PLEASE READ THIS A/N OR AT LEAST THE IMPORTANT PART!1!

Sorry about this chapter being so extremely late. This time I don't even have an excuse. It was just straight up procrastination and I didn't feel like writing but as of May 20, 2015, I'm back in the saddle again.

Also, when you see text that is italic and underlined that is just Jai talking to him in real time. As in not through a flashback but actually happening right now. I know I probably let this get a little convoluted. My apologies.

I do not own RWBY

~Nugi

Chapter 7: Mess With The Rabbit Faunus…

"Next up, Nugi please come down to the stage." Glynda announced as she called out the participants for the last match for the day. "And Jau-"

"Miss Goodwitch, may I choose my opponent?" Nugi interjected.

"I don't see why not. Who did you have in mind?" She turned around and requested his choice.

"CRDL." Nugi said, requesting an entire team as his opponent.

"You sure about that? That's an entire team."

"Very sure" were Nugi's only words in response. More of a growling than a response really.

Earlier that day in the dining hall, Nugi had witnessed just how much of an arrogant, racist, piece of trash a human could be. And his name was Cardin Winchester. Nugi reeeeeeaally hates racists and assholes. So hopefully you can understand the bloodlust.

"Very well then" Glynda muttered under her breath before announcing "Cardin Winchester, Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing, and Sky Lark."

She shot Nugi a glance again and muttered just quiet enough so that only Nugi could hear "Don't kill them, and if you can, don't destroy the place alright?"

"No promises" Nugi said at a normal volume as he walked off into the prep room to put on his boots. Nugi had decided that he was only going to use the gauntlets against creatures of Grimm if he could help it, and he was fairly certain that these misfits definitely didn't pose any sort of threat to him.

"Tch." Glynda grimaced at the thought of having to repair the arena… again.

Nugi walked up to his locker and began to put in his combination when he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around to see it belonged to Yang. The rest of RBYN could also be seen crowded around him at his locker.

"Don't kill em', alright? That would be totally not cool." Yang being the voice of reason for once. Not a bad change if I do say so myself.

"It would be really not alright with me to lose my partner less than a month after getting him. That would suck." Ruby chimed in, a bit worried for team CRDL. After all, team RBYN had witnessed Nugi's murderous intent before, and it was quite the experience to say the least. It would be weird if she weren't worried for them.

"Don't worry. I'm not gonna kill em'. Just rough em' up a lil' bit, huh?" Nugi waved off his companions' worries as baseless as he finished inputting his locker combo and removed his boots from the locker. He moved over to a bench and brandished his weaponized greaves/boots. Blake walked up to him and whispered into his ear "give them hell" and simply continued out the door into the arena's audience seating, motioning for the rest of the team to follow as she moved through the door.

Thanks, Blake. Don't you worry about that. I'm gonna give them a beating they won't soon forget. Nugi closed his eyes and imagined himself welling up with power, limitless power, bursting from the seams from the very deepest parts of his being. He pictured it swirling throughout his body, strengthening his muscles and lifting the weight from his shoulders. He saw himself meditating, sitting on the side of a massive tree, seemingly defying any sense of gravity that existed.

Nugi opened his eyes and found himself staring off into the far off countryside, the wind in his hair. But something felt off.

What is this place? And why does it feel so… weird? He began to take a few steps, chin in hand, pondering what was going on. And then he looked down. And it hit him. He looked up and saw the world for what it really was. Sideways?

And just like that, as easily as he realized his predicament, he began to panic, throwing himself sideways against the tree and holding on for dear life.

"You needn't cling to the construct of your own Soul to maintain your footing. This world is yours. Why do you panic so?"

"What the hell is this Jai! Where in the hell am I? What is this place?!"

"Tis your inner world, boy-o. Now how about you relax for a second. This world does as you wish it. How should I know why your inner world has a twisted sense of gravity? I'm well learned, not omniscient!"

"What's all this about, inner worlds and constructs of my soul and whatnot?"

"It's just that. Your inner world. This is the world constructed by your soul. Your own little world. A 'Kingdom', if you will, where you run the show. This world literally revolves around you. Everything is according to your will, your very conscious, whether you accept it or not. This world represents your being, your temple, your very soul. It is and is always going to show you your true self."

"Well why the hell did you bring me here, dude? I'm sorta in the middle of something."

"Ah, yes, you were just about to go out and decimate the misguided, ignorant boy and his cronies, were you not? I've come to rather enjoy observing you and your companions. You're quite amusing to watch, good entertainment I must say. Fret not, time in reality is practically paused as in comparison to this place. And I did not bring you here, boy, you managed that much of your own volition."

"The hell do you mean I did it on my own?"

"I mean you discovered your own method of entering this place without me. I was simply watching you when I noticed you enter this place on your own. Imagine my surprise that you would discover the path to your own world with no assistance from anyone else. It took the respected Siddhartha a lifetime to reach this place and even through his teachings, nobody among his followers found their way to their own inner worlds. And here an up an coming young'un of the ripe age of 17 manages to find a path to this place with absolutely no knowledge of its existence. Your gonna go far, kid."

"Woah. So this is like some kind of incredible feat, then? Cool. But how the hell do I come back here now? I have no clue how in the hell I even got in here."

"Ah, fret not young one. It's always hardest the first time. I remember my first time entering my inner world. After the first time, it becomes as simple as simply willing yourself to be here, wishing to be in your inner world."

"Alright so I have a question. If this is my world, how are you here? Does that mean that you're just, like, some kind of illusion or something? Are you just, like, some figment of my imagination or some trippy shit like that?"

"That, young padawan, is a secret. As for whether or not I really exist, yes, I absolutely do exist. I am not just a figment of your imagination."

Nugi, now having calmed down and grown accustomed to the twisted gravity in his inner world, stood up from his sitting position on the tree trunk and processed all the information he had just been force fed.

Kay. So I have this inner world thing and it's, like, the representation of my true self and made by my soul or something. Also, it took Buddha an entire lifetime to gain access to this place, and I just did it by total accident at only 17 years old. I'm 17 years old. I know who Buddha is. Jai just said something that made me feel nostalgic. I know what nostalgia is. Evidently, my true self doesn't understand how gravity works. Jai is a creeper who watches me for entertainment. Jai is keeping secrets from me. Jai is in my inner world. Jai is real. It's odd that the thing I seem to know the most about is something I know absolutely nothing about. I say hell a lot.

"What the hell. Hey how do I get the hell out of here, Jai?"

"Just wish to yourself that you want to leave." Jai said "And so you shall." He finished as Nugi disappeared from sight and he was left alone in someone else's inner world. "I should really leave. It's impolite to enter other people's inner worlds without invitation. Especially when they aren't there. You might see something that you have no business seeing." He muttered to himself as he, too, departed from Nugi's inner world.

Meanwhile, sitting on a branch higher up on the massive tree the two had just held a conversation while standing on the SIDE of, a shadowy figure chuckles deeply, and, with a flash of its eyes and a puff of smoke, disappears, leaving behind a single apple with but one bite taken out of it to fall to the ground at the root of the tree.

Nugi now opened his eyes once again in the real world and found himself to be right where he left off, except now he was practically bursting with energy, his grey aura pulsating around him in waves and a warmth rising up from deep within him. Quickly, Nugi suppressed his aura and pent it up inside of him, strengthening his entire body and making him feel faster and lighter, and stronger than he had felt before in his entire life. He stood up and noticed a blue notification floating around at about arm's length in front of him.

*New Skills Created!

Meditate
Aura Reinforcement

Nugi tapped the notification to disperse it and was met by another little window behind it.

*New World Discovered!

Inner World

Once again he tapped the pop up window and he made his way through the door in the prep room and out onto the stage. Nugi had some business to attend to with some ignorant cacti who needed to be taught a lesson, and he thought who better to teach it to them but he himself. Every now and then you gotta put a scrub in their place; else they dareth forget themselves scrubs and begin to act in a manner unbefitting of one in their position. And these bottom feeders clearly need to be taught their place in the world. And that place is groveling at the boots of a righteous bad ass begging for forgiveness for their misdeeds, knowing all the while that they won't get it nor do they deserve to receive mercy for what they've done.

Mess with the rabbit faunus, you get the angry, armor clad, half saiyan, fighting prodigy with some serious anger management issues and a potential case of schizophrenia and some quite violent tendencies. Or horns, if that's too much to bother yourself to remember.

Meanwhile, an interested Jaune looks upon the slaughter about to happen with a mixture of relief he doesn't have to fight and worry for both team CRDL and Nugi. Which doesn't go unnoticed by a certain bronze clad Spartan. Even if Jaune played the lovable idiot, she knew full well there was more to him than that and that he had clearly seen some reason to be worried about the fight that was about to happen. Why else would he be wearing such a scowl?

"Break their legs!" Nora interrupted Jaune's thoughts and startled Pyrrah with her cheering directed towards Nugi as team CRDL came out of their side of the arena, fully clad in their armor and armed for the fight.

Ren shot her a glare. "Nora."

Nora sat down in her seat as Ren shot her his trademark glare, only barely noticing Nugi shooting a smile and a thumbs up team JNPR's way.

On catching this, Pyrrah, Jaune, Ren, and Blake all paled and simultaneously had the same thought flash through their minds.

Does he really intend to break their legs?

Thanks for reading this chapter. I just finished this at like midnight going into the 22nd of May even though I planned to do this a looooong time ago. I guess I just got sidetracked. I know that at some point I had something I wanted to say here but its late and I have absolutely no clue what that may have been. Maybe it'll come to me some time tomorrow while I'm playing the House of Wolves DLC on Destiny. Anyway, I apologize for being so late with this chapter and as always, thanks for reading.

~Nugi