A/N:Hello everybody, my name's Eragon and welcome back to another chapter of team MJJK! So, a couple days ago I attempted to open a poll for the new one-shot series I' starting soon, called RWBY: Halloween Horror Nights, but unfortunately due to technical difficulties that I couldn't decipher it didn't work. I'm sad about that. But, in case you missed out on what it's about, each Halloween there will be a chapter of RWBY: HHN where the characters off Team RWBY encounter a monster from urban legends, horror movies, you name it. Since the poll didn't work, I've decided to choose one of the monsters I featured in the poll and have been typing up the chapter (I'll talk about it later). Once again thanks for all the reviews, some of them made me laugh (ie. nobodyknowsthatimarwbyfan, still rocking that name).
As always, RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum (RIP); Halloween belongs to John Carpenter and Dimension Films; Saw belongs to James Wan and Twisted Pictures; both Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm St. belong to Paramount Films, as well as (respectively) Sean S. Cunningham and Wes Craven (RIP). Now you can see Blake making a friend, sit back and enjoy (seriously, where's the popcorn?).
Chapter 3
Beacon Cafeteria
Lunchtime, the next day
When John came back to the dorm the night before and told Michael about his conversation with Pyrrha Nikos and her offer for lunch the next day, Michael honestly wasn't expecting anything like that as the reason why his partner was late for bed. But Michael respected the offer, after all, it isn't every day that a member of the top two second (previously first) year teams at Beacon invite you to hang out at lunch, right? So that's how Team MJJK found themselves at the same table as Team RWBY and Team JNPR at lunch that afternoon, with John sitting right next to his newfound friend as her teammates and the other team stared.
"So, Pyrrha," Michael heard the short girl in the red hood named Ruby Rose ask as they sat down, "who's your new friends?"
"Ruby, Jaune, everybody, this is John Kramer," she replied, introducing Michael's partner first, "he was the classmate I fought in class yesterday; I ran into him before supper, and we decided to ask our leaders if we could have our teams meet today."
When Ruby turned to her fellow team leader to confirm, Jaune nodded in reply and said, "Yeah, she told me about their talk after supper last night."
"So is he your boyfriend now, Pyrrha?" Yang Xiao Long inquired, a hint of mirth in her voice.
Almost instantly Pyrrha blushed in surprise as the two people closest to the blonde brawler whacked her in the head and shouted, "Yang!"
"Ow, I was just asking," Yang grumbled under her breath, rubbing where they hit her in the head, while in her head she thought to herself, It was just a joke.
"It's not entirely a big deal if she was asking," John spoke up in reply to Yang's unanswered question, "but no, I just met her yesterday, so that doesn't mean anything."
"Still, that doesn't really excuse that comment, Yang," the white haired heiress sitting next to Yang stated, glaring daggers at her head.
"Come on, Weiss, I was kidding," Yang declared, glaring right back at the heiress, "and he said it was fine to ask, so there."
"If you guys don't mind, we should probably stop shouting before someone gets us in trouble," a raven-haired girl with amber eyes and a bow on her head quietly interjected, barely even looking up from her book.
Michael noticed what she said, and decided to politely ask, "If you don't mind me asking, are you referring to Professor Goodwitch glaring in our direction?"
"Actually yes," Blake Belladonna replied, glancing up at Michael briefly before inquiring, "I'm guessing you heard her before she even arrived, because of your ears?"
"Tiger Faunus, ma'am," Michael interjected, a serious look in his eyes, "and since I should respect your privacy, I won't ask about how you knew she was there without even looking up from your book."
Well, at least he's polite to not ask, Blake thought to herself, a smile barely visible on her lips.
Unfortunately for Blake's privacy, he mask wearing member to Team MJJK decided to rather rudely point out their conversation.
"Oh, did the tiger cub find a kitty to play with?" Freddy piped up, amused at the Tiger Faunus' embarrassment of being overheard.
"That wasn't very nice to say," the white haired heiress across from him spoke up, "you should apologize for that."
"Really, now," Freddy sneered, eyeing up Weiss, "I'm surprised a stuck up heiress like you cares at all for a Faunus."
He could see the steam rising out of her ears as she growled in anger, "How dare you?! What makes you think I hate the Faunus?"
"Says the one who's father is a flat out racist to the Faunus," Freddy interjected, intending to get a rise from the girl, "especially someone who's spoken on camera of her distrust of the entire Faunus race."
Jason heard the white-haired girl growl in rage before turning to her teammates and shouting, "Someone please help me out with this asshole!"
"Jase, back me up here, man," his partner declared as he faced Jason, to which jason shook his head.
"Sorry Freddy, you're on your own," Jason said, a look of amusement on his face, "you pissed her off, best you could do is apologize."
Yang, barely glancing away from Weiss, pointed at Jason and interjected, "I agree with this guy, you both should apologize to each other and to everybody for arguing, right Ruby?"
"Yeah!" Ruby exclaimed as she gave a high five to her sister, and gave one to Jason as well so that he wouldn't feel left out.
"I can't believe this, even my own partner's against me!" Freddy stated in exhaustion as he threw up his hands in defeat.
"You're not the only one whose partner is against you," Weiss growled, glaring at Ruby in anger before sighing and continuing, "I say we call a truce for now, we can apologize to each other later if we must."
"Agreed," Freddy grumbled, before turning to where Blake was sitting and began to apologize, but then said, "I know I should apologize to your teammate, but where did she go?"
Sure enough, everyone turned to find an empty seat where Blake was, the Cat Faunus having walked away.
"She probably ran to the library again to cool off," Yang s thought aloud, feeling guilty for her friend's disappearance, and then stood up and said, "I should probably go help her calm down, and you guys should apologize when she comes back."
"Here, let me get her," Michael interjected as he too stood up, "if I didn't say that I wouldn't ask about her heritage then Freddy wouldn't have commented and started the argument and she wouldn't have run off, let me do it."
"Are you sure, Mikey?" Freddy solemnly asked, "She is her teammate after all."
When Michael nodded in reply, Yang nodded in acceptance and said, "Bring her back, please."
"Will do," Michael said, and before anybody could blink Michael was gone.
John knew that his partner and team leader used his semblance to catch up with the girl, having been witness to it several times, but even still he almost jumped in surprise.
"So Pyrrha, how did the fight between you guys go yesterday?" Ruby spoke up, ready to change the subject.
"It went really well, actually," Pyrrha replied, "Johnathan put up a decent fight, and he even beat me."
"Really?" Ruby inquired, sadness showing in her eyes about missing the fight, and then turned to John and said, "You must be a really good fighter."
"Precisely, otherwise I wouldn't be in the top three," John replied, hoping he didn't sound like he was bragging, "but it takes more than brawn to be a great fighter, it also takes brains as well, as well as an efficient weapon to use."
"How efficient?" Ruby inquired, excitement showing in her eyes at the mention of a weapon.
"Very efficient," John replied eagerly, lifting his cane, "in fact, it's efficient on two fronts, as a weapon and as a cane."
John suddenly heard a squeal as without warning the diminutive girl was by his side, stars in her eyes as she looked over the cane.
"Ooh, can I see it opened up; how does it work; it-must-be-so-awesome!" Ruby shouted in excitement as she turned into a chibi.
"I can't show you right now with professors watching," John replied, but his next statement made the girl squeal again, "But, I can show you later."
Outside of Beacon's Library
A few minutes later
Blake was attempting to find a safe spot in the library to cool off, angered at the almost complete reveal of her heritage. The mask wearing fool is an ass, Blake angrily thought to herself as she found an unoccupied spot in the library to read. You could say that, while she was angry at that member of Team MJJK, she was also angry at herself for being ashamed to reveal the fact she was a Faunus to everyone else at Beacon. The only ones who knew her secret besides her team and Team JNPR were the nurses in the infirmary and the Headmaster himself, and now more people knew the truth. She was so angry at what had occurred that she was barely even reading her book, she barely even noticed the person walking towards her. That is, until she heard him calling out her name.
Looking up to see the leader of Team MJJK walking towards her, she looked back down at her book and said, "I don't wish to talk right now, I'm trying to read."
"The angry look in your eyes and the fact that they don't look like you're moving over the page says otherwise," Michael said in protest, causing Blake to slowly put down the book.
"Alright, I'm listening," Blake sighed as she asked, "What do want?"
When the Tiger Faunus replied, his answer made her eyes widen in surprise, "I want to apologise for what Freddy did. Believe me, he will be apologising later, but if he didn't hear what we were talking about then you wouldn't have run off like that, would you?"
Blake nodded, and then stood up with her book and said, "Apology accepted, now if you excuse me, I'm going to read somewhere else."
Walking right past him, Blake brought the book back to her eyes as she walked away, only to bump into someone in front of her.
"Oh no you don't, ma'am," Blake was surprised to hear Michael's voice in front of her instead of behind her like he was seconds before, "not until you come back to lunch with me like I promised your partner."
Frantically looking behind her to find him no longer behind her, but standing right next to her, she looked at him and asked in confusion, "What and how?"
"Semblance, ma'am," Michael replied, "I can teleport pretty much anywhere so long as I've been there; it comes in handy pretty often. If you don't mind me asking, I didn't really catch your name, I can't just keep calling you ma'am because that's going to get very old."
Blake sighed in compliance, and said, "Alright, I'll head back with you, my name's Blake Belladonna."
"Michael Myers, at your service," Michael stated as he did a little bow, "now, let's talk while we walk, shall we?"
They walked out of the library in silence, but after they left Michael spoke up again, "So, what type of Faunus are you? I'm just curious, mind you, and if the ears didn't make it obvious, I'm a Tiger Faunus."
"Cat Faunus," Blake replied, and decided to say, "I guess I might be jealous that some Faunus can show their heritage in pride while I hide behind a bow."
"Well, I'm sure you have your reasons," Michael interjected, his unanswered question being heard by Blake.
"I don't really like talking about it," Blake said, 'but if you must know it's mostly because I used to be in the White Fang."
"What, the civils rights group that's become a pretty misguided terrorist organization?" Michael inquired, and pried further, "Did you leave before or after they went crazy?"
"A month after that happened," Blake replied, and then turned to Michael and asked, "I'm guessing you've got some backstory too?"
"If you want some dark backstory, my team is full of stuff like that," Michael replied earnestly, "you could ask any member of my team and they'll tell you what happened to them. Jason's got a story about how Freddy had to save him from an attempted drowning. Freddy could also tell you of the reason he wears a mask covering half of his face. And, like Johnny told me he did yesterday for your friend Pyrrha, if you're lucky he'll tell you of his survival story against cancer."
"And what about you, may I ask?" Blake inquired, curious as to where this conversation was going.
She heard him sigh, and he replied solemnly, "You ever hear about the so-called 'urban legend' of a kid murdering their older sister on Halloween night years ago?"
Blake nodded in confirmation, and her eyes suddenly widened as she realised what he was implying and asked, "You mean that isn't a legend?"
"I'd wish it was just that," the Tiger Faunus replied as his eyes glazed over in remembrance, "but yes, eleven years ago, when I was just six years old, I was the kid in that legend that killed their sister on Halloween night."
"But, why?" Blake interrogated, noticing how dark their conversation had gotten.
"Believe me when I say that my reason was out of vengeance for what she did," Michael answered with a slight growl, "Judith always neglected me when she was alive, and on that night, instead of taking me trick-or-treating like our parents asked her to do, she instead kicked me out of the house to spend some...intimate time with her boyfriend. I was so angry at her for what she did, next thing I knew I blacked out, and when I came to the knife covered in her blood was in my hands."
"So," Blake decided to cautiously ask, "what happened after that?"
"I was arrested by police not long after," Michael solemnly answered, "my parents were shocked of what I did, and even I had a hard time believing what I had done. My life could've been over, I could've been locked in a prison or a psychiatric ward never to see the light of day again. When I explained what occurred and my motives, however, they instead charged me with manslaughter due to temporary insanity, and I was released into a three year house arrest. I promised myself then and there that, no matter who made me angry, that I would constantly take anger management classes, and even after I graduated from those classes it wasn't enough to remove the guilt of my crime, so every year on that night I can be found confessing my sin at the church in Vale."
Turning back to Blake, Michael smiled and stated, "You kind of look like Judith, now that I think about it, but from what I can tell you're nothing like her."
They walked for awhile in silence, and when they reached the doors to the cafeteria looked the Tiger Faunus in the eye and asked, "I only have one last question: why did she neglect you?"
"I think it was because that our father and her stepmother (my mother) paid me more attention than they did to her," Michael replied calmly, "my dad and her mother were both humans, while my mother is a Tiger Faunus like me. She hated and neglected me because she was jealous that our parents treated me as the favourite while Judith was barely around enough to be treated as the oldest. Instead of blaming herself for being estranged with our parents, she blamed me and neglected me instead."
"I'm sorry for digging up bad memories by asking," Blake began to apologise until Michael raised up his hand and shook his head.
"Don't be, the past is the past," he said, and then smiled and said, "Now, I believe the others are waiting for us."
A/N: And that was Chapter 3 of Team MJJK! So, anyone have a clue as to who is paired with who? It's okay if you don't, all will be revealed. Also, Ruby won't be paired with a member of Team MJJK (because I can't have all hetero pairings), but who she'll be with shall be mentioned next chapter, but as for who it is? Well, let's just say that Team MJJK aren't the only horror monsters sent to Remnant from Earth...
So, this chapter has the second clue as to what will happen in my oncoming story, Prophecy. The first clue is in Chapter 5 of Eclipse, so go look for it. Here's clue number two: it's an AU that takes place six years after RWBY and JNPR graduate from Beacon, and therefore ten years after the events of the first two volumes.
As for what monster appears in the first chapter of RWBY: HHN, stay tuned when it comes out.
Anyways, thanks for reading, leave a rreview and don't forget to favourite/follow. Be sure to look out for more clues for Prophecy and to go read Eclipse and RWBY:HHN. Thanks again, and God Speed!