So, a lot of good shit happened recently, such as SMAURAI JACK SEASON 5! Holy shit that trailer was great, and I love the new darker tone the story is taking, I just can't wait until it comes out. And then you got that Halo Wars 2 trailer, fun fact about me: I love Halo and I am hyped for Halo Wars 2. Other than that not much to say, let's get on with the story.
On Beacon Cliffs Professor Ozpin can be found looking at his scroll watching his students overlooking the forest when Glynda approaches him from behind with her tablet in her hand.
"The last pair has been formed, sir." She taps the screen showing Nora Valkyrie hanging upside down from a tree and booping Lie Ren on the nose. "Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren. Poor boy…I can't possibly imagine those two getting along. Still, he's probably better off than Ms. Nikos."
"Mmmm…" Ozpin mumbles.
"I don't care what his transcripts say. That Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat." She deactivates the tablet, walking back a little. "I guess we'll find out soon enough. At their current pace, they should reach the temple within just a few minutes." She turns back to Ozpin. "Speaking of which, what did you use as relics this year?" Ozpin did not answer her question. "Professor Ozpin?"
At the moment Ozpin was looking at his tablet with interest because of the pairing he is currently witnessing. Midas Aurum and Gaius Terra. Two boys with radically different lives now have to rely on each other to survive. This year is most interesting indeed.
Gaius
If you had told Gaius that he would join a Huntsman academy two years ago he would've laughed at you before breaking your legs into so many angles they'd become octagons, if you'd told him that two months ago he would've still laughed at you before training his ass off.
"Well, now that we're partners I guess we should learn more about each other. As you know I'm Midas Aurum of the Aurum Dust Company, my favorite color is gold, and I have so much anxiety you can probably smell it." Midas joked.
"Gaius Terra, purple, found a Grimm no one believes in," Gaius didn't notice Midas stop walking until a little while later and when he turns around he sees a surprised look on Midas's face. "What?" Gaius asked rather rudely.
"You discovered a new Grimm? Dude, I don't know if that's awesome or scary. Tell me about this Grimm." Midas pleaded.
Gaius turned around. "No." As he continued to walk Midas had to hurry up to catch up to him before pleading the Violet Crusher to tell him about this new Grimm, but every attempt was shot down brusquely.
Eventually Midas gave up and the two walked in silence until Gaius's enhanced sense of smell caught something. "We've got more trouble," Gaius noticed something odd about this trouble. "Weird. Two students, both male, are fighting one Grimm, a beowolf to be exact."
"Why do two students need to fight one beowolf?" Midas questioned as he brought out his knives.
"No clue," Gaius transformed Onyx Quake into its rocket launcher mode. "Why don't we find out?" He asked rhetorically.
Once Gaius and Midas found the two students they realized that they were Orion and Achilles, and the reason they both needed to fight one beowolf was because it was an alpha, an incredibly wise one if its bone armor was any indication. "Never seen a beowolf that old before." Midas said as he and ran into the heart of the battle.
Gaius transformed Onyx Quake into its hammer form due to the fact that a rocket launcher would be bad considering how close Achilles, Orion, and Midas were to the alpha beowolf.
Orion noticed Midas running towards them, with Gaius not far behind, and smiled in relief. "Yo! Midas, Gaius! Am I glad to see you two, we really need your help with this one, guys." He ducked under a left swipe from the beast, leaped back, and fired a gravity arrow at it, sending it back a couple of feet giving the four some breathing room. "It can learn from all of our attacks yet it can't stop one of my arrows hitting it, causing it to fly back." Orion mumbled to himself in disbelief.
Achilles also noticed Gaius running towards them. "Name's Achilles Nikos, you?"
"Gaius Terra," Orion answered for the Faunus. Noticing the beowolf getting back up Orion got into battle position alongside the other three. "Alright, from what we can tell you this beowolf is incredibly old, because of this it's also rather intelligent, which will be problematic for us. Thankfully, we have two new brains here, any plans, guys?"
"Have you tried your semblances?" Gaius asked.
Achilles looked as if a thousand lightbulbs suddenly went off at once"I can't believe I was so stupid," He mumbled. "I can use my semblance, it'll give us an edge for seven minutes and thirty seconds, problem is that your right ankle won't be protected, but we'll probably beat it before then now that we have four people." Achilles added smugly at the end.
"Do that Achilles," all four of the boys glowed silver for a short moment everywhere but their right ankle. "Midas, get in its personal space and slash up all the openings you can find, specifically the joints if you can," Midas nodded before moving in. "Gaius, get in there too, but I would prefer if you'd use your fists, that hammer of yours could probably hit Midas in the process," Gaius put his hammer away before running in also. "Achilles, change your sword into its gun mode, we'll provide fire support from the distance.
Orion and Achilles climbed up two trees that overlooked the area they were fighting the beowolf in before aiming their ranged weapons at the beast and waiting for any openings Midas and Gaius would give them.
Using as much of his speed, reflexes, and agility as he could muster the Golden Prince would dodge the alpha beowolf's strikes and attack the beast with some of his own. "Ya know your practically invincible, right?" He heard Achilles call out form up above.
"I'm not used to it man! After all, it's not everyday I'm invincible!" Midas spun around the beowolf, activated his semblance, and stabbed the back of its left knee, slowing it down greatly. Midas pumped his fist in success before he realized he let his guard down, the beowolf used this to it advantage by smacking the Golden Prince into a nearby rock. 'Huh, I didn't feel any of that.'
Looking up Midas was treated to quite the sight, bullets and arrows striking the Grimm from above, and a large 6'7 mountain boy striking the creature of grimm with what looked to be with what looked to be not even half of his strength right into the arrows and gunfire, wearing it down slowly. Getting back up Midas slowly walked back to the fight, grabbing his Au knives from the floor in the process.
"Gaius, please move out of the way." Midas politely asked.
The Violet Crusher grinned before moving out of the way for the grimm to see Midas running to it before he placed both of his knives in its jaw, and coating the inside of its mouth with gold, suffocating it.
The four circled around the Grimm, watching as it slowly died. "Dude, brutal." Orion said as the Grimm finally began to evaporate.
"We should get going, after all, those artifacts won't be coming towards us themselves. Oh, I should also deactivate my semblance." Achilles closed his eyes and focused as the silver light appeared around the boys again before they appeared to be sucked into Achilles. The Silver Warrior slightly collapsed, placing his hands on his knees as he began to breath heavily.
"You good?" Gaius asked as he patted Achilles's back. Achilles nodded, took two more deep breaths before standing up completely. Satisfied, Gaius turned to the other two. "Let's go, guys."
After a couple of minutes of walking Achilles began a conversation. "I think we should get to know each other a bit more, I mean, I know a little bit about Orion, but what about you two?"
"Name's Midas Aurum of the ADC, favorite color is gold, and I am the dictionary definition of anxiety." Midas said.
"Gaius, purple, found a Grimm no one believes in." Gaius repeated from earlier.
"Wait-" Orion began.
"Don't, I asked earlier and he didn't answer." Midas whispered to Orion.
"I can hear you, you know." Gaius said in front of them.
"You're a faunus." Achilles said with slight surprise.
Gaius turned around and towered over Achilles. "You got a problem with that, Silver?"
Achilles held up his hands in surrender and shook his head so hard Gaius was surprised he didn't get whiplash, or any other negative effects on his neck for that matter. "No man, no problem! Faunus and humans should live together peacefully!" Achilles laughed nervously, his eyes darting between Gaius and the other two with them, Midas and Orion suddenly found the ground to be very interesting.
Gaius watched Achilles for another moment making the Silver Warrior feel uncomfortable before speaking up. "Okay, we should-" A feminine scream cut off Gaius's suggestion.
"Some girl's in danger! Don't worry my fair lady, Achilles will save you!" Achilles screamed out into the distance, secretly glad that something else changed the subject.
Orion, on the other hand, was just shaking his head. "That's no girl, it's Jaune."
"Are you sure?" Achilles asked.
"Ohhh yeah." Orion nodded.
Achilles looked into Orion's eyes for any sliver of truth, and Orion's eyes were full of truth. "Damn, he's got a really girly scream."
Midas opened his mouth before some heavy footsteps from the distance interrupted him. "I don't like the sound of that."
From the trees emerged a Kimodo Drake Grimm, the Grimm was the size of a train car, it's top was practically covered in bone armor, leaving its belly un-armored (Like every other four-legged creature of Grimm), at the end of its tail was a literal spiked mace, its claws looked sharp enough to cut through thick steel walls in one slice, and it had incredibly sharp spikes running along its back.
"Well fuck." Said all four of them.
Achilles
45 minutes ago
Quickly putting up his shield Achilles blocked the alpha beowolf from shredding both him and Orion into tiny little ribbons. "This is bad!" Achilles pushed the alpha beowolf back hoping to disorient it; it landed on its feet after flying back a couple of feet. 'Shit, this is bad, like really bad, what do we do?'
The Grimm roared before a net arrow hit it in its chest causing it to careen back even further. The Grimm started to struggle with the net, tangling it up even more making it harder for the creature to escape. Orion grabbed Achilles by the arm and turned him around before running away, signaling for Achilles to follow him. "Well, that should slow him down a bit," The sound of a net being teared to shreds came from the distance. "Or not."
Sliding to a stop in a clearing Achilles turned around with his sword and shield, ready to battle the alpha beowolf. "Let's think about this, from what we can tell this beowolf is extremely old, making it wise and powerful in the process, we should watch out for any tactics it can use, it won't blindly attack like all the other beowolves. And, we're in a clearing, no trees blocking the sky above, so if we want any help from other students we can just use fire dust or one of your explosive arrows."
Orion looked at the Sliver Warrior with an impressed look. "You know your tactics. But I think it'd be better if we led it to the relics, chances are high we'd run into another pair and then we can team up and take this beowolf down."
The beowolf came out of the trees with a vicious roar, but instead of leaping at the two it stalked around them, learning from its previous mistake. The alpha recognized the red-haired one as the one that slapped it away, and so it focused on Orion to see any weaknesses. The first thing the alpha noticed was that Orion had a ranged weapon, a bow with a quiver of arrows on his back, but that didn't mean that the boy wasn't skilled in close-range combat if the blade at the outside end of his bow was any indication. Noticing two more scents the beowolf sniffed the air, two more males, one a faunus, coming towards them, thankfully they weren't running so the alpha had time to kill these two before he got overwhelmed.
Orion took one step back and the beowolf lunged. Surprised at the speed of the creature Orion had no time to switch Rigel into its sword form, so he ducked out of the way, pulled an arrow from his quiver and stabbed the beowolf, but the bone armor in the way broke the arrow. "Crapbaskets!"
Achilles ran forward and tried to cut off the Grimm's head but it ducked and swiped at his chest, thankfully his armor was their, so no real damage. Achilles then brought up his shield and bashed into the Grimm's face again, causing it to fly back enraging it in the process. Problem was, the alpha was prepared and learned from last time, it twisted mid-air and sunk its claws into the ground, so it didn't fly far. 'Damn, it's really is learning from last time.' Achilles thought bitterly. "Orion!" No answer. Achilles turned around and was thoroughly surprised that Orion wasn't there instead his outline stayed behind. Did he just ditch me!?' Achilles thought with wide eyes.
Hearing an enraged snarl Achilles turned around to find the beowolf incredibly close to him, to close for his shield to be effective, but before the beowolf could raise its claw a gravity arrow came from above and behind Achilles, striking the Grimm in the chest causing it to careen back again. "If I ever disappear it just means I found a good sniper's perch!" Orion called out from the distances.
"Would it have hurt to tell me that before you left!?" Achilles asked incredulously.
"Yeah, then the alpha beowolf would've also known, probably, hurting my plan!" Orion replied. "Heads up!"
The beowolf came running full speed at Achilles, dodging a fire arrow on the way before leaping into the air and raising its left claw, preparing to strike the Silver Warrior down. What the beowolf didn't know (Or didn't care about) was that it left its chest open for a horizontal strike from Styx.
To Achilles's surprise the Grimm recovered quicker than he expected, as it backhanded him in the chest, causing him to fly back into the branch Orion was staying on, snapping it in the process, causing both of them to fall. "Damn that hurt," Orion groaned as he held his right side. "That thing launched you right at me, must be smarter than we think."
Achilles nodded in agreement. "Yeah, but it only seems to be able to counter moves we've already done, and positioning from where previous weapon fire came from."
"Heh. Time to get unpredictable then." Orion immediately leapt up, transformed Rigel into its sword form, and ran at the alpha beowolf, screaming at the top of his lungs while waving his sword around. Achilles shook his head in disbelief before joining Orion in his improvised attack.
To say the beowolf was surprised would be an understatement. In the beginning these two boys were careful, calculating, and now, well now they're just idiots waving their swords around. An easy kill. Just as the alpha beowolf planned on plunging its claws at their chins with its claws the other two arrived. Crap.
Blake
Blake's head turned west upon hearing a faint sound, it sounded like screaming, not scared screaming, more like a battle cry actually. Ignoring the faint sounds of battle Blake turned to her partner as she began to speak.
"Sooo…you find any cute boys lately? Specifically any orange-eyed archers?" Yang asked with false innocence.
Blake immediately knew where this conversation was going, so she decided to put a stop to it before it got to far. "Yang, I barely know him."
"Well, I must be going senile in my old age, 'cause I swore I saw the both of you having a serious conversation at breakfast this morning." Yang said.
True, during breakfast Blake was sitting alone before Orion sat down at the other side of the table. The conversation started out simple, they told each other their names, their favorite color, hobbies, Blake learned that Orion's favorite color was orange and that he loved to read and draw in his spare time. Eventually though the conversation moved to the topic of what kind of books they liked, it got weird after a bit.
"So, what were you two talking about anyway?" Yang questioned.
"Books." Was the simple answer from Blake.
Yang grinned mischievously, in the few minutes Blake knew the blonde brawler she decided: she didn't like that grin. "Really? Then why were you two blushing after a while?"
And this is where the conversation between Blake and Orion got weird.
Beacon Academy Lunchroom
That morning
Blake didn't really like crowded places, too much noise, and her sensitive hearing did not appreciate that one bit. Surprisingly enough Blake found a table where no one was eating, so she sat there, also, the secret Faunus brought her book from last night with her as she ate her breakfast.
After reading three chapters someone sat down in front of Blake. Irritated the Faunus girl was about to subtly tell the person to go sit somewhere else before she noticed that it was Orion who sat in front of her. Getting a proper look at him now Blake was able to make one conclusion: He was quite handsome, and his orange eyes were just so easy to get lost in.
'No, bad Blake. No crushes on anyone you barely know. That would be bad.' Blake thought as she lightly shook her head.
"Hey how're ya?" Orion asked before eating a spoonful of cereal.
"I'm good, you?" Blake asked. She put a bookmark in the book before closing it.
"I'm good, thanks for asking," Orion paused for a bit before he realized something. "Huh, we never really got to know each other did we?" Orion held out his hand for Blake to shake, which she did. 'Her hand's warm, and soft.' Orion subtly moved his hand under the table and rubbed it hoping to get the warm feeling out of it but failing miserably. "Name's Orion Bowtus, I come from the village of Losantiville, it's a costal village south of Vale. My favorite color is orange, and I like to read and draw in my spare time."
Blake nodded, taking in all of this information before telling Orion about herself. "Name's Blake Belladonna, I come from an outsider village, it's gone now," Blake took a deep breath before continuing. "Black is my favorite color, and I also like to read, drawing not so much." Blake was honestly surprised at how open she was with Orion, considering the fact that she actively tries to not make friends due to her past.
"Sorry about your village, as useless as my apology is," Orion joked scratching the back of his head. "I noticed that you're reading the book from last night, have you read the sequel yet?"
Blake let out a sigh of frustration. "No, it's just so damn hard to find a copy."
"I've got a copy I can let you borrow." Orion said. Blake practically leapt over the table and grabbed Orion by the collar of his jacket, pulling him extremely close to her causing him to blush.
"Really? Can you let me borrow it, please?" Blake pleaded with a slightly manic look in her eyes.
"Um, uh…yeah, sure," A moment of silence followed. "Blake, can you please let go of me?" Orion asked.
Blake blushed. "Oh, right. If you tell anyone that this happened I will deny it before killing you and hiding your body, and trust me I can make sure no one finds you." Blake glared at Orion causing him to audibly gulp.
"Yes ma'am." Orion said meekly before continuing to eat his cereal. Orion paused and faced Blake with an embarrassed blush on his face. "Hey, uh Blake…Oum, this is so hard…this is gonna be weird but uh, there's a series out there I've been wanting to read, and…"
Blake was starting to get fed up with his sudden hesitance, but she was also curious as to what could make Orion hesitant. "Yes?"
"HaveyoureadtheseriesNinjasofLove?" Orion asked quickly with his head drooping.
Blake didn't know what he said but those last three words sounded extremely familiar. "Can you repeat that?"
Orion's blush intensified, sighing deeply the Orange Archer tried again. "Have you heard of the series 'Ninjas of Love'?" Orion asked through clenched teeth.
Now Blake started to blush. "Y-yeah."
"Do you know where I can find a copy?" Orion asked.
"I-I have one." Blake mumbled her blush also intensifying.
Orion's eyes widened. "Oh."
Blake just nodded. "Oh."
The Emerald Forest
Now
"You're blushing again." Yang teased her partner.
Sure enough, Blake was blushing again, but somehow she was able to focus hard enough that her skin returned back to its normal tone. Yang was impressed. "It's not what you think it was."
"Then what was it?" Yang prodded.
Thankfully, or un-thankfully, depending on whom you asked, the temple with what was left of the artifacts came into view. "We're not done here. So, think this is it?" Yang asked.
Blake looked up and mouthed a thank you to the sky and heads down the hill, her partner following. They walk across the floor and observe the items on the pedestals, all familiar shapes.
Blake looked at the black king piece. "Chess pieces?"
Yang observed the surrounding area. "Some of them are missing. Looks like we weren't the first ones here."
"Well, I guess we should pick one." Blake said.
"Hmmmm…" Yang stops to study a golden knight piece. She picks it up and shows it to Blake. "How about a cute little pony?"
Blake just smirks at the blonde's wording. "Sure."
The two walk to each other at the center of the floor. "That wasn't too hard!" Yang exclaimed.
"Well, it's not like this place is very difficult to find." Blake said. They smile at each other before they heard something from the distance getting louder. Quickly. "Is that…screaming?"
From the trees Orion flew into one of the pillars, slightly curving around it. Dropping to the ground Orion writhed and tried to soothe the pain in his spine. "Son of a bitch! That hurt like hell!" Getting up Orion noticed his small audience. "Yo, Yang, Blake, wassup?"
Yang was just about to ask Orion where he came from before another feminine scream came from the distance. "Some girl is in trouble! Guys, do you hear that?"
"Trust me Yang, that's no girl." Orion said.
Blake said nothing, she was to busy looking at the sky.
"Okay! But we still gotta help whoever's in trouble, c'mon partner, let's go." Yang said.
Eventually some faint screaming is heard yet again, but this time from above, after a moment the scream could actually be translated into this.
"Heads uuuuuuuup!"
Looking up Orion was surprised at what he saw. "This is definitely going to be an interesting year."
Here you have it, the end of chapter six of Team OMGA, so I don't have much to say other than this. If you've been on my account you may have seen my other stories, granted one of them is kinda dead, but you may have seen my Destiny story Fireteam Cerberus, well if you liked it I got good news for you! I'm remaking it! Looking back I realized how bad my writing was and the story was really fucking weak, but now that my writing has gotten (arguably) better I've decided to remake it with some changes here and there. Now though all I have up is the character introduction chapter, some day I'll post the prologue.
Sorry if Blake's slightly out of character, it's just how I think she would act around Orion due to her slight crush on him. On that note sorry if the romance seems stiff, I'm not good at writing about that kind of stuff.
Also, the Kimodo Drake, in case you're wondering, is supposed to be a komodo dragon. At first I was gonna have OMGA fight a WidowMaker but thought "Nah! The giant spider route's been done before, let's go with an original idea!" And so we now have a Kimodo Drake. (I'm not sure if komodo dragon Grimm are my original idea or not) And if you noticed I gave giant spider Grimm an official name, expect one in a chapter.
Other than that be sure to stay awesome, and use constructive criticism, that way you help me be a better author, and if I'm a better author you get a better story to read.
In the end, stay awesome you awesome people!
