Hey guys! I actually didn't plan to release this chapter until later, but I couldn't stop writing. So here it is!
DarkElucidator: Weiss has so much tsun
P.S. "I am ON a team..." Kinda forgot that! _
Yeah, I always liked tsunderes for some reason and you got my back for others like that, right? :P
Rising Daemon: oh that might be a problem. Ruby is going to have to pull something to win over Weiss.
seems like she doubts her ability much more this time around.
Cyan needs to get up to speed on reading and y'know engineering.
awaiting Ruby's inevitable badassery. or extended cat fight between the two
wouldn't mind either
Rising
Sorry, no Ruby badassery yet :( but its coming I promise. And the reading is going to be a consistent pain for Cyan. Weiss and Ruby have a strained relationship, even after the end of this chapter.
PeoplexLikexGrapes: You absolutely killed it with the TF2 reference! I can tell that you and I would get along very well! If you added Axton's turret from Borderlands 2, I think I just might have found my most favourite person ever... Of all time xD.
Seriously great work, keep it up!
Thanks :) I've gotten a few requests for it so I'm considering putting it in. And from the very start of this fic I planned the TF2 line :P
Firem78910: if your going give heavy pistol might i suggest the Quarian Arc Pistol.
That is a good suggestion! It would transition the best from ME3 to RWBY. But I still am considering leaving the Jet Boots as his main weapon. Thoughts?
Blake Tourdner: Uh Oh trouble in paradise it seems
Also I want to advise people that I have installed giant laser cannons that never overheat and a crapton of rocket cannons that have an infinite supply of Dust Rockets to the so anyone that gets to close and try's to sink it will be obliterated in 2 seconds
MUAHAHAHAHAGAHASHAHAH
I'm assuming you mean the SS Cyiess? And woah, heavy fire power haha XD.
Alright, thats it for the reviews. Here it is.
Excerpt from the journal of Cyan Novak
So, is this how my life works now? To be honest, I'm not sure I like it. I mean, I've never fought anything before the forest and I've never worked as an engineer. ever. I feel like I'm way in over my head. But for some reason I feel like I belong as well. Like this is what I'm suppose to do. I...I just don't know.
End of excerpt
Cyan took another look at his schedule, giving it a scrutinizing glance. After comparing it to Weiss earlier that night, he found that the only classes he needed to take were, Combat Practice 1A, Grimm Biology 1A, Remnant History 1A, and Aura Mastery 1A. The rest of his day after lunch took place working on the centrifuge for three hours, then the engineer's only class with Professor Fish, AP Tech Mastery 1A. Ruby was kind enough to inform, him that the AP, or Advanced Placement, meant that Cyan was in a more sophisticated class. The Aura Mastery class was interesting though, after looking at Weiss' schedule (she almost had a fit when he took it without asking permission.) revealed that the heiress didn't have the same class.
Must be something about having problems with Aura.
I guess that would make sense, but if what Ozpin said was true, then Jaune and I are the only ones to not have our aura unlocked from birth.
The first class, Combat Practice, was exactly how the name implied. Two students would enter a ring that displayed the combatants' aura level on the projector behind them. Team RCWY all sat at a relatively close distance to the arena, only three rows away. The first match was in between some unknown people that had talent for sure, but failed to hold the interest for Cyan. The one he could have sworn was on team CRDL and the other was a scrawny black haired teen that fought with dual swords. While the two combatants stared each other down, the only male in team RCWY compared his schedule to his other teammates.
"I still think it's strange that we don't have all of our classes together." Ruby spoke, eyebrows furrowed. "Yang, Weiss, and I all of the same classes throughout the day." The young leader raised her hand to her chin in thought, "I guess it makes sense because you're an engineer." She stuck out her tongue childishly, "But you don't have math class like we do. That's not fair!" The engineer chuckled, "Believe me, kiddo, my math is going to be much worse on the job the yours will be."
Normally that argument would hold water, but when you have a personal calculator in your head it kind of defeats the purpose.
She doesn't need to know that.
The rest of the class went by pretty fast, he saw Ren fight some kid and totally wipe the floor with him. Cyan made a mental note to not piss him off.
The second class was a bit harder due to the fact that he actually had to pay more attention in this one. The man who taught it was someone the teen recognized instantly as Professor Port due to the absurd, but awesome, mustache the man possesed. The professor had a certain flare for drama, and with his clearly thought out lines, he asked for one of the students to face what ever creature he kept in a cage on his lecture stage. Weiss' hand shot up and she was instantly picked.
Shouldn't we be dissecting dead Grimm instead of live ones?
It's Beacon. If they did things the easy way then the show would be half as entertaining, would it?
Hmm. fair point. By the way, isn't this the part were Weiss gets pissed at Ruby. Like SUPER pissed?
I believe so. Something about yelling at her while she's fighting?
"Weiss! Stab it in it's belly! It has no armor there!"
"Ruby! Shut up! I'm trying to focus."
Cyan patted the deflated crimsonette's back, watching his partner fight the boar Grimm. The beast charged unexpectedly, and Weiss threw up a sloppy guard. The Boarbatusk ripped the blade from her hand and sent it spiraling to the ground. The heiress grit her teeth, and jumped to the side, barely dodging the dangerous creatures rolling charge.
Ruby bit her nails, then suddenly shouted "C'mon Weiss! You can do it!" Cyan watched nervously as the white haired teen's face darkened in anger. "Ruby! Stop!" Weiss danced out of the way of another charge and dove to grab her sword. A small smirk made it's way across her face when her fingers grasped the hilt of Myrtenaster.
The heiress stood up quickly, just in time to stop the Boarbatusk with a glyph, knocking the beast over on it's back. Summoning another glyph behind her, Weiss backflipped and planted her feet on it, coiled like a spring. She then shot off and stabbed the grimm in its gut, effectively ending the beasts life.
"Bravo! Bravo! It seems we are indeed in the presence of a huntress in training."
Weiss panted, seeming unsteady before she regained her composure. Professor Port turned to his class, "I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. Remember to do your required readings. Class dismissed."
"Hey, Weiss!" The fuming heiress turned around at the mention of her name, "What!?" She instantly felt regret when she spun around to see Cyan flinching at her tone. The white haired teen sighed, "Cyan, sorry. I thought you were Ruby." The engineer had a sad look on his face that Weiss decided she didn't like. "Yeah, y-you are kind of steamed at her aren't you."
The two continued walking to their next class. The heiress was still angry, but less than she was after the match. "I don't know why she has to shout out like that. No one else was doing it." Cyan gave a shrug before commenting, "I'm sure that if you talk it out with her. Without the screaming that I'm sure is going to happen." The engineer twitched under the glare that was being level at him, "If you talk it through like adults then you can understand each others point of view and get along better." Weiss began to mull it over in her head as the pair made it to the classroom and sat down. Weiss seemed to make sure that it was as far away from the other partners in the team as possible.
"You also need to remember that she is a person that makes mistakes just like the rest of us, and if you two can't trust each other then it can be the death of all four of us." Weiss' light blue eyes glared into her partner's soul. "Y-you shouldn't hold it against her just because she got the leadership position that you wanted." and with that as his final word, the engineer stood up and moved over to where a sulking Ruby and worried Yang sat.
Wow. You actually handled that pretty well.
I don't think I could do a repeat performance. I was pretty sure Weiss was going to stab me multiple times. She might still since I left her to go to the 'enemy'. Besides, you know I despise conflict like this. If they screamed it out like they did on the show, I'm pretty sure I would just walk away and not talk to either till they made up.
The brawler tilted her head at Cyan out of confusion, eyes asking an unspoken question. Cyan just shrugged and sat next to his depressed leader. "Hey, kiddo. How you feeling?" Ruby planted her face in her desk, "Why does she have to be mean?" The engineer repeated his same advice he had said to his partner to the crimsonette.
Hopefully we can nip this problem in the bud.
Remnant History was taught by Professor Oobleck, who drank way too much coffee. Cyan made a game of predicting where the professor was going to pop up next. Surprisingly, he enjoyed learning about the history of this new world he was in. It was much different than the world he had known before.
He snuck a few glances back at Weiss. The male found that she didn't look livid anymore and seemed to be in a more thoughtful state. Ruby's mood had improved greatly as well, the young leader was determined to have a heart-to-heart with her teammate and make things better.
Eventually the class ended and it was time to move on to his Aura Mastery class. "It says you need to head up to the headmaster's room." He and Weiss walked together again, luckily both Weiss' Calculus class was on the same side of the building as Ozpin's room. "Thanks." The two walked silently till they came upon the room where the math class was they stopped. "I apologize for not unlocking your aura earlier." The engineer only shrugged, "It's fine we can do it tonight if you want."
Weiss turned sharply, and strided towards the classroom. She hesitated, and turned back, a faint blush dusting her cheeks. "B-be careful, okay?" Cyan only nodded dumbly, a red tinge of his own appearing. He turned and head down the hallway, intent on reaching his class as soon as possible.
Oh the joys of young love~!
W-what? She c-can't like me like that. She's way out of my league.
The engineer made it to the entrance of the Clock Tower and began his ascent up the stairs.
You shouldn't say things like that.
Well, it's true. I'm nerdy and have acne on my face. No girl would ever want to-
Cyan's eyes flashed a neon green, and his head exploded in pain. Verdant hissed angrily and forced his Omni-Visor on. The A.I. normally jovial expression was masked by anger.
I don't ever want to hear you belittle yourself like that again understand?!
Y-yes, ma'am!
The rest of the trip to the headmaster's office was silent. Cyan didn't dare speak again for fear of Verdant flipping out like she had done previously. When the engineer finally was in sight of the large, green, double doors, he saw a nervous looking Jaune standing there as well.
"Hello. Are you here for, uh, Aura Mastery 1A as well?" Cyan only nodded, which seemed to get a sigh of relief out of the blonde, "Oh thank goodness, when none of my other teammates had this class I was afraid that I might be alone. Good to know I have one other person with me." The engineer laughed and held out his hand for a handshake.
"Jaune. Jaune Arc. Slips off the tongue. Ladies love it."
"Cyan Novak, and if you say so, man."
Suddenly, the doors swung open. "Ah, there you two are. We don't have time to dawdle, come along." The headmaster of Beacon stood, taking a sip from his coffee. The two teens looked at each other and shrugged, scurrying into the room.
It was a large room, with a with a steampunk motive, the gears for the large clock just outside spinning. The office itself was rather simple, reflecting the owner's simple tastes. There was one long desk that only had a coffee maker on top and one leather chair behind it. On the other side of the desk were two similar chairs.
Jaune and Cyan took their seats quietly. Ozpin took his time making his way over to his own chair. "Now, this class is for those who lag behind the rest of the student populace when it comes to aura." The older male looked straight into Cyan's eyes, "Mr. Novak, seeing as your aura is still locked, your lesson today will be about reading the language we have here." His gaze turned to the nervous knight, "As for you, Mr. Arc, we will begin with using your aura to amplify your sword strokes."
The class progressed just as Ozpin had entailed. Jaune failing miserably at learning how to channel his aura, while Cyan gave himself a headache cramming all of the different letters, and words into his head. The professor took a sip of his hot beverage, and frowned. Hopefully tomorrow would prove more fruitful.
Weiss payed rapted attention to the lesson, after all she prided herself at having excellent grades. Many of the students found it strange that they would have a math class when the school's purpose was for hunting Grimm. While she wasn't sure, Weiss thought it was for the critical thinking aspect of it. Keeping the minds of the students in gear throughout the day.
Eventually, the teacher assigned the lesson. Since it was a review of sine and cosine, she finished it with a healthy portion of class left to do with what she wished. Ruby seemed to be understanding and was making progress with her assignment, while Yang on the other hand was doodling in the margin. In the Calculus class the students were assigned seats based on teams, so Weiss was forced to sit in between Ruby and Yang.
The heiress' mind began to wander as she thought about her next concert that was coming up in a few months, the future of SDC, and her partner. Weiss cheeks flushed, much to her annoyance. Why am I blushing? He isn't even that attractive… The heiress started to daydream about the engineer, him asking her out on a date, a pleasant dinner, an awkward goodnight ki-
The white haired teen shook her head, face crimson. W-where did that come from? The heiress heart was beating a mile per minute. She forced herself to calm down and think about this rationally. Ok, I think It's safe to say I have a… crush on Cyan. That's it. Nothing more. It will blow over eventually, right?
The class ended, and Weiss rushed out of the classroom as fast as her short legs could carry her. Lunch. Yes, lunch would help her stop thinking about Cyan in a tuxedo, charming smile, with-. The heiress nearly slapped herself, she really needed something to distract herself.
She stopped by the room the two shared to drop of her book, luckily the engineer wasn't there. Weiss locked the door behind her and continued on her way to the cafeteria, when the heiress arrived, she stood in line to get her blueberry yogurt and salad. The white haired teen grabbed a water bottle before turning to find a place to sit.
And to Weiss' horror, and secretly pleasure, her object of affection sat at the closest table, face planted on the hard plastic surface, nursing what appeared to be a pop bottle and hamburger still wrapped in its paper. Concern for her crush's health mixed with concern for her own mental state made the heiress hesitate before she regained her composure and sat down across from the engineer.
"Hey. A-are you still there?" Weiss cursed herself at the falter in her voice. This is ridiculous, I am a Schnee! I don't develop crushes like this. Cyan's head rose slowly, he gave his partner a brief smile, before taking a long swig of his pop. Just act normal, you can do it!
"Yeah. I just have a huge headache. Nothing some good ole caffeine can't fix."
"I see.."
"..."
"..."
"Look, I'm sorry about what I said earlier and-"
"No! That's fine. I'm not angry anymore."
"So I'm not going to get stabbed?"
Weiss raised a thin eyebrow at the words, "What is that suppose to mean?" The engineer just seemed to realise the hole that he had dug himself. Luckily for Cyan, his poorly constructed apology was cut off by Yang sliding down the bench and sending the engineer sprawling on impact. "Hehe, sorry, Engi."
The male grunted and sat down again next to the brawler. Cyan began to unwrap his burger, which was revealed to be a bacon cheeseburger, and took a bite. Ruby followed not long after and an awkward silence settled on the table.
The engineer grunted, he had always hated conflict. He stood up after finishing his American delicacy. "I'm gonna go. See you guys later." and without any other pleasantries, the only male of the group walked off to his next class, leaving the awkward silence even more heavier, until Yang to became uncomfortable and left.
Ruby squirmed, her silver eyes darting up to Weiss' ice blue one. The young leader tried to speak but she kept trailing off. ¨W-weiss, I, uh, just w-wanted to talk to you about…" "Ruby, stop." The crimsonette froze, the white haired teen took another spoonful of her yogurt, glancing at the leader out of the corner of her eye.
"Look, I know that I can be… difficult to get along with. I also know that you were just trying to be supportive." Weiss turned fully to face her, a wisp of a smile on her face, "Let's just start again, okay?" Ruby squealed and nearly tackled Weiss in a hug. The heiress briefly considered yelling at her to get off, but decided instead to hug her back.
"Alright, newbie, this is where you start."
Fish gestured to the sparking panel on the side of the offline centrifuge. "We have enough power to run the school for at least an hour. So, if you can get it done before then that would be beautiful." The shark faunus lead the younger engineer to a big metal door, which he opened with a wave of his Omni-Tool.
"Entering Zero-Gravity."
That sounded disturbingly like the computer from Dead Space.
Well, if we get a ventilation error, were getting the hell out of Vietnam!
Agreed.
Both of the males ignited their jets and flew over to the sparking panel. The lack of gravity making the teen nearly lose his lunch, but as they got closer Cyan couldn't help but notice that his professor's jets came from shoes instead of boots, "Your Jet Boots are designed for combat. Mine and most others are designed simply for maneuvering in zero gravity."
The duo made it to the panel, and the professor stopped, his ever present bored expression turned to one of annoyance, and muttered. "Lazy piece of crap." He turned away and began flying away, "The person who will be working with you forgot to shut off the magnetic clamps. I'll go turn them off for you. Just to warn you, Aurelius is… strange." Cyan raised an eyebrow, "We're in Beacon. There are plenty of weirdoes in the school." Fish only smiled, maybe it was the fact that it was the first time the younger male saw his teacher smile, but the engineer felt a sudden chill down his spine.
From around the corner floated a tall kid with golden hair, and a white hoodie that reminded Cyan of Assasin's Creed. He seemed calm enough, almost looking like he was flying with his eyes closed. Fish leaned down and whispered, "This is what you will be dealing with for the next few years." The younger engineer was going to question what he meant when Aurelius' eyes snapped open, revealing hawk like eyes.
"Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright with me!
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate! ~"
The golden haired teen, ignited his jets and began flying around the centrifuge at insane speeds, singing his lungs out. The younger engineer just stared, and kept on staring. Fish gazed back uninterested and left calling over his shoulder, "Try to keep him entertained, would you?"
"Good lord, bed how I missed you."
Cyan fell face first into his bed, Weiss hadn't returned from her classes yet, and dinner wasn't for an hour. He sat up for only long enough to take off the required uniform jacket and tie, leaving himself in the white cotton undershirt, and purple dress pants. The teen buried his face into his pillow.
"I will never take your warm embrace for granted ever again."
You are such a drama queen.
"Hey, atleast you don't have the 'You are a Pirate' Song blasting in your head."
The door opened suddenly, to reveal Weiss carrying some notebooks and a text book that read 'Basic Dust'. "Were you talking to yourself just now?" Cyan didn't even bother raising his head for his pillow, letting out a muffled reply. The heiress frowned, "At least raise your head when you speak to another person." The engineer did as asked, "No, I was talking to Verdant."
Weiss nodded seemingly distracted. "Stand up, we have put off unlocking your aura long enough." The male let out a groan and sat up slowly from his laying position, and whined, "Can't this wait till morning?"
"I'm not going to dignify that with an response, come over here." The engineer stood up and walked slowly to his partner, who quickly out her hands on Cyan's chest, causing both teens to flush.
Aw-
I don't want to hear it!
Jeez, ok, sorry. Looks like its someone's time of the month.
"L-look, stand still and concentrate." Weiss stuttered out, her partner just nodded. The duo closed there eyes and the heiress began chanting.
" For it is imposing that we achieve immortality. Through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite and distance and unbound by death. I release your soul, and by my shoulder protect thee"
A bright blue light erupted from the engineer, bathing every object in the room in a eerie color before it snapped back to normal. The heiress had her hands on her knees panting, while Cyan ushered her towards her bed. After making sure that Weiss was properly taken care of, his Omni-Visor appeared. The screen showed diagnostics on his aura.
You aura level is showing now. Wow… You have a lot of aura.
Is that bad?
No, but Jaune is suppose to have a lot of aura as well, right? Maybe it's part of having your aura released later?
The engineer looked at his hands, the tingling feeling had began to die down and he felt a strange sense of completeness. It was like a piece of him was missing that the engineer didn't even know about.
"You owe me."
Cyan's pondering was interrupted by his partner's drowsy murmuring. The engineer gave a thumbs up, smiling, "You're right. Just rest now. I'll bring up some food." The heiress was too exhausted to argue, she only nodded weakly.
Cyan left the dorm feeling confident for the first time since he arrived at Beacon.
Excerpt from the journal of Jaune Arc
Well this is Beacon! I'm still kind of nervous about this whole becoming a hunter thing. I mean, I did have to forge transcripts to get in and maybe I haven't ever used a sword before, but hey! If my ancestors can do it, then there is no reason why I can't! Especially, with Pyrrha with me. She is, like, invincible!
End of excerpt
Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed this! I wanted to take a short amount of time to ask you guys what Cyan's semblance should be. I have two ideas.
Synchronize: Cyan and Verdant synch up and make it so Cyan has the efficiency of a machine. Able to react instantaneously, and have no wasted movements. The con is that the synchronization is rough on his body and could cause some real damage if used to much.
Tech from Mass Effect: Incinerate, Cryo Blast, and Overload would be the three he would use can cause Fire Explosions, Cryo Explosions, and Tech Bursts if used one after the other. The con is that there is a cool down and the more turrets and other buildings Cyan has out slow down his cool down more and more.
Tell me in the reviews which one you like more. See ya!
You are a Pirate belongs to whoever sings it and Aurelius belongs to DarkElucidator.
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