AN: Heyo. Colors back once again. Haven't posted in a while, so this chapter is quite short. Need to write a bit to get back into the swing of things and all that. Not much more to say really, so onto the chapter!
Last Time Around: Chapter 7
I stand on a precipice, balancing on a razor thin line.
To my left is the end of the world. Vacant cities and burnt forests fill the world. It is a bleak future of our own making.
On my right lays a vibrant world flourishing with life and color. Children laugh and play, couples grow old together, and all flavors of life abound. The woods are filled with monsters of old that have long been forgotten.
Two races hang in the balance.
Do I forgive the thief, ignore a genocide, and doom the world?
Or return what was stolen and allow them to fade away?
A thousand times I have stood on this razors edge. Each time too scared of the waiting darkness to take the plunge.
I imagine it won't be any different this time around.
Long before the rest of the applicants to Beacon begin to stir themselves awake I find myself laying on my back on one of the many high roofs of the Academy. I never appreciated how beautiful the views from the heights were when I was young, even the view from Ozpins tower completely went over my head. Now however it is oddly enthralling. Just staring out, city on one side and forest on the other, watching the sky slowly brighten and the mist burn off awakens feelings in me I can't properly identify anymore.
I'm fairly certain they are good ones though. They don't hurt after all.
Thinking back, I'm farely sure I remember Pyrrha spending a lot of time up here. I never spent much time with her when I was little but her death had quite the impact on me.
Maybe... maybe this time I can get to know her better. See her as more than the "invincible" girl. At the very least it might be enjoyable to share this peaceful time of day with someone else who can appreciate it.
I'll need to make sure to introduce myself to her today, and to make absolutely sure not to act like a fangirl like Weiss.
Just another thing to add to the ever-expanding list of things I need to do with way too little time.
I can still feel the fog, the silken, calming coolness in the back of my head threatens to push forward and overwhelm me sometimes. Part of me wants to go back to how I was then, blank, vacant and uncaring. It's so much easier you know? Careing hurts when you know nothing good can come of it.
But this warmth, like the sun peaking over the horizon and slowly heating me, from being arround my old friends. More than anything else I want to bask in it, enjoy my time among them once more. Pretend that everything is alright.
The world isn't ending.
Everyone isn't going to die.
But the test isn't for a few more hours yet.
So for now, maybe I can loosen up. When I'm up here by myself. No one counting on me. Just for a moment let myself believe the lie that everything is fine.
Certainly nothing bad can come of that.
The assessment went pretty much exactly how I expected.
Jaunes flirting with Weiss was nipped in the bud by Yang running interference pretty early. It's amazing how much more relaxed and less... bitchy? That sounds right. How much less bitchy Weiss acts during initiation when she isn't annoyed by Jaune immediately before, and has Yang and I to chat with beforehand.
Other than that, everything is quite standard. We go out. Meet our partners, and they all murder some Grimm. Poor things were so young they could barely kill a farmer, let alone a trainee Hunter.
Well, the nevermore and deathstalker probably could have slaughtered some civilians, but Jaune managed to help kill them so they couldn't kill too many.
Right? Sure.
The important thing is that team RWBY, and team JNPR, are back in action.
Kind of.
The rest of them are practically amateurs in comparison to me. Even Pyrrha, who far surpassed my abilities when we were students, may as well be a child playing with her parents' weapons.
I really need to think of a way to say that without sounding incredibly offensive.
But in all seriousness, after seeing them all in action I am appaled at just how... GOD FUCKING AWEFUL they all are. Did they learn nothing at school? Did Tai and Qrow spend no time at all teaching Yang and I? Were Weiss's no doubt incredibly expensive tutors all con artists? If Blake is above average for the white fang, its honestly a miracle they didn't all kill themselves by accidentally falling on their fucking weapons.
It's not actually that bad. It's just... gods I have my work cut out for me.
Fixing the thousands of flaws in their fighting styles, along with training them in proper aura use?
Beacon tries to do that, but they have 4 years, dozens of teachers, and an unlimited budget to do it. Not to mention they have one of the strongest aura users (who technically is several of the strongest aura users) overseeing things.
How am I going to do this? I'm not a teacher, heck I am barely capable of intelligent conversation most days.
Whatever. It won't do overthinking things now. I'll figure something out later, last minute panic is a wonderful motivator.
Welcome to the bottom of the chapter!
Quite short as i said at the top. Coming off of about a month and a half or so of no writing whatsoever so the flow was pretty bad. Hopefully the next one comes quicker and i get it up this week.
As to why i didn't write for a month you ask? Vacation! Followed immediately by being sick. And realizing I bought Payday 2 Ultimate Addition at some point and playing the shit out of it.
Fun stuff! Except for the being sick part. That kinda blew. I'm actually suprised i didn't get ill during the Vacation. It was about 4 weeks of nonstop travel all over and normally my body reacts to travel poorly for whatever reason. i blame the 7-11 breakfast sandwiches.
Now that thats over with, onto the reviews!
omegawarlordx: Yeah i shopped a few different ideas for wierd fucked up shit i could have Ruby to do Pyrha. I felt that one did the best middle ground between being brutal and also understandable. My favorite part of it is when she tells pyrrha if she never comes back to life than her death was worth it in the end. I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff.
the powder keg: i dont plan on stopping it hahaha. Of course as soon as i get a review telling me they like the quick update i go a frakking month and a half without posting! Should be faster updates from now on. Hopefully. I jinxed it didnt I.
Sm0keypanda: I hate you so much for that.
Gladius Invidia: i dont know what it is about it, i assume its mostly because to make him interesting you have to literally change every detail about him to where he is basically an OC, but of all the characters you can make the MC of a story he is just sooooo unenjoyable hahaha.
tetraforce theory: Personally im a big fan of OOC. After all if you only want in character stuff you may as well just watch the actual show!
Speaking of the actual show, I have a confession to make...
I still haven't watched season 5.
