Hello again! Back with another chapter. I know it been a while since the last chapter and I apologize for that. Haven't had much free time to write like I wanted to. Anyways, this might be a short chapter just for me to get back into it, so sorry if it is short. Sorry if it seems rushed also. As always, a review is much appreciated and enjoy the chapter.
Last time…
Our three duelists got a brief history lesson on the world of Remnant. Kaiba as usual made some smart ass comments that got Joey triggered. Saying Joey wasn't "worthy" enough to duel him, Yugi takes Kaiba on instead. Kaiba nearly had Yugi but the King of Games was able to pull a victory despite the odds.
But little does our heroes know that danger is about to strike soon…
Sitting on a bed in one of the dorms was a woman who had ashen black hair and was wearing a standard uniform from Haven academy. The most striking feature about her is her bright amber eyes. She is known as Cinder Fall. Sitting on a bed across from her is a girl who was wearing the same uniform. She had green hair along with crimson colored eyes, she is known as Emerald Sustrai.
Cinder along with Emerald and another known as Mercury Black has been infiltrating Beacon for weeks now uncovering information about the whereabouts of the Fall maiden. The latter of the three was somewhere out in Vale doing his own thing, probably at a club. Discovering that she has been stowed away in a vault underneath the school, they planned to take action in a few days during the Vytal tournament.
"Soon, the Fall maidens power will be mine." Cinder said.
"What do we do about the two newcomers?" Emerald asked.
"Don't worry about it Em, those two are nothing once the maiden powers are mine."
[Meanwhile back with our heroes]
Waking up, the leader of team RWBY was all energized and ready to take on the day. No classes meant she could ask Kaiba about every one of his monsters. For some reason she couldn't keep away from him after watching his duel against Yugi the other day. After getting in her normal garb she went over to where the three duelists were staying. When she got there there was a note on the door,
"To anyone looking for us, we already are at the cafeteria."
-Yugi
Pouting at that, the young leader walked back passing her dorm where the rest of her team was getting ready to head to the cafeteria too.
"Heya sis! Where were you?" Yang asked her hands on her hips.
"Oh, I went to the guy's dorm but they weren't there, so I'm going to the cafeteria because they said they would be there."
Accepting her young sisters answer the group continued on to the cafeteria. Since today was the weekend many students liked to sleep in, and who could blame them? 5 days of Professor Port's stories, they deserve that much needed rest. Not many students were there at the moment. It was only nine o'clock which was early for a weekend. The only people that were recognizable was the three duelists and Velvet of team CFVY. Other than them they didn't really talk to any of the other students. After getting her breakfast, she skipped over to the table where the boys were sitting, her team right behind her. Ruby gave a cheerful hello to everyone. She got two-thirds of them to reply with a hello of their own. Kaiba just grunted in response which was something. Taking a seat next to the Blue Eyes Duelist she attempted to start a conversation with him which ended up being a trainwreck.
"S-So, t-this w-w-weather huh?" Ruby awkwardly said. In the background her team facepalmed. For someone who was so hyper most of the time, she sure tanked in social skills.
"Just get to the point Red." Kaiba said in his usual monotone voice.
"O-Oh. R-Remember w-w-what you said the o-other day?" She asked.
"W-Well, I-I'm w-w-wondering if I could"- Ruby was cut off by Kaiba.
"Alright, just stop with this sorry excuse of a conversation. I'll show you."
"Really?" Ruby asked with stars in her eyes.
"I said yes didn't I? End of story." Kaiba said a bit annoyed at the younger girl.
"Hurray!" Ruby said fist pumping. Yugi and Joey chuckled at the younger girls celebration while looking at Kaiba, silently questioning if he was the real Kaiba or not.
Meanwhile, team CRDL, the schools resident bullies, strolled in to check on their now favorite target Velvet. Jaune was off their list after the incident in the forest, so the poor faunus was now the main target.
"Look what we have here boys, it's our favorite plaything." Cardin said putting his foot up on the table. The other members snickered while surrounding the girl.
"P-Please leave me alone…" the girl said timidly, but to no avail as she felt her ear being pulled. She let out a pained scream as Cardin and his goons laughed.
"That hurts! Please stop!" Velvet yelled. This only resulted in her ears being pulled harder and her tormentors laughing even louder.
Across from the scene Ruby and everyone else watched as the poor rabbit faunus continued to be tormented. Joey wanted to pound the bullies, but he held himself back. Kaiba had a noticeable glare on his face while Yugi had a glare of his own. Yugi was normally never angry, but this was one of those times. Team RWBY just watched already seeing this scene happen pretty much everyday.
"Someone wanna explain to me why those jerks are pickin on that poor girl over there?" Joey said clenching his fists.
"It's because they think that they are better than everyone. They look down on the faunus and treat them like animals." Blake said with venom in her voice.
"So why doesn't she stand up for herself or something?" Yugi asked with a hint of anger in his voice.
"She's an amazing fighter, but she doesn't want to fight back because it will make people think even lower of the faunus." Yang said, her hand resting on her chin.
Hearing her pained screams, the most unlikely of the group stood up before walking over. Noticing the person coming over Cardin turned around to meet uncaring blue eyes staring at him: Kaiba.
"What do you want? Can't you see we're busy here?" Cardin said trying to intimidate Kaiba but to no avail.
"Listen here you dirtbag, I'm going to give you a chance for you and your sorry ass excuse of a team to leave that girl alone."
"What exactly are you going to do about that tough guy?" Cardin said bringing out his mace, his team doing the same taking out their own weapons. Kaiba didn't even seem fazed at this.
"Oh, I'm not going to do anything, but he is." Kaiba said smirking while nodding his head to behind the bullies. Turning around, they came face to face with a beast that wore armor that covered his arms and legs. It also wore a helmet. The beast carried an axe which may not have been terrifying, but the beast was a good two heads taller than the four boys. The beast was known as Vorse Raider, one of Kaiba's monsters.
"Master, are these scum bothering you?" Raider asked in a deep voice that sent chills down everyone's spines.
"Yes they are, and you know what we do to scum?" Kaiba asked his monster.
"Yes, behead them." The beast monster replied.
"W-Whoa! O-Ok pal, no need to do that, w-we'll leave her alone, ok!" Cardin said his confidence and cockiness gone now replaced with fear.
"Hmmm, how about no. Raider?" Kaiba motioned to his monster.
Vorse Raider let out a ear piercing roar that sent the four boys running for their lives.
Now with her bullies gone, Velvet rubbed the ear that Cardin pulled on while looking up in fear at the large beast that looked down at her.
"No need to fear lady, your tormentors are gone." The Raider said in a surprisingly calm voice.
Yugi and Joey were curious about the nature of Vorse Raider. They expected it to be a wild and ruthless monster, but instead of that it was the opposite.
"U-Um, t-thank you." The rabbit faunus said not knowing what else to say.
"My work here is done then, call whenever you need master." Vorse Raider disappeared in a flash of light. Now it was blue eyes staring at timid brown ones. Turning around, Kaiba said nothing to the girl as he walked back to his table where everyone looked at him with wide eyes. Team JNPR had apparently walked in sometime during the little face-off and had the same look. The only people who weren't in shock by the situation was Ruby and Nora (Unsurprisingly).
Blake went over to Velvet to check on her while Nora voiced her thoughts on what she just saw.
"That. Was. AMAZING!" The hyper red head yelled at Kaiba.
"Yeah it was!" Ruby agreed.
"It sure was something." Blake said walking over with Velvet still rubbing her ear.
"Soooo, now that's over, anyone wanna explain what that was before I lose it?" Jaune asked while his eye twitched.
"Sure thing Vomit Boy, to make it easier for all of you apparently they can call upon their monsters whenever they want. Neat if you ask me." Yang explained to the group.
While Nora was fangirling with Ruby about Vorse Raider Kaiba noticed that Velvet kept glancing at him from across the table.
"Got something to say?" Kaiba asked the rabbit faunus.
Squeaking that he saw her looking at him, Velvet became all flustered. Lucky for her everyone was distracted by Ruby and Nora.
"O-Oh, I-I just wanted to say t-thank you for stepping up for me." She said her face beet red with embarrassment.
Kaiba just shrugged his shoulders, it's not because he didn't want to say anything, but he didn't even know what to say. He didn't have that much experience with girls back in his own world.
Joey who was seated next to the rabbit faunus saw the little gesture Kaiba made.
"Don't worry bout it, it's the closest you'll get to a your welcome." The blonde duelist said making Velvet giggle. Kaiba could only roll his eyes hearing that.
"Huh, don't think I ever got your name. Names Joey Wheeler. This guy over here-" Joey pulled Yugi into a side armed hug,
"Is my best bud."
"Yugi Muto, nice to meet you." Yugi introduced himself.
"Of course you already know Mr. Grouch over there, he's Seto Kaiba, but we just call him Kaiba."
"I'm capable of introducing myself Wheeler."
"Yeah, whatever." Joey said.
"Well it's a pleasure to meet you all, my name is Velvet Scarlatina."
After introducing everyone else, Velvet thanked Kaiba again and went back to her dorm to meet with her team. The three duelists decided that they would head into Vale so they can explore the city more leaving just team RWBY since team JNPR had been called on a mission.
As the team walked back to their dorm looking for something to do they passed the boys dorm which was left open. Stepping in they saw that two of the beds were made while one was all over the place. They didn't have any trouble figuring out who's bed it was.
Nothing caught their attention at first, but a familiar piece of technology was sitting at the desk.
"Huh, looks like one of them forgot to bring this." Yang said picking up the duel disk which happened to be Kaiba's.
"Make that two of them Yang, looks like someone else also forgot." Blake said picking up another duel disk, this time it was Yugi's.
"Ohhhhh, gimme gimme!" Ruby said trying to take it away from her sister but to no avail as Yang just stopped her with one hand.
"Your no fun." Ruby pouted.
"And I thought Weiss was a buzzkill." The leader added.
Yang put a hand on her chest to make it seem like she was offended,
"Sis, I can not believe you just said that about me." Yang said faking being offended.
"Well it's not like we know what to do with them." Blake pointed out.
"She's right." Weiss said agreeing with Blake.
"Awww come on, aren't you curious on how many monsters they have?" Ruby asked with her puppy dog eyes which ultimately got everyone to say yes. Why did they say yes to puppy dog eyes? No one knows...not even the lazy ass author knows.
Grabbing both duel disk, the team closed the boys door and went back to their room to test the duel disk.
"Anyone know how to do this?" Ruby asked looking for some kind of on switch.
"Beats me." Yang said.
"Argh! How can one piece of junk be this complicated!" Weiss yelled with frustration slamming on the duel disk where the power switch was conveniently located, turning on Kaiba's duel disk.
"Hurray!" Ruby said her voice full of glee.
"Alright, now what?" Yang asked.
"I believe now we put these cards onto there." Weiss said looking through Kaiba's deck for something.
After looking through the deck Weiss pulled out a card that was called "Maiden with Eyes Of Blue."
Weiss put the card into a slot and there was a bright light that blinded everyone for a brief moment. When the light died down there in front of them was a girl with long light blue hair along with beautiful blue eyes that were captivating to look at.
The maiden was expecting to see her master, but instead was met with the sight of the four members of team RWBY staring at her which made her a little afraid.
Seeing that the maiden was uncomfortable Ruby told her team to stop staring. She was the first to approach the maiden who still looked on guard.
"Hello!" The enthusiastic redhead said.
"My names Ruby Rose, and this is my team." Ruby gestured for the others to introduce themselves.
"Weiss Schnee, a pleasure."
"Blake."
"Yang, nice to meet ya!"
After introducing themselves the maiden looked a bit calmer but was still nervous about being around people she didn't know.
"Where is my master?" The maiden asked the four girls in front of her.
"Master? Ohhh you mean Kaiba?" Ruby asked.
"Yes…" The duel monster replied.
"Well, he's out right now so he won't be back for another few hours."
The maiden nodded at the answer, if her master left everyone here with these four, then she could trust them.
"Okayyyy, now what?" Yang asked. They had a monster out, but what were they supposed to do?
They didn't want to be mean, but the maiden didn't look like the strongest.
No one knew what to do at that moment so there was a full minute of awkward silence before Ruby spoke up.
"How about we get Yugi's monsters!"'
"Uh, you sure that's a good idea sis?" Yang asked.
"Pffft, of course it's a good idea!" The leader said.
The maiden meanwhile just listened to the conversation the four girls were having. She liked Yugi because he was a kind soul, but the Pharaoh she couldn't tell because she could never get a good read on him. The same went for his monsters.
After activating Yugi's duel disk the team looked through Yugi's deck and the Dark Magician was chosen without argument.
The same thing happened as the magician was now in front of them. They were in awe, they had seen him from a distance but up close was even more jaw dropping.
The magician had already heard what happened and would just listen to the four girls for today until Yugi came back from Vale.
"Maiden, pleasure to see you." the magician said giving a little bow.
"Same to you." The maiden giggled at how he would always bow for her.
"Do you think the guys are gonna be ok with this?" Blake asked her teammates.
"Yeah, they'll be chill." Yang said.
[Meanwhile in Vale]
The three duelists were in a weapons shop in Vale browsing some dust as well as some weapons. They had already bought the other necessities they would need like extra clothes, food, etc.
"Joey, why did you decide to bring your duel disk?" Yugi asked his friend only noticing just now that he had it on.
"Just in case someone wants to mess with me." The blonde duelist answered.
"Too bad we left ours back at the room…" The king of games said. When Yugi said the word room, Joey froze up. Kaiba walked over and also noticed this.
"What's the matter Wheeler, you looked like you just saw a ghost."
"This wouldn't happen to involve our room, would it Joey?" Yugi asked. The look on Joey's face said it all.
"You forgot to close the door, didn't you." Kaiba said facepalming.
"Hey! Not my fault that you rushed me!"
Kaiba just ignored his protest,
"Great, now someone could just drop in and take our duel disks. Nice going Wheeler."
"Well let's just hope that whoever has our duel disks isn't misusing them…" Yugi said.
[Back to Team RWBY]
The team was having a crisis right now. They had lost the maiden, how exactly? Well it went something like this:
Quick Flashback
The group of six was walking around the school. They were given some weird looks when they walked by with a mysterious girl and a magician. Lucky for them there weren't many students around since they were all most likely lazing around in their dorms.
They settled in the library so that they could talk more and learn a bit about the two duel monsters. Some basic questions were asked until one made the maiden run away crying her eyes out.
"Yang you fool! Look what you did!"
"Calm down princess, we'll find her."
"And if we don't? What do you think Kaiba will do to us if he finds out we made one of his monsters cry?!" Weiss shouted.
"Probably unleash his Raider on us…" Blake said.
Everyone gulped. They needed to find the maiden ASAP.
Back to present time
That is why team RWBY is looking for the maiden, they valued their lives. The Dark Magician went back to where he came from which earned a few glares, but he was not getting dragged into this.
"Damnit, where could she be?" A frustrated Yang said.
"She could be anywhere around the whole school, so let's split up to cover more ground." Weiss suggested.
Everyone agreed with that and went their separate ways.
Meanwhile on a cliff near the Emerald Forest the sad maiden was crying, she didn't want to believe it, but deep down she knew it was true. She was weak, why had Kaiba bothered with her in the first place?
"You know I expected you to be here…" A voice said from behind that startled the maiden. Knowing who exactly that voice belonged to she quickly dried her tears and turned around to meet the blue eyes of her master.
Kaiba frowned a little, he wasn't fooled at all.
"Talk. Now. What happened."
"Seto...do you...think I'm weak?"
Kaiba froze at that question, why would she think that?
"What made you think I thought that way of you?" The Blue Eyes duelist said with a hint of disappointment in his voice.
Honestly, Kaiba was disappointed that his monster would think that way of him. He may be cold most of the time, but he wasn't heartless.
"I-Its just t-that, the blonde one said that I didn't look strong, a-and I didn't take it well…"
"I think I heard enough." Kaiba said. He put both his hands on the maiden's shoulders and looked her right in the eye,
"Listen good because I won't say it in front the others, but you are strong. So don't even think about yourself being weak, because your not."
The maiden once again became teary eyed as she suddenly wrapped herself around Kaiba.
"Yeah Yeah, now let go before someone sees us." Kaiba said, but with no trace of annoyance in his voice which was rare…
The maiden wiped her eyes and gave her master a smile which he returned.
With that, the two headed back to team RWBY's dorm.
The girls had been searching for a while now and no one had seen the maiden anywhere in the whole school.
"We're screwed." Yang said burying her face into her hands.
"Only your screwed…" Blake mumbled, but luckily the blonde didn't hear her.
"I agree with her." Kaiba's sudden appearance made everyone flinch back, speak of the devil…
Standing with him was the maiden they have been looking for.
"Anyone want to explain why it would be a good idea to make my monster cry?"
No one dared to answer.
"So no one wants to say anything. Alright then, I'll just get Rai-"
"ALRIGHT!" Yang shouted. She faced the maiden with an apologetic look.
"I didn't mean to make you cry like that. If it makes you feel better...cut my hair."
The RWB members gasped in shock. Yang was allowing someone to cut her hair!? She must have really felt bad then.
Both the maiden and Kaiba were confused at this but based on the others reactions, this must have been really big for the blonde brawler.
"Sis, are you sure about this?" Ruby asked her big sister.
"As sure as I'll ever be Rubes."
"Yang, no, you don't have to do that." The maiden spoke up.
"But I-"
"Stop. I already forgive you, so let's just put this whole thing behind us, ok?" The maiden went for a friendly handshake but Yang pulled her into a hug, not one of her usual bear hugs she gives her teammates, but a more gentle one. The maiden returned the gesture.
After a moment, both girls pulled away, both smiling.
Feeling better, the blonde brawler ruffled the shorter maiden's hair which emitted a small blush.
"I'll be taking my leave now, until next time everyone." With that the maiden went back as her card was back on Kaiba's duel disk which was still on Ruby's bed.
"Well that was a thing." Blake said which earned her a small shove from her partner.
"Don't think you're off the hook blondie." Kaiba said which got Yang to hide behind her partner.
"Hmph. Your lucky maiden is on good terms with you now…" The Blue Eyes duelist said walking out of the room.
A few minutes later Yugi and Joey came back from dinner.
"Heya ladies. Anythin happen while we were gone?" Joey asked.
All four girls looked at each other,
"Not it!" The WBY members said immediately.
"Not it! Dammit!" Ruby said furiously. She looked liked a child that didn't get what they wanted for their birthday, in Ruby's case, she looked too cute.
"Did we miss something here?" Yugi asked.
Ruby sighed,
"It's a long story."
Authors Note:
Wow, this is really awkward. I go off for almost two months without a chapter. Again, I'm sorry for that. I'll try to get a new chapter up as soon as I can, but I can't make any promises. Hope you enjoyed and I'll see you next time!
~Blazing