Cardin is the recurring character that I mentioned. Also, did you see the RWBY Chibi refrence?

I'm planning on using Cardin and his team as the team JNPR of this fanfic. Why? Because they are canon characters, with minor roles in volumes 1-3, which is when I would need them most. It also helps with some other plot stuff I'm planning involving team RWBY.


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The Touch-move rule

Grimm log 3-6: I have been able to confirm that inactive land Grimm hide in underground caverns. Isolating them is difficult, but I have found numerous live specimens. Regretably, they die before I can learn much about them, but what I do learn is very valuable.

"You said we'd get here before the other students." Russel Thrush noted to Cardin. Cardin managed to find three other students and lead them to the temple. But Viridian was better at navigating forrests.
"I said we'd be here before MOST of the other students." Cardin corrected.
"From what I can tell, we're pretty early." Grey added.

Viridian moved around several of the pieces. "Now what are you doing?" Grey asked.
"Each of these pieces is used differently. I'm choosing carefully." Viridian answered. Cardin picked up a black bishop piece.

"You played chess before?" Cardin asked.
"As a kid, I memorized chess games I watched to learn how to beat players." Viridian replied. As a kid, Viridian memorized a lot of things. Chess was not one.

Cardin's other teammates picked up the second black bishop. "Bishop. Moves diagonal. Third strongest piece." Viridian identified the piece they choose.

"What piece are you going to choose?" Grey asked. Viridian picked up a black pawn.
"Pawns. Move first. Switched for other pieces when they cross the board." Viridian replied.

Rusty Steele landed from the sky with Indigo on his back.
"I am not flying with you again." Indigo noted, before noticing Viridian had picked up a chess piece. She quickly grabbed an identical piece.
"I got us here, didn't I?" Rusty asked.

Rusty noticed Viridian among the students staring at them. "I should have known we'd see each other again." He said.
"Yeah, that's how this usually goes." Viridian muttered.

"Now, we have to make it back without getting killed." Cardin noted.
"Who's that guy?" Indigo asked.
"On another team." Grey replied.
"Cardin Winchester." Cardin introduced himself.

"If we go that way, we should make it back to the mountains." Viridian noted, firing an arrow in a direction vaguely east.
"If we move across them, we should be able to make it back to the the cliff safely."

"Wait a minute, who put you in charge?" Cardin asked. "If we go back the way we came, we should be able to leave quickly if we fight our way through whatever Grimm are left." He suggested.
"That's risky. We shouldn't waste our time with unnecessary conflict." Viridian replied.
"Ozpin did say to burn anything in our path." Cardin retorted.

"In my experience, the Grimm are more dangerous when you decide to sit around arguing." Indigo interjected. This conflict would attract Grimm towards them. Unless a greater source of conflict cancelled it. But only equals and inferiors existed at the moment.

"How about you take your team back the way you came, and I take my team through the mountains." Viridian asked.
"Lets make it a race. See which team gets to the cliff first." Cardin offered.
"Sure, whatever." Viridian answered. As long as he was well out of range of the other students, he had no problem.

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"Exploring the mountain range? We won't be able to see them out there." Glynda noted. She and Ozpin monitered the students in the Emerald forest.
"We weren't going to interfere anyway." Ozpin replied, remaining calm. "Besides, if we did attempt to follow him, it would only increase his distrust of us." Ozpin added.

"I don't know why you brought him here in the first place." Glynda said. "You know what he really is."

"And that is exactly why he needs to be here." Ozpin answered.

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"And your sure this is the safest path?" Grey asked, as their unformed team reached the mountain.
"We go up the mountain, and keep going. There should only be a few wandering Grimm." Viridian answered.

Viridian fired a grapnel from his weapons crossbow form. Grapnel latched on a rock high above them, and pulled Viridian upwards. Indigo fired a similar grapnel from her pistol, and Gray did the same with his rifle.
"Oh, I see how it is." Rusty muttered, before climbing up the mountains with his robotic legs.

Teal Aquamarine watched the team from atop the mountain, using a sniper rifle he "borrowed" from a "former partner".
"I told you they would come to us." Aquamarine said to his new temporary partner.