It was a peaceful morning at Beacon academy. The birds were singing, the sun was out with a few clouds dotting the sky, which caused the temperature to be just right. All in all it gave off the signs of a great day!
... If it wasn't for the fact that Sora was sleeping on his desk, papers scattered about, snoring as his alarm clock counted down.
"No... No Donald! Why didn't you heal me...?" Sora mumbled as he slept the morning away.
But as Sora continued to sleep, he was unaware that his alarm was about 10 seconds away from blasting music.
(Play Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep OST: It's A Small World.)
"AHH! I'm up up! Don't make the brooms come!" Sora yelled as he face planted into the ground. "Ow..."
Standing up, Sora realized that he fell asleep on his desk again. "Why did I assign them to do a paper again?" He mumbled as he tried to remember. "Oh yeah... Miss. Goodwitch told me to..." He muttered, shivering a bit.
Glynda did not fuck around when it came to the students' education.
"... And I still had to do my homework." He said, pouting a bit.
School work was not his forte, especially math, fuck math.
Realizing that his alarm was still playing, he walked over and shut it off. 'Maybe Weiss could check it for me.' He thought as he went to freshen up and get changed.
(End KHBBS OST: It's a Small World)
He was happy that despite his position as a professor it didn't interfere with his ability to make friends. In fact, the others even made a few good natured jokes about it! Even though it still bugged him a bit when they called him 'Mr.' or 'Professor' Hikari.
"What time is it?" He muttered when he was snapped out of his thoughts.
Looking at his clock, Sora realized that he only had five minutes to get to class.
"Oh no! I'm late! I'm late! I'm very very late!" He yelled as he quickly gathered his homework and the essays he graded before bolting down the hallway.
"No time to say hello! I'm late!" Sora yelled as he passed by some students that greeted him.
"Huh." Muttered a musically inclined student as Sora ran inside a building. "That would make a nice little song." He said as he walked to his next class.
"... Doesn't Sora usually get here before us?" Ruby asked as she and the other students sat in the arena, waiting for the spiky-haired teacher to arrive.
"He probably slept in." Blake said as she read her book.
"Nah, that's what Jaune does." Nora said, pointing her thumb towards the blonde.
"I take offense to that!" Jaune said with a playful glare.
"My money is that he stayed up late doing his homework." Yang said as she played a game on her scroll.
And at that moment, Sora burst in running towards the center of the arena.
"So sorry about that!" He said as he tried to organize his papers. "Some problems with the door, coffee, yada Yada yada..." He trailed off as he finished getting organized.
"So in other words, the usual." Weiss muttered as Sora took out the essays.
"Okay! I'm happy with what you guys wrote when I asked you to describe the feeling of your cloaked around you." Sora began as he stared to hand the papers back. "While some of you were more... Descriptive, than necessary I'll accept it."
"Uhm, Mr. Hikari?" Velvet asked as she raised her hand. "Is this math homework?" The Faunus said as she showed a sheet with multiple equations on it.
"And is this Grimm studies homework?" A brown haired girl with an orange dyed curl asked as well.
"Whoops! So sorry about that Velvet and Coco!" Sora said as he took his homework back and gave them their essays.
Once everyone had their assignments back, Sora took out a remote and began to pace the room. "Alright, I'm impressed with the progress all of you have accomplished!" Sora said as the students thought back to all of the aura manipulation exercises he had them go through. "So, with great honor, I believe that all of you are ready for the next step!" He said pushing the button.
When the button was pressed, two large walls, with a sizable gap in between, suddenly raised from the ground. When they stopped, the students could see that there were two platforms on the top of the walls with a bell on a stand.
"So, who's ready to do some wall jumps?" Sora said as he took in the excited faces on some of the students.
"Okay, that was some good progress for the day!" Sora said as some of the students cracked their necks or limbs.
Despite the fact that none of them had reached the platforms and rung the bell, most of the students managed to make it three/fourths of the way to the top before losing their footing and falling, while the rest made it half way. Ruby, Weiss, Ren, and Velvet were some of the ones to make it the highest and they could honestly say that despite how easy Sora made it look, it was actually harder than they expected.
"Alright, class will end in ten minutes, so go ahed and talk amongst yourselves." Sora said.
As the students dispersed, teams RWBY and JNPR grouped up as they went to find some seats to wait out the class.
"So what made you late?" Yang asked as she looked at brown-haired teacher.
"... I stayed up late grading and doing homework." Sora said, his dropping a bit.
"How irresponsible..." Weiss muttered as she pinched her nose.
"Hey! Maybe the homework was harder than expected!" Ruby said.
"Well..." Sora trailed off.
"Woah! This game is awesome!" Sora yelled as his character got inside a futuristic fighter jet.
"I told you 'Battle of the Stars: Warfront II' was way better than the reboot!" Jaune said as he fired a rocket at the other team.
"I got a hero!" Sora yelled, as he selected 'yes' to the option to play as 'Lucas Heavenwalker'.
"Don't you got homework or something?" Jaune said as he provided covering fire for Sora's character.
"Nah!" Sora said as he cut multiple androids in half before turning towards Jaune. "So you say there are movies?"
"Are there?!" Jaune said as began to explain the movies before they decided to watch them later.
"... Of course you would." Muttered Weiss as Yang and Nora laughed at Sora and Jaune's sheepish expressions.
"I regret nothing!" Sora said as he and Jaune high-fived each other. Causing the others to laugh, except for Ren and Blake who had small smiles on their faces.
"I'm surprised you didn't know what the movies were." Jaune said as he looked at his friend.
"I didn't get to watch a lot of movies when I was training with the master." Sora said with a shrug of his shoulders. "There was TV and video games sure but not a lot of movies."
"Where did you train anyway?" Yang inquired as the others had their own curious expressions.
"That's..." Sora began as the others leaned in a bit. "... A secret!" He finished, causing the others to glare at him for that.
"Again?!" Ruby pouted as Sora chuckled a bit. "You said the same about the Keyblade!" She said as she crossed her arms, remembering when Sora told them a bit about his weapon.
"Can you at least tell us where you got it?" Nora asked.
"I found it." Sora said cheerfully, causing the others to roll their eyes a bit at the childish answer, unaware that Sora was being completely honest.
'Ow... Why did I have to fight him?' Jaune thought as he raised his head and looked at his opponent.
Facing him was one Cardin Winchester, a smug grin on his face as he saw Jaune's exhaustion.
'Okay! I can do this! Maybe if I... That's it!' He thought as he gathered his remaining strength. 'Let's go!' He thought as he charged towards the taller boy.
Smirking at the obviously telegraphed attack, Cardin jumped away and swung his mace, intending on either hitting Jaune or his shield, it didn't matter to him which one. But Cardin was surprised when Jaune suddenly gained a burst of speed and managed to get behind him.
'Wait, how did he!?' Cardin thought before he noticed the low white glow surrounding Jaune. 'Oum damn it!' He cursed when he realized Jaune used flowmotion.
Taking the opportunity, Jaune quickly managed to gain some strikes on some spots where Cardin's armor did not cover him. Unfortunately, he didn't manage to get away in time before he was struck with Cardin's mace, sending him flying back.
"Ow..." Jaune groaned as he opened his eyes, making them widen when he saw Cardin towering over him, mace raised.
"Little shit..." Cardin muttered as he prepared to slam it down on the downed blonde.
But just as he was about to swing, the lights above the arena turned on and a buzzer rang.
"Cardin, that's enough!" Glynda yelled as she walked on to the stage where the two boys were sparring.
Relenting, Cardin lowered his mace and stepped away from Jaune, while the blonde was thanking the blonde professor in his mind.
"Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's Aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament-styled duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle, and that the official may call the match." Glynda said as she motioned to the two screens that showed Jaune and Cardin's aura meters.
"Is he okay?" Sora asked as Jaune stood up, clutching his stomach.
"I hope so..." Pyrrha said as Glynda turned towards the blonde.
"Mr. Arc, even though you still don't refer to your scroll during combat-" Glynda began, causing Jaune's head to droop a bit, "-that was an excellent maneuver you did against Mr. Winchester, I can see you've been paying attention during Mr. Hikari's classes." She finished, causing Jaune to cheer mentally.
"It was a lucky shot, not gonna happen again..." Cardin muttered as he mentally berated himself for letting Jaune get the drop on him.
"You still need to improve Mr. Arc, wouldn't want you to get gobbled up by a Beowolf, would we?" Glynda said as Jaune stood up straight.
"Yes, Miss. Goodwitch!" Jaune said.
"Good, now both of you return to the seats." She said as she began to tap a few options on her scroll, while the boys returned to their teammates. "Now, we have time for one more match." She said as the screens began to cycle through the students.
After a few seconds the screens landed on two faces.
"Miss. Rose and Mr. Hikari, please come up." Glynda said.
Ruby arrived first with Sora not far behind her as Glynda looked at the pair. "I'm sure you two know the rules?" She said, causing them to nod. "Good, then you may begin when ready."
And with that, Glynda walked off the arena as Ruby took out Crescent Rose and Sora summoned his Keyblade.
"You ready?" Ruby asked as she twirled her scythe a bit.
"You bet!" Sora said as he crouched a bit.
(Play KH2.5 OST: Working Together)
After a few seconds passed, Ruby took the first move, as she dashed towards Sora, scythe raised to strike.
'Crap!' Sora thought, as he rolled away from the attack.
Regaining his footing, Sora swung his Keyblade, but he hit nothing but a few rose petals. Alarmed, he quickly spun around and used his weapon to block Ruby's scythe.
'She's faster than I remember!' Sora thought as he tried to regain his foothold.
'His reflexes are sharp!' Ruby thought as felt herself be pushed back.
Jumping backwards, Ruby shifted her scythe into its sniper mode and open fire on Sora, who proceeded to dodge or block the incoming bullets.
'Well let's see if this works...' Sora thought as he waited for Ruby to stop shooting at him.
After taking a few more shots, Ruby shifted Crescent Rose back into its scythe form as she prepared to charge at Sora.
'Now!' Sora thought as he team towards Ruby and threw his Keyblade at her.
'What!?' Ruby thought as she knocked the Keyblade away with her scythe, but was surprised that Sora did not stop running towards her.
Just as they reached the half way point, Ruby swung her weapon at Sora. It was at this moment that it seemed like things were moving in slow motion. Before Ruby could hit him with her weapon, Sora ducked and slid on his knees, dodging the weapon as he summoned his Keyblade once more.
'Oh no!' Ruby thought as she saw the flash of light that signaled the Keyblade's arrival.
Taking the opportunity, Sora swung and managed to land a hit that sent Ruby skidding back.
Once she regained her bearings, Ruby looked up with a small smile on her face "You know that won't work again right?" She said in a teasing tone.
"Meh. It was worth a try!" Sora said as he threw the Keyblade again, starting their clash again.
"Huh. So throwing his weapon actually works for him." Yang said as Sora and Ruby continued to play the game of blocking and dodging.
"That's actually very useful." Blake said as Ruby kicked Sora away. "He can basically never be disarmed."
"Despite that advantage, the both of them are stuck in a game of cat and mouse" Weiss said as Sora tried to attack again, only to find rose petals.
"Indeed, this fight is pretty much who can do the most feints and tricks." Pyrrha said as Sora and Ruby locked weapons once more.
"Wow... Was Sora even trying against Cardin?" Jaune asked as Ruby fired her sniper at Sora.
"This is awesome!" Nora said in excitement "But I don't know who to cheer for!" She said as she debated mentally.
"Why don't you cheer for both?" Ren said to his excited parter.
"Great idea! Go Ruby! Go Sora! Kick his butt Ruby! Show her whose boss Sorra!" Nora cheered as she alternated who she cheered for.
"Come on Sora! I thought you were stronger than that!" Ruby said playfully as she tried to control the pace of her breathing due to having to use her semblance more than normally.
"I'm just getting started! Don't you worry!" Sora said, as he tried to control his breathing to.
Looking at the aura meter, he saw that they were about equal, with his being a bit lower, making up his mind, he grinned as he stood straight.
'What's he gonna do...' Ruby thought as she noticed the grin on his face.
"Give me strength!" Sora yelled as he was suddenly surrounded in a dome of light, before it exploded outwards.
'What the- Is he flashing us or something!?' Multiple people thought as the light died downed.
"What the!?" Ruby said as she noticed Sora looked different.
While Sora still wore the same clothes, they were different colors. His clothes and shoes now had a blue, black, and white coloration. The sleeves of his jacket and pants had a blue fire design on them. But the strange thing wasn't that his clothes changed colors.
'Is he floating?!' Ruby thought is surprise.
Sora was indeed floating above the ground; he also had bright blue lights surrounding his legs.
Twirling his Keyblade, now holding it in a reverse grip, Sora said "Ready for round two?"
Shaking off her surprise, Ruby grinned and said "You bet!" as she dashed towards him.
But Ruby was surprised again when instead of just barely dodging like before, Sora dashed away from her with speed he did not show before. Then blue bolts of energy suddenly shot towards her and she had to use her semblance to dodge them.
'Where did that-' She began to think before she was interrupted when she saw Sora raise his Keyblade and fire a barrage of those energy bolts 'No way!'
Deciding that two could play at that game, Ruby switched her scythe into its gun mode and began to open fire at Sora. But as Sora fired more bolts at her, he was able to keep moving and dodge at the same time. Doing the same their battle evolved into a run and gun firefight.
Bolts and Bullets were flying as the two tried to land a hit on the other, and despite their speeds both of them managed to get hit a few times.
'Didn't I watch a movie with Yang about this?' Ruby thought as she dodged another bolt. But before she could think more about that she saw an opportunity to get up close to Sora and end the fight.
Waiting until Sora fired the last set of his bolts, Ruby then dashed towards Sora while shifting her weapon back into its scythe form. With no time to spare she had her weapon in a position that would not let Sora move. "Got ya!" Ruby said.
"I could say the same." Sora said, not very concerned with the scythe restraining him.
Before Ruby could question this she felt something touch her neck. Looking down, she saw Sora's Keyblade just barely touching her neck.
"Tie?" The blue-clad boy asked.
"…Okay." She said, moving her scythe away.
And with that, the alarm rang, signaling the end of the match.
(End KH2.5 OST: Working Together)
"I have to say that was an excellent fight you two." Glynda said as she walked onto the arena.
"Thank you, Miss. Goodwitch!" They said in unison.
Nodding, Glynda turned the arena lights back on and said "This concludes today's class! Remember, the Vytal festival is just a few months away! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start to arrive, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!"
And so the bell rang once Miss. Goodwitch finished her speech to the class, causing Ruby and Sora to head back to their friends so they could go to lunch.
"So! There we were, in the middle of the night…" Nora said as she made motions with her hands.
"It was day." Ren corrected Nora.
Teams RWBY, JNPR, and Sora were at the cafeteria having lunch, or in Nora's case, telling a story. Not that everyone was paying attention. The only ones paying attention were Yang, Pyrrha, Ruby, and Sora who was distracted by quite a delicious sandwich.
"-But they were no match… And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!" Nora exclaimed cheerfully.
"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." Ren said with a sigh.
"Wait, was it the Beowolves or the Ursa's that were the dream?" Sora asked in confusion as he looked up from his sandwich.
"Yes." Ren said, not revealing anything else.
"So Sora," Yang began, changing the subject "What was up with your little outfit change earlier?" She asked, getting the attention of the others.
Swallowing a bite of his sandwich, Sora said "Huh? Oh, that was my semblance."
"Your semblance is changing your clothes?" Jaune said in a confused tone.
"Well I don't know why the clothes change, they just do." Sora said with a wave of his sandwich. "But you see, when I use my semblance I can do what I call a 'Drive Form' to gain different abilities like the one you saw."
"So you can float and use energy blasts?" Ruby asked.
"I can also do something else with 'Wisdom Form', but I'll save it as a surprise!" Sora said, making the others curse silently.
"So is that it?" Nora asked, curious about Sora's strange semblance.
"Well there is Valor…" Sora said trailing off as he bit into his food.
"Wait you can do more?" Weiss asked, cutting off Sora.
"Yeah, one more actually! But I really don't understand how it works either, they just 'happened' one day." Sora said with a hand under his chin.
"Talk about weird…" Yang said.
"Jaune? Are you okay?" Pyrrha asked the blonde.
"Huh? Oh! I'm great!" Jaune said in a unconvincing tone.
"It's just that you seem a little… not okay…" Ruby said in concern.
"Yeah, you've been picking at your food, and you usually don't do that. Something about 'Arc family manners'?" Sora said as he put down his own food.
As the others stared at him, Jaune raised his hands defensively and said "Guys I'm fine. Seriously! Look!" pointing his thumb behind him, the others saw team CRDL begin to pick on Velvet, the rabbit-Faunus from flowmotion class.
"Hold on for a second there bud." Sora said, as his eyes narrowed. "Cardin!" He said, going into what his friends had dubbed 'Teacher Mode'. "Am I going to have to ask you to volunteer in class tomorrow?" He said in an even tone.
Eyes widening, Cardin said "Uh! No professor!"
"Good." Sora said as he made a motion with his hand.
"Uh yeah… come on guys." He said to his team, leaving Velvet alone, who gave a look of thanks to Sora while, unknown to him, Blake gave a nod of approval.
Nodding to Velvet, Sora's eyes went back to their usual cheerful look as he looked back to his friends. "Sorry about that, where were we?" He asked.
"My my my! That was the first time I've seen you take charge like that Sora!" Yang said in a teasing tone.
"Am I going to do the same to Yang?" Sora said in a mock tone, unable to hide his grin.
Steering the conversation back to the original topic, Pyrrha said "Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school!"
"Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah! He just likes to play around! You know practical jokes! A little bit of horsing around!" Jaune said as he tried to deny the claims.
"He's a bully." Ruby said, unconvinced.
Scoffing, Jaune said "Oh, please! Name one time he's, 'bullied me', me."
"He knocked your books out of your hands." Nora began.
"He extended your sheath to get you stuck in a door." Blake said, not looking up from her book.
"He knocked over the box of sea-salt ice-cream that I gave you so you could share with your team." Sora said, while Yang made a pun about him being 'salty' about the incident.
"He shoved you in your locker and launched it!" Weiss said, amazed that Jaune could ignore that.
If it was her someone would have been sued.
"… I didn't land that far from the school!" Jaune said, trying to laugh it off.
"Jaune you realize that the only time Cardin doesn't bully you is when Sora isn't around right?" Yang said, pointing out the bully's pattern.
"Uh… Well you see…" Jaune sputtered, unable to find a flaw in her logic.
"Jaune, you know if you ever need help, you can just ask." Pyrrha said, Sora nodding.
"Ooohh! We'll break his legs!" Nora said as she began to formulate a diabolical plan.
"Or I could just give him detention." Sora said, trying to prevent the breaking of legs.
Getting up from the table, Jaune said "Guys! It'll be fine! Besides, Cardin's a jerk to everyone!"
"Except for Sora." Ren chimed in.
"Except Sora, yeah. So don't worry!" Jaune said as he grabbed his tray and walked off to the trash can, sighing to himself.
But unknown to him, Cardin watched as he walked off, a sinister grin on his face.
'Payback is going to be a bitch Jauney boy…'
Omake
Grunting, Jaune managed to deflect the incoming slash and hop back.
'He's good!' Jaune thought as he blocked the incoming blows.
'Why won't he die!' Sora thought angrily, golden eyes flashing in rage, as he tried to slash at Jaune once more.
Seeing an opportunity, Jaune jumped back and stood on the fountain, looking down on Sora. "It's over Sora! I've got the high ground!" Jaune yelled as he motioned to the fountain.
"You underestimate my power!" Sora growled as he looked at the blonde.
"Don't try it!" Jaune yelled, one part in anger and one part almost pleading.
With a roar, Sora leaped in the air and slashed at Jaune, who blocked with his shield, but Sora did not expect the slash that struck him while he was defenseless.
Falling to the ground clutching his chest, Sora began to groan in agony as he looked at Jaune with all the hate he could muster.
His emotions finally spilling through, Jaune yelled "You we're the chosen one! It was said you would destroy the Seekers, not join them!"
As Jaune finally let his emotions overcome him Sora tried, but failed, to crawl towards him.
"Bring balance to all Aruras! Not leave them in darkness!" Jaune said, as he began to walk away.
"I HATE YOU!" Sora roared in anger, his eyes glowing brighter, as he tried to stand.
"You were my brother Sora!" Jaune said in sadness "I loved you…" He muttered, walking away and leaving Sora to 'bleed out'.
"And cut!" Weiss yelled into her megaphone.
Standing up, Sora stretched his arms and asked "How was that?"
"Perfect!" Ruby said from behind the camera.
"Yeah! I could feel the hatred in your voice!" Yang said as she fixed up Sora's hair.
"And you Jaune! The sadness in your voice was just right!" Pyrrha complimented, making Jaune blush.
"Oh! Uh thanks!" He said, scratching the back of his head.
"So ready for the last scene?" Weiss asked.
Seeing their nods, Weiss yelled "Action!"
(A/N: If you guys want to see some more 'Star Wars' omakes just let me know ;D. Anyway, reviews and constructive criticism is much appreciated! See you guys next time!)
