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Another chapter out...Currently have nothing to say...Enjoy the chapter everyone!

Three hours later…

"PLEASE, RUBY! DELETE THE PICTURES!"

"No can do, Kurome! It's a little cute moment of you two! It's rare!"

"PLEASE! FOR GODDESSES' SAKES!"

"*Sigh* Seriously, Ruby, why did you do that?"

"Looking at you two! You're like lovers! Even with your main colors…"

"I'm sure it's nothing to do with it. Also, can you release me from this fish rod?"

Yeah, after they woke up…Kurome found out about what I have done, and she also knew that's the Creator's fault…but she decided to tie T.O up and hung him above of a crocodile pool before begging me to delete the pictures. T.O's face is not showing anything, though. Maybe he knew this would come sooner or later.

Yang snickers: "Just Yang up there, T.O. Penny is going to help you soon." That earns groans from us students, snickers from my dad, headshaking from the adults, and a sigh from T.O. Kurome and Penny aren't reacting to it, since the former is still trying her best, and the later is doing what Yang just said.

After T.O's landed on solid ground (the pool disappeared before he fell), he thanks Penny and turns to the embarrassed and crying girl. "Kurome, leave it be."

"HOW COULD YOU LET IT HAPPEN, T.O?"

"Both of us were sleeping, and I already knew the Creator would do that. I just have to accept it."

"BUT I' DON'T, OKAY? I…" She then uses my cloak to cover her face, as she's hiding herself from T.O's sight.

Penny, oblivious about everything, asks: "I think that's a cute picture. Don't friends do that with each other?"

"Penny…" She turns to me. "It's true that friends take pictures with each other. However, the ones I took, they're for friends with special relationships. Like, a couple of sort."

Penny still doesn't understand. "So Kurome and T.O are a couple?"

"Kurome and T.O are not a couple…" She mumbles in her 'dreamy' voice.

"Back on track…" T.O speaks. "I think we had a little bit of misunderstanding. The reviewer before, he was thinking about the nature of the Remnant being changed with Kuro, not just the enemies. Kuro might even interfere with the very core of your world, Aura, Semblance, Magic, and such. He thought that the Grimm might develop souls as well as Aura." Ren suddenly stiffs up. T.O notices it. "What's wrong?" "I…and Nora have met with a dangerous Grimm…If that thing has a Soul and Aura now…" "Then Kuro would deal with it, or help your other self doing so." He relaxes a bit, but he still grips on Nora's hand. Nora shows a great concern on her face while holding Ren's hand as well.

"On second matter…Just got the name for Adam's team…"

Qrow interrupts: "Sorry buddy, but unless there are four members, then no team would be formed."

T.O: "Apparently it is. Aside from Adam and Kuro, there are two more. However, The Creator only showed the team's name, TANK. And if I'm right, the three silhouettes we saw earlier were Kuro, along with another two."

Ozpin: "I know my other self knew him, but do you think the other two are capable to deal with Grimm?"

T.O: "I could bet on it. If Kuro sent the other Headmaster their information to create a team, then they must have some experiences in fighting monsters."

Glynda: "Then, who do you think the other two would be?"

T.O: "This is not my guess, but the reviewer. The T is for Tamsoft, and the N is for Nitroplus."

Silence…Kurome, recovered from her mind shock, asks us: "What's wrong?"

Doctor Oobleck answers: "Well…it's the names…our naming system mostly based on colors, so when we heard about those names…"

My father agrees: "That doesn't sound like a human's name at all…"

Monty sighs. I ask him: "You know something?" "It's a common thing in Gamindustri actually…"

Glynda: "What do you mean?" "All of people from Gamindustri are references from Earth, that's why their names are not like humans, but like companies' names."

Blake: "How about you show us who they are, T.O?"

T.O nods and opens up two screens. On the left is a woman with blue long hair being tied into a ponytail, green eyes, wearing some kind of blue and white uniform while a little doll or something being tied with a red ribbon in front of her uniform. Her skirt is held by a big red ribbon with various designs that nearly reaches her ankles. Her legs are almost covered fully by white long socks with orange ribbons on each side and brown shoes. She's also holding a longsword on her right hand. On the right is a girl, with long gray hair that reaches her waist, with a ribbon with special design on her head zero idea what it is, royal blue eyes. She wears a white corset with a black jacket, white crosses on the end of her sleeves, and two black wings on her back. She also has a headphone hanging around her neck. Her skirt is a thick stripping of black and grey with white frills lining the hem and a black belt held by a grey clasp. Covering her legs are a pair of grey shoes with cross designs, black warmers and white and black stripped stockings. On her right hand is a red-blade katana.

T.O speaks: "The left one is Tamsoft, the right one is Nitroplus. Both of them are very experienced, and they earn a very high rank in the Guild around Gamindustri." He waits a bit so that all of us can take a good look on them. "Although…Why them?"

Yeah, the first thing people would think about letter N is Neptune, not Nitroplus.

T.O: "And letter T?"

Well…Currently no one else in my mind.

T.O: "So, is it correct?"

Hey, I don't want to spill the fun, okay?

T.O: "So be it."

"The weapons look so cool…" I'm drooling since I see their weapons. Even though they're simple, their designs show that the owners have experienced with them…

Weiss crosses her arm. "I'm sorry, but I don't think these girls could help us. I mean, the way they dress…"

Monty interrupts: "That's Gamindustri for you. Logic is out of the window."

T.O: "Well…it could be interesting. Tamsoft, she could be a great fighter. Nitroplus, though…"

"What's wrong with her?"

T.O: "She has a heavy case of ATSM."

Yang: "And what's that?"

T.O: "It's from the Creator's language, but it's close to Chuunibyou."

All of us except Kurome and Monty give him a question look. T.O waves his hand. "Once we meet her, you will know. More about her is that, she doesn't really care about how bad a bad man is. She just fights them till the end. That's why Kuro has to keep an eye on literally everyone, so that Nitroplus doesn't take things too far."

Glynda crosses her arms. "That problematic?"

T.O: "Not really. Kuro is a bit over-paranoid sometimes." Silence. "Better keep the story up, otherwise we're stuck here forever."

Someone has just woken up and slowly opens his eyes, only to see blue eyes staring at him. When his eyes are fully opened, he sees an excited orange hair girl jumping in excitement.

"Wake up lazy bud! It's morning!"

Ren sighs, as Nora squeaks in hyper-excitement. "Hey, Ren, it's us!"

Weiss sighs: "How can you and Ruby be so hyped up in the morning?"

T.O asks Ren: "Why didn't you change your clothes when you slept?" "Only before the initiation. I need to prepare for everything."

Ren sighs as Nora starts singing behind him, as he turns to see Nora running to somewhere…

"Tough life with her, huh?" A hand's reaching out for Ren.

"At least my life's not boring." Ren grabs it and stands up to see Jaune in his battle gear. "Ready for the initiation?" "Ready for everything."

Jaune: "So I befriended with both of them even before the start of this?"

T.O: "Highly so."

They start following Nora to wherever she's running to. "Hey Ren? Do you think we would make a good team?" "We have met for a year, remember? We have trained with each other since then, and we know each other's weaknesses." "That's why us forming a team is a good thing." "Who knows what The Headmaster might think. I heard from the upper-classes that his method to form team is…hideous." "He might change this year." "Maybe." And they start doing their morning routine, with Nora singing behind them every time.

Glynda fixes her glasses. "Highly doubt it. He has been like this for decades."

Monty: "And that would make a signature for him being a maniac."

Ozpin: "I do what I need to do to make sure the students are ready. The method to form team from the previous Headmaster was worse than mine."

"And it would be what, sir?" "You can go and check in the archive. It would be somewhere in there."

And during that, they walk to where their weapons are stored. And they find Ruby and Yang arguing about something. Jaune calls out for Ruby: "Hey Ruby! What are you two talking about?"

Ruby immediately stops and turns to Jaune. "Oh hey Jaune!" Then she pulls her sister to them. "Meet my sister, Yang. Yang, this is Jaune and…eh, who are you two?"

Nora screams: "I AM NORA VALKYRIE!" Which makes Ruby has to cover her ears. Ren sighs, and once Ruby's ears work normally again, he introduces himself: "Sorry for her attitude. My name is Lie Ren, nice to meet you." Both of them shake hand.

Yang suddenly wraps her arm around Ruby's neck. "Two more friends, Ruby! You're making progress!" Ignoring her sister's protesting, she speaks to the two boys. "By the way, I'm Yang Xiao Long, this girl's bigger sister." Noticing that they're giving her a weird look, she asks: "What's wrong?"

Jaune: "Umm…are you two…half-sisters?"

Yang: "Oh, you noticed?"

Ren: "Actually…we knew someone who had the same situation…So this doesn't surprise us more."

T.O deadpans. "Did Kuro even brag about that?"

Kurome: "Don't you think he would say the whole truth?"

T.O: "Definitely not."

"The whole truth?" He turns to me. "Future matter."

Jaune then asks: "Do you know the method of forming teams in this year?"

Yang shakes her head. "No idea. I tried to bribe the previous students, but they agreed to each other on not telling us anything."

Nora: "Welll…who cares! As long as we're friends, we will fight alongside with each other, right?"

Ren nods. "She has a point."

Yang shrugs. "Can't disagree with that."

T.O suddenly sighs. "What is it, T.O?" "Nothing. Just him being lazy."

The scene changes to the initiation…

Weiss: "Wait, I remember that I was talking with Pyrrha. Why doesn't this one show it?"

T.O: "Maybe it's too common. This is not the first reaction fanfiction, anyway."

Everyone's standing on the launch pads, which they didn't notice them, yet, as Ozpin speaks: "For years you have trained to become warriors. And today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."

Glynda continues: "Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams." 'Yang: Not really.' "Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates today."

Ozpin: "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it's in your best interest to be paired with someone whom you can work well."

Kurome: "That sounds conflicted to 'random teammate selection'."

Glynda glares at Ozpin, who just sips his mug in response.

"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next 4 years."

"WHAT?" The one who said that is not Ruby, but rather Jaune.

Qrow asks Jaune: "Why do you sound surprised? Scared about picking the wrong teammate?"

"Uncle…that should be my question, not Jaune." "Oh…"

Professor Port: "That's right. What's wrong in this?"

Jaune mumbles something, then exclaims: "RIGHT! The landing strategy…"

Professor Ozpin nods. "I remember that part. You are a bit…"

Jaune interrupts him: "Sorry sir, but I don't think my other self doesn't have one. The fact YOU'RE going to LAUNCH us is what I'm thinking about."

Pyrrha: "What are you…oh…motion sickness…" "Yeah…"

Yang just chuckles about that. "Yeah, Vomit Boy…" "Don't call me by that nickname again, please…"

T.O: "Don't feel bad. Kuro has a period high-frightening sometimes."

Kurome: "I don't understand how he could have that when he literally flies around with no problems."

Ozpin continues: "After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will need opposition along the way. DO NOT hesitate to destroy everything in your path, or you will die."

Adam smirks: "I can get behind that." Blake sighs. "You and your direct approaches."

Ruby is a little bit scared, Weiss and Blake are readying their weapons, Yang does so after putting her sunglasses on, and the rest are waiting for the Headmaster's next order. And Jaune is trying to get Ozpin's attention with no success.

"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene."

T.O turns to Ozpin. "Are you sure it's a good idea to leave the students there?"

Ozpin: "We always make sure that no problems that's too hard for students to deal with would be in the area. And we have to make sure the students are capable of defending themselves…" T.O instantly points a thumb to Jaune. "And him?" "I know he can handle it."

Jaune asks in surprise: "You know?" "The Arcs are not known for their advantages in strength, but in strategy. Also, you might not know, but having lived for thousands of years, I could sense how much one's Aura has, and I could see a lot in you." Jaune nods. "Thanks for your kind words, sir."

Ozpin: "We have placed the relics in an abandoned temple at the end of the path. Each pair must choose one, and return to the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing and grade you appropriately." Silence. "Are there any questions?"

"Um sir, I…" "Good! Now, take your position."

Qrow: "Still the same sadistic Headmaster I know."

Ozpin: "I'm not, and you know it."

Jaune is still trying to ask him: "Um… sir, I have a question." Weiss catapults. "So…about this landing strategy..." Adam. "Are you going to drop us, or…" "No, you will be falling." "Yes, sir. I know about that." The others. "How are we going to fall?" Ren. "I mean, we're on the ground now." Cardin. "Why don't you find out for yourself?" Yang and Ruby, in order. Now Jaune notices how they are going to fall. "Oh, why sir…AHH!" And he's launched as well.

Ozpin smirks when the Professors look at the falling students. "Being adapted to unaccounted situations is a must have trait in all of the Huntsmen." Then he looks at the Scroll, as he swipes on multiple cameras. "Now, let's see where we could find you, Hybrid Heart."

"Hybrid Heart?" All of us ask Kurome. "That's Kuro's title."

Jaune sighs. "The other me has been trained well to take that lightly."

Professor 'DOCTOR, sir, DOCTOR' Oobleck suddenly asks Ozpin: "Are you going to change the method soon?"

Ozpin sips. "Not really. Maybe."

Port gives out his suggestion: "How about letting them fight against the upper classes?"

Glynda: "That wouldn't be possible. It won't show much of what the students can do."

Kurome: "We can follow his ideas." All the students turn to her. "But, the upper classes only set up traps and obstacles. The students will be given orders to not attack them directly, while dealing with the Grimm at the same time."

Qrow: "That…might work."

Winter: "Why? Why do you even need to do so? The Grimm are bad enough to deal with."

Ironwood understands what Kurome wants to say. "You want the students to aware that the Grimm are not the only problem, right?" "Yes. With someone like your Roman, human is just as bad as the Grimm."

Weiss wants to protest, but she knows that Kurome is right.

Blake: "You're not saying anything about the Faunus, Kurome."

Kurome: "I already included Faunus with human already."

Blake blinks: "Why?"

T.O: "You will hear the explanation from Kuro."

Kurome nods. "He's the one inspired that idea."

Monty: "What idea?"

T.O and Kurome: "Everyone has the same rights." And that's something you know, sir Monty. He nods at the answer.

Ren asks: "Is that something from your world?"

Monty nods. "It's a little bit about history. And I will tell you later, Doctor Oobleck." Who nods as well.

Pleasant music, with a little bird flying without a care in the world…and gets crashed by Ruby. "Birdy no!"

Winter laughs: "HAHA! Serve you right, Qrow!"

Qrow grunts. "Should have seen that one coming."

I blink. Did I really crash into my Uncle? "Was that really you, Uncle?"

T.O snickers. "We have an evidence for that. Roll it, Creator." On it. Also, thank you, Murderofbirds for that beautiful edited video!

We are now seeing me jumping and wrapping on Uncle's arm after his fight with Winter. "Uncle Qrow!" He raises his arm up so that I'm face-to-face with him. "So good to see you! Did you miss me, did you miss me?"

"Let's think about it, Qrow!"

Qrow blinks. "Who's that?"

T.O: "The one who makes the video."

The scene changes to when we're playing game with him after that. Qrow: "Now, where was I?"

Ruby: "You're telling us about your last mission."

Qrow: "Right, right. I come across a small village…" But the scene doesn't indicate that. Instead, it shows him with Ozpin's cane jumping off the cliff and changing into a crow and flying away. "In the swamps west of Mistral. Right off the bat, I knew something wasn't right." The scene changes to when Qrow started stepping into a bar before he noticed something, as he collapsed in defeat. "And that's when it happened. I was defeated." And it changes to what we just saw before this. And the scene changes back to when Ruby asks Qrow if he missed her or not, who replied with a 'nope' and rubbed her hair.

That earns everyone's laugh. Only Ironwood sighs in irritate: "Don't tell me this is the real reason why you're offline for weeks?"

The unfortunate victim laughs as well. "I wish it would be the case! But that crash didn't do much damage actually."

Monty speaks while still laughing: "Wow…can't believe…someone has the idea…to do so…"

T.O stops laughing for a while. "Well, the one making is a very big fan of you. You should be proud of it." "Yes, I am."

Well, fun aside. Now let's return back to the real show. "Yes, please."

Ruby shoots a few shots to slow down her velocity, before changing Crescent Rose into scythe form and hooks on a tree branch, and swings herself further. Weiss summons Nevermore's wings and glyphs back-and-front to descend down. Ren uses his sickles to hook on a big tree and spin around it to go down. Once reaching the ground, he retracts his weapons and looks up when he hears explosion sounds from Yang, who's using both her Semblance and Ember Cecilia to fly further more before wall-jump from tree to tree. The camera changes to Pyrrha, who just braces herself with her shield and breaks a lot of tree branches in process before landing on a good enough one.

Monty: "Why is this her first appearance?"

T.O: "Like I said, too many reaction fanfictions for it, so the Creator cut it down a bit."

She then turns Milo into a rifle and looks around, and detects Jaune falling without any tactics.

Jaune groans: "Don't tell me my other self has my same problem."

Pyrrha the turns Milo into a Javelin and throws it at Jaune. A while later, a sound of something being plugged appears, with Jaune saying his thank to Pyrrha.

But when the screen changes to Jaune, it's actually him holding both Milo and Crocea Mors in his hands, both of which are helping him not to fall to the ground immediately. Then, he pulls them out and lets the gravity do its work. He then looks at Milo and speaks to himself. "Better give it back to her before she gets attacked by the Grimm." Then he runs off to where he assumes Pyrrha is in.

Jaune sighs in relief. "So he does know how to do it."

"Yeah. But why didn't you do something like that before?" "I was surprised…And you know how I was back then."

Ruby lands on the ground and immediately runs to find Yang. "Gotta find Yang gotta find Yang gotta find…YANG! WHERE ARE YOU?" 'This is bad…this is so bad…what happened if someone finds her first? Or I find someone? Who can I get?... Jaune, yeah, he's funny and nice, and he looks like he can hold for his own. Blake, mysterious and calm…though I'm not sure how she and Adam are related…And there's Weiss too…she is…" She stops before crashing right into Weiss. The two look at each other, before Weiss sighs and gestures Ruby to follow her. Ruby immediately follows suit, and asks Weiss, a bit hurtful: "Why do you sigh, Weiss?"

Weiss: "Not to be rude, but you're not the first person I want to meet up first."

Ruby pouts: "Hey, you haven't seen me in actions."

Weiss: "It's not that. If you can get here, then you're good enough. I would like to have Pyrrha first, though."

Ruby: "You mean the girl who won Mistral Regional Tournament 4 years in a row? She's going to attend here?"

Weiss: "Yes. I met her in the locker room, and we chatted a bit."

T.O suddenly moves like a Russia doll. Ruby doesn't know about it, that's just how I see it. I ask him: "What's wrong?" "Wondering what changed Jacques' mind."

Meanwhile, Jaune manages to find Pyrrha running to him as well. He gives the girl her weapon back. "Thanks for the assist, but there's no need to do that."

Pyrrha: "Well, I was seeing you falling while spinning, so I thought you're in trouble."

Jaune scratches his head. "I was caught surprised, that's all. Anyway, do you know where the relics should be?"

The girl looks up at the sky, then points at one direction. "I think it's that way." The boy shrugs, and they start walking to the direction of the temple.

During the walk, Jaune decides to speak first: "My name is Jaune Arc, what's yours?"

Pyrrha: "Oh, it's Pyrrha, Pyrrha Nikos."

Jaune looks the girl's appearance again, before exclaiming: "Did you appear on the front of the Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box?"

Pyrrha gives him a nod. "Yes, I am." A bit of silence… "I thought you would say you recognized me from somewhere else."

Jaune looks at her cluelessly: "Like what?"

Weiss asks him: "How doesn't you know her?"

Jaune: "Hey, you know me back then…"

Blake: "I don't think that's what she meant. If this Jaune has trained like he said, how come he didn't know about Pyrrha's successful record in Tournament?"

That brings up a good point.

Pyrrha: "You didn't know about Mistral Regional Tournament?"

Jaune: "OH THAT! I didn't watch much of those. Sorry if I offended you."

Yang shrugs. "Good reason, I guess."

Pyrrha: "It's okay." And while they're not looking, Jaune gets his face whipped by a tree branch, making him fall on his butt.

Pyrrha turns back and sees the scene. "Jaune! I'm sorry, are you okay?"

Jaune stands up: "It's fine, it's fine. Nothing too bad."

Pyrrha is not convinced. "Your face has a scratch on it."

Jaune: "Oh…" He touches the place. "Forgot to active my Aura." He then closes his eyes and concentrates. His Aura acts up and heals the wound. He opens his eyes again. "Ready for combat again."

Pyrrha asks in confusion: "Why didn't you use it in the first place?"

Jaune: "My mentor who trained me before told me not to use it all the time. Saying that depending too much on it will be my downfall."

Pyrrha crosses her arms in acknowledgement. "That's true. Many people are reckless when they have their Aura up."

Jaune then walks to the direction of the temple. "Better keep moving now. The relics won't leave on their own." "Yes. Let's go."

Monty asks Ozpin: "Can you actively disable your Aura?"

Ozpin shakes his head. "Not at our knowledge. Seems like this Kuro knows how to do it."

T.O: "You know, with his power like that, I wonder how Kuro's going to call his Semblance."

Winter: "Which is not his Semblance?"

T.O: "Needs a cover-up story. Someone like him would be targeted by many people."

Meanwhile, Adam is running straight to the Temple, not caring if he would meet someone in the way.

'The students are going to gather there anyway.' He thinks to himself, as he slashes down any Grimm that comes to him. After a while he has a clean way to go.

'Okay… a bit too quite…what happened to the Grimm?' He stops a bit and jumps to a high tree and looks around. He spots a small Nevermore, but despite looking straight at him, the bird turns its head towards other direction and flies to it. He turns to the direction…and sees numerous Nevermore gathering there, attacking something…

T.O sighs. "Guess we find out where Kuro is."

Oobleck fixes his glasses. "How could you come to that conclusion? It could be anything…"

T.O: "Gathering that much Grimm in one place…Either there are too many despair people there, or one person causes that much…I would say the later. If there are people there, the Headmaster would have warned the students."

'So there are people there…But, that much negative feelings? Better check it out.' He thinks as he jumps from tree to tree to get there. When he reaches the opening ground…The corpses of Grimm laying around the place, each having massive holes on them. And there are various types of them too: Beowolves, King Taijitus, Nevermore, Ursa, Death Stalkers and so on.

He looks at the middle of the fight, to see three people fighting against all the Grimm. One of them is a male, with black short hair, wearing a white trench coat, black jeans. In his hands are two katana, as he swings them and effortlessly kills the Grimm with single cut.

"Hey, it's you T.O!"

Weiss: "That would be Kuro you've spoken about, right?" She receives a nod from him.

Blake observes him. "His movements…they're extremely odd. They're not the moves of a fighter…"

Yang: "Are you sure? He's holding himself very well."

Pyrrha: "I agree with Blake. His movements show that he's a survivor, with only a little of real training experiences."

Ren: "Or…he doesn't need it."

The adults are measuring him as well. Then Ozpin suddenly speaks up: "He doesn't have Aura."

Penny tilts her head. "So he's not a human?"

T.O: "No longer a human to be exact. But, he would have done something to cover that problem…"

The second person is a girl, with short colorful hair and she's wearing a dress, that looks like being colored by the rainbow itself. The girl's holding a blue rapier, which the blade's bigger than Weiss. She's using some kind of Glyphs to constantly keep the Grimm away from her, while her strikes create energy wave that when they hit the Grimm, the smaller ones get vaporized, while the bigger ones receive massive damage.

T.O's eyebrows twitch. "She will be with Kuro?"

"You know her, T.O?" "Not personally."

The last one, who's covered with black rope, is holding a golden sword. Okay, planning to describe it, and I can't do so. Once I reveal the weapon, you can check it yourself. Sorry for the inconvenience. She's also helping the previous girl to fight the Grimm, while the male just holds on his own. Once a while, when the Grimm are too close, the male's katana suddenly disappears, replaced with a long whip that he wraps it around a Grimm's torso and swings around to knock the Grimm out. Once the Grimm is no use, he just retracts his whip and lets it lay down, dead, and pulls out two revolvers and starts shooting continuously to the Grimm.

My father crosses his arms. "Now that's stupid. How could he store that much weapons on him?"

T.O: "Have you ever heard about pocket dimension?"

Jaune perks up. "You mean that thing is real?"

T.O shakes his head. "Only a few universes have that, and yours is not one of them. Sorry about it."

'Can't let them have their fun by themselves.' Adam rushes towards them, his hand resting on Wilt's handle. When he's near enough, he makes a massive slash to an Ursa's back, then uses it as a pedal to jump up and chop down a Nevermore. Then he uses Blush to shoot a few smaller ones before quick-draws a Beowolf. And when he's about to slash another Beowolf, it's stabbed from behind by Kuro.

"Thanks for the assistance." Kuro says, after the Beowolf falls dead on the ground.

"No problem." Both of them then block swings from two wolves, and return them to the dust. Adam asks: "Why are you three here?"

Kuro pulls out one of his revolver and shoots the Grimm that's trying to sneak behind the other duo. "Questions later, please. Need to deal with these Grimm first." Adam nods and they both run to the girl and her friend and help them. During the help, Adam notices the one under the black rope is a girl, with purple hair and deeper purple eyes. She's wearing some kind of armor that fits for a knight, but she wears massive boots that would only work in the snowfield. But Adam doesn't care much, as he's trying to fend off the Grimm that's trying to use them as breakfast.

Kurome whispers something into T.O's ear, and she receives a nod from him. We're watching the 'newly Huntsmen team' fighting against what seems to be endless hordes of Grimm. Adam and Kuro show their brute forces by nearly one-shot everything on sight. When the Nevermore tries to attack them, either gun shots from the two males, or the energy waves from the girls take care of them. When Kuro gets chomped down by a King Taijitu, he just opens the Snake's mouth and stabs one of his katana straight through its brain, and jumps out of the dead Grimm. The robe girl's left hand then shines up, and a holographic of a fiery sword appears as a form of a man floats behind her, with each attack from her left sword causes the image do the same thing.

Qrow whistles: "This team is something else. Each of them can handle on their own without any support. Wonder how much they can do when they truly work with each other?"

T.O rubs his eyes. "Each one of them can solo a team by themselves if I'm seeing it right."

Weiss: "Well…it's possible. Pyrrha beat Cardin's team without breaking a sweat."

T.O: "I'm talking about a fully trained Huntsmen."

Winter raises her eyebrows. "You're a little overestimating them."

T.O: "I'm speaking the truth."

Eventually the team gets a break after the Grimm hasn't come back, as the corpses start dematerializing. Adam cleans his sword and sheaths it, before orders Kuro: "Now it would be the good time to tell me why you three are here."

Kuro doesn't answer him immediately, as he speaks to the girls: "Are you two okay?"

The rainbow girl whines: "We're fine, Kuro. But those Grimm are so horrible!"

The robe girl bows to him. "We're fine…"

Kuro sighs: "I told you not to do so, remember? Anyway…" He turns to Adam. "We're a bit of loss here. So can you lead us to the Headmaster of Beacon?"

Adam: "Why do you want to meet him?"

Kuro: "We, uh, got invited by him to learn at his Academy. But, we decided to take a walk to here, and…the result is that, we're here fighting the Grimm for about an hour before you found us."

Adam: "Then you might want to join me now, I'm participating the Initiation now."

Kuro's lips curl up. "Oh? Then we should follow you now. Take the lead, mister…"

"Adam, Adam Taurus."

"Well, my name is Kuro Orleans. And these two are…"

The scene then changes to Jaune and Pyrrha, when they're approaching the familiar den…

T.O raises his arms up in defeat. "Did he just use her last name to cover his identity?"

"Whose last name, T.O?"

Kurome: "That's a secret."

Father looks a bit irritated. "Seriously, not even Raven has that much of secrets."

The two just shrugs.

Pyrrha asks her partner: "Do you think this is the place?"

Jaune: "I don't think so. The Headmaster said that it's an abandoned temple. This place doesn't look like one." Then they hear a roaring sound from inside. "We better run now, or we're on the plate." Pyrrha nods as both of them run immediately, just in time for the Death Stalker to come out, roar and chase after them.

Jaune groans again: "Something never changes."

Pyrrha assures him: "At least you're not swung feet away."

Blake interrupts: "But then who's going to block Ruby's fall?"

Monty: "Who knows? Maybe Ruby and Weiss won't get that Nevermore Airline?"

Glynda speaks to me disapprovingly: "How could you even think about the idea of riding a Nevermore?"

I smile sheepishly: "Well…the Nevermore was there, and we're lost as well, so…"

Weiss sighs when she remembers the embarrassed memory. "Remind me to review through your plans first before we use it, okay?"

Penny notices something from the rainbow girl. "Is her hair nature? Or did she dye it?"

T.O: "That's her nature color. Sometimes the logic can't apply to everything."

The scene changes to Yang and Blake. They're observing the temple as the relics are placed on the columns, one for each. Some of them are missing. But, one of the big columns has a power symbol.

Yang walks to it and touches it, but nothing happens. Blake notices what her partner's doing, and gasps when she sees the symbol. Yang asks her: "You recognize this?" "That…that's from my and Adam's savior." "Savior?" "He saved me and him out of a fire, but in exchange of his life." "Sounds the same to me. One person has saved Ruby's mother, but also died in process as well. But we can't find his corpse." "We couldn't either." The two look at each other's eyes, thinking about the similarity in their story. "Do you think he's still alive?" "Possibly. But Adam doesn't believe it much."

"Ya-hoo!" The girls look at the direction, to see an Ursa being ridden by Nora. With one last shot from her grenade launcher, the Grimm goes down, unmoving.

"Aww…I broke it…" Nora whines when she loses her ride.

Monty: "Nora being Nora…"

Ren: "I agree with you." Both of them are the same person, so it's understandable.

Ren appears from behind the Grimm, looking extremely exhausted. "Nora? Please…don't ever do that again…" But when he looks to where Nora 'was', there's only her outline. The real one has run to the relic, picks up the rook chess piece and starts singing "I'm Queen of the castle" song, with makes Ren to shout at her to get her back.

Blake asks in wonder: "Did that girl…just ride in on an Ursa?"

Yang: "Eh…yeah…" That's when they hear the trees falling, with the Death Stalker roaring and is on Jaune and Pyrrha's tail. It manages to catch up with them, and it swings one of its massive claws that makes both of them fling to the rest of the students.

Jaune manages to pick himself up first, and waves his hand at the others. "Hey guys."

Blake asks him: "Did you two just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on your tails?"

Pyrrha stands up: "Yes, yes we are."

Yang pinches her nose bridge. "Seriously, if Ruby managed to find herself in a stupid situation…"

"You are a bit too late for that." All of them look up and see Weiss, with her Nevermore wings spreading out, descending down with Ruby in her arms, who's as red as her cape. Once she touches the ground, she lets Ruby stand on her feet again, while having her wings disappear. "Your sister thought it would be a great idea to ride on a Nevermore to get here. While it's effective, I won't take that ride again."

Yang turns to her sister, who twists her fingers around, then uses her hands to cover her face. "Ruby, I know that Mom told us it's cool to do so, doesn't mean you should do that."

Blake speaks in surprise: "You mother said what?"

Qrow chuckles: "That would be Summer's idea. She likes to bring out crazy ideas."

Glynda shakes her head. "Your team could come up with the most ridiculous ideas in any kind of situation."

Ren interrupts her: "We have a bigger problem at hand." He points to the Nevermore on the sky, and the Death Stalker crawling towards them. We need to beat them up before we could return back."

Ruby: "Got it!" Then she just runs directly towards the Death Stalker, despite her sister calling her back. She tries to land a hit on the Grimm, but it just swats her away like a fly. She stands up, looks back at the dangerous Grimm, and tries to run back to her group. But the Nevermore fires a barricade of feathers, one of which manages to stop her by pinning her cape to the ground. The rest stop her sister from running to her assist.

T.O: "Rule number one: No cape."

I pout. "They are cool."

T.O: "But they cause troubles to the owners."

Ruby turns back to see the Death Stalker bringing its stinger up, and attempts to strike her. 'Attempt' because a whip sudden wraps on the stinger, making the Death Stalker stop dead in the track. The Grimm turns back, only to receive a kick from Adam to the face, as the two girls jump over its claw and run to Ruby. The robe girl then pulls out the feather with ease, as the rainbow girl pulls Ruby back to the others with the robe girl following her. The Death Stalker looks at the distracters, then roars up and tries to grab Adam with its claw, only for Kuro to pull the whip, which has enough force to lift the Grimm up and throw it to a few feet away from them. The Nevermore fires out another barricade of feathers, which either are cut down by Adam, or being vaporized by Kuro's extreme accurate shots.

Ironwood: "Now that, I have to call nonsense in this. What kind of bullets is this Kuro using? One shot any feathers?"

T.O: "No bullets. All he did is charging his power into projectiles and shooting them. That's it."

"Can we do that with our weapons?"

Kurome: "Technically yes. But it would draw your Aura very fast. Only people who has nature healing ability or who can draw energy from other sources can do that constantly."

Yang smirks: "Sounds like I could do that with my shotgun. Charge up while taking damage…"

Ozpin sips his mug again. "If these two manage to deal with this two…"

T.O: "Kuro only can do that. But I don't think it would happen."

The girls get Ruby back to the group, as Yang's hugging her sister. "You're not doing that again, okay?" "I'm sorry sis."

Blake: "I don't want to break this, but we should help Adam and the newcomer now. They would need our help."

The robe girl: "Don't worry miss. We will help them. You can do what you need to do."

Ren: "How? The Nevermore is up there…" The two girls suddenly glow up, as they start floating and heading straight to the airborne Grimm. "Never mind."

Weiss is about to summon her wings again when Blake interrupts. "Stop, Weiss. We can't help them this way." She turns to the Faunus. "They can't do it on their own." "I feel that they can. Also, we can help them by dealing with that horde of Grimm." All of the students turn to where Blake's pointing, and see that the Grimm are heading to them.

Yang smiles: "Luckily we have our lucky cat here. Let's keep them busy everyone!"

Blake: "Lucky cat? What's that?"

Yang: "I don't know either."

T.O: "That's a symbol of luck in Kuro's world."

Turning back to Adam and Kuro…

"You better have some ideas to break that shield covering its head." "I have some, but…" They roll to dodge a stinger strike. "Your pick. Using its tail to kill it, or we break the shell by ourselves." "I would pick the later." "Then prepare your Semblance." "What?" Adam couldn't ask more, as Kuro already runs up to the Death Stalker and delivers punches and kicks to its face. When it tries to grab him, he just punches the claw to the ground in one swift move before continuing his work. Once the white bone starts cracking, Kuro shouts to Adam: "Activate your Semblance now!" Kuro's hand then glows up, as he turns back in a brief moment to send an energy ball right at Adam, who raises his blade to receive it. Adam's body instantly flares up with power, as he observes the power in wonder. When he looks back, Kuro's holding both of the Grimm's claws to the ground. "Adam, one chance. Take the shot. I will dodge at the last moment." Doubting him a bit, he runs to the Death Stalker and swings at it and Kuro vertically, who phases through the swing for some reasons. A second later, the Death Stalker is chopped in half, and Kuro's okay from it.

He smirks. "Nice swing, Adam." The mentioned sheaths his sword. "Well, that's one. What about the…they can fly?" Adam looks up at the Nevermore, to see the two girls fighting it while floating in the air. The Grimm clearly didn't expect the human to fight it in the air, as it's struggled to fight two of them at the same time. Eventually, the two girls gather power in their hands and blast it to the Grimm, vaporizing it. Adam looks back to his newly friends, to see that they have coordinated with each other in dealing with the other Grimm. But…the number of Grimm is not reducing…

"Kuro…" He turns to him. "Do you carry anything that attracts the Grimm?"

Kuro smirks. "Myself being the greatest attention. Now, let's deal with them and return, before more can reach us."

Winter asks T.O: "How could one person be the attention of all Grimm?"

T.O: "All will be answered in the future."

The scene changes to Beacon, when Ozpin is forming the team.

Ozpin: "Cardin Winchester, Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL. Lead by Cardin Winchester." The new team just stands there for a few seconds and walks out without a word.

T.O turns to Monty. "May I ask if you had any plans to improve their personalities?"

Monty: "I did. But it won't be sooner."

Ozpin continues: "Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR. Lead by Jaune Arc."

"Lead by who?" Jaune asks the Headmaster in surprise, as Nora's hugging Ren in happiness, and Pyrrha's looking at the new leader cheerfully.

"Congratulations, young man." Pyrrha punches Jaune's shoulder playfully. After that they retreat back…

Ozpin: "Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Lead by Ruby Rose."

Yang immediately runs to her sister and hugs her. "I'm so PROUD OF YOU!"

After that, the last students step up…And the robe girl has revealed her face…

Ozpin: "You four haven't retrieved the pieces, however, your display of skills towards the hordes of Grimm shows great potential to be a great Huntsmen team. From this day forward, Tilith Masta, Adam Taurus, Nepgear Planeptune, and Kuro Orleans, you will work together as team TANK, lead by Kuro Orleans."

"WHAT?" All of us turn to T.O and Kurome, who's having their mouths hang down. Monty asks T.O: "Why are you so surprised? I thought you know them?"

T.O shakes his head. "I'm not surprised about Tilith. I'm surprised about Nepgear."

Penny tilts her head. "Why? Her name is weird?"

Kurome: "No. That's a matter that Kuro SERIOUSLY needs to explain to us."

Ozpin: "Well…their skills are…"

T.O: "Not that."

Ozpin speaks his last line here: "Looks like things are shaping up to be an interesting year."

Time skip…The scene then changes to a student room, where the newly team TANK just entered.

Tilith exhales in relief. "Today is a rough day. I'm glad nobody is hurt today."

Nepgear smiles. "We are still with each other. That's what matters."

Kuro: "I agree. Now, what do you girls want to do before hitting the bed?"

Tilith immediately pulls Nepgear into the bathroom. "A bath, of course! We're out for too long already, and I can't stand having sweat over my body!"

Kuro shrugs. "Well, suit yourself." Once the door locks, he turns to Adam. "I suppose you have questions?"

Adam crosses his arms. "A lot."

Kuro nods, both of them sit on two beds opposite to each other. "What do you want to know first?"

"About your skills. Only one person I know had that ridiculous movements in the battlefield. And that person died years ago. What's your relationship with him?"

Kuro smiles. "You know me for years, and you have to ask that?"

Blake: "So this Kuro is indeed the savior. No longer the surprise."

To Adam, it's a surprise. "So you are still alive…"

Kuro shakes his head. "Not quite. I have died for decades. Even before meeting you and Blake."

"Then…this appearance…"

"This is how I looked like before I died."

Silence… "Why now? Why return back to us? I thought you have done your work?"

"Never. That fire is only the first step of reunion. I have intervened with more events. And this year, the war with the Grimm will be over."

"We have been in war with them from the beginning…"

"It's only a war if there are at least two leaders, one for each side. I and Ozpin have fought for quite a while, Ozpin more than me. We also know who leads the Grimm. However, I and that person have more conflicts than just the Grimm itself. That's why it takes this long for me to end it."

Adam sighs. "But you could have left a note for us."

"Sorry. You know me. Being mysterious and cool. Like you looked up after me." Both of them then laugh.

T.O: "Hey, found you a boyfriend, Kurome!" Another slap on the face. "*Red face* Don't you dare…"

"But they look like for each other."

Weiss agrees: "Black clothes, being cool…yep, that's enough." Everyone else nods. Kurome turns away in embarrassment.

Qrow chuckles. "You like to ship people with each other, huh?" WHAT DOES SHIP MEAN?

"That aside…About the girls…"

"I met them before you."

"Their power…Nepgear, isn't she? She has the same power like yours."

"Yeah, I know. But, that's for the future. Another questions?"

"Hmm…the symbol at the temple…"

"Ah…that…it's just me screwing around back then…"

"And about your weapons…"

Kuro shrugs. "That's just us. Now…how about some coffee?"

Ozpin: "Coffee before sleeping?"

T.O: "Somehow coffee doesn't work on us."

Ironwood: "Still, what about the power symbol? I can only see them as a normal button in our devices."

"And that's where you're wrong."

All of us turn to the screen, to see that Kuro's sitting in a table, with the rest of his team sleeping behind him. And he's looking straight at us through a laptop.

"Don't be surprised. I'm aware that you're watching us. Nepgear also noticed it, but she can't see you every time like I do."

I shout in surprise: "You can see us?"

"Through T.O's eyes."

Monty: "Now that's interesting. So you know that we're reacting to you?"

"Yes. Back to the power symbol…" Kuro's right iris turns to the power symbol. "It's the symbol of my and Nepgear's power. It's our signature."

Glynda: "But from what we observed, that couldn't have drawn the Grimm too much to you."

"It's not that power. My Dark power is what attracts them."

Blake: "Dark power?"

Yang: "Let me guess: For the future matter?"

"Yep." Then, something appears behind Kuro. Big red cat ears with a yellow cat between it.

Jaune shouts to him: "Kuro, behind you!"

"Hmm?" He turns back, to see the person behind him. "Ah, Nyami? Want to join the talk?" The head of the person shakes, as a no. Kuro turns back to us. "Sorry, she's a bit shy."

Blake: "Why do you have a Faunus in your room?"

Kuro sudden has a cat smile. "Future matter. Now, in the future, if you want to ask me, you can do so, I can hear you. However, try to ask me when I'm not busy, okay?"

My father asks him: "One more question. No, two more. The empty grave as T.O confirmed to us, it meant for you, right? And Summer is alive, right?"

"For both of them, yes."

Both my father and uncle sigh in relief.

"Well, I will speak to you later. I will go and talk to Ozpin now." Then Kuro closes his lid down, making the screen turn back.

"So…all the time he knew we're here?"

T.O: "What I know, what The Creator knows, Kuro will know."

Professor Port: "Wonder what he's going to speak with Ozpin."

As in cue, Ozpin's elevator's door opens, as Kuro walks into his office.

"I hope the information I gave you is enough to cover our identities."

"Yes, it's enough. But you're going to reveal the truth soon…"

"Not anytime soon. Now…where's your wife?"

"I nearly got killed, again, by her, by that song you gave her through the Scroll AFTER the team announcement."

"Yeah. Not sorry."

"Figures. Now, what do you want to speak to me?"

"Well…just want to ask how life's treating you."

"Good enough. But you found a way to convince Summer to let her daughter attend to Combat School."

"I found my ways."

Oobleck: "Now he's saying it, I remembered that Summer threatened Ozpin to not let you go to his school."

"Really, why?"

Glynda: "She feared for your life being in constant danger. She knew you want to help people, but she also wanted you to not be killed by that."

"But…I can hold on my own…"

Yang: "I think you know their points."

"I do. But…"

Kuro turns to us. "I will speak about that matter later." He turns back to Ozpin. "That aside, what do you know about Salem's goons' activities?"

"Still the same I'm afraid. They're controlling the Black Fang now."

"At least the White Fang found a way to counter them. Anyway, it's for now. Goodnight." And Kuro walks to the elevator…

"Wait." Kuro turns to Ozpin. "Have you seen Amber recently? Is she well?"

"Don't worry, the Maiden is safe." The Headmaster nods as the elevator goes down, bringing Kuro with it. And the screen turns black. But then, the last words of Kuro speak up: "But she's no longer the girl you know."

Ozpin is surprised at the last words. "What…does he mean? 'No longer the girl you know'?"

Monty: "That would be for the next chapter, isn't it?"

T.O: "Not exactly the next, but in the future. For now, another rest would be done. And I'm having some works to do." He then disappears.

I ask Kurome: "About Nepgear…"

Kurome crosses her arms. "I'm sorry, but that's Kuro's decision to tell you. I have no priority to do so."

Weiss: "You need priority from him to speak about it?"

Kurome: "Because the story is related to his dark past."

A bit of silence…

Uncle Qrow stands up. "We're not going anywhere if we try to make guesses that have no proof. Just relax and let the story going."

My father asks him: "What are you doing?"

Qrow: "Venture off a bit. And find some more drinks." He then just walks away…

Yang stretches her arms. "I'm beat. Let's just rest and wait for the next vision to come up." We speak no more as we lay down at the ground, and the realm changes to a pleasant scenery that lures us to our peaceful dream…

Chapter 3 end!

Nepgear's appearance and weapon are a combination of Summoner Robe and Ex Deus Gladius. Yeah, yeah, Deus Ex...

Yep, Kuro revealed himself to Adam, but not the others. You'll have to wait a long time...maybe two or three months from now, who knows?

And for those who's new here, Kuro IS aware that he's in the fanfiction and knows that you're reading my story.

For those who know my writing style, you would instantly recognize why Nepgear is with Kuro.

And yep, this is where the Brave Frontier factor is in. See you in the next chapters!