Coco and her team were in awe and slight confusion at the sight that lay before them. After it was announced that Professor Ozpin will be stepping down for being headmaster the entire school was in incomplete hysteria and most of the students said their goodbyes, but a big question still remained unanswered for a while. Who was going to be the new Headmaster? At first, everyone assumed it was going to be Ozpins secretary Glynda Goodwitch, but we people asked her about she just sighed and rubbed her temples while saying 'you will know who it is we you see him'. Now that got everyone wondering who the next Headmaster would be if he, yes he's a guy, was not only give the professor a headache but can still be tolerated by the stern teacher. Coco her self-decided she needed to get to the bottom of this and pretty much dragged her entire team to go find the new and surprisingly elusive Headmaster. After asking around and finding an apparent friend of his that worked at a club they had at long last finally found him.
"what the hell am I looking at, not that I'm complaining but..." "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU, KIDS, EVEN OUT HERE!?" Apparently, their new Headmaster turned out to be a guy that lived out alone in the middle of the wilderness. Not that that's bad or anything, Coco can tell that the guy could probably strangle Bringle to death if he wanted to just by looking at his...surprisingly defined muscle mass, like holy crap this guy must have been wrestling Grimm, never skipping leg day, eat Ludacris amounts of protein, and doing very hard labor for his entire life to get like that, almost like a slightly more buff yatsuhashi.. And there lays the issue, they found the guy after he took a bath in the river. Now before you let your mind wonder he had already put on his pants and was putting on his shirt when we fond him.
"Okay...let me guess, you are all hunters in training and pretty much-interrogated everyone in Vale just to find me because you are wondering who the next Headmaster of Beacon was"Now that caught us off guard. "how did you.." Coco tried to speak but the man was not having it as he picked up his axe and pointed it at them. "No, you don't have the luxury of talking right now" as he said that a flash was seen and everyone looked over to velvet who only now realized that taking a picture of the headmaster as he was shirtless was probably not the best idea.
Coco looked over at the now embarrassed velvet with a smile "You know it's not nice to take a picture of someone without aski" velvet then moved over to coco and covered her mouth "please don't finish that thought coco..." there was an awkward pause after that and no one really knew how to continue the conversation. Finally, the wild man coughed into his hand to get everyone's attention. "so...what do you want to know about me your still here?" the headmaster said as he put on his shirt, much to the relief of team cfvy. Fox, who was the first to protest against their leader form looking for this man, decided that it wouldn't hurt to ask one question. They did go on a long and time-consuming journey to look for the new headmaster for that exact reason after all.
"well, what is your name?" the wild man blinked for seconds before laughing out loud. "Oh boy, I'm sorry for not introducing myself earlier," he said with a warm smile "but was taken surprised by you kids at a rather uncomfortable time," both coco and velvets faces went a little red once they realized how close they had all been to seeing him without his pants. Let's just say they repressed that particular mental image very quickly indeed. "Now though, seeing as we have all calmed down, I feel its safe tell you my name...Redwood Wall the master of crafting, construction and most of all, absolute insanity!" the aforementioned man shouted with a large and maniacal grin.
There a long and slightly uncomfortable silence that was only being broken by the sound of crickets. Redwood, seeing as he may have weirded out his students, just frowned with an irritated look at how he accidentally showed his more 'evil' persona. Better to leave his past buried and locked away somewhere in the middle of the desert than it is to have it shown to everyone, his best friends are criminals for gods sake he does not need any more problems latter on. So to salvage the situation as best he could redwood took on a more sheepish look and scratched the back of his neck. "yeah sorry about that, I got a bit too into it at the end there" Redwood said to team cfvy. "I won't lie to you I'm most likely going to make your next year at beacon one to be forever remembered for the rest of your lives, so why not take a walk with me over to beacon and talk there...sound good?"
Before anyone could even say anything they all heard a loud roar from nearby. "everyone I think we're all going to have company soon!" yatsuhashi said pulling out his greatsword. Once he did this the rest of team cfvy pulled out there weapons at the same time, except for velvet oddly enough who instead opted to fight hand to hand. Redwood for his part just held his axe by his side while placing his family heirloom along his neck, deciding to see how well his new students fight. "this should be good" he thought with a smile. And so he looked at the weapons that these Huntsmen and huntresses wielded.
Coco had pulled out a hand bag which made him raising eyebrow in anticipation. Redwood was not disappointed as the handbag transforms into a Gatling gun. Next was Fox who activated his two wrist-mounted curved blades that also had a firing mechanism. "of course it's a gun because every weapon in this world needs to be a gun" The wild headmaster thought and in all honesty it would be kind of sad to see a guy who did not have a weapon that double as gun. For only a bumbling idiot would not have thought of having a ranged weapon on him. Then there was Velvet, while not wielding a weapon at the moment he at the very least knew it had something to do with that camera hers.
And so as the roaring started to sound closer to their location, redwood wondered if the Huntsman even needed his help. He'll just have to wait and see, besides, it's not like it's going to be a legendary Grimm or anything of the like. This kind of thinking immediately went down the drain once a... thing came out of the forest brush. It was a Grimm alright "Okay what the actual F**k is that!?" Coco shouted in complete surprise and slight disgust. To give you an idea of what the Grimm seemed like picture an Ursa, got that? Well now picture an Ursa Major, still don't think that's cause for alarm? Well take that and make it hairless with more armor on its body than is necessary while also looking like it had some kind of skin disease.
Well then...it seems that Redwood would have to get involved now, wouldn't he? And so he held his axe with both hands and gave a gave a practice swing get himself ready for the inevitable showdown. At the moment the Grimm itself could be seen being extremely cautious in this situation, being outnumbered 5 to one was a numerical disadvantage after all. However, it was not like most Grimm, oh no this particular offshoot of Ursa was 150 years old. This not only made it very powerful physically but mentally as well. It could tell that while the 4 humans that we closest to it were a problem, it was the axe-wielding elder that what made it feel uneasy. For whatever reason, that human isn't really reacting much to me other than a look of mild surprised.
This could be for many different reasons but there are two main ones for it to consider, either the elder was confident in its ability to defeat it, which was likely as the beast could not feel any arrogance from the man. Or, it had something to do with the odd necklace on around his neck. The Ursa growled at redwood and stared at the artifact that the Grimm could clearly feel resonate with great power that, while somewhat faded, could potentially turn the tide of any battle in the wearer's favor. Redwood was wondering why the deformed Ursa was looking at him, it soon became clear to him as to why when he followed the particular angle the Grimm's eyes were aimed at. Seeing as he has yet to tell anyone other than his friends about the amulet Redwood quickly put the amulet back under his shirt and hoped that team cfvy did not notice him do so.
This little action caught the attention of velvet, but she decided that was not important as of now and turned her attention back to the large Grimm that looked ready to maule them. After a tense standoff, the ancient Beast moved into The Fray was surprising speed despite its large size and swiped a paw towards Fox. Fortunately for the Huntsman in training, he was not caught off guard by the attack and swiftly dodged it by bending backward as the Paw went over him. Once it passed over Fox retaliated with quick slashing with his blade that, much the shock of team cfvy, did very little damage if none at all.
Seeing as the attack did little to it overall, the Grimm attacked with much more aggression than before intent on taking fox out of the fight quickly so that he can focus on the rest of the pests in its territory. The rest of team cfvy could see that fox was losing the upper hand which let to coco tell velvet and yatsuhashi to flank the beast will she provide covering fire. The Grimm was just about done with Fox as it slammed him into a tree, knocking him out cold. As this happened it felt something hit the back of its head and, almost comically if the situation wasn't so dire, slowly turned around to look at velvet who only now realized that it probably wasn't the best idea to get this close to such a powerful monster. But before it could get its revenge it started to feel a large amount of pain coming from behind it, like hundreds of needles pricking it back.
Redwood watched this from afar and thought it was kind of entertaining and sad at the same time. While this display undoubtedly shows that team cfvy skill in not only in combat but also in tactical skill and teamwork. However, like with every plan, things fall apart fairly quickly when they face the strong enough opponent that could just power through scenarios like this. As the wild man was thinking about this yatsuhashi fell on his back right next to him, groaning all the while in pain. Looking back at the last two students he already tell they are getting rekt.
Coco had run out of ammo at this point and resorted to using the Gatling gun as a club which combined not only with how heavy it was but also her amazing strength, so started to actually turn the tide of battle against the hairless Ursa. Unfortunately for Coco, it seems that the Demonic bear had a back-up plan, also known as the body slam. While ball she escaped her fate of being turned into a pancake coco could not react in time for the immediate punch to the face. This broke her sunglasses which made her very pissed "these shades costed me 800 lien..." she said which, from what I could clearly see was a killer aura starting to surround her "You are going to die!". The Grimm was confused at first before suddenly being brought back the current situation via having a punch to the gut which actually cracked its bone armor!
While it was still reeling from this attack velvet blindsided the beast with a kick to the legs, knocking it onto the floor. Which is usually where a Battle like this would end. But it seemed that fate had different ideas this time around. With almost unnatural Grace it was able to pick itself off the ground and roundhouse kick both Coco and Velvet so that they could took their places near the ground in front of Redwood. The Headmaster had a look of absolute surprise on his face as he looked up at the Grimm that was quite beat up at this point. Then back towards rest of team cfvy who are all growing and pain. The Ursa, despite taking substantial damage, had gained a smug grin on its face, looking as if victory was at hand for the monster.
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That won't do for our resident potential madman. "we then..." Redwood said out loud at his downed students before looking back at the Grimm with a serious look "It looks like I need to enter the fray" And so he twisted his axe back around so that the barrel was pointed towards the Grimm. The Beast could tell what the Headmaster was doing and held up its arms in front of it to block the incoming shot. The sound that resonated from his gun was loud enough to pop one's eardrums and had Redwood not been in a kneeling position he would have been sent flying from the recoil alone. The shot that was fired from the arquebus was designed for maximum damage against, well, pretty much anything. The round was a .700 Nitro Express cartridge after all. This completely shattered the Grimm's arms making it roar in rage and pain. Redwood a had a cheeky smile on his face when he saw the how effective the attack was, that was until he realized that there was a large Ursa charging at him that was only seeing red as of now and was hell-bent on shredding him to pieces.
That made him dodge out of the way of the charging Ursa while at the same time cutting across its back with his axe. This just pissed it off even more than before, so the beast once more did a roundhouse kick. Sadly for the Grimm though this attack was much more clumsy due to the fact that its arms are shattered which allowed Redwood to dodge under the kick without much effort. This opened up the Grimm for a chain of vicious hacking by the headmaster weapon that chipped away at the beast's armor. The Usra roared in rage and head-butted Redwood after he had landed back on the ground and thus was dazed living him open for a kick to the chest sending him right through a tree.
Redwood Wall would not be outdone however and so landed on his feet and charged out to hack down the Beast with shocking speed. Once the axe had embedded itself into the Grimm's side he pushed hard on the lower half of his weapon to force it out of its body. In doing so he freed his axe up for another devastating chop to the beast's left shoulder. The headmaster continues this pattern as he dodged left and right as Redwood kept hacking away at the beast, breaking bones and tearing chunks of flesh from the Grimm's body, slowing it down even more than before.
The beast had enough of this and so it forces all of the pain and anguish that I can find in the surrounding area to heal its arms. This move caught Redwood by surprise and made him say "I call bulls**t on tha, agh!' He could not finish what he was going to say before being grabbed and thrown to the ground while also getting stepped on. The headmaster could feel the air slowly but surely being pushed out of his lungs. He needed to act quickly and his options were limited without his axe. Thinking quickly he moves a good amount of his aura into his fist and punched the kneecap of the Grimm, shattering it in the process. The Ursa was not ready for that and lost its balance immediately allowing redwood to barely get out from under its foot.
Once out of the way the headmaster grabbed his axe and loaded another round before charging the now rebalanced Grimm. What happened next could only have been done by a madman. He ran headfirst into the Grimm giving it the same kind of head-butting that he was given earlier, enhanced with aura for extra killing power. Having quite successfully knocked the wind out of it he then swung his axe towards its head and completely destroyed the bone mask on its face. This was now the end for the beast as while it was screeching in pain Redwood turned his weapon around so that the barrel pointed right into its mouth and pulled the trigger, ending it in a shower of bone fragments and blood.
The wild headmaster was victorious, but he was also slightly exhausted. while something like this should have been a piece of cake. But Redwood had taken much more of a beating then he would normally have taken, not to mention it was not only him doing the fighting and he had to think about everyone else. Granted he didn't immediately help them out, he was sure they could handle it, but sometimes one needs to stand back and watch before going headfirst into battle. With this in mind, he walked over to team cvfy and sat down against the tree that was nearby. The headmaster took very deep breaths to calm his body so that it would stop hurting so much from the stress that Redwood placed on his body during the battle.
The headmaster was good at fighting, there was no doubt about it but sometimes overextends himself a little bit. Not that mattes too much to Redwood as he could just take a quick breather before getting back into the fight. He's tenacious like that, never truly backing down from a challenge unless he has to. This case was different however as he not only has to worry about himself but others as well. They could have most likely had died if he did not step in. But now, looking at his students who looked back at him with the same exhaustion in their eyes as the headmasters own.
And despite all of this, Redwood couldn't help but laugh. Now, why the hell would he do that after they had all almost died to a very powerful an aged Grimm? Well, he just found it funny that's all. After all, it's not every day you fight a legendary Grimm and survives now, do they? As Redwood continues to laugh, fox himself who had now just come to and could see the corpse at the great Beast that had bested him, felt compelled to join in. Pretty soon the normally composed yatsuhashi felt the need to laugh as well, they are still alive after that brawl they had with the Beast so, why the heck not. The only ones who were not yet laughing are coco and velvet, and even then they couldn't help but smile at this for a while until they had both had finally succumbed to the contagious laughter that has seemed to have overcome them all of a sudden.
After a good few minutes, they all calmed down. Redwood himself felt like he was light as rain, maybe it the exhaustion finally catching up to him but that's fine he could power through it if that's the case. Team cfvy had done the same and felt just as well, if not better strangely enough. "so..." Redwood said to them all "want to head back to the school, I think we've had enough action for one day" The wild headmaster proclaimed with a tired smile. The team all looked to one another before Coco said "that would be nice," The headmaster would have been fine with that if he couldn't tell that there was a catch." you need to buy me a new pair of shades, is that fine with you?" Redwood could just say no...but he was a kind man so he told her that he would do so.
As they all walk back to Vale and had a good time exchanging stories between themselves, a faint glow could be seen coming from the amulet that was under his shirt before fading once more.
Oh my god that has got to be the longest chapter and by extension the longest fight scene I have ever written, my arms Hurts by the way.
So redwood has gotten himself familiar with the students that he'll be watching over as Headmaster.
So far so good, but as we know, not everything will stay completely calm forever.
Especially when he starts putting up those recruitment posters for his new security Force next chapter.
The Beacon Security Force , Or BSF.
By the way, I had just looked it up and it seems those letters spell out the exact same name for the Indian border security Force...
Well then, leave a review on how you liked this and if there's anything you'd like to see in the series. I like to see both other fanfic writers and guests opinion on my storys, it always helps make them better.
See you next time on The Wild Headmaster of Beacon!
Sincerely
Adan Fuentes.
