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Everyone was currently taking in Swift and Ozpin's explanation regarding the maidens.
"If they truly hold that much power, then we'd need to try and have the powers return to Amber then." Pyrrha said in thought, since she'd honeslty rather not have to become a maiden, since Swift had als revealed a few more things to them.
"It would certainly be for the best." Ozpin agreed with a nod.
"The best thing I could recommend would be ensuring Cinder thinks of Amber as she dies, maybe the one who kills her could disguise themselves as Amber, that just might do the trick." Swift said.
"That's an idea alright." Qrow said, scratching his chin, before looking at Jaune "Hey kid, how about you start to read now?"
Jaune nodded as he opened the book and started reading.
[Chapter 6: Initiation]
[Haseo's P.O.V.]
The bad thing about sleeping next to Ruby on the floor, she tosses and turns a lot, hence my wake up call of the back of Ruby's hand smacking my nose.
"Yeah, I remember getting the same treatment while we were kids." Yang said as she rubbed her nose, with Ruby laughing sheepishly.
"Gah, Ruby." I groaned, though I doubt she heard me over Yang's snoring.
"Oh dear Oum don't get me started on her snoring." Weiss said with a groan while Yang whistlded innocently.
Shaking off that little annoyance this morning I looked around, the sun was just rising and so was Blake, the latter of which I found to be a common occurrence back home.
"I might as well start my day off now, I don't think I'll be getting back to sleep anyway." I groaned getting up and stretching.
Out of the corner of my eye I noticed that blonde kid, Jaune if I recall correctly, wearing a blue onesie with built in bunny slippers.
"That is not something I want to see when I wake up." I grumbled making my way to the showers.
"Ok, I gotta ask. Just why?" Yang asked, looking at Jaune.
He chuckled sheepishly "A present from my older sisters, and I don't want them to be sad, so... yeah."
"Ah, ok. In that case, I can understand." Yang said with a nod.
[]
When I finished my shower everyone else was just waking up so I went to the locker room to grab my weapons.
However on my way there I met someone I wasn't fully expecting to see talking to a rather tubby guy in a burgundy suit with an admittedly impressive mustache and white hair, "I'm surprised to see you here Pi." I said.
Pi turned around to notice me, I'm pretty sure I heard a sigh of relief, "Hello Haseo, how was your morning?" Pi asked.
"Yeah I'd be relieved too if someone got me out of talking to Port." Qrow said with a snort.
"Aside from getting woken up by Ruby's tossing and turning pretty well." I said.
"I'm sure, when Pyrrha was only five I often woke up with her in my bed because she had a nightmare." Pi said with a chuckle.
Pyrrha blushed in slight embarassement "I went to see my parents since I'm an only child."
"So why are you here anyway?" I asked.
"I suppose I could tell you, but unfortunately I need to finish speaking with Professor Port here about a few things." Pi said, "I only wish he would stop going on tangents about his younger days."
"Of course Miss Nikos."The portly man said, I guess he's Professor Port
Yang snorted "Oh god if it wasn't so rude I totally would have done that pun by now."
'I better not say the word portly around Yang when I'm talking about him, otherwise she'll take it as a pun.' I thought.
"Too late." Ruby said dryly while Yang laughed a bit.
"I got it, see you later Pi." I said walking off, but I did overhear some more of their conversation.
"He's a focused young man, in fact it reminds me of-" Port said.
"Oh I'm going to hate his class aren't I?" I groaned.
[]
I closed my locker as soon as I grabbed my weapons and started my way to the cliffs when I noticed Kuhn was talking to a brown haired girl wearing sunglasses and a black beret, I also noticed that her clothing seemed to be trying to either follow or make a fashion trend.
"Probably both, seriously, she loves clothes, like, a lot." Nora said with a shrug.
"Understatement." Ren said simply.
Of course, then Kuhn noticed me, "Oh hey Haseo!" Kuhn called.
"Hey Kuhn, who's this?" I asked jabbing my thumbs toward the brunette.
"Oh right, this is my sister, Coco Adel." Kuhn said, "Coco this is Haseo Branwen, the guy who tied with Pyrrha a couple years ago during that tournament."
"Yeah I remember, it was the day you wouldn't stand still so I could make you that tux." Coco said giving Kuhn a glare.
"Ah come on sis, you know my measurements by heart, I don't know why you still kept dragging me off to be your mannequin." Kuhn groaned.
"She probably does it because it's fun." Blake said idly.
Coco simply ignored Kuhn complaining and turned her attention to me, "Just so you know Haseo my brother's a bit of a flirt to women so if he get's put on your team you might want to keep a leash on him." Coco said.
"Hey!" Kuhn complained.
"I'll be sure to do that." I said with a smirk, "I'm guessing you've ruined more than your fair share of his attempts to flirt?"
"Hey come on now, you're double teaming me here!" Kuhn whined.
"Ok, this is amusing." Weiss said with a smile at the scene.
"Yes I have." Coco said.
"Will all first year students please report to Beacon Cliff immediately, I repeat, will all students please report to Beacon Cliff immediately ." Glynda asked over the intercom.
"That's you cue, get out there and kill some Grimm." Coco said walking away, giving me a slap on the rear as she passed me.
Weiss felt her eyebrow twtich at that, and was about to say something before she caught herself.
"Is she always like that?" I asked.
"Yeah, according to her team she has a tendency to give men a 'Butt check'." Kuhn said making air quotes.
"I remember miss Scarlatina complaining about it at first, now I believe she's gotten used to it." Glynda said in thought.
"Oh great." I groaned.
[]
"For years you have train to become warriors." Ozpin said, "Today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."
"Now, I'm sure most of you have heard 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 said.
"What?" I heard Ruby groan.
Ozpin took up where Glynda left off, "These Teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone whom you can work well with."
"Aww..." I heard Ruby moan.
"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with will be your partner for the next four years." Ozpin finished.
"What!?" Ruby shouted.
"That seems kinda counter productive..." I said to myself.
"Yeah, imagined getting partnered up with someone whom you got off the wrong foot with... oh wait." Swift said in sarcasm before looking at Ruby and Weiss, who both looked away.
"I know what you mean." Atoli said, apparently she was standing next to me.
"It's still strange to think I have a daughter." Glynda said.
"You know, I seriously wonder who the dad is." Qrow said idly, before pretty much everyone blinked.
"Huh, that's a good question." Yang said as she looked at Glynda, who simply ignored everyone's stares.
"After you've partnered up make your way to the northern end of the forest." Ozpin continued, "You will meet opposition along the way, do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path, or you will die."
"Well no no duh." I said.
"You will be monitored and graded for 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 to the top of the cliff." Ozpin said, "You will guard that item, as well as your standing, and we will grade you accordingly. Now then any questions?"
I'm pretty sure Jaune had one, but he was ignored as I realized something.
There was no one to my left, meaning I was the first one to get launched off by the spring boards under our feet.
[No P.O.V.]
[Far cliff side from Beacon]
A man lowered the binoculars he was holding as he watched the first years fly off the cliffs, "This should not prove too difficult a task for you Haseo." The man said, then he looked at his left arm, which was encased in a large metal cylinder and held on by a old fashion gold lock.
"To think I wold wear this thing once again, but not as a way to hide AIDA, but as a sign of how I failed Amber." The man, Ovan, said to himself before turning around to see a large group of Beowolves making their way toward him, "Now then, who wants to be first?"
And with that Ovan swung the Cylinder on his left arm, causing the lock to come off and a powerful glow to come from in between the gaps of the cylinder.
"Aww, come on." Ruby whined, as she really wanted to see what was obviously a weapon.
[No P.O.V.]
[Far within Emerald Forest]
A young woman lowered a pair of binoculars from her eyes.
"Why not a telescope instead?" Winter asked suddenly.
She personally preferred telescopes over binoculars.
She was a Faunus with purple hair and two cat ears that were tall enough to easily be mistaken for rabbit ears and a purple cat tail. She wore a green hauberk and green greaves, however the area round her crotch was covered by purple skin tight leather, her hands were covered by deep blue gloves.
Yang squinted as she caught a glimpse of the woman's face "Huh, she looks a little bit like you Blake."
Blake looked closely at the screen, seeing a bit of the woman's face "Seems you're right, that's curious."
"I wonder how well you'll do Elk." The woman said, then she looked down to see a Boarbatusk trying to knock her out of the tree she was in, "You need to learn to mind your own business." she said pulling out a longsword.
"Who's Elk?" Pyrrha asked in confusion.
"You'll see eventually." Swift said.
It had a black handle with a tall eared cat face at the guard just below a closing rose, it had a long red blade that had a sharp 'C' shaped curve in the middle with a small orb in the middle of the curve. once she pulled the weapon out fully four purple holographic spikes appeared on the outer area of the curve.
"Awesome." Ruby said with a grin as she looked at the weapon.
This was the Seductive Rose, a weapon that holds a fraction of the power of the 6th Phase, Macha the Temptress.
"Wait, only a fraction?" Weiss asked in confusion.
"Again, you'll see eventually." Swift replied.
"I guess I'll just have to teach you to do that." The woman said jumping down.
[Haseo's P.O.V.]
I'll be honest I'm not exactly a fan of Ozpin for flinging us off the side cliff like that, but I suppose I can find his reasoning fair, we have to deal with the unexpected when it happens.
With that in mind I pulled Lost Epitaph off my back and activated the chainsaw function before slamming it into a tree, then letting the chainsaw cut apart the tree to lower me down to the ground. Once I placed my feet on the ground I pulled Lost Epitaph out off the tree, causing it to fall over in two opposite directions.
"Badass!" Yang said with a grin.
"Well, someone has to have heard that." I said.
As if on cue I heard a collection of growls behind me so I turned around to see a Pair of Ursa growling at me, "What are you waiting for then? Come on!" I shouted.
However something unexpected happened right after I said that.
The two Ursa started flailing about, reaching onto their backs as if they were trying to throw something off, "What the?" I asked.
"You welcome Haseo!" Atoli called, I looked up to see Atoli slowly descending, and what caught my focus was her staff.
While the pole looked simple the head of it was what really caught my attention, it was a ring with six oval shaped containers on it, each one filled with a different type of Dust, I identified Fire, Ice, Wind, Energy, Gravity, and Electricity, in the center of the ring was a small orb that was glowing the same purple as Gravity Dust with small tubes connected to each Dust container.
"She fights in a similar way to me then." Glynda said looking at the staff.
"She is your daughter after all." Ozpin said with a small smirk.
Glynda smiled a bit at that "I suppose she is."
"What the heck did you do?" I asked as Atoli landed in front of me.
"They're under an illusion." Atoli said, "Though we should probably take care of them soon."
"Yeah, while they're distracted." I said lifting Lost Epitaph in it's scythe form.
[OST- .Hack GU Battle theme]
"Let's go!" I shouted dashing forward and catching an Ursa in the hook of my scythe and then threw it aside.
"Take this!" Atoli shouted as the ob in her staff filled with Fire Dust before a cone of flames gouted from the end of her staff, scorching the Ursa I just threw.
"Ragh!" I shouted bashing the other Ursa with the shaft of my scythe, knocking if off balance, I then chose to activate Rengeki.
"Lotus Flower!" I shouted, bashing with the shaft of my scythe, before quickly slashing up with the scythe, knocking the Ursa into the air, jumping up with it, then spinning in a full circle to launch the Ursa into a tree, which cracked and crashed down on the Grimm to finish it. Each of my scythe hit with enough force that time seemed to stop every time it made contact with the Ursa.
"Woah! That was fast! And awesome too" Nora said with a grin.
[Music End]
"That was pretty good Haseo." Atoli said with a smile.
"Yeah, well you did pretty good yourself, if the Ursa weren't distracted by your illusion things would have been much harder." I said putting Lost Epitaph on my back, "By the way, what illusion did you put on them?"
"Kuhn jumping on their back and trying to beat them with his fists." Atoli said.
"Why not Pi?" I asked.
"Kuhn was the first one I could think of." Atoli said.
[Endrance P.O.V.]
I looked at the Alpha Beowolf that had a pink aura surrounding it before looking at the pack of dissolving Beowolves.
"You did well, now I'm afraid it's time for you to join them." I said readying my sword to stab the Beowolf in the throat, only for a gunshot to sound and for a bullet to tear into one eye and out the other.
"At least you have good aim." I said turning to see my assistance, Kuhn.
"Hey come on now Endrance, we are partners now so let's find Atoli and Haseo and let's get to the Relics soon." Kuhn said.
"So you can go flirting with the first years I assume?" I teased.
"Your brother isn't half bad if he knows how to tease properly." Yang said with an approving nod while Weiss rolled her eyes.
"Guh, I-" Kuhn stammered, I'm going to find this enjoyable.
[Haseo's P.O.V.]
"I feel kinda slow." I said looking at the Black Knight Chess piece in my hand.
"Well it's not our fault we fought so many Ursa on the way here." Atoli said.
"I blame Ozpin for launching us toward so many of those damn things." I grumbled looking at the little temple, more of a shire actually, and the only other piece left on it, which was another black knight.
"Hey look, there it is Endrance!" I heard Kuhn shout, "And so is Haseo and Atoli!"
"Aww, they missed our epic fight." Ruby said with a pout.
"How epic was it?" Qrow asked with a smirk.
"I'll show you the video later." Swift said.
I looked back to see Kuhn and Endrance walking up to us, "And it looks like we are the last group here." Endrance said.
"What took you guy's so long anyway?" I asked, "Our problem was Ozpin launched us into a Ursa infested section of the forest."
"Kuhn here has as much a sense of direction as my sister Weiss." Endrance said, "Which translates to... none at all."
Weiss blushed in embarassement as she looked down.
"Hey!" Kuhn shouted, "We weren't that lost."
"Kuhn we made it to the edge of the forest before I summoned a Nevermore to show us the way." Endrance said.
At his words I looked up to see a small white Nevermore circling overhead.
"Guy's we should probably get moving." Atoli said as she walked over to some melting ice shards, "There was a Nevermore and Deathstalker here not too long ago, and I'd rather not be around for it to want to return."
"Except they won't." Ren said.
"Good point, Kuhn, Endrance, one of you grab the Black Kight and let's go." I said.
Kuhn nodded and pulled out his gun and shot the top of the pillar holding the chess piece, knocking it into the air and right into Kuhn's hand.
"Show off." Weiss said dryly.
"Show off." I said as the four of us started running.
Weiss blushed again at the fact Haseo repeated what she said, while some of the others snickered in amusement.
[]
The four of us made it to a clearing where I saw Jaune, Pyrrha, a girl with orange hair, and a green attired boy who was ace first on the ground. On the ruins ahead were Weiss, Blake, and Yang, and at the top of a the cliff above was Ruby, holding her Scythe proudly as a decapitated Nevermore fell into a canyon.
"Well at least he got to see the result." Yang said with a smile, and Ruby smiled proudly.
"Your sister is pretty good." Endrance said.
"Yeah, make's me proud to be her big brother." I said.
Ruby practically started beaming at that.
"Uh guys, what's that behind Ruby?" Kuhn asked.
"What?" I asked looking closely behind Ruby, and saw a shadow rise up from behind her, "Oh no, RUBY!" I shouted running forward as fast as I can.
"Wait's what behind me?" Ruby asked in worry.
[Yang's P.O.V.]
"Haseo?" I asked myself looking back to see Haseo running forward at full sprint.
'He shouted Ruby's name so...' I thought looking back up at Ruby, who had turned around to see that behind her was another Nevermore.
Which smacked Ruby off the cliff with its wing!
"Eeep!" Ruby shouted in surprise and fear at that.
"Ruby!" I shouted in fear, "I need that slingshot up again!"
"Yang we'd need to get someone else over here to hold it steady with out you there holding it, it'll take too long!" Weiss snapped.
I looked back at Ruby in fear, that is until I saw a large, black clawed hand stretch out to catch her.
"Oh thank Oum." I breathed in relief.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at that.
"What is that!?" Weiss shouted in confusion.
I looked at Weiss with a smirk on my face, "Skeith." I said.
[Haseo's P.O.V.]
Skeith's elastic arm pulled back with Ruby in tow, "You okay sis?" I asked worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine Haseo, I probably should have reloaded after I cut off that first Nevermore's head huh?" Ruby said glumly.
"Not your fault sis, we all make mistakes, now hold on I've got a bird I need to kill." I growled putting Ruby on my shoulder, which prompted her to grab onto one of my horns.
"Other me is so lucky." Ruby said with a cute pout.
The Nevermore screeched at us before taking flight and made both of us airborne.
[OST- .hack GU- I'm right here]
"Hold on!" I called using a side dash to avoid a series of feathers the Grimm launched at me from it's wings and retaliated by firing a trio of Energy shot's from the palm of Skeith's left hand, each one hitting the Nevermore, but not doing all that much damage.
"Haseo you aren't doing much to it." Ruby said.
"I know Rube's." I said dodging another volley of feathers as I kept firing energy shots in three shot bursts. "But you and I both know full well that these are just to stun it so I can use the scythe."
"I know." Ruby said, the she noticed the Nevermore diving at us, "INCOMING!"
I dashed to the side just as the Nevermore flew past, and fired another three round burst, this time the Nevermore was stunned by a light green volt of electricity formed by the energy shots as it's movement slowed down drastically.
"I'll show you why you shouldn't mes with my sister!" I shouted dashing up to the Nevermore before slashing at it three times with the Skeith's Scythe, the third slash knocking it away.
"Haseo I don't think you did all that much." Ruby said.
"I guess I'll have to get rid of that defense then." I said firing more energy shots.
Pretty soon it tried to tackle me again, but this time I stunned it before it got near me.
I dismissed Skeith's Scythe and from the palm of the right hand a holographic eye appeared before forming the Data Drain cannon, "Eat this!" I shouted firing the black orb at the Nevermore.
It shrieked in pain as the orb collided with it.
The prongs on the front of my Data Drain cannon faded before I pointing my hand at the Nevermore and formed six more prongs formed around the eye in my palm, which then formed a holographic shield. Next the black orb I fired at the Nevermore began extracting a black essence that was absorbed into the eye, Skeith destroying the essence as it came before the orb returned to the eye. Once the orb touched the eye it and the Data Drain cannon faded into particles.
The Nevermore soon began to fall out of the air head first, I took it's unconsciousness as my chance to slash one last time, cutting it in half, well actually fourths seeing as I cut the wings off as I cut the body in half.
"That was Awesome!" Ruby shouted.
"It totally was!" Ruby shouted in agreement with her other.
[End Music]
[Beacon Assembly hall]
I smiled happily for Jaune as he got named the leader of Team JNPR with Pyrrha, the orange haired girl Nora, and the green garbed boy Ren.
I also clapped enthusiastically for Ruby when she was named leader of Team RWBY with Yang, Blake, and Weiss on her team.
"And Finally, Haseo Branwen, Atoli Goodwitch, Kuhn Adel, and Endrance Schnee." Ozpin called, cuing us to walk onto the stage, "The four of you collected the Black Knight piece, as such from this day forth the four you will be known as Team HAKE (Hack), lead by... Haseo Branwen.
"We rarely get teams that don't follow the theme of a color for the name." Ozpin said in thought.
"Well done Haseo." Endrance said patting me on the back.
[]
We made it to our dorm room, which was right Next door to RWBY's and everyone but me sat down on one of the beds in the room.
"Before we head to sleep I need to establish a few ground rules." I said sternly.
"Go ahead." Atoli said.
"First of all, Atoli get's first shower." I said, "She's the outnumbered gender here."
"Speaking of that, how did you guys decide that? We go by who woke up first." Yang asked team JNPR.
"We drew straws. It ended up being Nora who get's the first one." Pyrrha said.
"Fair enough." Kuhn said.
"Second, Kuhn no bringing girls you flirt with into the room." I said.
"Shot down." Yang said with a smirk.
"What? But what if it's a study session?" Kuhn asked.
"Then you can do it in the library." Endrance said.
"My thought's exactly." I said, "Lastly, for now at least, we do not us our Avatars unless we have no other choice, I'm glad nobody but Team's RWBY and JNPR saw Skeith."
"A wise decision." Winter said with a nod.
"Which means we're gonna have to talk to them about that soon." Atoli said.
"After bed and after class tomorrow." I said lying down and falling asleep.
"Record time to fall asleep." Blake said idly with an amused smile.
"I have to admit, Skeith is not something I'd want to fight." Weiss said as Jaune handed the book to Nora.
Oh my god this took me a while to do.
It's almost 4 AM here!
Anyway, I hope you all liked it.
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