaune and Ruby. Jaune, I feel will need the most help; he really doesn't seem acquainted with his tools. Ruby, on the other hand, I know will only need help in more serious situations, and some social.
A girlish scream pierced the silence, and draws me out of my thoughts. If one would listen closely, you could hear Jaune's tone. I started walking towards it, when I saw Pyrrha Nikos running from a deathstalker. I ran forward, and hitched a ride on the deathstalker's tail. It was too busy chasing Pyrrha to noticed me, but it swung its tail forwards trying to stab her. It sent me flying ahead of Pyrrha, and into a clearing.
I opened my eyes and saw Jaune looking down at me, hanging in a tree. He waves nervously, and I nod in response. Well, seems like I am with Jaune and his partner.
I got up, and saw the white haired girl falling from the sky. Jaune saw this too, and jumps to save her. Didn't end well. Jaune landed face first somehow, and the girl landed right on his back, with a sickening crunch. She got up and walks off, not even caring if Jaune is ok. I walk over to him, as he gets up. "You ok?" I said.
He nods and rubs his back a bit, "Yeah."
The blonde brawler says, "Yay, the gangs all here, we can all die together!"
Ruby says, "Not if I can help it." She charged the scorpion, ignoring the blonde girl.
She uses the recoil of her weapon to fly at the scorpion, but the hit was deflected by the armor. She started to retreat and the scorpion charges behind her.
I noticed the feathers, and one in particular was going to hit Ruby's cape, but another one if hit at the correct time, could penetrate the scorpion. I took aim with my harpoon gun, and fire. It hit the second one and true to physics, it chopped off the deathstalker's arm off.
It stops its charge and screech in pain; the first feather, however, caught Ruby's cape, but it didn't hurt her. The Blonde ran to her, but kept getting caught off by the Nevermore. The scorpion, now a limb short, continues to make its way to Ruby. It was about to strike her with its tail, when the white haired girl, dashes forward and froze the scorpion's tail mid-strike. The girl starts ranting about something; I was too far to hear.
They came back to the stone building with the relics. Jaune says, "Guys, it's coming back around."
White says, "No sense dillydallying, our objective is right in front of us."
Ruby says, "She's right, our mission is grab an artifact and make it back to the cliff. There is no point in fighting these things."
"Run and live. That is an idea I can get behind."
Jaune and Ruby both got a relic and they all started to run off.
I ran after them and we all found a ruin building. Our path to the cliff was cut off by the nevermore. Behind us the deathstalker is approaching, and he brought friends.
A pack of beowolves was following behind the deathstalker, and they caught our sent. The oriental boy told the hyper girl, named Nora, to distract the nevermore. She ran out and rolled and jumped through some feathers, and starts pelting it with grenades.
The Nevermore flew out of the way, and the others started running to the cliff. I hid myself from the deathstalker, and let it pass. Before the beowolves could pass, I threw a Molotov at them, only three out of the ten died by the fire. The remaining seven charged toward me, so I drew my butcher knife, coated in flammable grease, and lit it with my lighter, and slashed one just below the mask.
The next one, I grab its jaw, and ripped it off. It howls in pain, and try to give a left swipe, but I duck under its arm, and stab the jaw into the eyes of the wolf behind it. It died instantly. One came from behind and slashes my back. I turn quickly and decapitated it. The next one to get close, I twist its arm and impale it on its back spikes.
Now only three left. One is in pain, and two that are keeping their distance. The first one I swiped with my knife, which still is imbedded in its face, still burning. I walked over to it and twisted its neck. The last two sniffed the air, looked at me, whimpered, and ran off. I was a bit confused, because I read that Grimm never ran.
I shrug and jogged to where the others were, only to see Ruby decapitating the Nevermore, and the deathstalker was impaled by its own stinger. And the bridge was destroyed. I walk over to Jaune, and he said, "Hey, where were you?"
"Got distracted by a pack of beowolves."
Pyrrha ask, "How many were there?"
"Ten, I killed eight before the last two ran off."
Pyrrha and the boy in green expression changed to shock.
"You manage to scare off two Grimm?" said Pyrrha.
I nod, "Anyway we should finish initiation, don't you think?"
They nod, but never stop glancing at me, as we look for another way across.
Nora shouts, "You're bleeding!"
"I am"
Pyrrha asks, "Why didn't you use your aura, or are you like Jaune, and don't have it unlocked?"
"Never cared to unlock it," if I could, "always had something else to do."
"Like what?"
"Fighting criminals, finding leads on murder and disappearances, sleeping on skyscrapers, and traversing the city; you know normal stuff."
"What was that last one?"
"Traversing the city?"
"The one before that."
"Finding leads on murder and disappearances."
"Well that's one of them, but no, the one in-between."
"Sleeping on skyscrapers?"
"Yes, don't you have a home?"
"No."
"Family?"
"Mother was an abusive whore, never had a fatherly figure, and no siblings."
"Friends?"
"One, who probably thinks I am dead."
"Why would they think you're dead?"
"Because of how I left. We had an ally made of quantum energy, and because I wouldn't compromise, and let peace based on a lie, while I knew the truth, he blasted me with his energy, causing all my cells to explode. I ended up here, and my age was reversed. I was 45 years old, now I am 17-ish."
I looked at a pillar across the ravine and aim my grapple hook at it. I pull the trigger, and felt the satisfying feeling of the compressed carbon gas propelling the hook to my target. The hook sunk into the stone of the pillar, and I pulled on the rope, causing it to pull the pillar down and making a makeshift bridge.
I got on it and start to cross, and the others followed. We made it to the others as they were trying to find a good place to climb.
The blonde haired girl says, upon seeing us, "Well, good to see you guys survived the deathstalker. Didn't see you Rorschach."
"Dealing with a pack of beowolves."
"Why is your back bleeding?"
"One got lucky, it didn't live long enough to enjoy it."
"So, why don't you use aura?"
"Never got around to unlock it." I walk to the Cliffside and started climbing. Everyone else, besides Weiss, who used a glyph to scale the cliff, followed.
"Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, and Sky Lark. The four of you have retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as team CaRDinaL. Lead by Cardin Winchester." Ozpin announced.
The crowd applaud, and they walked off, as Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, the boy I haven't learn the name of, and me, walk up the stage.
"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, and Walter 'Rorschach' Kovacs. You five have retrieved the White rook pieces. From this day forward, you five will be known as, team JuNiPeRR. Lead by, Jaune Arc."
"Huh?" Jaune question. "Lead by…?"
"Congratulations young man."
Pyrrha gave him a friendly punch on the shoulder, and knocked him over. The crowd gave a round of laughter, but continued to applaud.
"And finally, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you have retrieved the white knight piece. From this day forward you will work together as team RWBY. Lead by Ruby Rose."
Weiss looked shock, Ruby and Yang was happy, and Blake was indifferent.
Yang says, as she hugs Ruby, "I am so proud of you."
"Seams like things are shaping up to be an interesting year."
We finally made it to our dorms, which was across from team RWBY's. As my teammates start to get ready for bed, I noticed there were only four beds. I saw there was no rafters for me to sleep in, so I just took off my hat, and put it on a convenient coat hanger, and sat down in a corner.
"Aren't you going to remove the mask?" Jaune ask, as he walks in will in a blue onesie, with a bunny head on it.
"I will consider it, next time. Night." And I made myself fall asleep.
