AN: Man, how long has it been? I apologize for the lateness, but I did finish my paper and I got a long holiday after the semester was over and I want to use the spare time I have and enjoy my vacation at Singapore
Anyway since my vacation to Singapore is Done, now I'm back to the world of fan fiction and start to continue the story
[Revised: 11/10/2016]
Beacon Locker Room
Morning
Ophis POV
Morning has come and we quickly take a bath and got change into our combat gear. I wear back my leather attire with additional utility belt "everyone ready?" I asked to the other while adjusting my belt and my leather gloves
"Lock and loaded" Ravel answered as she took several spins with her oversized Baton. you know, I find it quite ironic since Ravel's combat uniform is actually Church maiden combat outfit usually used by a Church female agent to hunt down monster and Devil. And now she's wearing it like her second skin
"Hai! Ready when you are" Kunou cheerfully replied while sheathing Kiba and Tsume. Her attire is actually the old Kuoh Academy's uniform.
She claimed that: she's more comfortable in this clothing and she had enhanced her uniform with magical seals, creating a high defensive ability on her uniform
And I completely agree because somehow female Kuoh Academy uniform is quite easy to tear apart. I still remember whenever a female member who wears the uniform like Rias, Akeno, or Konerko ends up in a fight SOMEHOW their uniform was torn with a lot of tears here and there and always in compromising spots
And how the fuck that always happens in EVERY. SINGLE. GODDAMN. FIGHT. They had?!
I wanted to ask why she decides to wear Kuoh's uniform complete with the cape but then again Issei, Rias, and co. wear their uniform while fighting Cerberus, rouge God, Rating Games and other stuff like that.
"Yes… master" aaannndd Lilith with her usual monotone voice and attitude. Her attire reminds me of a female fighter from a fighting game. What's the female fighter name again? Something like Asuka or something
Anyway since we're all now are ready, now all we need is-
"Excuse me, Ophis" a familiar voice called out to me turning around to see none other than Yang Xiao-Long who last night had caused an awkward situation "can I talk with you for a second, alone? I want to clarify something"
I look back toward my three companions who in turn nod at me to talk with Yang "Okay, lead the way"
Both I and the blonde girl move farther away from the crowd and headed to a less crowded area when we arrive she started to look at me
"Ophis, listen about last night I want to say sorry"
Sorry?
"Sorry? Sorry for what?" I asked her while I found a perfect spot to lean my back
"Well… last night when I'm asking you for a date? Well, I just want to say, it won't happen and I'm sorry if I put your expectation down… but, I'm straight"
I blinked at her in confusion
"If I recall correctly, aren't you the one that suddenly comes up to me, blushing at me, ogling at me for five times, and asked me to go on a date… so why the change of mind?" you're the one that comes up to me and confessed yet now you're standing here clarifying your action last night
"Yeeeaaaahh about that…" Yang sheepishly scratch her head "when I was in my first and second year of Signal academy, I'm a tomboy girl because of my rather flat chest and boyish attitude so sometimes I like to prank other girls in my class acting as if I'm a boy vying for their attention ranging from a womanizer boy to the shy one and the act was pretty good that most of the girl bought it until I reveal myself and with great reactions" as she explained herself I watch her how her body react especially that curve- er, I mean her body gesture.
Her posture is calm and I didn't notice any bad intentions making her statement is true
"but when I hit my puberty in my third year, I had a growth spurt and have this body complete with a nice rack, and decided to stop the prank yet sometimes I still prank the girls because… I like seeing their reactions" she let a sigh before continuing
"but in my last year, I put a stop on this kind of prank because I realized I kinda played with their feelings and I feel bad about it"
I see…
"But what's this connection with me?"
"well, my target has always been a girl with… better physique and I'm really into my character really good that you can't tell the differences. And when I look at you I… I'm actually kinda envy of you with better rack, curves, and height. And I want to prank you with my 'skills' back in Signal"
Connecting dot, I already seeing where this is going
"But it backfired on you… when I rubbed my chest and whisper in your ears" she turns away not wanting to meet my eyes
"Well it did send chills down my spine"
Nodding at her I close my eyes contemplating what she just said
Right now in my sealed state, I limit how much power I could deliver to the target and as a side effect my awareness is affected too, but it still retained such power and awareness -if my fight with Roman is any indication-
But to think a mere act carried out by a huntress wannabe caught me off guard is something that I should take note… however…
"I already knew you were faking it"
Yang snapped her attention back on me "what?"
"To be honest Yang, you're not the only girl that confessed to me. During and after I'm back from my traveling, a lot of boys even girls approach me vying for my attention as if gender means nothing in love. For every girls and boy that confessed to me, every single one of them had one thing in common that you don't have, their heartbeat pulse"
"What do you mean?"
Opening my eyes, I let a smirked and look into her Lilac eyes "remember when I clasped your hand?"
"uh… yeah, what about it?"
"for every boys and girl that confessed to me, I always clasped my hand and secretly touch their wrist and check their heartbeat and every single one of them pulses rapidly indicating their heart racing because someone they had a crush on touching his/her hand delicately. But you… your heart didn't beat just like them instead, it beats normally, that way I know you're up to something" I explained to her
"Wait, so you knew I was faking it!"
"At first? No. I'll admit your act was good and managed to convince me you're not straight and you're really into me because you crave for my sexilicious body" I told her again with the same husky voice I used last night making her blush once again "but when I touch your wrist that blew it all"
"T-then why do you keep going with it? W-why didn't you stop me? I had dreams damnit!" she raised her voice at me borderline shouting
Who knows Yang, who knows, maybe because I do not found your attempt to woo me acceptable, so I want to punish/tease you because I know you're playing with feelings or maybe I want to be an asshole by giving you the dreams
Probably the former because I grow fond of the feeling called Love, during my stay at Hyoudou household I started to sway from craving for 'silence' to a craving for love. It's a wonderful feeling that I view it as a precious thing for me for it giving me such warm in my heart
And I'll be damned to let someone play with this heart-warming feeling get away with it
"Let's just say it's a bad karma for you. How's that sound?"
All of the redness on her face vanished as Yang looking at me with facial expression as if saying 'Really? I went through hell to get you and this is your answer?'
But eventually, the blonde only let out a sigh accepting it "well, I guess I should've known better not to continue that kind of prank and for that, I'm sorry, Ophis"
"Apology accepted, maybe I should say sorry to you too Yang because I was wearing something risqué as a sleeping wear but in my defense, it's the only sleeping wear I brought with me" Yang nodded in understanding
"So… friend?" Yang extending her hand
"Friend" and I gladly grab her hand and shake it
But again I move my other hand and clasp it gently on her just to tease her again with my husky voice "and I'm really sorry for accidentally gave you a long. Hot. Steamy and creamy dreams"
The reaction was quick, Yang quickly pulled her hand from mine as she blushing "w-will you stop it?! I may be a pervert but that was uncalled for! Did you know how weird my dream was when you suddenly-" she started trailing off as she rants on how her dream was
I guess this is the first step of a beautiful friendship
~oOo~
Ophis POV
Sometimes in my immortal life, I tend to find an activity -or activities- to kill my boredom. Before apocalypse happened, one of my activities is dozing off…
Like a lot
…
What am I doing with my life back then?
Anyway, bad habits aside, I did a lot of activities just to make more active and sociable, I refuse to be my lazy past self -who's most of the time spending most of the time just to dozing off, eat cotton candy, and sleep- I can do sports, cooking, housekeeping, weapon training, weapon maintenance, singing, weapon assembling, reading, video gaming, even I learned art of seduction just for the hell of it.
And If Yang's red blushing face is any indication, not even girls or women could resist it
But speaking of seducing… or to a lesser extent, flirting.
"You know What's great, me Jaune Arc, Nice to meet you" standing across of our locker aisle is a blonde teenage boy wearing something that can be called as casual knight
Standing over six feet tall wearing a black hoodie under a knight armor, blue jeans with a sword and white scabbard strap to his left waist, and a pair of sneaker shoes. His stature is… well I wouldn't call him thin because he's got quite a muscle like a typical bishounen but buffed up just a little bit
He's just interrupted a conversation between a red-haired girl wearing an armor with bronze with golden finish color reminiscing of spartan warrior -I think her name is Pyrrha Nikos- and the Schnee Heiress… though I somewhat grateful because I don't like the heiress face when she turned away from the red haired maiden with Evil Scheming look on her face
"You again?" the heiress said with the same voice like she met me yesterday
"Nice to meet you Jaune" while Phyrra wave and smile at him
"Yeah yeah… so Weiss" and he start flirting with the heiress
Wait, what the hell?
"Guys do see what I'm seeing?" I asked toward everyone in my group
"What? The Schnee heiress usual attitude or the fact that boy brushed the four times Mistral regional champion?" Ravel asked back
"The latter? Just… why?" I baffled at this sight. He prefers heiress from a Dust company with shady business over the clearly more beautiful, taller, bigger -If You Know What I Mean-, and polite-mannered fighter
Not that I complaining because if you're a boy and finally get a date with either of them you'll get the prestige to date heiress of a mega-corporation or the unbeatable people's champion.
"Maybe someone really prefers a flat chest girl. I mean come on back in Japan, local Japanese or even foreigners otaku declared 'Flat Justice' just to defend their favorite pettanko waifu" Kunou added her two cents
Back to the blonde boy now he started flirting with the champion before the heiress stops him from flirting any further.
For once I thank you, Weiss Schnee… I don't think I could take his cheesy pickup lines anymore. I swear man… If Azazel still alive I bet that he would be cringing because of Jaune's words is CHEESY. AS. HELL…
But then again, knowing Azazel he would probably take (Read: kidnap) him under his wing and corrupt him with porn books and naked photos of sexilicious female Fallen Angels claiming this is his attempt to train Jaune into the art of his perverseness just to end that horrible lines and make him a big pervert and a womanizer just like he was
Bless that perverted ex-Fallen Angel Governor
The heiress tried to tell the Jaune several times about the champion achievement only to find out that the blonde boy didn't know anything about the champion and further frustrate the heiress when he only recognized the champion from a cereal box
… Really? From all of her achievement, that boy recognized her from a cereal box?
But as we -the supernatural beings- watch the event I couldn't help but notice Pyrrha facial expression somewhat happy that the blonde boy didn't recognize her
Oh… so you're that type of people aren't you, Pyrrha? You're tired because people saw you as their champion rather than who you are so that's why you're happy when the blonde didn't know your status as a celebrity in a way you're just like Ruby when she and I met for the first time
Skilled fighters with social issues
When the boy looks about getting too close to the heiress The champion helped her by throwing her javelin at Jaune pinning him on the wall
"I'm sorry!"
[Would all first-year students report to beacon cliff for initiation I repeat, all first-year students report to beacon cliff immediately]
The announcement probably the best thing I heard today, as we finally can get some action today.
I look to my other companions before signaling them to join the other students "Well it's our call, now let's get mov-"
"You… What are you doing here Phenex!" only to get cut off by somewhat venomous tone of Weiss Schnee
Great, now what…?
Wait… she knows Ravel?
Just as she said that Ravel steps forward facing somewhat angered Heiress "Hello, Weissy, how's your day?" Ravel said calmly though I could sense her voice laced with a mocking yet playful tone
"Don't be so casual with me you disgrace of a noble! What are you doing here?!" at this point a lot of people -even Ruby, Yang, Pyrrah, and Jaune- attention now focus at both of them
Despite her insult, Ravel just smile at the heiress "well I'm continuing my education here with my friends and family and what do you mean I'm a disgraced noble? I didn't do anything that tarnishes noble of Remnant, did I?"
"Your attire speaks a lot of how you disgrace noble's name! Wear something appropriate!" now that Weiss said it, yes the church combat outfit somewhat looks like some pervert would wear not a servant of God would wear. Don't get me wrong, the suit is durable and strong… you know what I'm not going defend it, the suit durability is not much different than Kuoh female uniform albeit slightly better
But after Ravel modified the suit, it's goddamn durable and certain modification was made to prevent certain E-cup size chest from bouncing and it's quite flexible, but the hole on the upper butt is something that I would question why the guy who designed this thing would put such… unique style on it
And it doesn't help her suit somewhat hug her figure, large boobs and her butt firmly
What was the tailor who is also the Servant of a GOD thinking when he/she made this suit?!
"Aww you're just jealous of me" Ravel fold her hands on her chest emphasizing more of her bust much to the heiress ire "besides aren't you being too loud for a lady, Weissy? We have an initiation, to begin with, are you sure you want to start a fight?" again Ravel replied with the same smile and that playful tone of her that I think just to piss the heiress off
As I watch those two throwing words at each other, I turn toward Kunou asking for clarification "Did something happen between those two?"
"Let's just say those two entered a competition and Ravel won because she can understand the audience better than the SDC heiress" the fox youkai just letting out a sigh
"And… the heiress… started yelling… at Ravel… 3 months ago" Lilith finished
Ah… I see
Judging from the heiress reaction, I think the heiress obviously don't like or maybe hate the result of the competition
"… I can't wait to give my own 'lecture' to you in combat class" and just like that the heiress stormed off toward the exit leaving the blonde she-devil with a smug look on her face
I walk over to her and talk to her "did you do something that caused her wrath?"
"Now why would you think I would do something like that I maybe a… sinful creature but when it comes to competition I always fight fair, it's just that the heiress always had everything given to her with silver platter"
"And that's the first time someone breaks her silver platter streak and put the blame on you… that's pretty childish" Ravel just giggled at my statement
"You might say that, Ophis, but the girl really has talent in singing, I won because my songs just perfect with the audience's preference" she defended the girl
I don't know what this competition all about aside from singing, but if Ravel participates in it, then it safe to assume there's noble coming to watch the competition. The Schnee heiress probably has the talent to compete to appease the nobles but Ravel, being a noble longer than the heiress, knew the exact way to gain the audiences and appease them better with the correct songs
"Well whatever let's haul ass and go to the cliff we waste enough time already"
~oOo~
Beacon Cliff
Third person POV
All of the students now gathered at the cliff all of them were eager for some actions. Among them were the supernatural beings who intently looking at the forest bellow them. one of them is Kunou Inari the Kitsune Youkai. Due to her nature as a youkai, she had the connection with nature higher than the other supernatural
Kunou observes the forest bellow her and squint her eyes 'the Grimm… what happened?'
She didn't know why, but during her late night meditation she sent a pulse of Senjutsu energy and sense a lot of hatred gather inside the forest but right now
'It reduces a lot'
Maybe it's just her feelings, but the Grimm always is known to be more active in the night since their natural color help them blend in the dark making them perfect killer in the night "maybe Grimm-chan running scared knowing we were coming, mou…" she muttered
"Kunou…" Kunou looks to her side and sees Lilith poking at her shoulder
"hai?"
"The headmaster… is about to… give speech" Kunou look to where Lilith pointing and saw Ozpin who's about to give another speech and the fox youkai move her attention back on him
As of right now every candidate lining up on the launcher with the supernatural beings on the far end of the line with Lilith, Kunou, Ravel, and Ophis follow by Jaune
"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today your abilities will be evaluated in the emerald forest." The headmaster said as he looked among the candidates
"Now, I'm sure many of you heard the rumors about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates… today" Glynda announced
"What? Ohhh…" Ruby whine when she heard this.
"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 with whom you can work well" the headmaster advised them "that being said, for this year's initiation, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."
"Whaaaattt?!"
Ophis who's standing quite a distance, from Ruby could only shake her head. 'I want to be her teammate, but she'll be too clingy to me if that happen I guess this is where she need to find her teammate other than me'
"See? I told you" another girl with short stature and orange hair -who Ophis remember her as Nora- said to her friend
"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path… or you will die"
Now that got several reactions, while most of them were grinning with anticipation some of them have their own reaction
Jaune let a nervous laugh and gulp audibly
The orange hair girl, whose name is Nora grinning in anticipation
Ravel check her Baton the Shock Therapy in its assault rifle mode to make sure it's working properly
Kunou taps her sword while smiling in anticipation
Ophis looks calm while analyzing the forest 'I wonder who will be my partner?'
But the strongest reaction is shown by Lilith, when 'do not hesitate' part leave the headmaster's mouth, the Dragon God clone's eyes turned into eerie red eyes with slits and her grey draconic gauntlets materialised on her arms
*SHIIING!**SHIIING!*
Lilith flexed her fingers after letting an audible eerie echo sound by scraping her clawed fingers
The sound of her scraping brings chills down to every candidate's spines -minus the supernatural beings-
Ozpin looks toward Lilith who seems now sporting a grin on her face ready to slay Grimm 'it's always the quiet ones' he thought as he still remembers how quiet Lilith is, only to find out her ferocious look just a seconds ago
"You will be monitored and graded through the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return on top of the cliff. You will guard that item, as well as your standing, and we will grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?"
"Yeah, um, Sir?" Jaune started while raising his hand
"Good! Now take your position" Ozpin Instructed clearly ignoring the blonde boy
As the headmaster commanded, all of the initiates readied their stances except Jaune who's still determined to ask a question
"Uh, sir? I've got, um… a question." Jaune spoke up not noticing the Heiress of Schnee launched from the springboard launcher "So, this landing… strategy thing… uh, wha-what is it? You're like dropping us off or something?"
"No. You will be falling" Ozpin casually said
"Oh, uh, I see…" Jaune said as he still oblivious as more of his fellow initiates launched into the forest. "So… did you… like hand out parachutes for us?"
At this point, Ophis -who stand beside Jaune- turned her head to Jaune and look at him in complete disbelief 'how the hell he didn't know about 'Landing Strategy' when 99.99% of Beacon initiates knew it? He's just making himself a fool' his cluelessness also annoyed her
"No. you will be using your own 'landing strategy'," Ozpin said as the headmistress Glynda gave the boy a calculating glare.
Their Job as a professor is to guide them as a future huntsman/huntress but doesn't mean the student will be given a pleasure like a high school student. Beacon is like university where the students were expected to act like a university student where they can take care themselves, there's something that Professors could give to their students but some things need to be prepared by the student themselves
Landing Strategy included
'Well if the boy didn't have any landing strategy… like Qrow always said: Sucks to be you'
"Whoo-wee!" Nora yelled cheerfully leaving the cliff into the forest
"So what is exactly is a land-" At this point, Ophis couldn't tolerate the boy ignorance any longer, Ophis reach the blonde knight shoulder and turn him facing her
"Listen here Jaune Arc, why are you here in Beacon?" Ophis asked in all seriousness complete with her usual monotone voice and unforgiving look
Her facial expression caused the blonde knight to flinched but managed to voice out an answer "To-to b-become a h-huntsman"
"But you don't know what is landing strategy?" Ophis question was answered with Jaune shaking his head "back in my… Hometown… it's a great insult if you don't know what are you getting into, you will be immediately punished and there will be many severe consequences if you're nothing but a hindrance"
Ophis glared at the blonde knight "the closest person to such fool, literally and figuratively speaking, should be the one who delivered the punishment" Ophis raised her fist and covered it with leaking purplish energy toward his face to prove her point
The result is quite expected
Fear
Her threat actually the one she used back at her followers when she created the Khaos Brigade in order to eliminate useless minions in her group because she simply wants the best minions, not a weak useless one
But that's long time ago
"But I have patience and I have more pressing matters than punching you to oblivion" she dismissed her magic and lower her fist before looking at the blonde knight
"If you're wondering what's a landing strategy is then look behind me" changing her tone Ophis instructed the blonde boy to which he complies
As if on cue, Yang flew into the air "Woo-Hoooooo!"
It doesn't need a genius to figure out what's a landing strategy when you saw a person flew into the air… without a parachute
'Oh, Crap' Jaune thought in fright 'nonononnonononono I didn't sign up for this! I need to-'
Before he could panic any further, Ophis broke him out of stupor "Hey! Snap out of it! You signed up to be a huntsman whether you like it or not YOU will have landing strategy!" she shake the boy
"B-But how can I do that?"
Ophis pinch her bridge in response of this casual knight "Listen, I will only help you once this time, when you're in the air try to control your body and see where you're going that way you can plot your course and avoid getting splat into the-" before she could finish, however, Jaune's Launchpad activated and launch him into the air while wailing indignantly
"-ground" Ophis blinked at the pad in front of her before looking where the last initiates before her only to find out that all but the four supernatural beings in disguise already launched into the forest
Oh and Lilith growled in anger because her turn was denied
Ophis turn her attention toward the headmaster who held a large Scroll on his hand before giving it back to Glynda
"Professor Ozpin, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Jaune's turn is after me? Why did you launch him first?"
"Sorry about that Ms. Hyoudou-Gremory, but landing strategy is something that students should come up with their own not be told. I believe young Arc already knew enough and I deduced he's ready" Ophis give the headmaster a meaningful look
'I didn't even tell the Arc how to land yet' oh well, what she can do? Who is she compared to Ozpin who have better knowledge of Beacon proper procedure? She's just a former God disguise as a student compared to the esteemed headmaster of prestigious academy. 'Besides, that Arc-boy must realize what kind of school he enrolled'
"If there's no question, please get ready to launch"
As if on cue, Lilith's launch pad activated launching the Dragon God's clone into the forest "I'm coming for you, you Grimm bastards!" She yelled
Ophis looked at her clone/sister before looking at the she-devil next to her "If I find out you're the one responsible for her fond of profanity I'll brush your mouth with soap"
Ravel smirked in response "If you find out"
"YIIIIIPPPPPEEEEEE!" Kunou Launched into the air
"Well, see you later" Ravel prepare her stance before follow the fox youkai "Up Up and Away!" and with that Ravel flew into the forest
In mid-air, Ravel unfurls two of her wings allowing her to fly, and fly she did. The she-devil perform several aerial maneuvers in the air while letting several hearty laughs
'Show off…' With Ravel now gone, Ophis ready her stance before following the other students "To infinity and beyond!"
[Revised: 11/10/2016]
AN: And that's the end of this of chapter follow and fav the story if like it and I'll see you in the next chapter.
Constructive criticism is acceptable for me, R&R but please no flame.
If I noticed there's a flame I will deleted it or I will use it to boil Pierogi
P. S. As of right now I think I'm going to reduce chapter length because to be honest it was easy for me to check any misspelling and I think can get more chapter out sooner than later