Alright, remaster chapter 3 of this story. Imagine how much fun it is for me to look at my own early cringey work. I will get this done all the way eventually, I have about 12 more chapters to get through. I have faith in myself though.

Just letting you all, that if beyond this point if you see the title :Team HAMR: That is the old title of this story. A Tale of Two Heroes is the new title of this story, and probably will not change at all in the future.

Also, as much as I would love too. I can't get every single mistake I made. There's just too much...

Thanks for reading

A Tale of Two Heroes

Chapter 3- Bonding time

Hector sat in the boy's locker room looking for the locker he didn't know if he was assigned or not while wondering what exactly he is going to do in this fight against his partner that he met about three days or so ago.

"You're good at dodging, but good luck with fighting back." Hector chuckled to himself with no real amusement. "Wow Ash, thanks for that amazing advice." He said to himself sarcastically as he searched for any locker that might have the initials H.R on it. Or just any kind of sign that he might have a locker at all. That was until he remembered that all the lockers are numbered, and not named.

"Ugh, I have like two minutes left. Throw me a bone here." Hector said as he began to panic, and grabbed the strands of his hair on top of his head.

As if on command, his scroll vibrated in his pocket just as he finished speaking that sentence, and without really thinking about it he immediately reach into his pocket to fish it out.

Unfortunately, It was a message from the group chat. And it was selfie of Ashley with the arena behind her while she was in her combat attire, she winked at the camera in the picture and the captions that said 'Don't leave a girl waiting ;)'. She of course had to put the winky face there. Hector slumped my head against one of the lockers and began to softly bang it against the locker for a straight minute until he heard footsteps coming up from behind me.

"I surrender!" Hector shouted as he jumped into the best stance he could possibly get into and for no reason whatsoever.

"You look rather tense Mister Rivers, is everything alright?" Ozpin asked as he took a step forward. His face had an amused smirk on it, and once again Hector found himself wondering why the headmaster was speaking to him of all people in private.

Despite that, Hector stood up straight while wearing a nervous smile, realizing that he had just made a fool of himself in front of the headmaster of Beacon Academy.

"No actually, I can't say that I'm alright because I am about to fight my ninja partner who actually knows how to fight. Unlike me. So, all in all I am not doing so well, and I forgot to mention that I don't know what locker is mine so I can't get the clothes that I came in with, and I have about… thirty seconds left? I think? I think it's safe to say that I am about to get humiliated out there."

Ozpin moves to see if Hector is alright when he starts coughing heavily. But stopped when he waved his hand signaling to him that he was okay. After a few seconds Hector caught his breath. However, when he fully recovered, he continued his rant "And i'm still trying to figure out what the fuck I am doing here and why you have so much faith in me for some unknown reason." As he said those words, he slid down against the lockers and landed on his bottom with his face hidden in his hands. Completely exasperated.

Ozpin nodded in understanding and stepped up closer once again, then squatted down to eye level.

"Do you think I've made a mistake?" Ozpin asked him suddenly, snapping Hector out of his stupor.. "Do not worry about time by the way, I have made it clear to the Professor that you will take as long as you need with me in order to mentally prepare yourself."

"Well, to answer your question yes, I think you did. But I since there is most likely going to be an explanation on why you do." Hector said as he let one leg rest on the ground.

Ozpin made an approving humming sound as he stood up, and tapped his cane on a locker that was right next to Hector. It opened quickly and revealed the very clothes that Hector has been looking for, but this time it was a little augmented. So subtly that it was nearly unnoticeable, he turns around and faces the door in which he came in through.

"Go on, change. As you do I will explain myself." Ozpin said as he turned his back to Hector to give him the privacy he needed to comfortably change his clothing.

"Of course it was right next to me this whole time."Hector muttered to himself in his surprise as he stood up and started to change into the clothes in the locker. "Wait, my clothes weren't like this when I first came here." He said as he noticed some of the changes.

"I had them ordered for you the moment you, and your team defeated the Deathstalker." Ozpin answered without hesitation. At this point, it didn't really surprise the Earthling.

"Wow, thanks man. So what were you going to say?" Hector asked as he slipped his shirt off over his head.

"True, I was going to question you, and then send you away when I first laid eyes on you." Ozpin mentioned as Hector moved down to take off his pants.

"What stopped you?"

"When Miss Cain unlocked your aura I saw a very unique kind of aura, a kind of aura that I have never seen before. That is especially unusual since I have lived a long enough life to know about the many varieties of aura."

"Wait, there's different variations of aura?" Hector asked as he slipped on his new black shirt.

The new combat pants now wore was an olive green in color with built in flexible knee pads that wrapped around his entire knee. It was extremely comfortable, which was suggestive due to their light baggy nature. It almost felt like Hector was wearing nothing at all, even when he put on the brown leather belt provided for him. After fully dressing himself, Hector turned back to Ozpin expectantly.

"We can get to that another time." Ozpin said as he took another sip from his mug of coffee.

"So… Im special? Also what did my 'unique' aura look like?" Hector asked next after quickly accepting the headmasters terms. He looked down to his black shirt to see some kind of red dragon design that travels from behind my back and the head stopped right where his heart was. It was very good looking, so he had no complaints about it.

"In a way yes. As for how 'special' as you put it, I am not quite certain of that as of yet. Finally, your aura is red, I know that is quite common but let me continue. When I look into your soul, which is the source of your aura, I see an undying blaze, and when I focus on your whole body I can see it covered in your aura that appears to look like a purple haze. What's unique about it is that it never goes away. Almost like it is waiting to explode out with power and heat. That is the reason I allowed you to become a student here despite the fact that you have little to no combat experience." Ozpin explained, doing his best to make it easy to understand.

"Huh, so I am special. Man my team is going to be so jealous if I survive today." Hector said as he kneeled down to tie his dark brown combat boots. Anything else I should know? Maybe some advice to not get myself killed by my own partner?"

Ozpin could only offer the leader of Team HAMR a smile as he placed a hand on his shoulder. "Surprise me, it is what you are best at so far." He said as he patted his shoulder, and then turned around to head back to the classroom. Gesturing toward himself for Hector to follow him.

Hector sighed to himself and nodded his head, thinking on the advice that was given to him as he walked with the headmaster. "Surprise him he says… Well, all I can do is my best here. Gotta pull every trick out of the book for this one though.

Hector shook his head to stop myself from thinking any more negative thought. Moving faster so that he could catch up to the headmaster. Together, they walked out of the locker room. As soon as he stepped out however, everyone in the room including Team RWBY all laid their eyes on him, scaring him out of the mental pep talk he was just about to give himself.

"Uh… Did I do anything wrong?" I ask as I look around the room.

"Lovin the new look boss!" Reggie shouts from the other side of the room, making himself the new target of attention. If it was a part of his plan to become that, then Hector would thank him later. But if not, he'd probably still do the same thing.

"Get down!" Mike whisper screamed as he yanked Reggie down back into his seat.

"What? I'm trying to help him, and besides he does have pretty sweet clothes on." Reggie whined.

As Hector tried to walk down to the arena without so much as looking left or right, he couldn't help but overhear a certain group of girls chatting about him.

"Wow, I didn't think that guy could clean up so well." Yang said absentmindedly as she stared at Hector in the back, eyes looking all over his body while her little sister focused on what he didn't have.

"Does he not have a weapon?" Blake asked what was on Ruby's mind as she also notices a lack of a weapon.

"Of course he does. He must have them concealed in those long sleeves or those pants. I'm sure they wouldn't allow a student to fight Grimm and criminals with their bare hands." Weiss said with a glorified huff, as if she knew the answer from the start.

"It would be so cool if he didn't though! Just imagine someone who is able to beat up Grimm and bad people with just their bare hands! So cool!" Ruby childishly cheered at the mere thought of it. She read an adventure story about someone able to do that, for it to come into real life would be amazing to her.

"That would be cool if he did fight with just his hands. I wonder if he can match me?" Yang wondered as she grows a competitive smirk on her face.

"Yang, please don't start a fight with our neighbors just to see who would win." Ruby pleaded as she placed a hand on her sisters elbow.

"Oh this is the guy that lives next door to us? The one with a carved in team name on the door? What was the name… Team Hummer?" Yang pondered, getting it three quarters correct.

"I believe it was Team HAMR, Yang." Blake corrected, not even bothering to look up from her book.

"Eh, whatever."

"That girl… she's a faunus." Blake points out, quite surprised when she notices Ashleys droopy dog ears.

"Yeah so? I like her weapons, I might ask her to let me check them out after classes are over." Ruby said as she turned her eyes to the other girl in the center of the arena. Eyes practically glowing at the sight of her dual blue curved blades.

Not hearing the rest of their conversation, Hector kept heading down the stairs without so much as looking behind himself. For some reason, the stairs felt longer than they should have been. As he did so, he was thinking about how exactly he was going to last the entire duration of the match without tiring himself out or losing. If he could make it past the first minute that is. He did do wrestling not too long ago, so maybe he could find a way to pin her down and win that way?

Hector smirked to himself at the thought. Maybe I can win this match, I just gotta tire her out and catch her off guard!

"Mister Rivers, I must let you know that for this match and every match you are involved in will have no time limit. This stipulation was given by the headmaster himself, so every match you are a part of will only end by ring out or if you or your opponents aura level gets into the red. Understood?" Miss Goodwitch explains from her little floating platform.

Hector's face paled as soon as the professor said the first part of that whole thing. There went his plan to tire her out.

"Yeah… I understand." Hector said with a heavy sigh as he started to roll his shoulders and crack his neck. If he was going to get his ass kicked, he might as well be flexible while it happened.

"Well boss, you ready?." Ashley asked him as she places her hands on the hilts of her swords.

"As ready as I'll ever be I guess." Hector said, hiding his true fear behind a mask of neutrality.

Ashleys smile stayed on her face, even as Glynda Goodwitch started the countdown to the start of their sparring match. "Are both combatants ready?" She asked mid countdown.

"Ready."

"Sure."

Hector started to get nervous the closer the Professor got down to the number zero. His heart was beating up in his ears, and his throat felt dry already. He could feel himself start to sweat before the match even started. All the while his partner simply got into a low stance, ready to pounce the second the word zero is announced to them.

"Begin!" Glynda yells, cutting her hand through the air as she began the match.

Immediately, with speeds that his untrained eye can't see. Ashley dashed towards him as a mere white and blue blur. When she reappeared, the faunus slashed diagonally at him at the chest, to which he barely spotted the attack coming at the last possible he without thinking managed to maneuver his body out of the way to dodge the attack, shouting his surprise as he did so.

"Oh Fu-" He cut himself off when he remembered who his teacher was at the moment.

After that, he dove into a role away from his aggressor to gain some distance, and then as soon as he landed back on his feet he turned his body to face her again. Ashley jummed curiously as she gets ready to lunge again, surprised that Hector didn't get hit by her first attack. Quickly however, her eyes narrowed, and once again she dashed at Hector before he could get too full of himself. But this time, she moved in a more unpredictable pattern, it wasn't like Hector was actually able to keep up with her, he just got lucky the first time.

The second time, he was not so lucky.

When she appeared in front of him again, he wasn't able to get his arms up in time, and he dodged in the wrong direction. When he saw the blade getting closer to his body, he panicked and pushed his arm out in front of his face. Surprising himself and his partner when the blade clashed with his forearm, creating a small shockwave as Hector felt his bones shake under her incredible strength.

Once they broke off, they both took a glance to the aura gauge, noting that Ashley was still at a hundred, while Hector went down ten percent. Still though, it was a miracle that he only lost that much when he was expecting his arms to be cut up at the very least. But he'd take it for what it was.

While gritting his teeth, Hector put all of his strength into pushing back against her. Surprising her with his explosive amount of strength. She was momentarily knocked off balance, but regained control even faster than when she lost it. When she recovered, she looked to her partner with a competitive grin, as if saying that she was going to get serious if he kept this up.

Being filled with newfound confidence for having lasted more than thirty seconds. Hector did his best to throw a punch at her. But it was slow and choreographed, and Ashley was easily able to dodge it and slash up his side, making him wince in pain as he lurched forward. He recovered from the new sensation of pain, and tried to throw another punch at her, which yet again Ashley dodged quite easily, hitting only the air and the tip of her ponytail. As she was dodging, she got low to the ground and threw her foot up into his gut, making him cough up saliva.

But that was when she made her first mistake. Hector grabbed her leg before she could pull it back, and threw her to the other side of the stage. She landed with grace, but for the first time her aura went down just a tiny amount, and she found herself wincing at the dull pain she felt in her ankle.

What neither of them noticed was that his hands at that moment flamed red, giving him the strength he needed to throw her like that.

"You're doing great boss!" Reggie cheered for his leader. "Mike, what do you think so far?" He asked the other member of the team.

"He lasted longer than I thought he would already, perhaps we don't need to bud in for him." Mike said without really paying much attention, and continued to read his book.

"Wow, he's doing great so far with just his hands!" Ruby exclaimed as she sat excitedly watching the match unfold.

"Sh! Don't distract me." Yang complained as she kept her eyes locked onto the sparring match, even though nothing was happening at the time this time. She was actually happy to see that she wasn't the only one who preferred to use her body as a weapon. Even if she didn't know that Hector just didn't have a weapon to begin with.

Hector rubbed his stomach with one of his hands and coughed heavily, but kept his full attention on his partner. In a strong stance just on the other side of the arena. His stomach hurt a lot, and for some reason his hands burned. But Hell, if he was going to go down, he might as well try to at least make his partner get serious.

"Mister Rivers, please remember to activate your aura in defense against any and all attacks." Glynda spoke up before the match could resume. "While it is mostly passive, you still need to think about using your aura instead of defending with purely your body."

"Oh… so that's how it works." Hector said as he took his hand off his stomach, and for once actually thought about using his aura to keep his body still in one piece. "That feels better, thanks for that- Shit!"

He got cut off when his partner threw one of her blades at one of his legs which just barely grazes the side of his knee. He was going to get ready to dodge the next one, but notices that the blade embedded in the ground next to his foot had a red tint to it.

His eyes widened as he realized exactly what that meant, and with the use of his aura and dodging skills. He jumped, and dove away from the explosion, which still catched him around his back, but didn't do nearly as much damage as it would have if he just stood there trying to block it himself.

He landed on his back when he rolled with the momentum given to him, and before he could push himself back up, Ashley pounced right on him, mounting him with a knee in his stomach, and using her one blade to slash and stab at him, draining even more of his aura away. He did his best to block most of the attacks with his arms, but more than a small amount of them got through. It looked as if the fight was about to be over, and Glynda was going to call the match, but stopped when she spotted a red ember start to smoke off of his arms.

"Alright Ash, you're seriously started to piss me off!" He yelled as he slammed her wrist away with his own, and slammed his fist as hard as he could into her face. This time, he was easily able to notice the red flame around his hand, and the fact that his partner actually recoiled back hard. Her grip loosening and incredible amount. Hector saw his chance to grapple her to the ground and reverse their positions, but his ninja of a partner flipped backwards with the momentum given to her and landed several feet away from him.

Another glance to the aura gauge told him that his partners aura dropped a significant amount suddenly, a whole twenty five percent, leaving her at around seventy four percent of her aura. While he sitting not so comfortably at fifty eight percent of his aura. What that told him however, was that he just had more aura than she did. She did mention that he had a lot, and as evident from their fight, and after one hit landing on her. She seemed to have a lot less aura than he did.

"Where did that come from?" Ashley asked him as she rubbed the spot where his fist hit her in the face. She was actually surprised by the force of that attack, Hector didn't look like he could have that amount of power behind one of his strikes, and she was certain that this might have been a cake walk judging by how he was panicking about a potential match in this class.

"No idea, I think it was because you got too close to my neck with that sword, and I might have gotten a little emotional about it." Hector answered as he looked down to his fist, just catching the end of the flames as it faded away. He was barely able to notice it himself even though it was his own power.

"Awe, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." Ashley said with a certain amount of sarcasm and bite to it. Hector chuckled in return as he spotted the blade she threw at him earlier still stabbed in the ground. From the corner of his eye he could see his partner's face go from amused to something akin to franticness.

"Isn't this the thing that nearly blew me up?" Hector asked as he yanked the sword out of the ground. It was a lot harder than he made it look, but he didn't need her to know that.

"Hey, don't touch that!" Ashley exclaimed, standing up straight, and actually growling at her opponent.

Hector widened his eyes and took a step back, ready to defend himself the best he could if his partner attacked. But she didn't, she simply stared at her sword. Hector thought about the weapon, looked at it in his hands, and thought that he'd rather deal with the Ashley that was toying with him.

Ashley stopped the blade from sliding across the ground when it got close enough for her to do so, and then squatted down to pick it up. When she did, she gave her leader and questionable and puzzling look as if she was asking him why he would do something like that in a middle of a fight.

"It wasn't like I actually knew how to swing that thing." Hector explained with a shrug, trying his best to keep a straight face and not let it be known that he was actually afraid of the consequences if he didn't give it back to her.

Ashley actually chuckled at him as she twirled her blade with one of her thumbs, and then got back into her stance. "You know, you're actually alright." She said with a teasing wink.

"Thanks, are you going to take it easy on me now?" Hector asked next, more than hopeful for the answer to be a positive yes.

Ashley even made it look like she was considering it too. "I mean, I don't think I can go any easier on you." That sparked a rhythm of giggles from the class at Hectors expense.

"Oh, great. You got jokes now." Hector muttered as he got back into the best stance he could get into, doing his best to ignore the last remnants of the giggling fit the class was just in.

Ashley snickered before she dashed toward Hector again, he thought that he was improving his reaction speed when he was actually able to keep track of her this time, but when he saw the smile on her face he realized that she was actually doing what he said and taking it easy on him even more than she was doing before.

He was able to dodge most of Ashleys attacks this time, every attack that landed cut down another percentage point of his aura and he didn't get another chance to land another one of his thunderous blows back. But for someone with zero combat experience before hand fighting against someone who evidently had plenty, he was still doing relatively well on the defensive side of things.

"Wow, you really took my advice to heart." Ashley said as she swung her swords, and once again missed as Hector narrowly dodge them by a hair's width.

"It was good advice!" He replied as he jumped back from a slash.

"Mister Rivers, you won't win the match if you continue to only dodge. Start going on the offensive or else I will stop this match myself. Miss Cain, I know he is your partner and it is good that you would like to treat him well, but you won't be helping him by going easy on him as you are now. Fight seriously." The Professor demanded, tapping herself on the shoulder with her riding crop impatiently.

"Shit..." Hector said to himself as he watched as his partner shrugged at him and saw her mouth the word 'Sorry' at him.

She went back to a blur kind of speed and before Hector knew it he was roundhouse kicked straight in the side of the ribs. Ashley landed several more hits after that, all on and around his midsection, and to the same side where she first kicked him. Ashley took the Professor's advice and powerfully roundhouse kicked her poor leader one more time in the same spot when he was off guard, his aura was put up just after the kick was landed, which made Hector cough up spit and a tiny amount of blood too small to see.

Ashley smiled to herself for finally landing a few good hits on her leader, even if he was a bit too slow for her. But that smile quickly faded when she realized that she got her ankle grabbed again. She barely had time to widen her eyes when she was single legged takedown to the ground, this time with her leader on top. He let go of her leg and forced it underneath him, and used one of his own legs to pin down one of her wrists, and his free hand to pin down her other hand.

Hector barely caught up with himself when he realized that he was actually in the dominant position. Despite losing the combat part horribly, and being down by a lot of aura, he was still able to pull something like this off amazingly. Ashley quickly learned how big of a mistake she made when the grip on her right left wrist tightened significantly to the point where it almost hurt.

She tried to get him off of her by bucking up, but with the way that Hector was positioned he barely moved and inc before locking her down right away. She was trapped underneath his surprisingly heavy weight, and couldn't muster up the strength to push her off from her very disadvantageous position. She scolded and berated herself for being so careless, and awaited for a fist to slam into her face as her punishment. But when pain didn't come, she cracked her eyes open to see that her leader was threatening to punch her, but not going through it.

"Yield." Hector said as he tightened his grip, and lowered his fist back down to his side.

Ashley didn't really know what to think. She was destroying him in their match the past few minutes, and when he finally got into the perfect position for revenge, he decided to not take it. She looked up at him with a questioning gaze, she wanted to speak but the words failed her.

"I don't see a reason to beat down someone who's already in a bad spot." Hector said with a smirk as he let her go, and stood back up. He offered her a hand to help her up, and she looked at it with a bemused expression.

"You're one of the weird kinds then." She said with a scoff as she took his hand. "You got me here, I yield."

From the corner of his eye, Hector could see Ozpin nodding approvingly at him, before disappearing out of the room. He got lucky, there was no arguing that. His partner got cocky and overconfident, and the one time she let her guard down was when he used his slightly superior strength and heavier weight to pin her down. If this was not a sparring match, he would have lost. Hands down.

"That was very mature of you Mister Rivers" Glynda complimented. "Now everyone as you just witnessed there is more than one way to win a fight in a tournament like setting, if you can pin your opponent and they can't fight back then it will be considered a victory for you, even if you are the one with less aura." Miss Goodwitch explained. "Mister Rivers, you must focus some training on aura control, as well as combat skill. While you did win, you did so only out of luck." She says as she begins to patch up all the damage that was done to the ring.

"Yeah… sounds about right." Hector said as he nodded his head, and rubbed his stomach and ribs were he was kicked multiple times.

"Miss Cain, you did a great job in the beginning, but you got overconfident and it costed you the match. Since you did not give it your all, I cannot give you a proper evaluation. Next time, do not hesitate to give it your all, no matter who I put you up against."

"Understood mam." Ashley said with a nod. Even though it was a blow to her pride, she did not think it wise to talk back to the woman.

"Good, now both of you, change back into your school clothing and take your seats afterwards.

Hector headed back up the stairs and into the locker room, once he was out of view he folded up in pain and fell to the floor coughing. "Fuck… fuck… fuck that hurt… so much pain" He said as he held the side where he was viciously assaulted by his partner. He lift his shirt up to reveal a nasty bruise that covers that entire side. He made the rookie mistake once again and forgot to activate his aura in defense when Ashley went for that roundhouse kick, he blocked some of her attacks with his aura but after that the inexperience in combat and aura usage showed itself. Tears even start to form up at the corner of his eyes since he was not used to experiencing this amount of pain.

Mike and Reggie wanted to congratulate him for his upset victory. Well, Reggie wanted to at least, he just dragged Michael along with him. They entered the locker room with smiles on their faces, but they quickly disappeared at the sight of the young man on the ground in pain.

"Dude you alright!?" Reggie asked nervously as he moved to his side on one knee. His mood changing from happy to concerned on a complete dime, even Michael showed a decent bit of concern.

Returning to the leader of Team HAMR, Reggie helped him up and onto one of the benches. Hector points them to the locker that has his school clothes in it so they could get it for him.

"What happened?" Reggie asked, looking to his recently established leader with a curious expression.

"He forgot to use his aura to protect himself again." Mike said as he pointed out the massive bruise he had the left side of his body.

"Yeah that's about it, it just kinda hurts to move, and well, breathe. I'm sure I'll get better soon." Hector said as he put on the first shirt of his school uniform, hiding his bruise from the world.

"It's just a bruise so it should get better over time, just not quickly because of the size of it. I recommend practicing with your aura before you go into battle again and get yourself hurt worse than before." Mike suggested as he helped him put on the coat that went over the shirt.

"Wow, I think that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me." Hector pointed out playfully.

"Well… I feel a little bad for leaving you out in the open like that the other day for no good reason. So consider that an apology." Mike explained.

"That means you're his friend now." Reggie whispered to his leader, which earned a smack to the back of the head from his partner. Hector chuckled at their antics, thinking on how amusing being with them constantly is going to be like. While they're distracted he slipped on his school pants after he took off the combat pants that he got from Ozpin, and then quickly tied on his school shoes.

"Thanks for the help guys. You're the best teammates anyone could ask for." The leader of HAMR complimented as he stood back up.

"Oh stop!" Reggie playfully said, playing at being flustered.

"After the day is over you and Ashley need to set things straight with each other, being on good terms with your partner is very important since you're going to be stuck with each other for the next four years. You might as well be tolerant with each other at the very least." Mike says as he rounds up Reggie and leaves Hector to his thoughts. Mike stopped after Reggie leaves the room and looks back at him, one last thing on his mind he needs to know right away.

"Why didn't you hit her when you had her pinned?" Mike asked with an arched eyebrow. Hector hesitates with his answer because he really doesn't know why. He just saw her in that helpless state, and just couldn't take advantage of it.

"Well... its like you said before I think, might as well get along with her if we're going to be partners for the next four years." When that didn't work, Hector rephrased himself. "I didn't see punching a girl who was already pinned as a good honorable thing to do, how about that?"

"Huh, good choice." Mike said before he followed his own partner out of the locker room, leaving his leader alone with nothing but his thoughts.

When he leaves Hector thinks back on everything that has happened, especially on the matter of his team, and the future.

"Huh… Next four years huh- Wait a second…" Hector mentally, and physically, slapped himself in the face. "Oh gosh… do I have to do something about Cinder and all that shit?" He thought to himself as he finished tying his other shoe and shakily stood up. "I am going to need to train a lot for that to even become possible…"

While thinking on that, Hector started to walk with a small limp as he made his way back to the classroom part of the combat training room. He took the same seat he was in before when he asked Ashley about what he should do, and he didn't expect her to come back to sit next to him like after what happened. He leans his head back on his seat until he feels someone tap his shoulder.

"Hey!"

He opened his eyes faster than he closed them as he heard a familiar voice. His eyes colored eyes staring right back at him with unmistakable blonde hair. Hector gets startled at how close she is and almost falls out of his chair with a yelp, earning a giggle from Yang as she sits on the desk in front of him.

"So I noticed you like fighting with your fists as well. I like how you handled your partner." Yang said, leaning on her side facing toward him.

Hector was too bewildered to respond, and could only speak in Uh's and huh's.

"Yang! I told you not to go after him right after he came out of the locker room." Ruby complained as she walked up to her big sister, followed by Weiss, and Blake.

"Sorry! I just couldn't help myself." Yang replied with a shrug of her shoulders.

"He must be tired after that match he just had. I think it'd be a better to talk to him in lunch later today if you're that interested in him." Blake suggested as she noticed the dark rings around his eyes.

"Oh, you do have jokes! I like this version of you." Yang fired back with a smirk, earning a roll of the eyes from her partner.

Hector couldn't exactly speak at the moment since all four members of team RWBY are all of the sudden right in front of him, and talking about him... To say the least, he was more than a little shell shocked.

"You!" Weiss shouted suddenly and pointed an accusatory finger almost directly into his nose.

"Good morning!" Hector greeted back with a nervous chuckle, earning a snort of amusement from the blonde of the team.

Weiss however, was nowhere near as amused.

"How did you get the teachers to let you fight without a weapon?" Weiss asked in a suspicious voice.

"I… didn't." He responded with hesitation since he didn't really know what else to say. "How would I be able to convince ANY of the teachers her to let me fight without a weapon?" He pointed out, gently moving her finger away from his face with one of his own.

"Wow, over me that fast?" Ashleys voice called out from behind him. Surprised he looks at her with a weak smile, as does Team RWBY.

"Mission abort, everyone fall back!" Ruby whisper screams as she grabs the collars of all the girls and pulls them back with her semblance. How she managed to grab the collars of three girls when she only has two hands? Hector was too tired to bother to think about it.

"Oh Ash, I thought the next time I saw you would be when you kill me in my sleep." He mentions as she walks over to him and sits down in the same spot as before. He can sense a faint emotion from her, he can't quite put a finger on it but it almost felt like… guilt?

Ashley sighed sadly before looking to him.

"Mike told me that you didn't protect yourself properly with your aura." Ashley mentions, now he can really feel the guilt coming from her. This side effect from unlocking someone's aura is going to really help him to read Ashley in the future.

"Oh… he told you about that… Yeah basically my entire left side is bruised a lot, but I'll get better don't worry." Hector said with a wave of his hand.

"Show me." Ashley demanded suddenly.

"Well this is a little sudden, usually when girls say that to me it takes a lot of dates befo-"

"No, you idiot! Take off your shirt and show me what I did to you!" Ashley cut him off from his tease by she whisper screaming at him, attracting the attention of some of the other students around them.

"Ash I'm not going to take off my shirt, and show my bruise to everyone in the room, but since you insist on seeing me with my shirt off we can do it when classes are over. Deal?"

A glare is all he get as a response.

"Alright thats a yes in my book, just letting you know."

"Mhmm. Just like I'm letting you know that if I was serious I would've beaten you in seconds."

Ah, so that's why she was in a bit of a bitchy mood...

"Oh, I have no doubt about that, I just got really lucky you decided to kick me in the same spot like five times." Hector said as he rubbed the side of his ribs again for emphasis.

"It was actually seven times." Ashley corrected with a smirk.

"Oh really? In that case, shut up."

Both of them started to chuckle at each others expense. Enjoying the small moment they had together, but they were silenced by the mere gaze of the female professor.

"Mister Rivers! Miss Cain! Is there something you two wish to share with us?" Miss Goodwitch shouted to them suddenly.

"Nothing!" Hector, and Ashley shout back in unison.

"Then be quiet. The selection for the duels battle is about to commence."

The duels matchups ended up being two random teams that Hector didn't really care about, Team No one cares and Team who? Exactly.

After that, it was just workouts. Hector had trouble with the machines, but Reggie was happy to assist him. While Mike and Ashley worked out together, Reggie was showing him the ropes the whole time. When the bell rang, the leader made a mental note to give Reggie some kind of reward for his well needed help.

"Oh, I am so happy that is over." Hector said as he walked out of the classroom, rubbing one of his sore shoulders.

"That was so boring." Reggie muttered his agreement

"Well it was good for me because I literally knew nothing about those machines." Hector replied "Thanks for the help by the way."

"No problem!" Reggie smiled. "That's what teammates are for!"

"Well good for you, I believe we have to wait here for the professor for Grimm Studies do we not? I think I remember you screaming at us about that." Mike remarked as they all took their seat, in the usual Team HAMR order that they subconsciously came up with.

"Yeah, I remember that like it happened last night," Hector paused for a second, drawing the silence out. "Oh wait… Moving on, after this there's lunch so at least there is that, and after that I think we have one more and than we have some free time. I think I should spend that trying to unlock my semblance." He said as he remembered the flaming red fist that just popped up in his mind. He knew something was up when Ashley got launched across the arena, and his hand burned with power he didn't know he had.

"Monsters! Demons…" A booming voice sounds off that catches everyone's attention. He didn't know how but the entire room that was just a combat arena was just transformed into a lecture hall without anyone noticing. He tried to wrap his head around that as he looked into the face of the very bushy mustache bearing professor. Behind him is a very large white board with every type of Grimm listed on it with body parts and weaknesses listed.

"Prowlers of the night. Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many names. But I, merely refer to them as prey. Hu-hah!" Professor begins his lecture with a little joke that literally no one laughs at. Hector could swear he even heard crickets, and tried not to think on why and how they actually got there.

"Haha… Uuh, and you shall to! Upon graduating from this prestigious academy. Now as I was saying, Vale, as well as the three other kingdoms, are safe havens in an otherwise treacherous world…" Mister Port begins his lecture. Hector slumped on his head against the desk before the lecture even started. In his mind, he remembered that Port will soon list off the traits and qualities of a leader, then Weiss be be like 'I am!' And then she'll barely kill off the Grimm and then get all bitchy with Ruby only to forgive her, and get her coffee at night.

At least that's what he thought would happen.

"...Now who thinks that they are the embodiment of these traits?" Mister Port asks the class.

"I do sir!" Weiss immediately raised her hand as I thought she would.

"Excellent! Mister Rivers please go get your combat gear and come down here."

Wait, what...

"Wait, what?" Hector echoed the thoughts in his mind. "I wasn't the one who volunteered." He felt the need to point out.

"Yeah! It was me!" Weiss shouts off hoping to get her spot back.

"Nonsense! I wish to see what our barehanded huntsman in training can do in battle against a Grimm! Now young man please get your gear, I will be waiting patiently."

Why...

"The fuck…" He muttered as he slammed his head against the table. Reggie helpfully whispered to him his good lucks as he patted his back slowly.

"Don't worry boss, if you get into too much trouble I'm sure the Professor will stop the fight." Michael said with a yawn. Showing just how much of his support he was willing to throw into the mix.

"Yeah hopefully…" Hector groaned into his desk for good measure.

"Mister Rivers, I am quite sure I called you down did I not?" Professor Port asked loudly. More than loud enough for Hector to hear him.

"Alright, I'm going!" He exclaimed as he got up to go get changed again, luckily the locker rooms were still in the same spots and it didn't take as long to find his stuff since Ozpin sent him the information on where his locker is and what the code for it is. How and why he knew the perfect time to send it to him, Hector didn't want to think about. He had a bad enough headache as it was.

"Young man, are you ready to face your opponent?" Mister Port asked with a goofy grin which was hidden under that mustache of his.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Hector said with a sigh, already trying to concoct some kind of plan in his head to get through yet another fight.

"Great! Now this Grimm is usually saved for the older students, but I've been given specific instructions from the headmaster himself to give you specifically, a harder opponent." Mister Port reveals as he begins to unlock the cage.

"...Hijo de perra." (...Son of a bitch) Hector mumbled to himself as he rubbed his face in annoyance.

The cage opened up to reveal not a boarbatusk, but an Alpha Beowolf.

"¡¿POR QUE?!" (WHY?!) Hector shouted as he jumped back from the monsters immediate attack.

Since he had no weapon the Grimm was going to be even more aggressive since it thinks that Hector will be easy prey. It looked like much larger Beowolf but with more bone armour on its torso and arms, all connecting to its bone helmet. It swings its paws wildly at him as Hector dodges every single one the best he can… Which meant that he managed to dodge the first two swipes, trips a bit. Then gets knocked to the side by claw to his sides (his bad sides at that), stumbles and falls on his butt to accidentally avoid a bite, and then gets knocked across the arena with a claw uppercut. He gets up and ducks under a lunging horizontal swipe of the alpha and kicks it behind the knee, but it does nothing as it just reaches back and hits him away.

"Ah, I see that you are a sturdy one and also… decent at dodging! But how will you be able to take down such a powerful and durable opponent?" Professor Port commentated as he stands with his weapon hidden behind his leg just in case he needed to step in.

"Usually I'd run the Hell away, but I don't think that is an option this time." Hector muttered to himself right before the alpha started charging at him again. This time, there was no dodging it, Hector got shoulder charged to the other side of the arena, his aura taking a heavy it.

"Okay there's no way he is going to be able to win this without a weapon." Blake commented as she even started to feel a little concern for the stranger.

"He'll be fine Blakey! I can win a fight against an Ursa with just my hands I'm sure he can beat a Beowolf." Yang boasted.

"Yang you have Ember Celica to power up your punches, he has nothing." Blake points out.

"I have faith in him." Ruby says as she stands up, then gestures for her teammates to do the same. "Let's cheer for him! It might help."

"Aw my lil sis is making friends!" Yang teased as she placed hands on her heart, and pretended to faint.

"Shut up, and cheer!" Ruby demanded, not even registering the tease.

Hector was barely dodging some of the attacks now as he was beginning to understand some predictable patterns… but also to run out of stamina, his body wasn't used to moving this fast for so long, and he still didn't recover fully from his match with Ashley.

He tried to counter a couple times but his bare fists, but his natural strength wasn't enough to even put a dent in it and he was losing ground, and aura. He wanted to summon up the strength that he had before, but it came to no avail. His aura was blocking all of the damage so far but he could feel himself running out of it already.

"You got this Hector!" He heard the high pitched cheer that no doubt comes from one of the girls from Team RWBY. He chanced a quick glance at the source of the voice and notice Ruby, Yang and Blake all standing and cheering with a flag that says Team HAMR on it, he wanted to ask how exactly they made something like that so quickly. But he sorta had a giant monster to fight at the moment.

"Boss! Go for its legs!" Reggie shouted out helpfully like it wasn't like that was the first thing he tried to do.

Hector chanced another glance to his own team to see Reggie cheering for him and Mike and Ashley also with Team HAMR flags. Michael at least tried to show that he was supportive by actually looking down at the arena, while Ashley was just playing on her scroll with her free hand while waving the flag with her other.

"Alright… fine." Hector said to himself as he cracked his neck.

With newfound confidence he pushed past his own exhaustion and ducked under another swipe from the monster and kicked at its leg again, but this time his leg flamed up just like his fist did before, and he watched with awe as the alphas leg was broken.

The monster roared in pain and tried to reach behind itself to hit him again like it did before, and to it's credit it did actually hit unfortunately for the Grimm, Hector grabbed its arm, and used his explosive strength along with a bit of red flames to wrestle it down to the ground, and stuck his knee on its back as he locked its arm between his free knee and that same arm. Next thing he did was cock his fist, and slam it into the back of it's skull.

"Gah, fuck!" He shouts as he shook his hand of the pain. He can't stop though, he was running out of energy soon from keeping the alpha in place.

"Don't forget to use your aura!" Professor Port happily tipped him off as he twirled the ends of his mustache.

"Oh, right." Hector said as he thought about his aura surrounding his fist.

He cocked his fist back once more and with a scream, and this time with a flaming fist he punched the alphas head again, this time cracking its bone helmet. it really felt good for him, and his hand didn't almost break a second time. He cocked his fist back and punched it again, over, and over, and over again. He screamed even as black blood spurted onto his body, and face as he pummeled the alphas head into the ground with unnatural strength.

"You. Mother. Fucking. COCK!" Hector screamed between punches.

With one final roar he punched as hard as he could, breaking apart the monsters head and hitting the ground. Causing a small shockwave of cracks around the point of which his fist connected with the ground. The audience and professor all stare in silence as the alphas body disappears and the leader of Team HAMR fell back and lied down, panting from exhaustion. Completely and utterly drained. It was at this point did Ashley finally look up from her scroll.

"Phenomenal! I've never seen a huntsman in training able to kill an alpha with his bare hands! You will certainly grow to be a very successful huntsman I'm sure!" Professor Port commended Hector as he shakily sat back up.

Hector gave a thumbs up to everyone as a response, and hummed happily when they all started clapping for him in an congratulatory manner. He might have just made a name for himself, and he was happy for it.

When he tried to get back to his team however, he was met with the complete opposite of what he was expecting from them.

"Don't get near me!" Ashley shouted as she jumped up and away from her leader while holding her nose.

"Oh come on, Im sure its not that bad." Hector said with a chuckle as he fell back onto his seat, not wanting to move at all.

"I don't care about that, it's the smell! I can't take it." Ashley said as she moves to the end of that row of seats.

"I'll make sure to jump in the fountain outside real quick." He said as he slumped his head back on the desk.

"Well, I think it's great that you bathed in the blood of your enemies." Reggie commented.

Hector looked up for a second, mildly confused in his tiredness. But once it finally registered, he shook his head and made an amused chuckling sound.

"Thanks Reggie, you are not the first mate of this team."

"Woohoo!"

"And a ring around and around and around and aaaaah! Where does this motherfucking forest end!" Robert screamed, he had walking for hours, how he didn't find anything other than red trees, some rocks and nothing much else was beyond him.

"Oh come on where am I? Like uh…" he tried to think of anywhere that had red trees but he wasn't coming with anything, not any forest of that size at least. "Uh… nope got nothing." He kept walking until he found a large boulder on a little glade, he took the chance to rest for a bit.

"It's getting late too…" He said, and a rumble from his stomach mentioned another of his concerns. "And it appears someone is being needy, come on you have gone with less food before and you didn't complain this much." A sound came as a response, but it wasn't his stomach, it was the sound of someone or something stepping on some twigs.

"Uh…" He looked up immediately and saw something he wasn't prepared for a Beowolf to suddenly be in front of him, some good meters away, but in front of him, multiple things went through his, mind, mainly that it was a Beowolf, and the multiple implications of that.

"Uh…" Was all that came out of his mouth as he stared at Beowolf with wide eyes, the Beowolf snarled at him.

"Oh por la reputisima mierda." (Oh by the bitching shit.) He said, the Beowolf for its part howled.

Well, there it is, Remastered chapter three of this story. Geez, I find myself cringing so much at my own work. But this time, I had some help. Thank you CrowSkull for the help. He's my Beta and co writer for this story by the way.

Hey, what's up. -CrowSkull.

Anyways, as always. Beyond this point is going to be much worse chapters in terms of quality. It gets better over time, but it takes a while. So read at your own risk, we'll get to rewriting most of that one day, but for now just bear with us. If you happen to enjoy reading it anyway, than more power to you.

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