Here a Christmas present from me to you I'll try to get the other chapter uploaded by New Years Eve as well
[I own nothing but my O.C]
{Sorry if my Christmas comment offended anyone}
As the airship started to ascended, Ryan leaned against the railing and looked out the window, watching the first city he had seen since his arrival in Remnants, coming into full view. The city was pretty large and full of different districts, reminding him of Luminous City in the Kalos region.
As he looked out the window, his eyes focusing on his new appearance from the reflection of the window. He now had a clean shave and his usually pulled back hair was now freely on his back with some of it draped slightly over his left eye. He wore a gray long sleeve dress shirt, with both his sleeves rolled up to the middle of his forearm. Over his dress shirt he wore a dark blue button down vest with a silver rectangle design going vertically down the center, mainly around the buttons and was made of a material that was tightly sewn together making as tough as armor, but lightweight and easy to move in. Slung around his chest, was one of the only things he had left from his home universe, his courier bag, now filled with goodies he made during the week. On his feet he now wore a pair of black, loose fitting, calf high boots with strap on the back to tie them shut.
On his back he had his new weapon clipped in place. An exact replica of Honedge, with the exception of the sash that Honedge had at the end of its pommel. When he found out he had to have a weapon to become a hunter he decided to wield a blade that he was more accustomed to wielding. Thought in the week he had spent in Remnants the blade had gained a few marks from his sparing matches with Ruby's half-sister, Yang Xiao Long.
Yang was a seventeen years old, blond with lilac eyes. She wore a tan short sleeved, button up vest with gold trim on it, over a yellow crop top with a black burning rose insignia on it. She also wore short shorts under a tan half skirt that was white on the inside. On her feet, she wore knee-high, brown, leather boots over two orange socks, that were higher than the boots, but for some reason they were different heights. On her left leg she wore a grey bandana for some reason and on her hands she wore black fingerless gloves with Ember Celica, disguised as gold cuffs, covering most of her wrist.
Despite her happy go lucky nature, Ryan found they shared a mutually respect for one another after finding out about her protectiveness of Ruby. Thinking back to the day they meet he found she was freer willed than him in her response but protective nonetheless.
[Flashback Begins]
Yang was pacing the living room with a worried expression on her face, her father and Uncle Qrow were off on a mission, so she was in charge of taking care of Ruby and Zwei.
A few hours ago she had gone looking into a lead on her unknown mother's whereabouts at a club. After talking to Junior, the club owner, and getting nothing, but a few bruises and possible property damage charges for destroying Junior's club, she found Ruby walking outside the club. They talked for a little, before Ruby decided to go to the store to check out the new gun magazines, while Yang decided to go house to rest.
The problem was, Ruby still hadn't gotten home and the blonde was getting worried. Thinking she had waited long enough, Yang finally decided to start looking around town for her on her motorcycle. But as she started to get on the motorcycle when she heard.
"Yang? I'm home, sorry I'm late something happened at the store."
Relieved, Yang started running straight to the door, but once she got to the garage door she started to hear Ruby talking with someone. As she opened the garage door she hear a guy's voice talking to Ruby. Slightly surprised, Yang ran to the living room and upon entering, saw Ruby was arguing with a handsome looking, long haired boy wearing all black with a scar on his face along with a thin stubbly beard.
Looking at the scene before in confusion, Yang noticed that they both looked like they had been in a fight. The boy's jacket and pants slightly singed, while Ruby's cloth looking dust covered and had a couple of tears here and there.
"Ruby? Who's this?" She asked in confusion.
"Oh Sis. This is Ryan. I meet him at the store and brought him home to stay till we start at Beacon in a week."
"Huh? Ruby can I talk to you in the kitchen alone." Yang said nervously, while keeping an eye on the stranger her younger half-sister brought home with her.
"Sure, Ryan just take a seat on the couch while we talk for a minute." Ruby told him as she walked over to the kitchen along with Yang.
The moment she stepped into the kitchen, Ruby felt Yang's knuckles rasp the top of her head with great force.
"OW! Yang!" Ruby whimpered as she held her head with head eyes in a comical tearing form.
"Don't Yang me!" Her sister hissed out.
"What were you thinking bringing a stranger home with you when Dad and Uncle Qrow are away?!" She continued.
"But Yang, he helped me! At the store there were these thieves and they tried to steal the dust and I took them down like 'high-ay'. And he was there and he helped me fight them and after we meet this Huntress who took us to the police station and introduced us to The Professor Ozpin and he interrogated us for a bit before offering us a position at Beacon. Then when I was coming to tell you the news I remembered that Ryan didn't have a place to stay, so I thought 'OH he helped me so now I can help him' and so there he is. In the Livingroom." Ruby explained in a hurry.
Looking at her sister in shock, for a few minutes, Yang tried to process what Ruby told her.
|Okay, okay so cute boy saved sister. Sister and cute boy get arrested making him bad boy. Bad boy and sister get offered place in Beacon with me this year. Sister then helps bad boy, now cute boy again, by offering him a place to stay for the week. Damn, I have to send Ruby out more often to get me cute boys.| Yang thought.
"So Ruby You brought him here because he helped you against a couple of thugs, right? Not because he's hot of anything?" Yang teased.
"What?! N-no! Yang I was just trying to be a good person that's all." Ruby replied with a blush.
"Oh? Are you sure I mean-" Before Yang could continue her teasing they both heard a loud thud coming from the living room followed by laughter.
Curiosity getting the best of them, the peaked out the kitchen door and found Ryan laughing on the floor getting his face licked by an equally happy Zwei.
"Hey come on now. I know I probably have Lucario's scent on me but at least give me a warning, pup." Ryan chided as he laughed from Zwei 'attack'.
As they continued to watch him, they saw him reach for Zwei's belly and start to rub it causing the Corgi to stop its attack and enjoy its belly rub.
"See even Zwei likes him." Ruby argued.
Hearing the girl's voice Zwei immediately got out of Ryan's belly rub and ran up to her to play with his master.
Smiling at the dog's playful attitude, Ryan looked over at the two girls before him. While Ruby was distracted playing with Zwei, He noticed her sister was still staring at him with an emotionless face, but her emotions told him she was weary of him.
"If I'm bothering you, I can leave. I'm sure I can find somewhere to camp out." Ryan said as he reached for his bag.
"NO!" Ruby yelled out as she used her semblance to appear in front of him, Zwei secured in her arms.
"You can't go you said it yourself, you don't have anywhere to go. Please Yang let him stay." She begged with Zwei barking in agreement.
"No Ruby, it's okay really. I don't want to intrude." Ryan said, as he made his way to the door.
"Wait!" Yang said
"Look I may not know you but Ruby did say you saved her earlier tonight so I guess you can stay." Yang said.
"No it's okay, really. If I'm making you uncomfortable I should leave." Ryan argued.
Just as he was going to open the door Ruby again used her semblance and appeared in front of him, using a cute pouting face.
"Please don't go." She asked.
[Flashback Ends]
After that she keep up her face till he finally agreed to stay but convinced them to let them sleep on the couch, to give them their privacy.
Getting out of his thoughts, Ryan turned to see Yang hugging Ruby and tell her how proud she was of Ruby skipping two years ahead and joining Beacon at fifteen, only for Ruby to say that she just wants to be a normal student and not seen as special.
Ryan semi-agreed with her, she had a point in not wanting to be seen as special because that put more pressure on her to stand out above the crowd. Yet she humbled herself to much in saying that defeating most of those thugs by herself was nothing. Ryan as really on the same boat as her, but he didn't care as much after being put through this since he became an Aura Guardian.
Soon their attention was turned to a news report about the man that attacked Ruby and Ryan, Roman Torchwood, was still at large, followed by a report of the attack on a peaceful Faunus civil rights protest by the White Fang.
From what Ryan learned over the week, Faunus were normal people with some animal traits, such as Ursaring like ears or Ratata like tails and such. The White Fang was a group of Faunus that wanted to be seen as equal to humans, but used violence to get their point across, worsening the publics of view of the Faunus.
Soon the report was interrupted by his aunt's doppelgänger, appearing on the screen.
Much to his displeasure, he still couldn't find a way to look at the professor without being reminded of his family member. For the time being he had decided to treat her with respect.
"Hello and welcome to Beacon, "
"Who's that?" Asked Yang.
", my name is Glynda Goodwitch,"
"Oh." Yang responded, slightly embarrassed
", you are amongst the privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world."
As Glynda disappeared, Ruby and Yang go to the spot that Ryan had previously occupied, while Ryan leaned against the wall and thought of the things he had learned during his week in Remnants.
This world was inhabited by three major entities: Humans, Faunus and Grimm.
The Grimm are creatures of pure darkness with their only known goal is to destroy anything in sight, yet little is known of their origins. While he was a little horrified by the fact that Huntsmen killed the Grimm at first, he began to accept that they had to die after reading the reports of the massacre they could cause. What shocked him to learn is that Grimm had no Aura, but it helped ease his mind to the idea that he was no truly ending a life.
The world also relied on a powerful crystal known as Dust. From what he learned Dust had different attributes depending on the color of the Dust crystal, like the red crystal that Roman threw at Ruby and him during their fight.
Though it had to be activated by aura which lead to his next discovery. Everyone in this universe knew about Aura, unlike in his universe where only a select few knew about aura. While it came as a surprise to him for a while he came to understand that it was a necessity when facing Grimm.
Though those with aura had another advantage in this world, their Semblances. These Semblances are physical representation of one's aura and character. For Ruby it's her want to protect others that gave her the ability to run fast enough to seemingly teleport. Yang can absorb damage she takes in a fight and uses it to strengthen her hits, something he attributed to her having a depressing childhood, yet never showing it on her face.
The moment he found out about both Yang and Ruby's childhood, Ryan took it upon himself to stand by them and help them much like an older brother. And much to their surprise in both their cases he was older having been born a month before Yang, different universe or not.
"Ew Yang, grouse you have puke in your shoe!"
Thrown out of his reminiscing, Ryan saw an unusual sight.
Running passed him was a blond haired boy around his height, if not shorter, wearing a black, short sleeved, hoodie with orange on the inside of the hood. Over the hoodie he wore shoulder guards and a chest piece. His pants were simple blue jeans and his belt conceived a sheathed sword. His gloved hands were covering his mouth and some puke was leaking for the holes in his fingers.
Looking in Ruby and Yang's direction he saw Yang hopping over to the back of the airship on one leg, while Ruby is holding herself and shivers slightly. Raising an eyebrow Ryan decided to not get involved, and continued to look out the window. After a while he saw that they were approaching a dock onto the school.
As the airship docked and everyone exit, the trio saw the blond boy throwing up in the trashcan. Walking deeper onto the campus, Ruby and Yang stopped and stared at the school in amazement at its design. Ryan had an impressed look on his face, mainly at the fact that this school was the size of Cameron Castel, if not bigger. Turning to see the two girl's reactions, he is surprised to see a chibi form of Ruby floating around and gawking over all the weapons around, pointing at them and naming their combinations. Just as she starts to go after one of the students to see their weapon, Yang dragged her back by the hood saying,
"Easy there, little sister their just weapons."
"Just weapons," Ruby counters. ", they're an extension of ourselves, they're apart of us. Oh they're so cool."
"Well I haven't seen you get this excited about weapons before Ruby not even your own. Aren't you happy with it?" Ryan asked, as he approached them.
"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose." Ruby responded. "I just really like seeing new ones. It's like meeting new people, but better."
"Ruby, come on why don't you go and try to make friends of your own?" Yang asks, while pulling Ruby's hood over her eyes
"But, why would I need friends when I have you guys?" Ruby asked with an almost confused.
"Well, actually-" Yang started before she was surrounded by people that Ryan could only assume were friend and they ran off, causing both Ryan and Ruby to spin in place, swirly eyes now adoring their eye sockets. As she spun in place Ruby started to lose her balance and fell on a pile of luggage that was left in the area. Ryan, regaining his sense of balance, went over to help her up only to heard someone shout,
"What are you doing?"
Turning Ryan sees a pale skinned girl with full white, waist length hair standing behind him. She wore a light blue bolero jacket, with a red inside, over an equally blue colored thigh high dress. Her feet bore a pair of white, platform boots with a similar shade of red on the inside as the jacket. What caught his attention was the scar running down her left eyes, to him the scar looked to be caused by a blade of some sorts, but he wasn't about to ask out of concern of her privacy. On her hip, was a rapier of some sort with a revolver like cylinder filled with a different colors in each of the chambers.
"Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?!" She shouted at Ruby, while Ryan help the former up to her feet.
"Uuuuhhhh?" Ruby started, as she picked up one of the luggage cases and tried to hand it to the white haired assailant
"Give me that..." she said yanking it from Ruby's hands,
"... This is dust mined and purified from the Schnee quarry."
Seeing Ruby's confused face she continued,
"What are you brain dead, Dust: Fire, Water, Lightning, Energy. Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself!?" She asked, all the while shaking a slightly open, dust vial in her hand, causing some of the dust to fly out onto Ruby's face.
Seeing that Ruby was at the point of sneezing, Ryan tried to create an Aura Shield around the white haired girl, only for Ruby to release her sneeze and covered the girl in a Dust cloud, ice crystals and sparks coming out of the cloud. As the cloud dissipated, it revealed the girl, now soot covered. Unbeknownst to them the Dust vial was sent flying to the feet of a figure reading a book, giving them an audience.
"Unbelievable, this is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about." She said
"I'm really, really sorry." Ruby responded, looking uncomfortable about being yelled at.
"You complete dolt, what are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" Asked the white hair girl.
"This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practicing you know. We're here to fight monsters, so watch where you're going!"
"Hey, I said I was sorry, Princess." Ruby said, approaching the girl.
Ryan, seeing that the girl wasn't stepping back, started to subtly pump a calming Aura into his hands in case they started to fight. Before anyone could make the first move, a voice behind them said,
"It's heiress actually."
Turning, Ryan found himself facing a milk, white skinned girl about his height. She had a long, wavy, midnight black with a bow on top, which seemed odd for her age. She wore a black vest with coattails over a white sleeveless undershirt. Her left arm had a black sleeve with a silver band on her triceps. She wore shorts, not as short as Yang's but still pretty short, over a pair of stockings that started of black at her hips and turn purple by the time they reached her ankles. On her feet she wore black low-heel boots. What caught Ryan's eyes were the big sword like weapon on her back and her amber eyes that seemed almost cat-like.
"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." She said
"Finally, some recognition." Responded, the now named, Weiss.
"The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners." Continued the mysterious black themed girl
"What how dare the… the nerve of some…" Weiss shouted angrily, getting a chuckle from Ruby and caused Ryan to wonder just how trained in etiquette this universe's royalty was, granted not all of the royalty he had met used 'proper' etiquette around him nor did he to them on occasions.
Frustrated, Weiss walked over and yanked the dust vial from the girl's hand, before walking away in a huff leaving a couple of mysterious butler to pick up her luggage.
Still trying to make some friends Ruby yelled out,
"I promise I'll make it up to you." Seeing that Weiss wasn't going to respond, Ryan merely patted Ruby on the back to sooth her.
Trying to make a friend of his own, Ryan turning to face the black clad girl only to find her walking away.
|I guess she's not one for interaction.| He thought to himself before hearing a thud behind him. Turning he saw Ruby had slumped to the ground before saying,
"Welcome to Beacon." as she closed her eyes and laying there.
Signing at the sight of his friend's misery Ryan merely said,
"Don't be sad Ruby, she just wasn't the best choice for making friends." Not noticing the shadows approaching them, when suddenly he heard,
"Hey, need some help down there."
Turning Ryan saw the blond guy from the airship accompanied by another guy that was currently trying to help Ruby up.
The guy had messy, brown-grey, neck length hair that covered some of his right eye. He wore an open, artichoke green, hoodie. Under that he wore, a gray t-shirt, with an emerald coyote paw on it, which tucked into a pair of dark green jeans with ash colored knee guard and a handgun holster strapped to his thigh. On his feet had a pair of gray sneakers. Around his neck, Ryan noticed, he wore an ash colored, elbow length scarf that seemed to slide on if needed. The colors he wore make his peach skin stand out as well as his gray-green colored eyes that resembled jackal eyes.
Reaching a hand down to help her, the boy said,
"Aren."
"Ruby." She responded as she accepted the helping hand, looking a little fluttered.
"Thank for the help."
"Any time." he responded while pointing at the blond behind him, an action that made Ryan realize that he was around both Ruby and Weiss' height making both the blonde and himself tower over the two.
"And this lovable blonde is Jaune." He continued, causing Jaune to smile and shyly waves at them.
"Uh… And you are?" Jaune asked, while looking at Ryan.
"Ryan. Ryan Ketchum." he responded stretching out his hand,
"Nice to meet you, Ryan" responded Aren, as he shook Ryan's hand.
Turning back to Jaune, Ruby chuckled and asked,
"Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?" Getting a laugh from Aren, a sign from Jaune and caused Ryan to look down at the ground while shaking his head in disapproval.
"All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem that people let on." Jaune argued as the quartet walked on through the school.
"Look, I'm sorry. Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind" responded Ruby, causing Aren to snicker a little.
"Oh yeah, what if I called you Craterface?" Jaune countered
"Hey, that explosion was an accident!" Ruby fired back
"Well the name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue, ladies love it." Jaune responded
"Do they now?" asked Aren, a sweatdrop forming on his head.
"Well they will, well I hope they will. I mean my mom always says, eh never mind." He responded quickly trying to get out of the awkward situation.
Trying to change the subject, Ruby reached for Crescent Rose and say,
"So, I got this thing."
"Whoa, is that a scythe?" Jaune asked while using Ryan as a human shield.
"It's also a customizable, high impact sniper rifle." She responded with a glee.
"A what?" Jaune asked, confusion written all over his face.
"It's a gun Jaune and a pretty strong on at that." Answered Aren, before Ruby had time to answer.
"I'm more of a varied guy myself." Aren said, as he removed his handgun from its holster and pulled out a cylindrical handle from behind his belt.
Pressing a button on the handle a blade extended from it. The blade itself had a small serrated edge with a slightly curving handle. Putting the blade and the handgun together they suddenly shifted into a gray sniper rifle with a hollowed out butt. Pressing another button on the entire sniper rifle compacted itself to a smaller light weight form.
Unclipping the scope from the assault rifle, he clipped it back in place while the large weapon in his hand shifted into its smaller handgun form.
"A Tang Tanto and Beretta Px4 Storm that combine to form a Barrett M82 and shifts into a Beretta Rx4. What about you Ryan?" Aren asked.
Smiling, Ryan unsheathed Guardian's Guild.
"It's a medieval war sword that… " he said as he pressed a button on the handle, causing it to retract its blade and sword guard before stretching another foot or so,
" … becomes a bo-staff with some earth dust to give it extra strength … " Pressing two buttons in the middle of the staff it, causing it to split in two before the sword guards came out and the blade expanded outward on one side
"… and a pair of tonfa blades. "He said before connecting the flat end of the blades, causing the original sword handle to appear before he sheathed his weapon.
Giving an impressed whistle Aren said,
"Can't say you aren't prepared for a fight. But, no guns?" he added
"I have my own ranged weapons." Ryan said cryptically.
During the week he had found that gun were more openly seen in this universe, much to his disdain. So while he decided to rely on his aura for ranged weapons, he also decided to keep an open mind on weapons seeing as how unlike in his universe were gun could kill with a well-placed bullet, here bullets could leave bruises at most because of aura.
Turning to Jaune and asked,
"Anyways, what do you have Jaune?"
"Oh, uh, I got this sword." He responded, as he unsheathed a simple sword with a blue handle, almost like the form Guardian's Guild was currently in but much longer.
"Ooohhh." Ruby said with a look of interest on her face.
"Yeah, I got a shield too." He added as he revealed the sheath to become a shield as well.
"So, do they do anything other than the obvious?" Aren asks, as he pokes the shield, causing it to slip out of Jaune's grip and bounce around as he tries to catch it.
"The shield gets smaller…eh… so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just, put it away." Jaune answers nervously.
"But, wouldn't it weigh the same?" Ruby asks.
"Yeah, it does." Jaune replied, with a depressed look on his face.
"Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons, I guess I did go a little overboard in designing it." Ruby said, getting a surprised look from both Jaune and Aren.
"Whoa time out! You made this beauty, Ruby? That's so cool!" Yelled Aren with a huge smile on his face, failing to notice the red that tinted Ruby's face after the complement.
"W-well yeah, all students at Signal forge their own weapons. Didn't you guys make yours?" She asked, trying hid the blush.
"I did, but it's nowhere nearly as original as yours." Said Aren
"What about you Ryan?"
"Well, Ruby actually helped me make it. I kind of traveled a lot so I never needed any weapon. I just sketched up the forms and she taught me how to forge it." He responded, before looking at Jaune.
"It's a hand-me down. My great-great grandfather used it to fight in the war." Jaune said with an almost depressed look on his face.
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me." Said Aren, with a questioning look as to Jaune's reaction.
"Well I like it." Ruby said happiness oozing off of her.
"Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days."
This caused Ryan to wonder what classics were classified as since, he had only ever see transforming weapons in this universe and Honedge was the only sword he had ever used that could technically transform, though he still hadn't evolved it.
"Yeah, the classics." Jaune half-heartedly responded.
"So, why did you help Ruby out when she was on the ground?" Ryan asked, curious as to why two complete strangers would help a couple of teens that just caused an explosion.
"Hey, why not. My mom always says, 'Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet'." responded Jaune.
"Nice way of putting it, Jaune." Said Aren
"Do any of you guys know where we're going?" Ryan questioned, trying to get back to the orientation they were support to be attending.
"I don't really know, I was just going wherever we walked as we talked." Said Aren getting an agreeing nod from Jaune
"Come on, let's go find someone to get us in the right direction." Said Ryan, while activating his Aura Vision to get a reading on where all the auras are heading.
After walking for a few minutes they finally found the auditorium. It was a giant gray coliseum shaped building with a metal, dome like skyline on to without glass to stop the elements from getting in. The giant, wooden, front doors were open wide. Upon entering they saw a the main stage look almost like the front of a European church, with four circular glass windows in the middle and all the structures were at different heights.
"Ruby, Ryan over here. I saved you guys a spot." They heard before turning to see Yang waving at them and motioning them to come over.
"Well, guess this is goodbye for now." Said Aren, while looking for a spot for him and Jaune.
"Yeah, well we gotta go. We'll see you guys after the ceremony." Ruby said as she jogged over to Yang, with Ryan in tow.
"Wait. Great now where are we supposed to find another nice quirky girl to talk to?" Jaune asked Aren, as they walked away, not noticing the red haired girl standing behind them looking at Jaune.
"So how has your first day going guys?" Yang asked in a completely innocent manner
"You mean, since you ditched us and I exploded?!" Ruby responded with a pout
"Yikes, meltdown already?" Yang asked.
"Unfortunately, it was more of a literal explosion than a figurative one Yang." Ryan answered.
"Yeah, there was fire and think some ice." Added Ruby.
"Are you guys being sarcastic?" Yang asked again.
"I wish. I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage and then she yelled at me and then I sneezed and then I exploded and then she yelled again and then I felt really, really bad and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me." Ruby summarized, failing to see Ryan motioning her to stop before…,
"YOU!" yelled Weiss from behind Ruby, causing her to jump into Yang's arms and say,
"Oh god, it's happening again."
"You're lucky, we weren't blown off the side of the cliff." Weiss argued with an annoyed tone in her voice.
"Oh my god, you really exploded." Yang said with a surprised expression.
"It was an accident." Ruby explained to Yang, as she got out of her arms.
Turning to Weiss she told her,
"It was an accident."
Suddenly, there was a pamphlet being waved in front of Ruby's face,
"What's this?"
"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any…." She started.
Ryan having decided he didn't really want to hear any of it as he had read about the Schnee Companies policies in every single book on Dust that he read. Instead he thought more about the universe he was in.
It was pretty lovely here. There were a few negatives in this universe that he wished didn't exist but overall it was nice. The technology and way of life was different sure but really he enjoyed it. It made him realize that in essence everyone back in his universe relied too heavily on Pokémon to live. Sure there were those that used other resources like in Sunyshore City where they use Solar Power to power themselves rather than rely mainly on generators or electric Pokémon.
Though the more he thought of it, the more reasons appeared for him to trying to find a way back to his universe. He knew actions were reasonable at the time, but they were rash and could cost him dearly. Sure team Galactic would be no more after Cyrus fell and with Looker their the other commander would be in custody minutes after he when through the portal but that didn't mean there weren't other regions in his universe. Ash had yet to go to Unova and Kalos but whenever Ash when to a new region, Crime organizations seemed to decide then to strike.
Trying to forget that morbid line of thought, Ryan noticed Weiss was still talking. Figuring that the rant would probably go on till the end of the night, Ryan decided intervene.
"I'm sure we just got off on the wrong foot, Ms. Schnee. Now why don't we start over and try to be friends okay? My name is Ryan, pleasure to make your acquaintance" He said, using the edict that both his aunts taught him to use while in the presence of royalty.
"Yeah, great idea. Hmm, hello Weiss, I'm Ruby wanna hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies." Ruby said
"Yeah, and we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys like tall blond and scraggly over there." Weiss responded sarcastically, while pointing at Jaune as she mentioned the boys, causing him to perk up.
"Whoa, really?" Ruby asked expectantly, while Ryan scowled at Weiss' attitude to the young girl who was only trying to make friends.
"No." Weiss said with an angry expression on.
Before Ryan could give his two cent on her attitude, a microphones buzz caught their attention. Turning they saw Professor Ozpin standing in front of the microphone before monotonously saying,
"I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills and when you have finished you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."
As he finished Professor Goodwitch came up to the microphone and said,
"You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."
"He seemed kind of off." Yang commented as everyone started to disperse.
"It's almost like he wasn't even there." Ruby added.
Looking at the headmaster for a second, Ryan signed and thought,
|He could have at least pretended to care. I'm know he's probably had to repeat this every year but at least Lady Ilene delivers her annual tournament speech with enthusiasm.|
While they were all distracted by Ozpin's speech, none of them noticed Jaune walking over towards Weiss, with a confused Aren in tow and said,
"I'm a natural blonde you know." Gaining a facepalm from Weiss, while Aren just looked down in disappointment.
As nighttime fell, everyone was getting ready to sleep for the night. Ryan walked out of the bathroom, changed for the night. His sleepwear merely consisted of a pair of black sweat pants and gray slip-on shoes. His upper body was exposed, revealing his lightly scared muscular build. After years of sparring with Lucario and Gallade, Ryan's muscles became well defined. Not to mention his constant bouts with people that have no regard for human life meant he had been at the receiving end of more than a few weak attacks and explosions.
As got back to where he and the sisters would be sleeping, he found Ruby laying on the sleeping bag writing something. Ruby's pajamas consisted of a black tank top with a pink heart with ears on the curves of the heart and teeth lining the straight lines on the heart, a pair of white sweatpants with pink, polka dots and a black sleep of mask with red, menacing eyes on it. As he sat down, Yang dropped onto her sleeping bag saying
"It's like a big Slumber party."
Yang's pajamas were a mere orange tank top with her burning heart emblem on it and a pair of black shorts.
"I don't think your father would appreciate all the boys here, Yang." Ryan said, knowing how their father only allowed him to stay in their home after both Ruby and Yang begged him, much to his embarrassment.
"I know, I do." she purred as she eyes all the boys, who were trying to show off any muscle they had.
That soon stop as Jaune suddenly walked into her field of vision wearing a light-blue onesie with bunnies on the feet.
"Yang's 'approval' aside, what are you doing Ruby?" Ryan asked truly curious of what his younger friend was doing.
"I'm writing a letter to the gang back at Signal. I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going." Ruby responded cheerfully.
Ryan smile at her loyalty to her friend, reminding him of Ash and his friendship motivated actions. Remembering that he wouldn't be able to see his 'little brother' anymore, Ryan's smile faltered slightly.
"Ah, that's so cute." Yang said, only to have Ruby throw a pillow at her face and say.
"Shut up, I didn't get to take my friend with me to school, it's weird not knowing anyone here."
"What about Jaune and Aren they talked to us. That two new friends today." Ryan said, trying to better Ruby's mood.
"I'm pretty sure Weiss yelling at us scared them off so that's back to zero." Ruby countered.
"I don't know, you're pretty hard to forget, especially when you're pouting like that." Came a voice behind them.
Turning they see Aren standing in front of them, carrying his sleeping bag under his arm. Aren's pajamas consisted of a pair of green shorts and black undershirt that revealed his slightly muscular arms and exposing two x-shaped scars that seem to go through his left shoulder.
"A-Aren?" Ruby asked with a slight blush, at seeing his slightly muscular frame clearer now.
"Sup." He replied.
"What bring you here, Aren? I mean you seem to prefer Jaune's company over any else's." Ryan asked
Rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly, Aren replied,
"Well… you see… I… thought it would be… uh... nice to get to know you guys better."
"You're embarrassed by the way he's dressed aren't you?" Yang asked, with a knowing grin.
"As much as I like hanging out with the guy, those pajamas aren't the most comfortable thing to be around." he responds nervously, before turning to Ruby and saying,
"Now about your problem Ruby, don't think about it as you don't have friends. Think that you just haven't met them yet. You can make friends can be anyone you meet, you just have to go up and talk to them."
As Aren finished his short speech, Ryan smiled at his friend's explanation to Ruby. He himself should take the advice, but he had grown accustomed to isolation in order to keep those around him safe as his father had with him. Yet now he realize that this universe wasn't as dependent as his own, while it still needed help from people that trained to protect it there were more people to protect it not just him and his father, now other can defend themselves and protect others.
His thoughts were soon interrupted, when he noticed a light out of the corner of his eyes. Turning he saw the girl for before, only this time she had on a black yukata with white around the edges.
Turning to the group, Ryan heard Ruby said in an almost whisper like tone,
"That girl."
Yang seeing that there was some recognition in her voice asked,
"You know her?"
"Not really Yang, we only saw her after the explosion and even at that she only told us who Weiss was, insulted the Schnee Company then left." Ryan responded.
"Well, now's your chance." Yang says as she drags Ruby towards the girl, despite her protest.
Turning to Aren, Ryan asked,
"Well, you wanna go make a new friend?"
"Nah, I'm good. You?" Aren responded.
"Someone's gotta keep them from making any mistakes they might regret later." Ryan answered before getting up and speed up to catch them, just as they got to the girl.
Before Ryan could say anything Yang yelled out,
"Hellooooo!" Getting the girl full attention.
"I believe you three know each other?"
Shaking his head in disappointment, Ryan decided to lean against the wall near the girl, not close enough to make her uncomfortable, but enough to notice any changes in her aura to avoid another incident like with Weiss.
Slightly confused by the shirtless boy now leaning against the wall near her, the girl asked,
"Aren't you… the girl that exploded?"
"Uhh… yeah! My name's Ruby, But you can just call crater… uh… actually you can just call me Ruby." Ruby responded, only to notice the girl just went back to reading her book before acknowledging her answer.
Seeing her sister struggle, Yang took shot at it,
"So… what's your name?"
Signing the girl answered, "Blake."
"Well, Blake I'm Yang!" Yang responded with glee in her voice,
"Ruby's older sister! And the guy leaning on the wall is Ryan!"
At the mention of his name, Ryan turned to her and did a two fingered wave from his position on the wall, before Yang tried to continue her conversation,
"Uh... I like your bow"
"Thanks." Blake responded, as Ryan easily picked up on the annoyance in her aura.
"It goes great with your… pajamas." Yang said trying to keep the conversation going but noticing the awkwardness of it."
"Right." Blake responded clearly over the conversation.
"Nice night don't you think?" Yang asked still not wanting to drop the conversation.
"Yes. It's lovely. Almost as lovely as this book…" Blake said, hoping that they took the hint. Seeing they didn't move she continued,
"...that I will continue to read…"
Seeing the sisters still weren't taking the hint Ryan decided to intervene,
"Guys let's just go. She just want to read her book and we keep interrupting her." he said while kicked of the walk and started to try and herd them back to their sleeping spot.
"What's it about?" Ruby asked, while Ryan was trying to get Yang to get back to their sleeping area.
"Huh?" Blake asked, genuinely confused.
"You're book. Does it have a name?" Ruby continued. Looking at Blake's aura Ryan saw that she was slightly enjoying talking about her book
"Well, it's about a man with two soul, each fighting for control over his body." she said.
That stopped Ryan dead in his tracks. Had any of the girls look they would have seen his face harden for a split second before return to a neutral look.
After hearing about the Mewtwo incident and seeing Ash risk his life multiple times for his friends and the sake of the world, Ryan was always worried when he realized that every time he left the castle for an assignment, Ash was usually in the area. But his worries were never stronger than when he got possessed by the King of Pokelantis. It was one of the only times that he had requested the leave of the castle to cheer his 'little brother' on in his battle against Brandon the Pyramid King. To see his 'brother's' body in the control of such a sinister aura and know he could do anything without hurting Ash was enraging.
Shaking himself out of that thought, Ryan returned his hearing to the conversation, hearing Yang say,
"Oh yeah… that's real lovely."
Suddenly Ruby stepped forward and said in a pleasant tone,
"I love books. Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monster… they're one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress."
Smiling Blake asked,
"Why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
"Well, I'm hoping we all will. As a girl, I wanted to be just like the heroes in the books. Someone who fought for what was right, and protected the people who couldn't protect themselves." Ruby responded, with a look that Ryan had come to know as the reason Ash made so many friends, the look of pure determination that meant that nothing would stop her from achieving her goal.
Lowering her book Blake responded,
"That's very ambitious… for a child. Unfortunately the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."
Seeing that Ruby wasn't going to back down, Ryan smiled at her and tasseled her hair much to her annoyance before turning to Blake and saying,
"That's why we're here, Blake. To keep the world's peace and fix anything that we can along the way."
Before anything else could be said, Yang pushed Ryan aside and started hugging and praising Ruby for her ambition, lifting her in the process, which only annoyed her more causing them to start fighting.
What neither of them noticed was the position Yang put Ryan and Blake in. While pushing Ryan aside he ended up landing on top of Blake for a few seconds, before jumping up and apologizing profusely. Now the two were blushing up a storm and trying to aver each other's line of sight to not make things more awkward.
While the two level headed teens tried to retain their levels heads, neither of them noticed the now furious Weiss marching up to Ruby and Yang until she yelled,
"What in the world is going on over here!?" Stopping Yang and Ruby's fight.
"Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep!?" She continued before realization crossed her face and both Yang and she yelled,
"OH, NOT YOU AGAIN!"
Seeing a perfect excuse to escape the awkward situation with Blake, Ryan hurriedly got up and started to release aura into his right hand, before placing it on Yang's shoulder. The effect was almost instant as Yang suddenly collapsed, causing Ryan to catch her and swung her arm over his shoulder, surprising the three conscious girls.
As he repositioned Yang to make her easier to move, Ruby yell,
"RYAN!"
Turning to her, he moved a finger up to his lips and shushed her before explaining,
"Relax she's fine, Ruby. I just put her to sleep that's all."
"How did you do that, exactly?" Blake asked, a little wary of him now.
Still trying to avoid eye contact with her, he responded,
"Well… by pumping enough aura into my hand I overloaded her own aura, rendering her unconscious."
"WHERE DID YOU LEARN SUCH A BARBARIC ATTACK!?" Weiss yelled, causing Ruby and Ryan to shush her.
Not knowing how to answer without revealing his secret, Ryan decided the best course of action, avoid answering.
"Does it matter, Weiss? You got what you wanted, it's quiet enough for you to sleep now isn't it. Come on Ruby let's get Yang into her sleeping bag. Weiss, Blake goodnight." He said while trying to keep a calm expression on his face to not make Weiss ask more questions.
Seeing that he was already leaving, Ruby waved good bye before running over to Ryan and helping him with Yang a little. Watching them leave for a while, Blake realized that her eyes were glued to Ryan the whole time. He seemed to be respectful and well-mannered but he held a secret that had something to go with that aura trick he did. Not that she should be the one talking about keeping secrets, yet she couldn't shake the feeling of overwhelming calmness she felt when he fell on her. It was a calmness she hadn't felt since she had first met Adam and yet this was different. Ryan's calm feeling was different it held a warning of sorts. As she realized that she was still watching his retreating form caring Yang, she couldn't shake a slightly feeling of jealousy for the unconscious blond how was covered in that warming feeling despite not know it.
It was at that moment, Blake noticed that she was acting possessive of a guy she had only just met. Blushing at her school girl crush like attitude she quickly picked up her light and blew it out. Sneaking a look over at him she was shocked to see his eyes glowing with a blue color around them as he walked through the dark over to what she assumed was his sleeping bag.
|Just what are you hiding? And what is caused that glow in your eyes?| She asked herself before closing her eyes and slid into sleep's embrace. Completely unaware of to second pair of eyes that were next to where Ryan was sitting, staring back at her with a calculated gaze.
That's a wrap{Get it?} (-_-) . Anyways, feedback is much appreciated as long as you don't curse at me.
