"Hello"=Talking
'Hello'=Thinking
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It was peaceful over the skies as all was quiet. A large black bird decided to take to the skies for a bit and lifted up. As it began to move slowly and magnificently across the skies it heard a low explosion. Ignoring it, the bird continued as the small explosions grew louder. And that was when it got knocked the fuck out by a blur of black and red.
"Birdie no!" Ruby cried as she zoomed passed the bird she had knocked out.
Shaking off her anguish Ruby fired off a few rounds from Crescent Rose to slow her down, then turned the weapon into its scythe form to catch a branch as she hopped down. Meanwhile the other students had their own plans to stop themselves from getting intimate with the ground.
Weiss used her glyphs, Ren used the blades on his guns, StormFlower, to spiral around the trunk of a large tree, Yang… well she was just having fun and used her gauntlets to push her even farther, and Pyrrha crashed through multiple trees until she rolled on a branch.
Standing up, Pyrrha turned her sword into a rifle as she looked through the scope and saw Jaune falling from the sky, arms flailing. Turning the rifle into a javelin, she took a moment to adjust her aim before throwing it, and it was long until she heard a loud 'THUNK' and a cry of 'Thanks!' "Sorry!" She said as she saw Jaune hanging helplessly from the tree.
Sora, Ozpin, and Glynda
Sighing in relief, Sora thanked Oum that Jaune was caught by a javelin piercing his hood. 'I wonder why he didn't have a landing strategy.' He thought has he heard Ozpin and Glynda talk about some of the students.
With Ruby
As Ruby landed in a crouch she immediately dashed into the forest repeating a mantra in her mind.
'Gotta find Yang, Gotta find Yang, Gotta find Yang!' She thought as she stopped for a moment to shout her sister's name before dashing off once more. 'What if I can't find her?! What if someone gets to her first!? Think Ruby think!' She thought as she looked side to side 'Well there Jaune! He's nice and funny! …But I don't think he's very good in a fight' She thought sadly as she moved on.
'There's Blake!' She thought as she remembered the golden eyed girl from the day before. 'So mysterious, so calm… plus she likes books! Then again I don't think I can hold a conversation with her.' She thought sadly before moving on the last person on her list.
'Oh! There's Sora! He's nice and I was able to keep the conversation going when we talked. Plus I'm sure he knows how to fight!' She thought happily before she remembered the situation with him 'But he wasn't on the cliff… Maybe he was just a bit late!' She thought happily as she thought back to the people she knew.
'Okay… Who else do I know in this school? There's Yang, Jaune, Blake, Sora, aaaand…'
But before she could finish time suddenly seemed to slow down as Ruby was forced to skid to a halt in front of a familiar white haired girl.
A pregnant pause followed as they locked eyes and stared at each other for a few moments. Unfortunately this ended when Weiss turned on her heel and walked the opposite direction.
"Wait! Where are you going?!" Ruby cried as she saw Weiss walk away. "We're supposed to be teammates…" She muttered dejectedly as she kicked the ground.
Good job Weiss. You kicked the puppy! I hope you're proud of yourself.
Ignoring the fact that she had done the equivalent of kicking a puppy, Weiss gave the occasional grunt as she pushed plants away from her. But she sighed in relief when she heard a voice above her and looked up.
And so she locked eyes with Jaune Arc, who was hanging from a tree as he gave her an embarrassed wave.
'Nope. Nope Nope Nope Nope!' Thought Weiss as she turned heel and walked back towards Ruby as Jaune groaned in dejection.
Before Ruby could decide to leave the area she was suddenly grabbed and pulled by her hood. Turning her head she saw the culprit was Weiss who proceeded to say "By no means does this make us friends."
"You came back!" Ruby cried in joy as they passed by Jaune, who was still shouting for their help.
"Really?! You guys are just gonna leave me?!" He yelled before sighing as he looked down, before doing a double take as he saw Pyrrha looking up at him.
"Do you… have any spots left on your team?" She said as she gave a small smile of amusement.
"Yeah… I do." Jaune said as he returned the smile.
Sora, Ozpin, and Glynda
Sora smiled as Weiss turned around and dragged Ruby off in a, reluctant, acceptance of partnership. "Well at least she's willing to try…" Muttered Sora as his smile grew as Jaune partnered with Pyrrha. 'Great for him!' he thought as she helped Jaune get out of the tree.
Continuing to view the initiation, Sora frowned when Ruby and Weiss got into an argument after they retreated from some Beowolves. 'Well there goes the progress… back to square one I suppose.' He thought as switched over to Jaune.
After watching a bit he was surprised when Pyrrha had unlocked his aura, personally Sora didn't even realize that Jaune hadn't unlocked his aura, and she explained the concepts to him. 'Hmmm… Maybe I can help Jaune later?' he thought before he heard Glynda speak.
"The last pair has been formed, sir." She said as she tapped her scroll to enlarge the image. "Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren. Poor boy… I can't possibly imagine those two getting along."
"You may be surprised mam." Sora said as she turned to face him. "Friendships tend to work in strange ways." He said while Ozpin nodded.
"Perhaps, but Mr. Ren is better off than Miss Nikos." She said as she switched the image to Jaune and Pyrrha's trek through the woods. "I don't care what his transcripts say. That boy is not ready for this level of combat." Deactivating her scroll she continued "But I suppose we'll find out soon enough. At their current pace they should reach the temple in a few minutes. Speaking of which…" Turning to Ozpin she asked "What did you use for relics this year?"
Ozpin did not answer, his interest occupied as he saw the footage of Ruby and Weiss walking through the woods.
Ruby and Weiss
"Just keep moving and we'll find the temple!" Weiss said as she turned towards a new direction.
Having enough of the argument she and Weiss had been having earlier, Ruby said in a faux imitation of Weiss voice "Oh, just keep moving! Hurry up! Waaahhh! Watch where you're going!" She stopped for a moment to switch to her normal voice before continuing "Why are you so freaking bossy!"
"I am not bossy! Don't you dare say things like that!' Weiss shouted, offended at her accusation.
"Then stop telling me what to do and treating me like a kid!" Ruby retorted.
"Then stop acting like one!" Weiss said becoming fed up.
"Well, stop acting like you're perfect!"
"I'm. Not. Perfect!" Weiss shouted as she turned to walk away before turning her head towards Ruby "Not yet… But I'm still leagues better than you." She finished as she walked away.
"… You don't even know me…" Ruby muttered.
Sora
'Come on Ruby… Go to her! You guys can still fix this…' Sora thought as he looked at the saddened look on his friends face.
"Another pair has arrived at the temple, sir." Glynda said as Ozpin looked at her.
"Which?" He asked as he sipped his coffee.
"Yang Xiao Long and Blake Belladonna." She said as she returned her attention to the scroll.
'Huh. Ruby's sister eh?' Sora thought as he switched to take a look at the relics.
'Why does that temple look familiar?' He thought.
Yang and Blake
Yang and Blake finally stepped out of the forest and into a clearing as they beheld the circular stone temple that housed their objective.
"Think this is it?" Yang as she looked at her partner.
In response Blake only gave her an incredulous look as she headed to the temple as her partner followed. As they entered they noticed that on the pedestal were chest pieces, but these were different than the chest pieces they've seen before.
"I've never seen chess pieces like this before…" Blake said as she looked at what appeared to be a golden horned lion.
"Some of them are missing. Looks like we weren't the first." Yang said as she looked around.
Sora
For some reason when Sora beheld the chess piece Blake was observing he couldn't help but feel a small shiver pass through him as he hoped that, for some reason they did not choose that one.
Yang and Blake
"Well I guess we should pick one." Blake said as she motioned to her partner to choose.
"Hmmm…." Yang hummed as she looked at some of the pieces before her eyes stopped on a certain piece. "How about this one?" She said as she held up a silver piece with a crown on top.
"Sure." Blake said as they walked to the center of the temple.
"That wasn't so hard!" Yang said as she looked at the chess piece.
"Well it's not like this place is hard to find." Blake said as they shared a smile.
But no sooner did she say that was when they heard a very loud scream.
'Was that a girl?' Thought Ozpin, Sora, and Glynda as they looked around.
"Some girl is in trouble! Blake did you hear that?!" Yang said as she turned to her partner who only stared at the sky.
"Blake what are you lookin-" Yang started only for her to be interrupted when Blake grabbed her chin and tilted upwards. Looking up she finally noticed the black and red dot that was growing bigger while it screamed "Heads uuuuuppppppp!"
"Oh shit Ruby!" Yang yelled in panic as she prepared to try and save her sister.
A few minutes previously
"How did they even?!" Sora shouted as he looked at his scroll. "I only looked away for a minute to drink some water and I come back to this?!" He shouted as he beheld Ruby and Weiss' situation.
Ruby and Weiss
"Ruby! I told you this was a terrible idea!" Weiss shouted as she held on for dear life.
"We're gonna be fine! Just don't worry about!" Ruby shouted as the wind blew her cloak back.
"I'm so far beyond worried!" Weiss said as she moved her head to avoid a bug from hitting it.
"In a good way?!" Ruby asked as she looked at her partner.
"In a very bad way you dolt!" Weiss shouted as she glared at Ruby.
"Then lets jump!" Ruby yelled as she looked for a spot to land.
"What are you?! Insane?!" Weiss shouted as she was met with silence. Turning around she saw the spot that was previously occupied by her partner was empty as she shouted "Oh, you little red bit-"
Present
"Heads upppppppp!" Ruby shouted as she managed to gain Yang's attention.
But before Yang could even try to save her little sister, Jaune suddenly flew across the air and collided into Ruby! Knocking her off course and sending both of them crashing into a tree.
"Oh… Cute Beowolves…" Ruby muttered as she saw cutesy little beowolves spin around her head.
"Eh-hem!" A voice said as she regained her bearings and looked up to see Jaune, once again, hanging from a tree, but this time he was hanging upside down from a branch. "Hey, Ruby…" He muttered as he waved.
Back on the ground Blake could only look at the tree and say "Did your sister just fall from the sky?"
Yang was at a loss for words as she tried to process what had happened in the past few moments. But before she could speak, several crashing noises started coming from the forest as an Ursa came out, arms swinging. But it was stopped when a blast of pink energy hit it in the back, killing it, as it crashed to the ground and deposited it's rider.
"Aww!" Nora cried as she poked the dead Ursa "It's broken."
And then Ren came into the clearing panting as he leaned on the carcass of the 'broken' Ursa "Nora! Please… don't ever do that again!" He said as he looked up, only to see that Nora had ditched him once more.
"Ohh…" Nora muttered as she looked at one of the chess pieces, a silver one that was topped with a heart that ended with three points on the bottom. Grabbing it she began to dance while singing "I'm queen of the hearts! I'm queen of the hearts!"
"Nora!" Ren shouted from outside the temple.
"Coming, Ren!" She said as she skipped over to her friend.
"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa" Blake said with wide eyes.
But before Yang could answer, another interruption, in the form of Pyrrha crashing into the clearing with a Death Stalker chasing her, appeared cutting her off.
"Jaune/Pyrrha!" The partners shouted as they noticed their respective situations.
"Woah!" Ruby cried as she saw the Death Stalker causing havoc as it chased Pyrrha. She then jumped off the tree and rolled as she ran towards Yang, ignoring Jaune's cry for assistance.
"Ruby!" Yang cried as her sister ran towards her.
"Yang!" Ruby cried as she raised her arms to give her sister a hug.
"Nora!" Nora yelled as she came between the two sisters, knocking them off balance.
Before Ren could chastise Nora for her interruption, a loud screech returned their attention to the forgotten Death Stalker that was still chasing Pyrrha.
"Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her trail?!" Blake said mouth agape.
Before anything could interrupt her again, Yang shouted "I can't take it anymore!" She began as she erupts in a small burst of fire, eyes flashing red "Can everyone just chill for two seconds before something insane happens again!?"
Sora, Ozpin, and Glynda
Ozpin looked at his scroll and said "One and two. Times up."
The students
"Umm… Yang?" Ruby said as she tugged her sisters sleeve and pointed up.
Looking up, Yang could only mutter "Son of a bitch I didn't mean it literally…" as they saw Weiss clinging, to an enormous Nevermore, as she called down to Ruby "How could you leave me?!"
"I said to jump!" Ruby shouted at her partner.
"She's gonna fall." Said Blake as she looked at the heiress.
"She'll be fine!" Ruby said as she looked at the black-haired girl.
"She's falling." Ren deadpanned as he pointed up.
Before anyone could move to help the heiress, Jaune suddenly jumped off the branch and caught Weiss as he smile at her and said "Just… dropping in?"
Weiss was speechless as she looked at him and Jaune was starting to grow concerned. Looking down, It was at this moment that Jaune knew he fucked up as he realized that he didn't have a landing strategy. "Oh, Oum." He squeaked as they began to fall to the earth once more.
Juane faceplanted into the ground, limbs splayed out, as he groaned in pain. But his groaned turned into a muffled scream as Weiss landed on his body in a seated positon while looking at her nails.
"My hero." She said mockingly.
Sora, Ozpin, and Glynda
Wincing, Sora said "I give him a seven for effort" as he observed his friend's attempt to impress Weiss.
"A six." Ozpin said as the two looked at Glynda.
After a few moments of silence passed she said "A four because of the botched landing."
Shrugging, they turned their attention back to the students as they regrouped in front of the temple.
The students
"Well that's just great!" Yang shouted sarcastically as Pyrrha was thrown at them by the Death Stalker "The gangs all here! Now we can die together!"
"Not if I can help it!" Ruby cried as she charged the large Grimm, ignoring her sisters warning.
Ruby fired Crescent Rose to increase her speed as she swung her scythe and struck the Grimm… Who ignored her attack and swiped her away with one of its pincers.
"D-Do-Don't worry! I'm fine!" She stuttered as she got back up and fired her weapon at the Grimm's face. Seeing that her shot caused no damage, Ruby sheathed her scythe and tried to retreat back to her sister.
"Ruby!" Yang cried as she noticed the return of the Nevermore returned and launched sharpened feathers at the two, separating them and causing Ruby's cape to get stuck to the ground.
Yang panicked as she tried to get around the feathers but she realized that she would not make it in time before the Death Stalker would reach Ruby. Before she could try to brute force her way through the feathers, a white blur passed by her as she closed her eyes.
Opening her eyes she saw the Death Stalker frozen in ice and Weiss chastising her sister. Preparing to tell Weiss to back off she stopped when she heard Weiss say "…but I suppose I could be a bit… difficult… from time to time. So… if you stop trying to show off with your childish antics, I'll try to be nicer." As she muttered the last part.
"I'm not trying to show off, I just wanted you to know I can do this even though I'm younger…" Ruby said as she looked at Weiss.
"Your fine." Weiss said reassuringly as she walked off.
"Normal knees…" She sighed in relief as her sister came up to her.
Sora
Sora smiled as he saw the image that unfolded as he though 'I knew you could fix it Ruby… At least Weiss is willing to try." He frowned when the Death Stalker began to break free of its icy prison while the Nevermore began to circle back for another assault.
"It seems the last pair chose their relics." Said Ozpin as he saw Ruby grab the silver crown piece while Jaune grabbed the sliver heart piece.
"It seems we've reached the last part of the initation." Glynda said as she looked at Ozpin "Are you sure they can handle this?"
"Have faith Glynda, I have a good feeling about this group." Ozpin said as he looked at his scroll.
Sora saw that the group had arrived at the ruins of an old tower and bridge as the two Grimm prepared to begin their attack. 'Good luck guys…' Sora thought as the battle began.
(A/N: And end. Next chapter will tie up initiation and include a few other things. Also… THE RUBY VOLUME 3 OPENING CAME OUT! I HAVE NOT BEEN THIS HYPED SINCE THEY ANNOUNCED KH3! *calms down* Well! That's all for now! Also try to guess the 'thing' from last chapter and you'll win internet cookies!)
Omake
"Do I have to?" Sora wined as team RWBY and JNPR waited outside the dressing room, their costumes for Halloween already chosen.
"Come on Sora just do it please!?" Nora said as she hopped up and down in excitement. She and Ren were the only ones to see Sora's costume and while Nora hopped in excitement, Ren remained as still as normal, only a small twitch escaping every so often.
"Now I want to know what it is!" Yang said as she observed the two "Come on out Sora!"
"I admit I am curious also." Blake said as she looked up from her book.
"I just want him to hurry up so we can go!" Weiss said as she looked at her scroll.
"Come on Sora we wont laugh!" Ruby said as she and Pyrrha tried to coax him out.
"Okay..." Sora said as he opened the door reluctantly.
"Well?" he asked meekly as he looked at their shocked faces.
Sora was wearing an almost entirely black outfit that seemed to be made of faded leather. On his hands he wore white gloves that had clawed fingers, his jacket was black with grey shoulders that also included small bat wings on the upper back, the shoes were black and pointed with a grey stripe on the midsection while his legs were wrapped in what appeared to be black and red bandages. But the most noticeable things were the pointed canines that looked like fangs and the jack o'lantern mask that covered his left eye.
(Soras Vampire form)
'Oh my Oum...' The others thought as they looked at him.
Jaune and Ren had to control the giggles that tried to break out, but the girls on the other hand...
A few seconds passed before the silence was broken by a yell of "Your adorable!" Yang said as she grabbed Sora and brought him closer. "Your totally a cute monster boy!"
"Wait what?!" The boys said as the other girls got their own looks.
"That's what I told him!' Nora said as she looked at Yang.
"It's cute I admit... in a dorky way." Weiss said as she smirked at Sora's bashful expression.
Blake only had a grin on her face as she remembered the Halloween edition of Ninjas of Love. 'The younger cute monster boy and the older cat girl...'
"All who agree to Sora getting it!" Pyrrha said as she raised her hand.
Before the younger boy could protest the other girls raised their hands as Ruby proceeded to drag him towards the register.
"Wait Ruby I have to change!" Sora cried as he tried to escape her grasp.
"Nope!" She said popping the p "Your keeping that on until we say so! Besides, Jaune and Ren can get your clothes!" She finished cheerfully as Sora struggled.
Sora looked back and gave a look towards the other boys as he whimpered, but they only shook their heads as they saluted him.
"TRAITORS!" Sora cried as he was dragged off.
"Did we do the right thing Jaune?" Ren asked he picked up Sora's clothes.
"And get in the way of the girls? Better him than us man, better him than us..." Jaune said as they walked towards the exit leaving Sora to his fate.
Omake end!