Chapter 7- Needed work.
Back at Beacon, all the teams that were sent out had returned and were gathered in the main hall as Ozpin announced the teams that were made, including JNPR and RWBY, then finally came Sky's team as the 4 stood on the podium.
Sky looked nervous as she wasn't used to being on a stage while Ray on the other hand looked proud and stuck up, she was loving the attention which showed the vast contrast between the two.
"And the final team to be made is SCRW, with the leader being Sky Boltwight." Ozpin announced and as soon as Sky heard that, she quickly looked back and in shock to see she had been appointed leader.
"M-Me?!"
"Is there a problem?"
"N-No…"
Sky looked down embarrassed, facing the crowd again with a cheerful but nervous smile, Ray patting her on the shoulder jealous of the fact that Sky was named leader.
"I guess it makes sense… you did help us all out there." She reluctantly admitted.
"Well I guess I'll call you leader from now on." Wave said, scratching his head on thinking of what to say.
"Just Sky will be fine." Sky really didn't want to just be called leader, she didn't feel worthy of the title, plus it's embarrassing for her.
"Congrats, leader." Claus just praised her.
"Call me by my name please!" she desperately corrected him.
"But can you even remember my name Sky?" Ray asked, glaring at her.
"…Roy?"
"Ray!"
The name stuck with her.
Morning came after that night of teams being made where SCRW were placed in the dorm where Sky was assigned to when she arrived earlier at Beacon, the room was mostly plain with the 4 beds, empty bookshelves and walls… apart from one corner which Sky already took liberty of giving it a makeover.
There were tools on the floor and pieces of scrap on the desk along with some half-finished designs such as a half-finished blade fan and a mechanical looking box with cogs and latches around it, on the wall was a framed picture of her and Jet having their arms over her shoulders covered in grease and smog as in the background is the remains of an engine Jet tried to make with a screwdriver stick in it, pointing up.
There was another photo frame of her parents next to it, one father wearing a checked shirt, blue dungarees over them and some walking boots along with having a short beard and blue sharp eyes and had short pointed up hair that got shorter the further it went to the back of his head and the mother in a white lab coat but was wearing a fluffy pink jumper underneath and a burgundy office skirt, holding a wrench.
The two were stood in front of the gates of where Sky and Jet also lived, and it was a frame of when they finished constructed it and the mother put in the final screw to complete it.
Claus was the first to awake, he sat up from his bed and got changed from his shorts to his Beacon uniform and combed his hair before going over to Sky's side as she slept and looked down on her.
Before he could do or say anything, there was a 'Ping' sound and a screw struck his head, he groaned as he rubbed his head as he looked to where that came from.
"What are you doing?" Sky asked threateningly as she still laid in her bed, looking like she could murder him any moment.
Claus jumped back in surprise.
"I… ummm was about to wake you."
"And triggered my trap."
"Sorry…"
Sky sighs and forgives him this one time as she gets out of bed, wearing light blue buttoned pyjamas and took a stretch.
"Just so you know, I will wake up when I want to, I have those traps there for a reason in case one you two gets pent up in the middle of the night." She warns him as she grabs her uniform and goes into the bathroom to get dressed.
This little exchange woke both Wave and Ray up and they heard the whole conversation and just laughed.
"You should know to never wander into a girl's private space you know? That was just stupid" Ray teased him, Claus just looked away from her.
"Although to think she sets traps, we're supposed to be a team, right?" Wave questions.
"It's our first night together, so it's natural to be cautious, like me" Ray reveals an alarm under her bed that was attached to her clothes.
"You know if that went off in the middle of the night I would've murdered you." Claus threatened her.
Sky returned in the Beacon uniform and saw everyone.
"Morning, I think we should start with our first team activities!" She announced to everyone, forgetting had just happened.
"But first, can you tell this lower-class man how to speak to high priority people like me?" Ray demands but is ignored.
"Well first Claus… if you interrupt my sleep again, I won't be so nice next time." She threatens with a smile that can send shivers down anyone's spine.
"Don't just ignore me Sky…" Ray complains.
"But what should we do?" Wave asks.
"Decorating of course… well you guys have to, I'll be looking at your weapons." Sky had already set up a mini workshop with taking the desk in the room and owns it with her tools and a holder for her blade.
"Wait… this early in the morning?!" Ray complains.
"Well we are going to be here for the next 4 years so yes." She will take not take no for an answer as Wave comes over and hands her his double-sided weapon.
"Is this just two swords on each end of this little handle?" Sky questions, frowning upon it.
"Is there something wrong with i-"
"Pathetic!" Sky storms off with the blade to her work bench and immediately gets to work on it, Wave could do nothing but stare in awe, then shaking his head and goes to unpack.
Claus does the same thing, taking out a few books and a plant that was in a smaller case.
Ray bursts open her case, setting up a portable wardrobe full of different varieties of dresses and other bits of clothing, putting up posters of various pop groups and huntsman as well as setting up a mirror.
Sky kept drilling and sawing away at Wave's weapon which was quite loud and distracting to the others until a girl with long blonde hair and lilac coloured eyes popped into the room.
"Could you please keep the noise down, we are busy here." She asked politely.
"Don't worry I'm nearly done here!" Sky gives her the thumbs up, now wearing some goggles and heat resistant gloves as she just fiddles around with the weapon in pieces before grabbing the handle which was now lengthened a bit and held it up.
"Assemble!"
She calls out, the parts that were scattered around the table began assembling onto the handle with the blades at both ends, looking like they can fold away now and a wire that seems connected to both, now tucking away inside the weapon.
Everyone in the looked on to see a new weapon being assembled right in front of their eyes, the blonde-haired girl's eyes widening before popping out of the room.
"Alright Wave… listen here, I've extended the reach of your blade to match your size a lot better but I've also lightened it for ease of use, the blades will now fold away at a touch of this button here so that you don't have to worry about stabbing yourself as well as you can now pull the blades apart and now when you want to, slide out this part here to turn your weapon into a bow which I'm sure in Vale they will be selling loads and loads and-"
"Stop!" Ray cut in and held Sky's hands down, panting in confusion and her head about to explode as Sky looks at her with a blank face.
"Oh sorry, I get really into talking about my creations a bit too much." She laughed, and Ray gives her an awkward face of disgust before getting up and checking the time.
"Anyway Wave, your weapon is a lot better now." Sky hands it to Wave and he presses the button as instructed and it folds away in an easy to carry stick.
"Guys we better get going, classes start in 5 minutes!" Ray yelps, Wave covers his ears, Ray notices this and lowers her voice.
"Come on, let's go." She rushes into her uniform and so does Wave as everyone else runs ahead to Class, Ruby stood there just outside Sky's door only to just have blanked in the rush to get to class.
"Speak later, got class!" Sky calls out to Ruby as the team rushes ahead.
The team managed to make class in time, just barely as they were being stared down by their professor, Professor Mint as she stood before the chalkboard with details of different types of Grimm, with her white lab coat, green jumper underneath and a black office skirt along with her green and white hair done up in a bun.
She carried on talking about what Grimm are and how to deal with them, about different types and continued talking where the sound of her voice drowned out to most people in the room as they evidently wanted to be anywhere else but here.
Sky tried taking as many notes as possible to even stay awake, but her eyes were already half open, Ray was just keeping it together but was ready to drop any moment.
Wave already was asleep on the desk while it was difficult to tell if Claus was listening or not as he sat up straight on his seat, barely moving an inch while still wearing the sunglasses.
"Now who will like to demonstrate?" Professor Mint asked the class, everyone in the room snapping awake once again.
"Huh?" Sky looked at her in confusion, not paying attention to her lecturing.
"Sky, do you wish to become a huntress? Mint asked her, glaring.
Sky stood up and looked straight back.
"I do! That's why I'm here"
"Then come prove it."
Professor Mint walked over to a cage about her height with red eyes glowing from it as she stood there holding a metallic looking leaf that seems to be her weapon.
Sky stood in the space between her and the cage, holding her Grind-Blade, focusing on the cage as whatever was inside was ready to attack.
"Begin!" Professor Mint yelled as she slashed the lock open and out came a centipede looking Grimm, with armour along it's legs and main body as well as it's large sharp jaws snapping at Sky, known as a Crawler as it left the box and stood up to face her, analysing her.
Sky knew not to use to rush at it as it would be faster in striking, so she slowly stepped to the side, allowing the Grimm to focus on her.
The Crawler began to move around too, keeping it's focus on Sky as the two circled each other until the Crawler charged at Sky, fangs open and ready to strike.
Sky saw this chance and gripped hard on the blade, starting it up so the blades were spinning as she blocked the Crawler's fangs with the blade and forced it to slip to the side of her where Sky quickly brought the blade down on it's legs and cut through the joints before having to jump back to dodge another bite.
The Crawler launched another strike, Sky twisted her body to narrowly dodge its strike, bringing the Grind-Blade down onto the spaces between it's armour on the main body before jumping on the Grimm so it couldn't try bite her anymore.
The Crawler struggled as it tried to shake her off, but Sky plunged the blade deeper in it and started cutting away at it's body until she was thrown into a wall, being forced to let go of her weapon as the Crawler gained some distance between the two.
"Alright, you're now without your weapon, what next?" Professor Mint questioned her.
Before Sky could reply, the Grimm launched another attack at her.
She ducks underneath it's next strike, lifting the Grimm up so it's easier to get under it before grabbing it from underneath and flipping it over onto it's back, her weapon dropping from the Grimm's body onto the floor as she brings out a piece from the blade into her hand and uses her Semblance to swiftly bring it back into her palm.
The Crawler quickly went in for another strike, Sky now jumping above it, throwing the weapon down into where it was weak before landing on her weapon with a powerful kick, forcing the blade through the Grimm's body completely before turning on the grinding function and cutting through its body as it now lays on the floor defeated as evaporates.
The class give her a round of applause as Sky looks up, panting slightly but smiles at her achievement.
"Decent but you need to work on your efficiency." Professor Mint commented on her performance which got her a boo from Ray, who was pouting from her seat.
"And Ms Gold-wind I'll be seeing you after class." Mint simply just said, focusing back onto Sky.
"You may take your seat, good effort."
Sky just simply nodded before turning the blade off and putting it away again as she returned to her seat with Ray obviously displeased.
"You did well but I would've handled that better, but our professor is sooooo stuck up just because she has experience and stuff, just watch she will become one of my fans in no time." She complained which made Sky think that Ray just described herself in the stuck-up part and simply giggled.
"What's so funny!?" Ray yelled at Sky, forcing her to laugh even harder.
"Quiet you two!" Mint told them off, glaring at them with her leaf green eyes.
Sky and Ray just simply sat still like they were frozen on the spot, keeping their mouths shut, now Wave chuckling was at the two but there was no reaction from them after that.
"Alright… Wave you come up and be the next example." Professor Mint called out to him as another cage was brought out by some men in grey factory clothing.
"Yes."
Wave walked down to the stage, drawing his newly made weapon, holding out and the blades shot out at each end of the extended handle that's long enough to be used with two hands now.
He got into the stage and remembered what Sky said about how to use it, drawing out the wire that was inside the weapon to make it look like a bow and then bringing out about 4 arrows which Sky must've slipped into his pocket as he passed her and Ray.
"Begin." Professor Mint declared, destroying the lock on the cage and what came out this time was a Bourbatusk as it observed its opponent with a snarl.
The Grimm ran at Wave and he waited till the last minute to dodge it, bringing his weapon down on its leg, forcing the Grimm to let out a screech as it struggled but quickly turned around again to go into a spinning attack at Wave.
He dodges it again and its second attack before pulling out the sting again and getting out an arrow, pulling it back, ready to strike as he waited for the Bourbatusk to stop and watch again.
"Die…" Wave muttered to himself as he released the arrow, it struck the Bourbatusk in the eye, letting it screech out again until soon after the arrow hit, it exploded, killing the Grimm as it evaporated, leaving the room quiet as Sky let out a huge "Yes!" followed by laughs of accomplishments.
Professor Mint just simply took notes and waved at Wave to return to his seat as he re-joined Sky and the rest of the team.
"You didn't tell me about the explosion." He sighed, clearly worried about what Sky does to whatever she makes.
"Whoopsies, I thought a little surprise would've been nice." Sky apologies, putting on a tone as if she didn't know about it at all and she didn't regret it.
"Just let me know next time you do something like that okay?" Wave told her and she just nodded in response, smiling though, pleased with her work.
Hellooooo Ice here and I'm joined by Sky for this mini interview
Sky: Hello all! Sky is here in the building.
Yeah, yeah, anyway I must ask, why didn't you warn Wave about those arrows?
Sky: Hmmm... I thought it would be funny to see his reaction, it was well worth the wait, teehee.
I guess you like to put your comrades in danger, huh?
Sky: Nooooo, Wave's aura is tough so I trusted that he wouldn't be hurt.
...Sure, anyway let's wrap that up and we shall see you next chapter! be sure to write reviews or any questions you'd have for Sky or any of the other team.
Sky: Hey wait! That's it?!