I'm ba~ck! I'm really sorry for the inconvenience I to,d you about, and it's still going on now, but it's not as bad as it was, so I'll be able to update sooner rather then later when it comes to this story! Also, I'm really happy for the reviews I managed to get so far. For now on, any review I get I'm going to answer to via this part up here!
Shadowwing1933: glad you like the story, and I'll be doing my best with this, so I hope I hear from you again! I love feedback, even the slightly harsh criticism. I don't want flames though, don't like don't read.
Drake93: Well, think of it this way, power always comes with a price. The price for that power was lighter ally sacrificing his memories of everyone he knew, something we all consider very precious. To save the ones he loves, he would have to forget them. I didn't want to make him OP, so I made that the price, as memories are priceless. Also don't expect him to do that again anytime soon, if at all, he wouldn't get any stronger if he kept doing that, now would he?
Guest: your correct! The Terramorpher was an obvious one. But yes it was modeled after Terramorphious from borderlands two. Like I stated before, it was a borderline tier 4 Grimm, which I would consider like a giant golem Grimm, or a dragon Grimm. I hope to hear from you again if you make an Account though!
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Disclaimer: I own bothering except for the Grimm I've put in here, as well as the Oc's.
Kōri's POV:
I couldn't feel anything when it came to my body, but for whatever reason I knew that I was on the ground and on snow. It wasn't an unpleasant feeling however. It was almost... Comforting. The fact that I actually felt comfortable in the snow, made me start to think over what I could remember. I remembered that I could control something called Aura, and my semblance was involved with the cold as well, which might explain the reason why I was comfortable with the cold. My attention was taking from my thoughts, when I heard some hushed whispers. I didn't know if they were enemies or not, so I decided to wait and listen.
"Do you think he's going to wake up soon? Professor Ozpin said not to move him until we know whether or not he's going to stay asleep for awhile." One voice, this one a female, who had a slightly rough edge to it, almost like a tiger's growl.
Another voice, this one male, took a few seconds to answer but he said "I think that it would be best to move him soon. We don't know if there are any grim coming this way. Kōri was the cause of all of this snow and ice afterall. That was sure to have gained attention, and not the good kind either."
Before they could do anything, when I felt a hand reach out towards me, I snapped my eyes open, and spun on my back, kicking the person who was reaching towards me away, and I flipped backwards, where my back was against ice. I didn't care what I had my back to at the moment, as I was more focused on the people in front of me. from the looks on their face's, it seemed that they knew me, and they were actually startled by my actions. The first to walk towards me, was a woman who had brown and green hair, that was put into a ponytail so that the green and brown swirled. She slowly set down the sword that she had in her hands, and she took a few hesitant steps.
"Kōri. We arent going to hurt you." She started "Look, you just used a lot of your Aura to freeze that monster that is behind you. If you don't calm down, you could lose consciousness again."
I turned around slightly, and I immediately regretted it, as when I turned I saw a giant Grimm that had its tentacle like appendages point straight to where i was currently standing. It was extremely frightening. That was also when the words she stated before registed. I froze this thing solid?! The only way I would be able to do that was if I took off the regulators that I had on my arms, but then I would...
Turning towards the group of people, I asked, with a firm voice "Who are you guys?"
The green and brown haired one said "I'm your cousin Kōri. We can explain everything to you if you want it, but you need to calm down, ok?"
I hesitantly nodded, before the green haired girl introduced the group. In order of introduction, she introduced herself as Jessica, then she went to her team, of a girl with blue haired Named Katrina, a larger girl named Camilia, and finally something I would consider the poster girl for commando's everywhere, named Iris. The whole team, apparently was know as team JKRS, and they were huntress's in training, just like I was a hunter in training. When I thought about it, the memories that I actually had supported this, as I still had, and Nagekibato, and Kōtō Karasu, and they were definitely made to kill the creature's of grim, like the giant worm thing that was behind me.
Next with the introductions was apparently my team, team SHPS, which consisted of the Tiger faunus that had spoken before named Amai, and I knew right away that If I got on her bad side, things would not end well. Than there was my apparent team leader named Havana. She was a Bird faunus, and it showed by the folded up wings that she had on her back. She had a soft smile on her face, but I could tell that she was worried. The last member of the team was named Satō and it seemed that he was a fox faunus. He gave me a slow nod, along with a smile.
The next team to be introduced was a team of girls that was apparently apparently called team RWBY, with the first to be introduced being the leader, who was a small girl know as Ruby. It was surprising to see someone younger than everyone else as a team leader, but the next person on the team made me question why she was giving me a slightly scared look. She was called Weiss, and if that wasn't a joke then I didn't know one, as she wore only white, with a bit of red. Next on the team was an obvious Faunus, but I didn't point it out as she introduced herself as Blake. The last person however caught my attention mainly due to the angry look on her face. Backing up slightly, I didn't get a chance to get introduced to the last team, as she stomped towards me and started to poke me in the chest while yelling at me.
"How stupid do you have to be to do something like that, Huh? What if you died from doing such a stupid thing?! Do you even realize how much you're family would be upset if you had killed yourself trying to save them?!" The girl yelled at me, and I knew right away that she was either someone who did this to everyone, or she was someone important to me.
Without thinking about it, I grabbed her shoulders and said "Look, I'm sorry ok? Even if I don't remember what I did, I know that I wouldn't just sit back and do nothing when someone I care about is in danger, ok?"
The girl gave me a hard glare for a few seconds longer, before she just sigh and nodded. With a smile, I greeted her as she introduced herself as Yang, and I knew that me and her would get along pretty well. There was also the fact that, even if she didn't notice, I saw her taking glances at me every once in awhile while I was introduced to the last team, team JNPR, and I had to say they were interesting. To start it off, Nora, a bubbly and hyper orange haired girl, introduced herself, while asking what seemed to be a million questions a minute. Thankfully another member of the team, this one named Ren, stopped her from asking too many questions. I thanked him for that, while I introduced myself to the next pair on the team, which consisted of a blonde haired boy named Jaune, and a redhead named Pyrrha. I could tell almost right away that Jaune was the leader. He may not look like much, and he even had a bit of hesitant demeanor, but I noticed that he had a commanding feel to him, and he even looked like he was looking out for everyone that was around at the same time.
It was actually a novel experience being reintroduced to people that I had actually considered friends, and even one family member. The fact that they actually cared about me enough to look out for me like this, actually made me happy, but when I was told that this was a summer forest, than I knew that something was wrong. I knew that my semblance was strong enough to freeze something like that Terramorpher, as the others were calling it, but to actually change the climate to this? That was something that surprised me greatly. I was even surprised that I didn't even notice the two teachers that were walking up to me, until the first, who introduced himself as Ozpin, said "Kōri Scotch. You have had an interesting effect on this forest, and the fact that you froze a terramorpher solid, proves that you need those regulators on your arms."
I wasn't to surprised that he knew about that, from what I was told, he was the headmaster of Beacon, so he needed to know these type of things. The fact that he just went out and said it, however, was what surprised me. I expected him to not say it outright like he just did, but then again, you can never expect things with people you don't know or don't remember. Those are the people that you needed to be careful with, honestly, but I didn't seem to feel anything that I needed to be afraid of when it came to his demeanor. The other teams were the same way, and I still noticed Yang was taking glances towards me every once in a while. I was actually slightly confused about it, so not wanting to wait anymore, the second I got a chance to, I stood right next to the blonde, and waited until the engines from the Airship made it so that no one could hear my words.
"Do... Do you have a problem with me Yang?" I asked hesitantly, and she snapped her head in my direction when I spoke.
"No! No, I don't have a problem, Its something else, trust me on that." She stated with a strained smile, though I could have sworn that she whispered "It's definitely not a problem."
I gave her one last confused look, before I noticed that there was another team on the ship as well, besides the two teams. I looked at the large ginger haired man that was staring back at me with a glare, and I gave him a forceful look right back. Shaking my head, when he turned away, I called over to Professor Goodwitch, as I asked "Where are we headed anyway?"
"Due to Professor peach still needing sap samples from the forest of forever falls, we are heading there instead of straight back to Beacon. I hope this isnt to much of a convenience for those of you who just finished a mission." Was the teachers response, though from what I could tell, it was mainly RWBY and JNPR, along with the last team, to which I didn't really care about, job to get the sample's from the forest.
Sending a small look towards Havana, she seemed to know what I was going to ask, as she nodded. With a grateful look on my face, I said "Professor, how about me and my team help you gather samples?"
Goodwitch looked at me with a slightly critical look, that started to remind me of that Katrina girl that was on my cousin's team. Eventually she started to mess with her scroll, and she said "So long as you're team leader is fine with it, as well as the rest of your team, I don't see why not. Team JKRS can help with this as well if they so wish."
Eventually it was decided that they would help out with getting the samples, and that actually surprised goodwitch. I guess this was something that first years did more than anything, while the rest of the students tended to do missions as a way to help the hunters that had actually graduated. To her it was actually a surprised for a second year team to be willing to help with this, but then again this was just speculation from my point of view. If this was actually how she was thinking, then I wouldn't exactly know, now would I?
Getting back on track, it was a silent ride to the forest of forever falls, but when we started to get there, I noticed the change from a white forest, to which apparently was my fault, to a red forest, to which was the place that the little mission was supposed to be taking place at. It was actually extremely beautiful when I saw it, but when we landed, I knew something bad was going to happen, due to the way that Jaune was looking as we stepped off.
I looked around slightly, but my thoughts were broken when Professor Goodwitch said "Yes, students, the forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful. But we are not here to sight-see. Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from the trees deep inside this forest, and I'm here to make sure none of you die while doing so."
In the back of the group, I noticed that Jaune was carrying a large case as well as a couple of jars on top of it. I was tempted to help him, but a hand from my cousin and a whisper of "He needs to sort this out himself Snow leopard."
I gave her a playful glare at the nickname, to which I was sure she was going to use more often, but I nodded, and listened as Professor goodwitch said ""Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap. However, this forest is full of the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous back here by 4 o'clock. Have fun."
I continued to look on as Jaune tried to sneak away from the big ginger haired boy, only for said boy to grab him and tell him they needed to go in an almost mocking friendly way. After a few seconds of staring at Pyrrha, he drops his gaze, and walks off. With a frown I quickly told my teammates that I was going to join Pyrrha as to make sure she wasn't alone, and It seemed Havana was fine with this as she said "Just be careful Kōri. I don't want you to end up in a dangerous situation again."
I flinched at that, but nodded to make sure she knew that I understood. Running slgihtly to catch up with Pyrrha, I called out to her for her to wait up. She looked towards me with a confused look, and when I caught up with her, she asked "Shouldn't you be with your team Kōri?"
I gave a nervous look towards, while I said "I figured you could use some company. With Nora and Ren sticking together, and Jaune... I just thought that you could use some company."
Pyrrha looked at me slightly, looking like she was debating what I was saying, before she gained a hard look and she said "I don't believe this is your problem. This is something that is between Jaune and the rest of his team."
I gained a hard look as well as I said "That wasn't what I meant Pyrrha. Everyone, even someone that has so much confidence needs someone to talk to." She looked surprised at this before I continued "I may not have shown it before the incident, but I am very observant. From what little i've been told, I was somewhat of a recluse before the incident with the terramorpher, but I want to talk to you, but not as another hunter in training, but as a friend that would like to help you."
Pyrrha seemed to look at me, almost as if she was trying to detect a lie. In the end, her look softened somewhat, and she said "Alright, I'll take you up on the offer."
I nodded towards her, slightly happy that I was managing to help out someone who was worried. We walked in silence at this point, however, but I knew that she would talk when she wanted to, so we ended up just walking beside each other, until we managed to get up to a patch of trees that had the sap that was needed in it. I was starting to think that she was going to just keep silent for the whole time, but when I was halfway down with filling my jar, she said "You're willing to listen right Kōri?"
I gave a slight laugh, while I said "That's what I went with you for, that and getting the sap for professor peach."
Even though I couldn't see her, I knew that she was smiling at my comment, and that actually made me happy. I honestly didn't know what I was like, at least not completely, when it came to my life before losing my memories, but I knew that i wanted to help my friends every chance I could now that I had them. As it turned out, a part of me knew that these people were people i could trust, and that was partially the reason why I so readily accepted what they were saying. That and the fact that they seemed to be doing what they could to make sure that I wouldn't hurt anyone, and they even dropped their weapons, or made sure that they weren't in there hands.
Eventually I heard Pyrrha sigh, as she said "To tell you the truth I'm worried about Jaune. I've been blessed with incredible talents and opportunities. I'm constantly surrounded by love and praise, but when you're placed on a pedestal like that for so long, you become separated from the people that put you there in the first place. Everyone assumes I'm too good for them. That I'm on a level they simply can't attain. It's become impossible to form any sort of meaningful relationship with people. That's what I like about Jaune. When we met, he didn't even know my name. He treated me just like anyone else. And thanks to him, I've made friendships that will last a lifetime. I guess, He's the kind of guy I wish I was around for most of my life... I honestly can't count you as you just lost your memories, but with my status... it makes it very difficult to form any form of friendship."
I was actually very surprised that Pyrrha was willing to tell me all of this, and as I finished with my Jar, I walked over to the tree that Pyrrha was at, and Noticed that she was still filling up her jar. With a comforting hand, I said "Its fine Pyrrha. Even if I don't understand your situation, I understand what you're trying to say. Jaune... I think he needs to solve this himself as well, and when he does, he'll probably be some you can trust even more than you do now."
Pyrrha gives a small laugh at that, while she said "Well, Even if I do trust him that much, he is oblivious, as he seems set after Weiss at the moment."
Raising my eyebrow at her words, it finally struck me, for what she was trying to get at. With a smile on my face, I said "Alright, But Pyrrha, if you don't get him to see how you feel soon, you may very well lose what you feel."
I had said the words quietly enough, that only she would hear me, and I knew the effect the words were going to have. Sure enough, when I finished with the sentence, Pyrrha started to blush at the implications of the words, and she finished with her jar as well. When she stood up, she had an amused look, while she said "You better not tell him. I'd rather he finds out on his own. Besides, I think you may have an admirer as well."
I gave her my own confused look at her words, but the fact that she was looking behind me slightly, made me turn around, only to see team RWBY at work, with Ren, and Nora not to far away. Turning back I gave her a questioning look, to which she said "It's something you're going to have to learn on your own."
I gave a fake annoyed look towards Pyrrha, that is, until I heard some running towards us. When I looked towards the crunching of leaves, I found three members of team CDNL running towards us, while on of them was going on about an Ursa. Yang, being the first to react, grabbed the green haired one and she interrogated him about what was going on.
Reacting on instinct, I headed towards where Jaune was, at the same time that Pyrrha and Ruby did. I saw the large Ursa that was in front of the two, but before I could attack it, the red-haired woman stopped me in my tracks with a simple word or to. At first I was confused, but then I noticed that Jaune was actually holding his own against the Ursa.
Jaune took his shield out from the Ursa's paw and slashes at its stomach, causing it to lash out and try to crush him. He rolled out of the way and jumps over its swipe at his feet, but he was unprepared for when it launched a claw at him in midair. He then landed far away, yet was immediately back on his feet and passed Cardin as he charged at the monster. The Ursa knocks Jaune behind it when he tries for a leaping attack, and I noticed that he looked at his scroll in his shield to find out that his Aura levels must have been red, as he growled in anger, before charging at the bear once again.
As they are just about to clash everything seemed to slow down, as Pyrrha and I noticed that Jaune had left himself completely open to the Ursa's attack, and lifts her hand out to him, gathering dark red energy in her arm. I looked back towards the Arc, and I noticed his shield glowing darkly slightly, before his Sheila moved up suddenly, blocking the Ursa's attack. Jaune, using the surprise defensive move to lean on the ground, push his shield back up, and swing his blade right through the Ursa's neck. I grinned at the sight of the Ursa's head flying off, before I patted the red-head on the shoulder, and started to walk away, not needing the explanation to know what Pyrrha did for Jaune. Who was I to get rid of a confidence booster for the Arc?
When we finally got back to Beacon, I was mildly surprised to see just how big the school was, and to my right, I heard Yang chuckle. Looking towards her, she said "That's what most people do when they first see Beacon, even if this isn't your first time seeing it."
Frowning slightly I asked "Are you guys going to use my amnesia as a joke for awhile?"
Everyone looked straight towards me and at the same time they said "Yes."
I sighed deeply at that, though I was sure some of them saw my amused look from their unison talk. My thoughts was interrupted as I had a crazy thought. With a sigh, I quickly touched Yang's shoulder, and I asked "Yang, can I talk to you alone for a bit? I want to clear something up."
I looked over the blondes shoulder to see Pyrrha discreetly nod, and smile, to which I looked back to Yang, and saw her look at me somewhat in surprise, but she did smile and say "Sure, I don't see why not. I'll see you guys later. Me and the ice cube here have to talk about something."
I felt my eyebrow twitch at the nickname, but I didn't comment on it. I did however, say "Don't worry Ruby. I'll make sure nothing happens to your little sun dragon, even if she can protect herself."
Yang sent a look towards me, but I was just giving an innocent smile, that actually caused everyone, even Weiss, to start laughing. The group left after that little comment, though I did see a bit of a smirk coming from the dragon herself. I'm also not embarrassed to say that I asked Yang to lead me to a place where we would be able to talk without interruptions. I personally thought pride was stupid, and that if anyone could do something better, no matter their gender, it wasn't a problem to me. I did, however, hate people we bragged when they won. Them and sore losers anyway.
Eventually we did find a quiet place to talk, and I was slightly surprised to find us in a classroom and, surprisingly, it was empty. I didn't know if today was a day classes were out, or what, but I knew that even if they were, there should have been someone in the classroom, I think. I wasn't exactly sure though. Turning towards the resident sun dragon, she gave me a smile, with her arms crossed, and she said "Here we are ice cube. Now, what is it you needed to talk to me for?"
"I... Don't know how to say this, so I'm going to be blunt about it." I started with a sigh "Yang... Do you... Like me? And I'm not talking about like, in the way of 'Oh, of course I like you, I'm your friend' or 'I wouldn't be here if I didn't like you'. I'm talking about the-"
I didn't get to finish the sentence, as Yang forcefully shut me up. It wasn't like I would complain though. She did, kinda force me to shut up by blocking my mouth off with hers. We stayed like that for a few seconds, as she asked "That answer your question Ice cube?"
I was actually stunned at the moment, but I nodded. A few seconds later, I shook my head rapidly, as I gave a nervous smile towards the blonde ''Soooo... Do, do you have any plans this next Friday...?"
Yang started to give me a thoughtful look, and in the end she shook her head "Me and my team were going to visit vale the week after for the Vytal festival though. Why? You asking me out?"
Hesitantly I nodded, and to my surprise she actually smiled even more, while promising to go to vale with me next Friday. Eventually she kissed me once again and left me to stare at the door she walked through. After a few seconds, I shook my stunned expression off, and started to walk out of the room, until I froze when I realized something.
"Where is my dorm?"
Yang and Kōri are dating! Well, at least they are going to. This is mainly the 'testing the waters' stage, so to speak, so it's nothing big. They feel something, but it's they don't know if it's a friendship type love, or more, so it's not going to get into anything really intimate anytime soon.
Ok! Now for the Poll. I'm going to be doing a custom Arc so to speak that will most likely be 4-5 chapters in length, maybe more if the feedback I get is good. You guys have until the 11th chapter of this story to vote, so you have plenty of time. Here are your choices!
Delve deeper into Amai's time with the white fang.
Find out what happened to Kōri's family.
Other (PM for idea).
There are your choices, so, make it quick with the voting, because I'm excited for what you guys choose!
Character profile: 7
Name: Katrina Mudrets
Affiliation: Vale, Team JKRS, Beacon
Nickname: Stonewall (Most of beacon) Kat (Her team and Kōri)
Age: 18 (Birthday: December 20th)
Height/Weight: 5'5/176 Lbs
Likes: School, Her team, Jessica, Hear weapons (Glava{pike} and Nazad{shield}), sweets of any kind.
Dislikes: Racism, spicy food, Professor port, Girly girl's, Liar's, Bullies, playboys.
Theme: Sum 41- the hell song
Weapons: A pike and shield combination, that has the Pike turn into an assault rifle form that shoots a 5.56x45mm round. The shield has divots on two parts of it as a way for the user to use the sheild as a stand on their arm for firing the gun. The Divots are also for more accurate hits with the pike form, though it is heavy enough that if someone is hit with it, it can disorient the opponent. Add this with the long staff of the Pike, and both objects can protect the user from both sides.
Notes: Katrina has always been seen as a stern and leader type of person, but she wasn't always that way. Behind the stern facade is someone who wants to have attention from normal people. Her parents, as they work a lot, have sent her to multiple schools, but instead of going to that school, she went to signal academy, much to her parents displeasure, to where she met Jessica, and the two became friends almost right away, despite the different upbringings. While Katrina does scold Jessica a lot when she does something stupid, it is mainly a way the two communicate between the other, and it usually is all in good fun for the two of them.
Quotes: "I only have one question for you. Was jessica involved?"
"I'm not much of a one on one fighter, but for you i'll make an exception (When she's pissed at someone in particular.)
"...You really expect want to piss me off huh? I'll be happy to break your fingers if thats what you want."
"My team is my family. I don't care what anyone says. Just as a flower cannot choose where it blooms, You cannot choose your relatives. My family is my team, you. You are not my family. (To her parents when they tried to get her out of being a huntress.)"
