A/N: Okay! Just this chapter and we will be on to our next arc! YAY! But what are we waiting for...Let's get this out of the way before we get into the more mushy chapters...
Evan: Oh! this is a DISCLAIMER! Arrekusu does not own RWBY...It belongs to their respective owners: Grey Haddock, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross and Monty Oum (Who is resting in peace). If Arrekusu did own RWBY though, he would probably make us canon...And all that...Anyway, let's get to the last chapter of "Reunion arc"!
Chapter 4: We are one! Team ENRG reunites!
NEEL?! REDD?! Thought both Evan and Grey
Grey, Evan, and team RWBY were still stuck in the snare trap that they were caught in the last chapter of this story. Apparently because of Ruby's desire for the cookie, it lead them to where they are at now: cramped at a snare trap...Now the Calfuray brothers were standing right in front of the trap, hoping they caught something good, unfortunately, what they got was a couple of huntsman...Not food.
"Argh! We didn't get food, only a couple of adolescents running around like a bunch of no-ones." Redd said
Then a hand reached to Redd's left shoulder, belonging to his younger brother, Neel.
"*Sigh* Redd, you don't know who they are. But aren't you people just a group of huntresses?" Neel said
Ruby tried to squeeze her head through her team mates so that way she could get the attention of the Calfuray brothers.
"Yep! We are!"
"That's good, but may I ask, why are you four around here?" Neel asked
Blake then tried to squeeze her head through her team mates to get the brother's attention again
"We are actually trying to find a team named 'ENRG', do you know anything about two of the members named Redd and Neel Calfuray?"
Neel and Redd looked at each other with both their eyebrows raised, then they looked back at the captured huntresses
"You're looking at them right now, but what do you need from us?" Redd asked
A sword then popped out of the bottom of the trap; the sword was then maneuvered to where it started cutting the bottom the trap, resulting in team RWBY, Evan, and Grey to fall out of the trap
"*Groan* Finally! Geez Evan, what took you so long?" Grey said as he was getting up to stretch his back
"What?!" Thought both of the Calfuray brothers. Both of their eyes widened at seeing Grey come out of the trap, they were also shocked that he mentioned Evan when he got out of the trap.
"Grey?!" Both Neel and Redd said at the same time
As both Neel and Redd said that, Evan got up
The blonde freelancer had a flustered look on his face because of the position he was at in the trap. He was breathing fast and heavy like he just woke up from a bad dream. Eventually, his breathing slowed and his face turned from red as a tomato to his normal, slightly tanned skin.
"Sorry, I could hardly reach 'Ambassador'. Thank goodness I did, but I think I dislocated my shoulder in the process." Evan said as he tenderly held his right shoulder
"Here, lemme help." Yang offered
Evan's eyes widened at Yang's offer as she walked towards him and grasped his right arm
"W-w-wait, I think it's-"
*Pop*
"AAAAHHH! Dang it woman, I wasn't even prepared yet!" Evan said as he threw and angry chibi look at Yang "*Sigh* at least it feels better now that you just did that, so thanks."
"No problem!" Yang giggled
Evan then looked at the Neel and Redd, who were both giving him and Grey surprised chibi faces, and walked towards them
"First of all, you two should try a snare loop trap, not a net...And second of all..."
Evan then simultaneously gave both of them a hug
"It's good to see you two back after two years!" He said while grinning
Both Neel and Redd looked at each other and gave a delighted look while hugging Evan back
"*Chuckling* Yeah, it's been awhile, glad we're all back." Neel said
Grey then ran and jumped at the three of them
"GROUP HUG!"
"AAHH!" Evan, Neel, and Redd said as they got tackled by the fennec
"HAHAHA! It's good to see you Grey!" Neel said as he ruffled Grey's beanie
"Huh, you actually grew a couple inches, didn't you Grey?" Redd said
"Yeah! I did! I'm now 5' 4"!" Grey said excitedly
ENRG got up from Grey's surprise group hug as they all smiled at each other, happy that they all reunited
"So how did you guys meet up?" Redd asked
"I was going to ask the same thing for you two. But first, I want you guys to meet team RWBY!" Evan said while gesturing his hands to team RWBY
Ruby used her semblance and zipped towards Redd and Neel
"HI! I'm the leader, Ruby Rose!"
Weiss then walked up towards the brothers and introduced herself
"Hello, my name is Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Dust Company..."
"Wow, a Schnee? That's cool." Redd said
"But you people are also known for controversial labor forces and questionable business partners." Neel said with venom in his voice
"Hey!" She snapped back
"Sorry, my younger brother is not the fondest of your company...Please forgive him for his attitude." Redd said as he waved his hands in defense for him and his brother
Neel gave a narrow squint at Weiss and stared at her for a little bit before he noticed Blake
"Who's she?" Neel asked when he saw Blake
Blake looked at Neel a little bit before she realized that he was asking for her name
"*Sigh* Blake..."
Then Yang last
"What's up! Name's Yang."
Both Redd and Neel nodded at team RWBY due to being introduced to them
"So this is the team that found you two?" Neel said
"Yep! I was found first, then Grey, now you guys." Evan said
"But how did you guys find each other is the question..." Grey said
"How about we talk about this while we walk?" Redd suggested
RWBY, Evan, Neel, and Grey nodded in approval and started moving forward to get to the location of the bullhead, with the location being where they got dropped off.
Later...
As teams RWBY and ENRG walked through Forever Fall forest, ENRG was walking in front of RWBY as Redd and Neel told how they met.
"So, you guys met in a village?" Evan said
"Yep, I was traveling to see if there was anywhere I can sleep and eat, but one of the villagers was saying that there was a deathstalker by the village, so I said I would slay for them...After that, I met Neel as he was exiting the inn."
"Huh, but how did you not see him enter the inn?" Grey said
"I got there in the middle of the night; pretty much everyone was sleeping by then." Neel said
...
"So how did you and Grey meet, Evan?" Redd asked
"Well long story short, those four girls right behind us found me in Mt. Glenn and I got to visit Beacon-"
"Woah woah woah, what?! You got to visit Beacon academy?" Redd said shockingly
"Uhh, yeah...Anyway, I went there for a little bit and We went to Forever Fall forest because I got a call from this thing called a 'scroll', which the caller was Grey. He told me that he made a rudimentary scroll to get a signal and say that he is in Forever Fall forest. Apparently he got my scroll's signal and told me that he was there, and the rest is history."
After Evan told his experience of meeting Grey, Neel put his hand up on his chin, wondering about something he had in his mind
"Hey, what's up?" Redd asked, wondering what Neel was thinking about
"Isn't it coincidental for all of this to happen?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, think about it...You and I are partners Redd, you were the first person I met in our team...Evan met Grey first in our team, Grey is Evan's partner, you are my partner...Is it not weird?"
Redd brought a wondering look to his face, now thinking about what his brother just said
"Huh, never thought of it that way...But that is awfully suspicious...But hey, at least we reunited right?" Redd pointed out
"Hmph, yeah...At least we did." Neel said as he grinned
Grey then walked up to Redd to talk to him about what he was doing the past two years. As Redd and Grey kept on talking, Neel noticed that Evan looked a bit different from last time he saw him. Evan's eyes were a bit bloodshot and had slight bags in his eyes. He wondered why Evan looked so tired, so he went to ask...
"Hey Evan, are you okay?" Neel asked
Evan didn't react to Neel's question, so Neel tapped on his shoulder before trying again
"Hm, huh?"
"Hey, are you okay, Evan?"
Evan looked at Neel with a confused look, wondering why he would say something like that
"Heh, yeah I'm great! Why would you say something like that, Neel?"
Neel gave Evan a deadpan look because he already knew Evan was going to lie about it
"Really Evan? I know you too much to know that you are lying...You're not okay...you eyes are bloodshot, you have bags under your eyes and your hair is just plain ol' everywhere. And usually when your hair is unkempt, you're not okay..."
Evan's eyes widened at Neel's analytical reply and stared at him for a little bit before he replied
"*Sigh* Alright, you got me..." Evan said as his raised his hands in defense "Yeah, I'm not my usual self lately...I-I-I haven't been sleeping for the past two years...Ever since we separated for the past two years, nightmares started to creep in my mind lately and I couldn't sleep then...I don't know, it's just been really crazy for me the past two years and yada yada. I mean I have improved my semblance and everything, but that was one of my main challenges, I guess" Evan said as he bowed his head in defeat
Neel gave Evan a consoling look at him because of all the things his teammate had to go through
"So, you have improved your time semblance?" Neel asked
"Yeah"
"Hmm, that's good...But let me be serious here, we're partners Evan. We are supposed to look out for each other, and that's what I am doing, I know you look out for Grey alot because he had no family and was bullied alot by the other huntsman due to his heritage, but you need to let other people help you. And that's what I want to do, help my teammate." Neel said with a grin
Evan smiled at Neel for his support. He's always known that Neel likes to help others, especially the Faunus. That's why he can be pretty protective over Grey, but not as much as Evan though. Even though Neel likes being by himself sometimes, either reading a book or watching cat videos, he can be a good person to talk to when you have trouble.
"Heh, thanks for looking out Neel. I'm glad that we made this team, you know that?"
"Yeah, we're a team after all. And we are supposed to stick together, you're our leader...And I know you like supporting us and your friends, and I want to make sure you still have someone there for you when you have something in mind." Neel said as he patted Evan's right shoulders
Meanwhile...
As the team members of ENRG were catching up with each other, team RWBY was walking behind them, watching them talk to each otber excitedly. Ruby was watching Grey as his eyes were sparkling over Redd's claymore as he unsheathed it. In her point of view, it looked like he was analyzing Redd's weapon and pointing out the qualities of the sword. Redd's claymore, named "Lancelot", had a simple design...Having a 46 inch blade that was double edged and had a cross hilt with forward angled arms. She saw Grey take the pommel out of the claymore, revealing a slot for the user to place any kind of dust needed. When Grey saw this, his eyes sparkled even more and his mouth looked like he was drooling at the sight.
"Wow, he must really like weapons...Kinda like me, he's kinda cute when he looks like that." Ruby thought
She wanted to take a look at Redd's weapon herself, so she walked up to where the faunus and the knight were at and tapped Grey's shoulder
"Hm? Oh hi Ruby!" Grey said
"Hi! I was wondering if I could uhh...See your weapon? I'm kind of a huge dork when it comes to weapons." Ruby asked
"Tsk, you're not the only one..." Redd said as he was pointing his thumb at Grey
"Hehe, he's right...Ever since I figured out my semblance was shapeshifting myself and items, I studied weapons so that way I can get a good idea of a weapon and copy it..."
"Wow, but why did you have to study for them?" Ruby asked
"Well, it's because if I want to use my semblance to its full potential, I would need to know all the specs of the weapon so I could copy it efficiently...Since then, I'm able to copy weapons just by looking at them."
"That's so cool!"
It was now slightly inaudible what Grey and Ruby were talking about because the perspective was now switched to Evan and Neel.
"Heh, looks like Grey is making friends already..." Evan pointed out to Neel
"Looks like it...But when are we gonna arrive in out location?"
"WE'RE HERE!" Ruby shouted
"Oh..." Neel said as he slouched his shoulders
After Ruby said that, the Bullhead arrived out of the clouds and started descending near them. As the Bullhead descended near them, the jets of the airship started blowing the grass and leaves of the forest, causing the huntsman and huntresses to cover their eyes with their arms and started to squint their eyes so they could still use them to see the arriving Bullhead. The Bullhead eventually landed and the doors of the airship opened. Teams ENRG and RWBY started walking to the entrance of the Bullhead and flew away from the Forever Fall forest.
...
Everyone was quiet in the Bullhead...Well, almost everybody...NRG was talking their heads off while everybody else was doing something else. Ruby was playing with her scroll, Weiss was doing nothing but sitting down, Blake was reading a book, Yang was watching Ruby play with her scroll, and Evan was looking out the window of the ship, thinking of him and his team mate's future. Did he want his team to have a good future? Yes. Will beacon academy benefit them? He hopes so. Does he want his team to regret going to beacon? HECK NO! These said questions and many other anxieties plagued the freelancer's mind.
He never thought that being a leader was going to be THIS hard, he was a bit careless, in fact he was THE most careless person of the team despite being leader, but he knew when to get serious. He cared a lot about his team mates, Neel and Redd had each other because they're brothers. Unfortunately, Grey had no one to look out for him when he was younger. And when the Calfuray brothers found him, Evan decided to be the brother (and partner) of Grey. Now that Grey was his partner, he looked out for Grey and Grey looked out for him. Though it was probably Evan doing more of the looking out.
As it was said in this story many times, Grey is a fennec fox Faunus. The Faunus were usually insulted or made fun of in the academies. Unfortunately, Grey was one of the most picked students of the academies due to being short and being a Faunus, but when Evan figured it out. He would usually beat the crap out the bullies. That was him pretty much, the bodyguard of the team. And ever since the team separated to get stronger independently, he worried about his team mates a lot. Causing his anxiety to increase ten fold and giving insomnia on the side. But now that him and his team reunited, he didn't really need to worry about them so much, now he had to only worry about his own problems.
He doesn't want people to get into his own problems, because he knew that they would want to know more about him personally. He only wants to help others but not let people help him. He was that selfless, so selfless that it's kinda unhealthy. But his thoughts were then interrupted by a certain blonde that was getting his attention by tapping his shoulder, jump scaring him in the process.
"Hey!" Yang said as she tapped his shoulder
"GAH!"
"Oh! Hehe, sorry 'bout that..." Yang said as she scratched the back of her head
"*Pant* *Pant* No no no, it's all good! *Sigh* Just thinking about some things...I think I'm just worrying too much" Evan said
Yang gave a consoling look to Evan
"Are you sure you're gonna be okay?" She asked
Evan started looking away from the window and looked down at the airship's floor. To be honest with himself, he's not his best at the moment. Right now he doesn't want anybody to talk to him right now, overall he doesn't want anyone to worry about him at the moment. So he lied.
"Yeah, I'll be fine!" Evan said as he grinned
"...You sure you don't want to talk about anything?" Yang asked
"Mmmm, nah..."
Yang was about to say something until she felt a hand on her left shoulder, she expected someone around her height. Instead, it looked like the arm needed to reach a little bit to get to her shoulder. She looked a little ways down and saw beanie wearing Grey.
"Hi! I realize that you're trying to talk to Evan. Am I right?"
Yang gave a defeated look to Grey
"Yeah, I was...I have a feeling that something's up with him..."
Grey stopped for a moment and thought before he said something else
"Hey, it's alright...Usually when he's by himself he wants to think, that's why we're not trying to reach out to him. *Sigh* There are times where we try and it ends up with us failing...But don't worry about him! He'll be alright." Grey said as he tried to encourage Yang
Yang gave a worried look to Evan before she decided to listen to Grey and not try to talk to him.
The Bullhead was now arriving at the campus of the academy as it descended into the helipad it was assigned to. On the campus grounds was Glynda Goodwitch waiting in front of the helipad. As the Bullhead descended and opened its doors, it revealed team RWBY exiting from the Bullhead first, later revealing team ENRG exiting from the Bullhead. Glynda looked at the two teams, but mainly focusing on Neel, Redd, and Grey.
"Hello, my name is Glynda Goodwitch, I believe that you three are the remaining members of ENRG?"
"Yep!" Neel, Redd, and Grey said in unison
"Good" Glynda said as she started typing into her large scroll "You three have been assigned to talk to professor Ozpin, you three are just going to talk while team RWBY and Mr. Attai will stay here."
"Woah, wait...Why do I need to stay with them?" Evan asked
"Because you have already been questioned by professor Ozpin..."
"*Choke* Uhh...Hmm...Bah! Fine..." Evan babbled as he lowered his hands in defeat
Ruby chuckled at his attempt to get back
"Alright, might as well get done with it now." Redd said
Neel and Grey nodded their heads as they went to Ozpin's office
Later...
Ozpin was looking at his large scroll at his left hand while having his cup of coffee in his right. As he put down his scroll, he heard the elevator ding, revealing three teenagers as they entered into his office.
"Wow...THIS IS SO COOL!" Grey said
"Pretty interesting office, professor." Redd said
"I'm glad, would any of you like some coffee?" Ozpin asked
Grey shyly raised his hand while Ozpin gave the fennec a cup filled with the black, indulgent drink
"So why do you want to talk to us, exactly?" Neel asked as he crossed his arms
"I'm glad you asked, I have already explained it to Evan, but the reason why I wanted to find you four was because of a breach that happened not too long ago...We have ensured we have more protection within the academy, but I heard there was a disbanded team and with the members being missing. And we also have the Vytal festival coming soon. So let me ask you three, do you know who I am?"
"You are professor Ozpin!" Grey blurted out while Redd and Neel pointed their thumbs as Grey a little bit after he said that
Ozpin had a slight smile on his face at Grey's answer
"Hello, and you are Grey Brenin-Llwyd, you are Neel Calfuray, and you are Redd Calfuray."
"Hello" The three said in unison
"Well, I have already enrolled Evan into this academy, so I believe that you three would like to join him also?"
Grey nodded his head furiously while Neel and Redd looked at each other and nodded
"Well, as I have said to Evan..." Ozpin said while he pulled three scrolls out of his desk "Welcome to beacon academy"
Neel, Redd, and Grey got a scroll each and smiled at the professor
"W-w-we appreciate it professor!" Grey said
"Hm, your leader is waiting for you...So I don't want to waste too much of your time...Your classes will start in a week, so it will give you enough time to prepare for items and other things."
Meanwhile...
Team RWBY and Evan were nearby the fountain, with all of them sitting there, but Evan was sitting opposite to where they were all at. He was looking at the sky with earbuds in his ears. He had a yellow ipod shuffle in his hand and was listening to one of his personal favorite songs, though it was an English cover of the song, he still liked it either way. The song was heard very vaguely outside of the earbuds, but if you listened long enough, you could hear it.
*Insert AmaLee's English cover of Again By Yui*
I had a purpose then, pursing the path to catalyze our dream
But it's a winding road, where you stumble and sway your way amongst the crowd
Don't get me wrong, I would never go back in time – or play God
But is there a way I could earn back that endless sky?
Evan was slowly bobbing his head to the beat of the song. He had many memories with the song, the song was always something to cheer him up. Besides his teammates being one of the choices, music was one of the things that cheered him up the most. If he was honest with himself, he would probably be a bit more insane if music didn't exist.
With team RWBY's perspective, Ruby was playing with her scroll while Blake was reading a book. Yang and Weiss were doing nothing, Weiss had her arms crossed while Yang was sitting on the fountain with her palms on the rim of the fountain. Yang was looking around the campus until she noticed Evan was rocking his head side to side with earbuds in his ears. She tilted her head in confusion, wondering what he was listening to...So she walked closer to Evan to see what he was listening to.
I try to make sense of why
We can't figure how to unlock the next door
We bleed on this path we lead
But we cannot turn back, cause our story's begun
Open up your eyes - Open up your eyes
These words were vaguely heard as Yang got closer to Evan, she wanted to see how Evan would react if she tried to scare him. So she creeped up slowly until...
"I know you're there, Yang..." Evan said as he took his earbuds out of his ears
"Hehe, I thought it was going to work...So...What are you listening to?" She asked
Evan looked at his ipod shuffle and took one of his earbuds and put it in his left ear. He then took the other one and handed it to Yang
"I just finished the song, so I'll replay it...I think you'll like it." Evan said as he played the song
She listened to the song intently. She gave an unsure look at first, but her face then changed to a smile to now slowly bobbing her head.
"Heh, you like it?" Evan asked
"Yep! Who is she? She's awesome!"
"I know, right?! Her name is 'AmaLee' and she does English covers of anime songs. She does some video game covers too, but this is one of my favorite songs that she has done. The Japanese version was also really good, but they are both good."
As Yang was asking more questions, Neel, Redd, and Grey exited from the academy. Grey was jumping up and down while Neel was chuckling at Grey's antics, Redd just sighed and ignored them.
"HEY GUYS! WE MADE IT!" Grey said
Evan heard Grey's screaming and looked and saw the three of them. He looked at Yang and gave her his earbud, which she took quickly, and walked to his teammates
"Hey guys!" Ruby said
After Ruby said that, Evan appeared right next to her
"So...Did you guys get your scrolls?" Evan asked
"Yeah, Ozpin said that you know our dorm room number. What is it?" Neel asked
"It's B-207..." Evan said as he gave a straight face to Neel
"Cool...I think I'm going to nap now...So I guess you guys will see me there." Redd said as he stretched his arms and left to go to their assigned dorm room
"Okay, I think Yang wanted to show me something around here. So I guess I'll go ask her what she wanted to show me." Evan said
After Evan said that, Yang got up and walked to the freelancer with his ipod shuffle in her hand
"Here's your ipod, and that song was pretty good!"
"Thanks, you said you wanted to show me something...What was it?!"
"OH! Yeah, just follow me." Yang said as she grabbed his arm
"HEY HEY HEY WATCH THE ARM!"
Neel and Grey were now the only ones standing on the campus. They both looked and each other and shrugged their shoulders
"So, waddya wanna do?" Grey asked
"I think I'm just gonna read this book I got." Neel said as he got a book out of nowhere
"Okay, I think I'm gonna see what Ruby is doing." Grey said
They both nodded at each other and Grey sat next to Ruby while Neel sat in between Blake and Weiss.
End of Reunion arc...
A/N: Hi guys! I think I kinda rushed on this chapter, so I may re-edit this one here and there, but I hope you enjoy! So before this chapter, I'm going to release a fun facts chapter. So expect that and I hope you guys have a nice day!
-Arrekusu
P.S. I know this chapter was a bit shorter that the other chapter, but this is only just the beginning, so expect longer (and possibly shorter XD) chapters in the future of this story!
