Author's Note: Still no reviews, shame, it looks like I'm going to be writing Heroes path for the rest of my life, ah well, moving on.
Jax walked through the gymnasium, looking over the class with razor sharp scrutiny.
"Sloppy." Jax paused in front of a one on one fight between Nora and Jaune "Valkyrie, swing from above and use the weight of your weapon to your advantage, swinging from behind creates more work for yourself for the same result." Using his lamp post Jax adjusted the position of Nora's hammer so that rather than swinging from behind she would swing from above. "And you..." Now turning his attention to Jaune Jax used his lamp post to adjust the position of his shield so that it was at an angle. "You deflect two handed blows, not block, keep your shield at an angle and push it away after it makes contact."
As instructed Nora slammed her hammer down on Jaune and Jaune pushed it away with his shield and retaliated with a stabbing lunge with his blade. Weiss was managing to keep pace with Blake's duel wielding strikes in spite of making the bare minimum amount of movement. Jax grabbed a grenade one of the students threw at another and instead threw it above Weiss and Blake stunning both of them.
"Schnee, more action less thought, Belladonna change it up a little!"
Most of those fighting had been paired up with their teammates, however there were two exceptions, Yang Xiao Long and Cardin Winchester. Ruby was still no where to be seen, and Cardin's Team mate Russel had been sent to look for her. Under normal circumstances, Yang knew that it wouldn't be unusual for Ruby to take an overly extended period of time to make sure that Crescent Rose was in top condition, between the complexity of the weapon and Ruby's overly large amount of affection for it. That said Yang knew Cardin, and he was smiling about something.
"What's up with you? I haven't seen a smirk that big on your face since we dated!" Yang asked, her suspicion plain in her voice.
"Oh I'm just thinking about things right now!" Cardin stated, the big smirk on his face still present.
Speaking of whom Yang spotted Cardin's teammate return to the gym, carrying with him wrapped in Ruby's tool roll the disassembled remains of Crescent Rose.
"What. Did. You. DO?" Yang growled, smoke coming off of her hands where she had grabbed hold of Cardin's Mace.
"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Cardin stated, his cocky tone of voice only serving to aggravate Yang even more.
Infuriated now, Yang wound up her arm, and it grew to an enormous size and covered it in golden yellow scales. At the moment Yang threw her punch with the oversize arm, a flame erupted out of her elbow shooting her arm forward like a rocket, and the moment of impact a second huge flame erupted out of her fist and shot Cardin across the room, the massively powerful combination of flame magic having knocked him out cold, ironically enough.
"Well ain't that unexpected. Class." Drawing the attention of the class away from Yang and onto himself Jax continued by pointing at Yang.
"For your first assignment, an A+ to whoever takes her down!" With that declaration, many clicks sounded as weapons were loaded with fresh munitions and the safeties were removed.
Ruby had been left to run away from the undead wolves and bears of the Shadow Isles. She grabbed hold of a scythe that had been discarded during the initial undead uprising and used her vastly superior speed to get behind the wolves and slash through them. Then she ran down a hill letting the bears chase her. Like Professor Port said, a monster born from magic and animals will often retain the weaknesses of the base animal. Bears were uncoordinated at the best of times, turning into a zombie would have only made that worst, so with that in mind Ruby jumped back and ran at the bears combining both of their momentum to cut the bears to pieces with one swing.
"Well that's one problem done." Ruby was in a bit of a pickle to say the least, she was trapped on the Shadow Isles, of all the deep dark holes in the world filled with death, destruction and other unpleasantness she had to wind up here of all places.
Now being a mage who drew power from the dead, Ruby was logically at the most powerful in a place that was choked, hung by the noose and left to rot from death. That wasn't her issue. Her issue was that of all of the different types of mages in the world not a single one of them were despised more by the residents of the Shadow Isles more than Grave Diggers. Any attempt to leave or escape from the island would just draw more attention to herself, and that was assuming that she could locate a functional craft that was sea worthy. Rather her best option was simply to determine where the first place that Yang or the summoners would look for her, go there, and try not to be caught or discovered along the way. Evidently, the most fortified location she could think of was the one she just found, a beached Noxian warship, The S.S. Cyclops.
"Okay if I'm going to fend those things off until help gets here, then I need a weapon." Ruby took in her environment, Iron Bark Trees, trees with bark as strong as Iron, but that wasn't nearly as strong as the hardened core at the center of the trees, perfect for the shaft of a new scythe. Taking a Fallen Iron Bark Tree, Ruby was able to use the scythe that she had already picked up and carved out the central shaft of the tree, breaking the blade in the process. Not caring, Ruby found the most appropriately scythe sized chunk of metal broken off from the hull of the ship. Nox utilizes ships made from a iridium carbon alloy enhanced by earth magic, making them virtually indestructible. The only reason this one bit had been broken off was because it had fallen from a great height, at least that's what Ruby assumed from the ship sticking out of the dirt with the rear to the sky like a sky scraper Utilizing her shoe lace Ruby tied together the shaft and the metal scrap, then sharpened the metal using a stone into a blade, finally completing a decent scythe.
"Well that'll do for now."
Ruby entered the ship and began making her way to the top, being the most easily defensible location on the ship and the one that she could see the entire island from, when someone from the league did come looking for her she would know.
Inside of the Gymnasium, the entire class had Yang surrounded, her temper flaring to the point that she was literally steaming with fury. On the one hand, A+ sounded promising, but on the other hand, she did look kind of dangerous right now, so they were being cautious. But then the first spark of a raging inferno stepped forward.
"Oi what are you lot gawking gawking at!?" Some would call them stupid, a single man with nothing but metal armor to protect him stepping out to meet a raging dragon. "It's just one girl!?" Other's would call it bravery, volunteering to slay a rampaging monster to save lives. "Out of my way!" Cardin Winchester has always been both very stupid and very brave. So at the end of the day the difference between brave and stupid was simply winners and losers. Cardin wasn't going to win this one. "Just hit her! Like this!" Cardin slammed his mace into the back of Yang's head with sufficient force that Yang was now bent over holding her bloodied head in pain. "See? Easy!"
Then Yang let out a brief growl of pain before breathing in sharply. "You just hit me in the head didn't you?" The entire class took a single step back at that statement. "Did yah know that if you don't do it right, a blow to the head can kill a person?" Yang absorbed her dragon arm, only for her entire body to be instead covered in a layer of golden scales. "So that means you were trying to kill me right now right!?" Suddenly Yang stood straight up with a maddened grin on her now scaly and bloodied face. "So you know that you've got this coming right!?" Yang slammed her fist into Cardin's face, and fired off one of her Shot Gauntlet's Ember Celicia sending Cardin cartwheeling through the air in a manner that somehow stripped every article of clothing off of him bar his socks, his underwear, and one shoe. Now officially terrified all eyes were once more on Yang.
"Ding!" Prism stated a tiny hammer in hand having used it to ring a bell.
"GYYYRRRAHHH!" A single Punch from Yang sent one student flying.
One tried to take advantage of the brief opening to kick her upside her head, and for his troubles was grabbed by his outstretched leg and thrown into another group of students. Another group of students got out various range projectiles, everything from a chain gun to a grenade launcher and fired the all at once at Yang. Yang jumped through the air and grabbed the grenade in her teeth before spitting it back at the group. Slamming down into the ground, a shock wave went throughout the floorboards knocking most of the students down, before Yang managed to rip out half of the floor and sending everyone flying into the back wall of the barrier surrounding them, and then blasting that with fire, turning the floor boards into flaming projectiles.
"Enough!" A sudden gust of wind blew the flaming projectiles aside, the one responsible was none other than Lie Ren of Team JNPR. "Calm down! I don't want to fight you!" Lie Ren stated, his arms having already turned green and scaly.
"Wait a second: there's two half dragon's at the school?" While Jax's impromptu lesson plan was going on, he, Blake and Weiss had taken to the stands, the very strong barrier around the fighting area was, for the time being, containing Yang's immense fury.
"Half Dragon's are rare, not non existent girl." Jax stated sitting between Blake and Weiss and the ten student summoners. "There is a particular family living in Ionia that for several generations now have served as the servants of a group of dragons, and in exchange it is said that they imparted upon that family the power of a dragon." Jax explained while he lounged in the chair with his feet up.
While they were talking about Ren's heritage, he and Yang had gotten into a fist fight, though at the moment said fight had broken down into fisticuffs consisting of both combatants attempting to punch each other at blurring speeds, though they seemed more preoccupied at the moment with simply blocking each other's punches with more punches. It was at that inconvenient time that Glynda chose to walk in with a highly amused Headmaster Ozpin.
"I hate teenagers." With a swing of her wand Glynda had all of the destroyed floor board's return to normal, put out all the fires Yang had started, and sent all of the injured students to the infirmary.
"Ms. Xiao Long, if you wouldn't mind calming down I believe that we have located your sister." Headmaster Ozpin stated, his ever infamous cup of coffee in hand as he looked at the two combatants.
A few minuets later in the infirmary everyone was getting patched up, Yang was in the process of getting the back of her head stitched while Ozpin stood in front of her next to a holographic chart.
"We detected a summoner's beam leaving the campus earlier today, from the vicinity of the locker room and most likely using the system by which students in the field may summon their lockers to them. Shortly there after young Mr. Thrush found your sister's locker missing and her weapon disassembled." The chart was then replaced by a picture of the Shadow Isles, out of date by several years on account of no one being willing to go anywhere near the place but that was it none the less the most recent picture they had. "This is where we tracked it to."
Both Blake and Weiss gaped in shock at the new information. Even if they had yet to cover the Shadow Isles in history class, that didn't stop a cornucopia of horror movies and other productions being set on the island chain, nor did it stop any one of the hundreds of horrifying stories about it from getting out.
"So what?" Yang on the other hand just got angrier. "If you know where that son of a gun Cardin Winchester sent my sister is, then take me to her!"
"What makes you think that Mr. Winchester is the one responsible for Ms. Rose's current state of affairs." Ozpin asked, cocking a brow with a serious look on his face directed to Yang.
"He was the one making Crescent Rose Malfunction! Every time that thing wasn't working right he and his smug punk face was there laughing behind her back!" Yang growled, bits of flame coming out of her mouth.
"Circumstantial evidence at best. And even if it was more concrete, Mr. Winchester's memory is failing him at the moment due to receiving a severe concussion. So we can't even read his mind to find the evidence." Glynda explained checking on Cardin's chart in her hands.
"Fine! Just take me to my sister so that I can go rescue her already!" Yang growled, growing increasingly enraged.
"Given your compromised state of mind sending you out on a mission at this point in time would be highly inappropriate." Glynda stated as she corrected the position of her glasses, trying to look more menacing.
"This is going to work one of two ways. The first is that you send me to get my sister and I get her back and bring her back here. The other is that you refuse, I turn anyone and anything in my way to ash, use your fancy computerized summoner system to go get her and bring her back. What way that we do do this depends entirely on you, so what's it gonna be!?"