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"Mirrors show us
what we look like,
Not who we are"
Kushandwizdom
3RD POV
The group were being scolded by Glynda when Dismas finally caught up with them with the zealous scroll in hand except for Paracsus, Audrey, and Tardif who were watching from the side line next to the Bullhead. As he snuck over he noticed team CRDL looked dazed and confused with a red handprint indicating someone has slapped them quite hard across the face.
"Good they sent the file me and Jay planted" he thought as he begun to slip past everyone, trying to avoid Goodwitch's gaze. Before he was clear of her his body stopped as a purple outline begun to glow.
"Now, I hope you all learn your lesson. So Mr Dismas can you please explain to me why a masked man and someone who looked like a younger Winter Schnee were escorting these kids away from a quote on quote blistering Nevermore?" Glynda asked as she waved her riding crop upwards causing Dismas to float upwards.
"Well that blistering Nevermore wasn't a Grimm, it was one of the creatures I fought at the manner. As for those two, they are more or less my...coworkers." Dismas answered as he crossed his arms as he was floating upside down.
"Wait, so there are more of those things out here. (Sigh) and just when my job couldn't get any harder someone had to toss another grotesque being after making me swear off meat." Glynda grumbled while as she facepalmed.
She then turned to see the two strangers from earlier now looking at Dismas up closer as he was floating around. Audrey had the fun idea to grab ahold of his scarf and toy around with it while Tardif gave him a tug to test the resistance of the semblance holding up Dismas.
"If it's alright with you Ms. Goodwitch I would like to get down now." Dismas said as his shameful locket finally slid out from underneath his shirt and hit his nose.
"Hmm, Very well Mr Dismas but once we get back I want you to report to Ozpin's office immediately to explain what has happened." And with that said Glynda waved her riding crop and Dismas dropped softly back down to the ground. He then got up and went to retrieve his scarf back from Audrey who already had decided to keep the scarf.
She then walked over to the Bullhead but stopped when passing team CRDL. She looked at them with an aggressive look as the boys begun to shutter.
"If I had it my way you four would disappear off the face of the plant with only rumors of how you all died horrifically for what you tried to do." Glynda said coldly sending a shiver down their spines.
"B-But we didn't take those pictures. We were only trying to reveal..." before Cardin could finish his plea a rock shot at him, kneecapping him.
"Mr Winchester I will personally see to it to have you expelled if you keep on accusing Jaune of entry fraud when you yourself have just broken possibly the biggest unspoken rule at Beacon. Now then boys if you were to pick up your team leader I will have him escorted to the nurse before all four of you spend the next three months in detention." Glynda said almost demonically as she walked onboard the Bullhead followed by a whimpering team CRDL who were all shaking in fear.
"Hey guys, what do your think they did to anger Ms. Goodwitch?" Ruby asked as she watched what happened as Audrey gleefully ran behind her with an angry Dismas chasing her.
"Kinda wondering that myself." Jaune answered. He honestly thought Goodwitch was gonna send him home but to his surprise Cardin and his team ended up in even more trouble.
"No idea Ruby but I do know what ever they did it's something very serious." Yang answered.
The group nodded their head before Audrey managed to run past them before being tackled by Dismas as they wrestled for his scarf.
"Show her no mercy Mr Highwayman thief!" Nora gleefully cheered forgetting about Goodwitch's long lecture and focusing on the brawl.
"Not now Nora!" Dismas shouted as he was pulled into a headlock.
"(Sigh) I swear for two thieves they tend to fight each other more time then the lawmen sent after them." Paracsus said as she removed her bird mask and hood before pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Wait I thought she was a noblewoman?" Blake asked.
"She was married off at a young age to some, how did she put it, Oh yea "Complete fucking whore some pig of a man" or in her native tongue "complète putain cochon putain visqueux d'un homme."" Paracsus said speaking in French as Nora and Yang started putting bets on who's gonna win the scarf in the end.
"Oh she was married off. That's not exactly normal but definitely not uncommon." Weiss said thinking about how her father would likely have done the same if he wasn't already part of the Schnee family.
"Yea well it was her choice. Either she married the bastard or her younger sister did and she sacrificed her childhood and most of her teens for her sister." Paracsus further explained, lying a bit at the end.
"Huh even the elite have a conscious after all." Yang said sarcastically as the five girls and Jaune watched Ren and Tardif calmly walked over and held back both of the thieves from killing each other.
"Yea well it only got worst when the bastard died. Apparently he had spent more money then he could ever afford on the game of chance. She received his dept in the will while he was buried with a lot of his own personal riches." Paracsus finished as Dismas wrapped his newly freed scarf around his neck.
"From riches to rags. How did she get out of dept?" Blake asked.
"Well he was buried with a bunch of rings easily worth a lieutenant's ransom, so I grabbed the shovel and got the rings." Audrey said nonchalantly as she walked by with a battered Dismas walking behind her.
The girls looked at her wide eye as she entered the Bullhead with Yang, Nora, Ren and Tardif. Before they can ask Paracsus why would anyone want to disrespect the dead like that Glynda walked out and waved them down, getting them to hurry up and get onto the Bullhead.
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Paracsus ran ahead while Jaune and Pyrrha strayed away from the group to speak privately with Dismas.
"Um Dismas quick question. What did you do with the blackmail Cardin had?" Jaune asked hesitantly.
"Well when Cardin was blackmailing you, he tried to do the same but I swiped his Scroll from his pocket when he wasn't looking." Dismas explained.
"Ok so that explains why I'm not being expelled but what did you replace the video with?" Pyrrha asked as they got closer to the Bullhead.
"I don't know what was in it's place because I asked Jay to do it. I told him to replace it with incriminating evidence that wouldn't expel him but send his team to detention for awhile." Dismas further explained as they boarded the Bullhead they could clearly see Team CRDL looking like animals in a new territory, afraid and confused.
"And by the look of things it seems to have work." Dismas whispered to the two as he sat down next to Tardif while Jaune and Pyrrha sat across from them.
Soon the Bullhead started to pullout from the forest and soon was making its way to Beacon with two new friends in tow. While on the ride Nora made several attempts to remove Tardif's mask only to be sent a terrifying stare her way that quickly caused her to back off only to try again. Soon the Bullhead landed and the students disembarked from the Bullhead to see Ozpin waiting outside with Boudica and Jay standing right next to him.
As they walked down Boudica saw Audrey and gave a small snarl as she walked over, while Jay gave a shriek of joy and began to climb all over Tardif like a jungle gym. Audrey stopped and looked up at Boudica who was standing much taller then the last time they saw each other.
"Beastly." Audrey said coldly.
"Ice queen." Boudica responded.
They both stared at each other coldly like two vultures fighting for the last piece of meat. The students watched with anticipation for the two to fight, but to their surprise they gave a soft chuckle before hugging each other.
"Ha ha it's good to see you again my uptight friend." Boudica cheered gleefully.
"même ici mon ami sauvage non initié!" Audrey replied with a chuckle.
"I don't even know what it means?" Boudica responded as she let go and her laughter slowly dying down.
"You know exactly you unshaven beastly." Audrey chuckled and Boudica replied with a soft chuckle. As they finish chuckling they heard the sound of Ozpin clearing his throat.
"Well it's nice to see Boudica smiling without someone's earlobe caught in between her teeth but I don't believe we have met. My name is professor Ozpin head of the beacon Academy. Now our mutual friend over there and I will escort you both to my office where we will talk about the events that led you here." Ozpin said firmly as he took a swig from his mug before he himself was interrupted by Glynda having the boys floating around due to her semblance.
"Um what have these boys done to deserve this punishment?" Ozpin asked before Glynda blushed and leans in to whisper something that caused Ozpin to spit out his coffee.
"Oh... my... Oum. You four have done something not even the Grimm would stoop to. Detention for the rest of the semester and if I hear any kind of complaining then all of you will be sent home on the first Bullhead that lands here." Ozpin said in disgust.
Glynda waved her riding stick and soon the boys floated towards her as she walked them to the medical hall. Ozpin then turned to the group and nodded his head at Dismas who nodded back and got Audrey and Tardif to follow.
"It was nice meeting you lot, á plus tard." She said with a bow before she followed Dismas, Ozpin and Tardif to Beacon Tower.
"Um what's is Boudica's deal with Audrey. Also why did she call her ice queen?" Yang asked.
"Oh that's because she was like Weiss when she first met Boudica only she has the French word for White as a last name." Paracsus answered.
Yang began to chuckle before bursting into full on laughter. Earlier Weiss mentioned that she looked like her sister now she acts like her only added injury to insult for Weiss. Everyone stared at her til she explained the joke and soon the group fell into a low chuckle as well before walking off back to their rooms.
As they walked along Pyrrha and Jaune pulled Jay aside for some, questions about what Dismas said. They were now back up on the same roof top that Jaune confessed. Only this time they check to make sure that they were absolutely alone up there.
"So Dismas said you and him got rid of the evidence, right?" Jaune asked sheepishly.
"Why yes we did, you have to admit this was possibly one of my greatest pranks that didn't end up disfiguring someone." Jay said causing a shiver to run down both Pyrrha and Jaune spines.
"Um right, So is their any way to convince you not to reveal Jaune's secret?" Pyrrha said not wanting her partner to become a crazed clown's person bitch.
"Well their is one way to convince me." Jay said menacingly as he looks at Pyrrha.
She began to blush heavily as she cross her arms over her chest thinking it wasn't a joke.
"Wha, now hold on. I'm not gonna let..." Before Jaune could finish Pyrrha spoke up.
"Jaune! It's fine really it is." Pyrrha said thinking more about her friends then her dignity.
Jay walked forward to Pyrrha who only blushed even more in uncomfortable.
"You sure about this, you can say no." Jay asked.
"What ever it takes to keep my friends secret." She said blankly.
There was a brief silence as Jaune began to shutter at the thought of what Jay was gonna do while Pyrrha was really willing to do what ever it took to keep Jay's silence. Jay just remain quiet till he broke out laughing to their surprise.
"(Laughing) Oh god, I'm sorry. It's (heh heh) when ever I make these deals with first timers they (heh heh) expect me to play the role of the (heh heh) creepy clown pervert but that's not what (heh heh) I'm talking about." Jay said as he fell onto the rail laughing quite hard, to their surprise.
"Right sorry about that. So do you know any good songs because I don't really know any you like." Jay said as he pulls out his guitar and playing a soothing melody.
"Wait that's what you want for Pyrrha silence?! A song!?" Jaune said completely dumbfounded.
"Well you could have done the same. I mean what do you think I was talking about? If I really want to bed a red head I just ask Boudica. Seriously that woman is something men should fear. God only knows how many time Dismas woke up tied down to a bed somewhere next to Boudica." Jay said in a mixture of a joke and the honest truth. He was unaware that this caused Pyrrha, and Jaune to blush even more, because they especially don't want to know their friends personal moments.
"But in all seriousness you guys should lock your pants down with many rolls of chains before Boudica's time of the month kicks in." Jay stated in a dead serious tone that send a shiver down his own spine.
"Now where was I oh right so I'll keep Jaune's secret despite not knowing it in the first place if Pyrrha or Jaune sings a song with Dismas." Jay said getting back on track.
"Ok sure I guess we can... hay wait a second, what do you mean you don't know my secret?" Jaune asked even more confused.
"Well Dismas managed to delete the video but he knew if Cardin couldn't send the video he would have told her himself. So he asked me to replace the folder with the blackmail with something incriminating to get him off your back." Jay said before he turned to the door. Before he could walk through it Pyrrha called out to him.
"Jay, thanks for stopping Cardin and all but what evidence did you replace it with?" Pyrrha asked.
Jay was a bit hesitant but gave a small chuckle as he walked away from the door. "(Heh) Well that was an interesting story. Originally I broke into her room to take photos of her undergarments and add the message, give Jaune detention for the rest of the semester so that way she could get angry and have that even backfire on Cardin should he send out the video. But she came in and I had barley enough time to hide. While hiding she quickly locked the door and turn on some loud music before pulling out a strange device from under her bed and then she..."
"Stop! Ok ok Jay, jeez man. That's what you sent as my fake evidence. I'm surprised she didn't rip their arms off and beat them senselessly." Jaune interrupted not wanting to hear what happens next and the fact Pyrrha had begun blushing more then any normal human being should.
"Well alright I wish you two oiseaux d'amour évident a good night." With that said Jay hummed an upbeat toon while he skipped down the stairs adding more to the creepy clown appearance.
"Uh what did he said?" Jaune asked feeling even more uncomfortable somehow.
"I honestly don't know. I have never heard that language before. I would ask him but as of right now I think he plays the fear of clowns too well." Pyrrha shuddered at what had transpired.
"Well what about Audrey. She seems to speak the same language." Jaune suggested as he walked over to the railing looking up at Beacon tower.
"I guess she's the next person to ask, but these people seem so familiar either in personality or looks that it's off putting." Pyrrha said as she hung her hand over the railing next to Jaune.
"I know the feeling. Paracsus looking like a mixture between Ruby and Yang, Boudica looking like you, and now we have Audrey who Weiss claims to look like her older sister and vice versa with her. We haven't seen Tardif's face yet and I'm kinda scared to look at Jay's without his but I'm pretty sure they would look just like us somehow." Jaune jokes while giving a polite chuckle.
"Heh yea I guess so, but what about Dismas?" Pyrrha asked as she turns her head to Beacon tower.
"Dismas, seems to be the only exception to the rule. Unless we meet someone else." Jaune said before turning his attention to Beacon tower with a strange feeling brewing in his gut.
On one hand he seems to be the exception to the rule but on the other hand Jaune felt like there was an unsaid bond like meeting an old friend on the road. The two kept on looking at the tower as the shattered moon rose from the east.
Inside Beacon tower
The three heroes of the hamlet were currently sitting around Ozpin's desk with a cup in their hands. When they first arrived in the office the two marvelled at the clock work based designed of his office before sitting down. Ozpin offered them some coffee before realizing that they haven't had coffee let alone seen a coco bean before so they ended up with a mixture of a herbal and black tea while Dismas decided to try one of the caffeinated drinks Ozpin always had.
After the drinks were served the two listened to what happened when Dismas arrived and how he had been living a week at Beacon and the room he was sharing with team RWBY. He then explained the theory he had of this alternative world they were currently in, even though they mostly believed that this was absurd they had to take into the account that this was indeed an alternate world. Currently the two were sitting in front of Ozpin's desk holding their mugs as they started talking about the two days they have spent in the Forever Falls forest.
Audrey did most of the talking but Tardif did but in a few times. He wasn't wearing his signature mask and helmet at the moment but already Jaune's prediction was right. He looked like himself during his teenage years except he had a scar going down his face. It looked like Weiss' except it didn't start from the top rather it started at the bottom of his eye and made its way down. His hair was buzzed on the sides while to top was cut down to a short distance. He almost looked like a post apocalyptic Ren.
Audrey had her cap hanging from the back of her seat as her hair was in the form of her teenage years looking like Winter Schnee except it was golden blonde mixed with some clomps of dirt. She explained that after Dismas' disappearance the Miller's farm was destroyed by a strange meteorite and its workers gone under some disturbing transportation like effects and that a weird crystal transported them both to the forest.
Dismas listened carefully while sitting next to Ozpin's desk as he was taking a sip from one of Ozpin's mugs. He had never tried coffee before but to his expectations it wasn't coffee Ozpin prefers, rather hot chocolate instead. He still hasn't tried it before but it was very delectable if not a bit too sweet for him.
"So the Millers became a cosmic entity and Reynauld is preparing for the assault on the Darkest Dungeon?" Dismas asked as he sipped from the mug.
"Yes." Tardif grunted as he drank more of the tea.
"Well yea that did happen but still this doesn't compare to the fact your still alive." Audrey said as she calmed herself down before taking another sip from her tea.
"I'm sorry to interrupt this fascinating conversation but I have to ask what are we going to do with you two." Ozpin said as he took a swig from his mug.
"I guess we can bunk with the Dismas group." Audrey suggested.
"Yes I guess you can but you are aware the rooms were designed to hold up to four people max. The only reason why they haven't overflown is because they have taken to sleeping on the floor. If you do choose the same then I will reassure you both that you will do the same." Ozpin said as he swirled his mug.
"Hasn't been the first time." Tardif said as he finished his tea and placed it back on the counter.
"I concur. Sleeping on the floor with a bag will be certainly be an improvement compared to our previous living conditions." Audrey said while also placing her empty tea cup on the counter.
"Very well I'll notified the staff of our new students. You two will have to take the entrance exam but that can wait till next week when the Vitality festival has been more properly set up." Ozpin said before taking another swig he then stood up and pulled out two key cards before handing them to the newly added students.
"You will receive your Scrolls once you finish the exam til then use these cards to get into Team RWBY and JNPR rooms. Now I would like to talk with Dismas here for a moment alone, would you two kindly wait in the downstairs in the lobby while we talk." Ozpin said as he sat back down again.
The two nodded and walked to the elevator before pushing a button and going down to the main lobby. Dismas had gotten up from his seat and walked over to the seat that Tardif was originally sitting in.
"So Dismas care to explain placing fake evidence on Mr Winchester's Scroll?" Ozpin asked as he swigs from his mug.
"I don't know what you are talking about Oz." Dismas calmly replied.
"(Sigh) and people say thieves have no honor." Ozpin said while rolling his eyes. Dismas had a vein in his head twitch from the comment but he was more interested in Ozpin conversation.
"I know that Mr Arc applied with false transcripts and I know you had Jay film Glynda during her... private moment. I do have to ask why help the boy out, and don't say you are a nice guy because we both know that isn't true." Ozpin said as he swirled his mug.
"... he reminds me of a very good friend and possibly my first. He enter this school without training of any kind and yet refuses to give up, but that's not the answer why." Dismas said as he looked deeply into the remaining coco in his mug.
"Oh then why?" Ozpin asked as he had an eyebrow raised.
"He just reminds me too much of him. From his attitude to his sword. It's been so, similar especially since some of these people look exactly like the two teams it makes me wonder if I am wrong." Dismas said as he finished up his mug.
"Wrong about what pray tell?" Ozpin asked with his brow still raised as he sips from his mug.
"I have been wondering if we didn't come from a alternative plane of existence but rather from the past itself." Dismas said as he placed the empty mug on Ozpin's desk.
"Oh and that is why you were looking through the history of the Arc family?" Ozpin asked.
"Precisely I wanted to know if Jaune was Reynauld's descendent." Dismas explained.
"I see, and did your search shown any results?" Ozpin asked.
"(Sigh) Unfortunately not because someone ripped out the final pages and I can't operate these Scrolls. I would ask Jaune but I prefer to keep the part of us not being natives a secret." Dismas complains while rolling his eyes.
"I see." Ozpin said before pausing and taking a stand. "I will see to it that these final pages are found and we will put this alternate theory to the test. Till then tomorrow please meet Professor Oobleck in the library so he can catalog these creatures. I have been getting reports from all over the planet of strange noises and sightings and any information may save lives out there."
Dismas nods and he follows Ozpin to the elevator before getting in. As the elevator closed Dismas quickly stopped it and looked Ozpin in the eye. "Thank you Ozpin and before I go, what will happen to Jaune now that you know he shouldn't be here?"
"Well he's already spent a week here, and you and Ms Nikos did promise to train him. So I don't really see the problem of him sticking around." Ozpin said with a light hearted grin.
Dismas nodded his head and soon the elevator doors closed and he began to descend. Ozpin grin soon left his face and he turn around and walks back to his desk. He then opens his desk pulling out a bunch of papers ripped from different family books.
He reached under his desk and pulls out an empty metallic trash bin and tossed the papers inside. He grabbed a match and lit it.
"I'm sorry my old friend but you need to do this on your own." Ozpin muttered before tossing the match down onto the paper setting it ablaze.
As the flames burned the paper the screen focus more on the bottom paper that was exposed and was slowly being burned away. The paper showed a picture of a Knight wearing a blue outer sloth with a massive claymore with the name Reynauld the slayer of darkness and grandfather of the first Arc. As that burned away another page revealed an old news article about a boy barely surviving a stagecoach robbery but having amnesia.
Hello everybody Wombag1786 here
Man this was a taxing week but I do hope y'all enjoy these two chapters. Now I bet some of you are asking why am I making some one from Russia look like Ren even though he's clearly Asian. Well like I answered Carre question back in CH 10 I don't think the world is a fantasy world but rather an alternate history. Were the Black Plague happen much later and the holy war lasted a few hundred more years. I could be wrong but that's not the point. Point is during this time the khans should have a lot of control of the Russian landscape during this time and if the bounty hunter's descendants were with the khans then they would have made their way east to China. But some events lead to major spoilers so I'll explain more in future chapters.
Right so with that said please... actually one last thing before that. So at the beginning of every chapter I have a quote that I place up trying to give the theme or hint of the chapter. So I figure I have enough people reading my work (If I haven't said it before let me say it now Thank You all for reading this fanfic.) that for the next chapter I will have one of you guys write a quote about revealing secrets. Please don't PM me just leave it in the comment, it's ok if you do but I prefer you do it in the comment section so no one can say the same thing twice. Please don't use some else's quote and I will know if you looked it up online. Right back to business.
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