TrueTemplar here and sorry about the incredibly long wait! University has been pretty tough for the last few months and sadly it had to be my number one priority. We are back however, picking up from last chapters fight so I hope you enjoy!

Deus Vult!


After Albion's victory, a lot of things occurred in a short space of time; firstly Cardin was taken to the medical centre, secondly, Albion was told off by Goodwitch for doing damage to the arena floor, thirdly Luteus and Silvanus were barraged with questions regarding their leader, and lastly, Goodwitch called an end to the lecture and subsequently an end to the first half of team ALBN's first academic day at Beacon Academy.

As Albion returned to the stands to regroup with his team, Ruby rushed over to his side,

"Albion that was so cool you were amazing!" she squealed.

"Ruby's right," Yang added as she walked over and hung her arm around the tall huntsman, "It was awesome watching you beat down Cardin!"

"A very impressive display," Pyrrha added with a sincere smile.

"Your aura levels are very impressive," Blake added, "I'm sure there is a lot you can teach us."

Albion had been in worse fights and the compliments he was receiving confused him, he was literally being beaten down for the majority of the match, albeit to make his 'comeback' a lot more unexpected. He couldn't complain, though, it had been a while since he had a chance to flex his muscles, even if it wasn't at all necessary.

Weiss folded her arms before she too congratulated her new acquaintance,

"Well, it wasn't exactly the most charismatic of fights, but well done never the less."

Her comment prompted Jaune to sigh and mumble something about how his life was so unfair, something that only Silvanus seemed to pick up on, who laughed as he pat his new friend on the shoulder reassuringly.

"Don't worry Jaune," he said with an unintentionally high level of volume, "The boss would never go for someone like the snow angel over there!"

Silvanus' words had multiple reactions; Ruby and Yang both burst into laughter along with a hushed giggle from Blake, Weiss' eyes opened wide in shock and her face went bright red as her levels of embarrassment went through the roof, as this happened Albion and Luteus closed their eyes as they sighed in sync.

"Silvanus I thought we had already taught you how to mentally separate things you should think and things you should say," the leader of ALBN said with exasperation.

Weiss' cheeks were getting even redder and her arms were hanging rigid by her side, she quickly began trying (and failing) to say something to defend herself from the embarrassment.

"Ignore what Silvanus says, Weiss," Albion said noticing Weiss' discomfort, "You're fine, there's nothing wrong with you," he added with a grin.

Weiss looked towards the huntsman and saw his grin, she relaxed and began to feel less embarrassed.

"I mean you can't deny she can be really irritating, though," Yang said in a fake whisper into Albion's ear, in a clear attempt to wind up Weiss. Before succeeding however Ozpin got to his feet quickly and made his way out of the stands,

"Now children I do believe some of you have other classes to attend," he said loudly.

"Hells yeah!" Silvanus said with a cheer as Blaze held up a sign that had the words "Woohoo!" written on it. The other team members present laughed at their reaction, the new team were evidently excited about these new experiences, before realising they did, in fact, have other classes to attend, classes they were now fifteen minutes late for.

"Oh crap, we need to move now!" Ruby said as she and her friends rushed out of the room, dragging a reluctant Yang with them,

"Awk come on guys do we have to go? I mean the class is practically over by now..." Yang said as she got pulled away before being rebuked by Weiss which once again started an argument.

Ozpin sighed before gesturing for team ALBN's members to follow their new friends.

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As Luteus, Silvanus and Blaze caught up with team RWBY and JNPR they realised they had gone up nearly four flights of stairs,

"How high up is this classroom!?" Silvanus asked between gasps for air, "And why is there not a lift to make this easier!?"

"Just think of it as a workout!" Yang said with a grin, "We're nearly there now!"

As the group rounded the last bend in their journey they saw the door to the class they were supposed to be in, after picking up the exhausted Jaune and helping him get back to his feet they made their way briskly to their lecture. As they reached the door Ruby stopped Weiss before she could enter,

"Wait!" she said as she turned her head and looked around, "Where's Albion!?"

After a few seconds of searching the rest of the group realised team ALBN's leader was in fact not present,

"Don't worry about him," Silvanus said, still panting, "His leg slows him down when not in combat, besides he wouldn't put himself through any extra pain or effort just to get to a class on time," he added with a slight laugh.

Ruby and the others looked hesitant but after much insistence from the rest of ALBN, they entered the classroom. As Silvanus walked in he was met with a large room with seats that rose in height, the board at the front of the class read 'The Biology and Anatomy Surrounding Discovered Grimm". The room itself was quite plain in colour, but it was warm and welcoming,

"This is something I could get used to," Silvanus said to himself with a grin before being brought back to reality by a large booming voice that came from the centre of the room.

"And what, may I ask children, is the cause for your lateness?" Professor Port asked as he walked towards the group, his face one of seriousness that put fear through Silvanus and Blaze.

As he reached the group, however, his face changed and he began to chuckle heartily,

"Don't worry children, I'm merely being humorous with you!" the professor boomed as he raised up a finger, "Did you forget I was also at the arena as well?"

As the group stopped and thought, they did in-turn remember both Professor Port and Oobleck were present at their earlier class, upon the realisation that they were only three minutes late the group breathed a heavy sigh of relief and headed to their seats, Luteus, Silvanus and Blaze choosing three empty seats that no one seemed to be occupying.

"Congratulations to those who took part in the matches this morning," Port said with a jolly smile, "They were both great displays of combat and should provide other students with a lot of things to analyse and learn from."

As those who participated thanked the professor for his words he looked around the room slowly,

"I take it Mr Winchester won't be joining us after what he was put through earlier," he said trying to hide the small grin that came across his face, "But where, may I ask, is the person that fought him, Albion I believe his name was?"

"He'll be coming shortly sir," Silvanus said, "It just takes him a while with his leg you see."

Professor Port nodded towards Silvanus to convey his understanding before continuing with his lesson topic. Today's subject as stated on the board was discussing and analysing the anatomy of the Grimm, Professor Port stating that if you know what allows an object to live, you will be more adequately prepared to stop it living. Most students in the class were furiously taking notes and listening intently to the words of wisdom being spoken by their teacher, there were, however, some exceptions to this. Ruby was fast asleep, hiding behind her textbook and Silvanus was eagerly redrawing the images of Grimm that Port was displaying on the board, both luckily not being noticed by their teacher, who was far too enthralled by his own words to notice their lack of interest.

As Port ended his lecture Ruby was awoken by Blake who nudged her, informing her teammate that class had finished.

"Aw yeah!" Ruby said as she stretched out her body before standing up, "So what do you guys wanna do now?" she asked.

"I'm not sure about you Ruby but I think most of us will be staying here for another thirty minutes or so," Weiss replied flatly, "As we still have another class to attend."

The happiness that had allowed Ruby to stand after such a dull lecture was now replaced with a dread that brought her back to her seat, "It's history class isn't it Weiss..." she asked her partner.

"You are correct, the fact you knew that however is quite impressive," Weiss said as she took out her history textbooks in preparation for the next class. As Ruby began to mock cry to the amusement of the others the classroom door opened and Albion limped in before closing the door behind him.

"Oh yeah, I completely forgot about Albion!" Yang said as she turned her head towards the door, "What on earth happened to you?"

"Cheers Yang," Albion replied dryly to the entertainment of those present, "Well I told the guys to carry on without me and that I would catch up, but then realised I had no idea where this classroom was," he said as he shook his head with a laugh.

"Really?" Weiss asked with scepticism, "It surely couldn't have taken you that long to find this room, even with a slow walking speed."

"Weiss!" Ruby hissed, "You're being rude!"

"Well actually Weiss you're right," Albion responded as he made his way towards the students' seats, "I did, in fact, find my way here about ten minutes ago, but to be honest, the class didn't look too interesting so I went for a walk."

"You mean you just left!?" Weiss exclaimed as a look of visible disbelief and disgust overcame her face while Ruby and the others began to laugh heartily at the young man's brutal level of honesty.

"If I'm being completely truthful with you I probably won't attend a lot of these classes, I don't see the point in them," Albion added with a shrug causing a sigh from Luteus before a small smile broke out on his face too.

"You don't...see the point in them?" Weiss asked, her levels of anger visibly rising prompting everyone to quite down, "Even though these classes are imperative to our success as huntsman and huntresses you decided to just miss them? That is so irresponsible!"

"Okay Weiss...let's try and stay calm," Yang said as she noticed other students starting to listen in.

"Oh yes...well I-I mean that's only my opinion," she replied, suddenly remembering where she was and who she was talking about, "Don't listen to anything I say, I'm sure where you come from you do things very differently to us." Weiss finished as she bowed her head apologetically.

"Don't worry about it pet," Albion replied calmly as he walked past the pale skinned girl, ruffling her hair, "Just remember that success in the field can be obtained in a variety of ways."

"How so?" Weiss asked while trying to fix her hair.

"Well you seem to have a formula where missing this class means instant failure on the battlefield, however, as someone who has both never been in a class in his life yet still succeeded on the battlefield I disprove this formula," Albion replied as he went up the steps leading to the seats at the back, "Put simply, adding two and two isn't the only way to get four."

Ruby closed her eyes and tried to process Albion's words but she just couldn't and whimpered as everyone around her seemingly nodded in agreement with Albion.

"Ruby you don't seem to get it," Albion said not needing to turn his head around, "But to see if Weiss fully understands I'll ask her to explain it to you. All eyes then fell on Weiss who quickly turned to Ruby,

Weiss looked back at Albion and thought of what he said before responding,

"It's quite simple really," she said with a hint of arrogance, "If you study all day and never practice fighting then you will be useless on the battlefield, however, if you fight all day and don't study you are also useless, is that right?" she said as she turned to Albion for approval.

"Exactly, ten points to Weiss," Albion said with a smile as he reached the back row of the class and the others began mock congratulating Weiss. Albion checked the seats on the left-hand side of the class to see all of them were empty, the seats on the right side, however, were mostly empty, save for one small timid looking girl with rabbit ears who had sat right in the corner of the room, she looked nervously towards the tall student walking towards her and as he placed himself in the seat right next to her he extended his only hand and winked at her,

"Hey there, my name's Albion, it's a pleasure to meet you."


Ohhhh ship confirmed maybe? Or maybe I'm just toying with you all? You'll have to wait and see...

As always suggestions are always welcome and they may make an appearance in the story somewhere!